DARKDillingerous Dragon
ATK:
1600
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2 DARK Dragon monsters Once per turn, during your opponent's End Phase: You can target 1 Attack Position monster your opponent controls that did not declare an attack this turn; destroy it, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's original ATK. If a "Rokket" monster(s) is Special Summoned to your field, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Dillingerous Dragon" once per turn.
Dillingerous Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Recovery / Recursion, Material body
Why it scores here
Dillingerous Dragon is a Link-2 body whose main value is a once-per-turn, opponent-End-Phase destruction of one Attack Position monster that did not attack, with its original ATK dealt as damage. It is a repeatable, card-neutral removal effect that converts the field into a removal-plus-damage play. Its GY effect only returns it when a Rokket monster is Special Summoned, so its recursion depends on that engine. The 100% deck inclusion and high power index of the sampled boards mostly reflect that it is the engine's standard Link-2 piece, so those numbers were not allowed to raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Needs Link summoning and is never a recorded starter or searched piece (starter role 0, searched-for role 0), though it appears in 100% of the 2 recorded boards and 400 of 400 decks (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Only 2 recorded boards, with power indices of 100 and 38 (average 69), and no role labels on either board, so conversion is only weakly supported (observed); the one-card-to-full-board claim is not supported by the evidence (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The field effect removes an opponent monster at no card cost and adds damage, which is repeatable once per turn; the GY effect is a bounded Rokket-dependent recursion that banishes the card when it leaves (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destruction of one Attack Position monster that did not attack this turn, usable in the opponent's End Phase; situational because it can be avoided by Defense Position or by attacking (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A DARK Dragon Link-2 with Top and Bottom arrows, so it is a usable Link material for Dragon Link lines and stays a Dragon body even when its effects are negated (verified from text and deck data). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Works from both the field and the GY, giving two zones, but each effect is once per turn and depends on the field and on Rokket Special Summons (verified from text; inferred for the field location). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One copy in essentially every sampled deck with no garnet or lock restriction, though it is tied to the Dragon Link/Rokket shell; there is no banlist token, so the 3-copy default is assumed (observed; assumption noted in data gaps). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable once-per-turn removal of an Attack Position monster, with damage equal to its original ATK
- Can return from the GY when a Rokket monster is Special Summoned
- Clean single-copy Link-2 body with Dragon type for Dragon Link lines
Weaknesses
- Only hits Attack Position monsters that did not attack this turn
- Its GY route depends on Rokket Special Summons
- High deck inclusion reflects the engine it sits in, not standalone power
Counters / choke points
- Set or Defense Position monsters avoid the destruction
- Attacking with the target monster that turn avoids the destruction
- Negating the effect or banishing the card from the field removes its value
Best use
Link-2 removal body / recursive GY finisher inside the Dragon Link and Rokket engines. Decks: Dragon Link, Rokket, Borrel. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Field effect: once per turn, during the opponent's End Phase, destroy one Attack Position monster that did not attack this turn, and inflict damage equal to its original ATK; GY effect: once per turn, Special Summon this card when a Rokket monster is Special Summoned to your field; banish it when it leaves the field; Link-2 DARK Dragon with Top and Bottom arrows, ATK 1600; formats TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1 copy each in 399 of them; Appears in 2 of 2 recorded combo boards, with power indices 100 and 38 (average 69); Usage statistics show inclusion of 52.6% to 100% across 5 archetype homes, typically 1 copy
- Inferred: The field effect works from the field, since the text gives no location restriction; Removal is most valuable against high-ATK Attack Position monsters that did not attack
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings on the field-effect location or on what counts as a monster that did not declare an attack combo evidence is only 2 boards and carries no role labels, so combo conversion rests on thin data no dated metagame sample, so meta power is null