DARKDecode Talker Extended
Archetype:
Code Talker
ATK:
2300
LINK-3
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2+ Effect Monsters This card's name becomes "Decode Talker" while on the field. Gains 500 ATK for each monster it points to. During your Battle Phase, if a monster this card points to is destroyed by battle or sent to the GY: This card can make a second attack during each Battle Phase this turn.
Decode Talker Extended — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss / End-board
Why it scores here
Decode Talker Extended is a Link-3 body whose value is a field-presence finisher: it gains 500 ATK per monster it points to and can attack a second time when a pointed-to monster is destroyed in battle or sent to the GY. The score comes from its consistent inclusion across 77 archetypes and its one-copy, low-cost deck slot, not from its 2300 base ATK, which earns nothing on its own. The card has no recorded combo appearances, no search, no card advantage and no interaction, so the conversion and interaction axes stay low and the score is capped near the middle.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | It is an Extra Deck Link-3 that needs a Link Summon, and 191 decks run it, but no searcher or starter route is recorded (observed; inferred for the route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Its text gives up to +1500 ATK from three pointed monsters plus a second attack, but there are zero combo boards, so conversion is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | No draw, search, or GY-banish refuel appears in the text, and the second attack is damage rather than card advantage (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The text has no negate, removal, or hand-trap reach; the only interaction is the ATK boost and extra attack (verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | As a Link monster it can serve as Link material for other Link summons, but it has no level or generic material clause and the text does not say it survives negation (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The field-only ATK gain and the second-attack trigger are both lost when the card is negated or removed, and no redundancy is recorded (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It runs as a single copy in 183 of 191 decks with an average of 1.07 copies, so it takes one Extra Deck slot with no garnet or lock cost (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Boss / End-board only; no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Gains up to +1500 ATK from three pointed monsters, a finisher effect that scales with board width
- Second attack triggers on battle destruction or GY send of a pointed-to monster, which adds pressure in the Battle Phase
- Appears in 191 decks across 77 archetypes, so it is portable and not tied to one home
- Single-copy use with a 1.07 average copy count keeps the deck cost low
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence: zero recorded boards, so its real conversion from a starter is unverified
- No searcher, draw, or GY refuel, so resource economy is flat
- No interaction on its own; it wins by stacking board presence rather than disrupting the opponent
- Its power depends on the field, so a single negate or removal turns off both the ATK gain and the extra attack
Counters / choke points
- Monster negation or on-field removal (inferred from the text, which has no interaction evidence)
- Battle-phase removal before attacks resolve (inferred)
Best use
Extra Deck finisher in Link-based boards that already have pointed monsters. Decks: Code Talker, Nemleria, Unchained, Rescue-ACE, Cyberse. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-3 Cyberse DARK, ATK 2300, arrows Top/Bottom-Left/Bottom-Right, Code Talker archetype; Gains 500 ATK per pointed monster; second attack during the Battle Phase on destruction or GY send of a pointed-to monster; Appears in 191 sampled decks, 183 of them at one copy; Top partners Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (60.2%) and Called by the Grave (42.4%)
- Observed: Spread across 77 distinct archetypes, with Code Talker the largest home at 7.3%; Main-deck in all 191 decks, side-deck in none; Guides place it in Dragon Link and Code Talker builds as an Extra Deck piece
- Inferred: Boss / End-board role from the field-only ATK gain and extra attack; Link material use from its Link-monster frame, not from a combo record; Vulnerable to monster negation or removal because its effects depend on the field
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only guides mention the card only in passing, so guide evidence is thin