EARTH
3Des Wombat
ATK:
1600
DEF:
300
View:
2736
Any damage to you from a card effect becomes 0.
Des Wombat — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Des Wombat scores as a cheap, portable Level 3 Beast body whose only effect is a passive block on damage from card effects. The evidence (64 recent decks at an average of 2.42 copies, 19 archetypes, and 100% inclusion at 3 copies in three StatisticsCard archetypes) confirms it is a dependable staple that is easy to run, but none of it shows the card converting into winning value. Its 1600 ATK earns nothing, and the effect is defensive and situational, which keeps the final score in the mid-50s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live in 64 of 64 sampled decks at 2.42 copies on average, with no searcher or starter route in the evidence (observed; no starter role data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | No combo boards are recorded and the text describes no board-building effect, so conversion is text-only and low (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The text shows no card advantage, refuel, or recursion; it is a neutral body (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Blocks damage from card effects to its controller, but it is not negation or removal and does not stop battle damage (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 3 Beast Effect Monster with 1600 ATK is a generic material body for Level-based summons; no material role data is supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | A single face-up monster that dies to ordinary removal and whose effect is lost if negated; redundancy comes only from running 3 copies (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | A 3-copy, non-garnet staple that sits alongside common partners such as Pot of Greed and Heavy Storm, with no lock or brick cost (observed from deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 3 body that fits into 19 distinct archetypes with no garnet cost
- Passive damage shield against card-effect damage, which is consistent across its 64 sampled decks
- Runs as a stable 3-of in the usage statistics, so the deck-building cost is low
Weaknesses
- No combo, searcher, or card-advantage evidence, so it does not convert into value on its own
- Its effect is situational and only protects against card-effect damage
- Dies to standard removal, and its effect is lost if it is negated
Counters / choke points
- Removal or bounce of the single Level 3 body
- Negating its continuous effect
- Battle damage and non-effect damage are not prevented by its text (inferred)
Best use
Utility body with a passive damage shield, and a generic material body. Decks: Greed, D/D/D (D.D.), Gravekeeper's, Monarch, Chaos Phantom. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: any damage to the controller from a card effect becomes 0; Level 3, EARTH, Beast, 1600 ATK / 300 DEF Effect Monster; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Appears in 64 of 64 sampled decks, average 2.42 copies, 3-of in 32 decks; Distributed across 19 archetypes, with the largest share in Greed at 10 decks; Top partners are generic staples such as Pot of Greed (92.2%) and Heavy Storm (90.6%); StatisticsCard shows 100% inclusion at 3 copies in Monarch, Ninja and Gravekeeper's
- Inferred: Its role is a passive defensive shield rather than removal or negation; Its Level 3 body is a generic material for Level-based summons; Its value comes from consistency, not from a combo payoff; Battle damage and non-effect damage are not blocked
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no material role or starter role data for the material and access axes no guides supplied no rulings supplied for the damage-prevention interactions no banlist token, so 3 copies are assumed (unlimited) legal copies is empty for every format