EARTH
4Deskbot 004
Archetype:
Deskbot
ATK:
500
DEF:
500
View:
3460
If this card battles an opponent's monster, during damage calculation (in either player's turn): You can activate this effect once per battle; your opponent takes no battle damage for the rest of this turn, also send 1 "Deskbot" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard, except "Deskbot 004", and if you do, this card gains ATK and DEF equal to the sent monster's Level x 500, during damage calculation only. If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can Special Summon 2 "Deskbot" monsters with different Levels from your hand and/or Graveyard in Defense Position.
Deskbot 004 — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Deskbot 004 converts a battle into board presence: when it destroys a monster in battle it Special Summons two Deskbots of different Levels from hand or Graveyard, and during battle it can self-boost and stop battle damage to the opponent. Its score is held back by the fact that every useful effect requires a battle, and by its archetype lock to the Deskbot shell. The very high deck count (129 decks, 100% inclusion in two Deskbot archetypes) confirms it is reliably run, but those frequency numbers were not counted as power.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | 129 of 129 sampled decks run it at an average of 2.17 copies, with no searcher in the text, so access comes from deck density rather than a search route (observed plus inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 58 | Battle-destroy trigger summons two Deskbots from hand or GY, which converts one body into two; no combo boards were supplied, so the conversion is text-only (verified text, inferred payoff). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The GY-send is a self-mill cost and the two-body summon recurs from GY, giving modest value rather than card advantage (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Battle damage prevention for the opponent is soft, situational interaction that only matters during a battle (verified text, inferred strength). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A plain Level 4 EARTH Machine body is generic material fit, but no material role evidence was supplied, so this is inferred (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The effects work from Hand, Deck and GY across the turn, but both depend on battle, so a non-battle answer shuts them off (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | The card only works inside the Deskbot shell, where Deskbot 002 and 003 co-occur in 88.4% of decks, so it is an archetype-locked slot (observed plus inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype lock (self-locking restriction) (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (Deck includes the -3 modifier)
Strengths
- Present in 129 of 129 sampled decks at an average of 2.17 copies, with 100% inclusion in two Deskbot archetypes in usage statistics
- Battle-destroy trigger Special Summons two Deskbots of different Levels from hand or GY, which extends the board without a searcher
- Level x 500 ATK/DEF boost and battle damage prevention give it a usable battle-phase effect on either turn
Weaknesses
- Every effect is battle-dependent, so it does nothing outside a battle
- Archetype-locked: its summons and boost require other Deskbot monsters
- Once-per-battle and damage calculation timing make it easy to misplay
- No combo, guide or ruling evidence was supplied, so its board conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Non-battle removal or effect negation would shut off its effects (inferred from text; no counter evidence was supplied)
- Battle-phase avoidance by the opponent denies the trigger (inferred from text)
Best use
Extender: battle-based two-body recursion from hand or GY. Decks: Deskbots (archetype 134), Deskbots (archetype 972). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: once-per-battle battle-damage prevention, Deck-to-GY send of a Deskbot, Level x 500 ATK/DEF boost, and battle-destroy two-Deskbot Special Summon; 129 sampled decks; 2.17 average copies; 100% usage-statistics inclusion in archetypes 972 and 1547
- Observed: Top partners: Deskbot 002 and 003 at 88.4%, Deskbot 005 at 86.8%, Deskbot Base at 79.1%; Gameplay split: 55.8% of decks in gameplay 7, 37.2% in gameplay 3
- Inferred: Extender role from the battle-destroy two-body summon; Archetype-lock restriction and the -3 modifier; Counters listed under weaknesses are inferred from text, not measured
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion, starter/material/payoff shares and power index are text-only No guides supplied No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No rulings supplied for the once-per-battle and damage calculation timing average starter count when present is null, so deck resilience is inferred