EARTH
8Doom Dozer
ATK:
2800
DEF:
2600
View:
4461
Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 2 Insect-Type monsters from your Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent: Send the top card of their Deck to the Graveyard.
Doom Dozer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss / End-board · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Doom Dozer is a 2800-ATK Level 8 Insect that cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and must be Special Summoned from hand by banishing 2 Insects from the Graveyard, so its accessibility depends on Insect fuel in the GY rather than on the card itself. Its only other text is a battle-damage mill, which gives no card advantage and no interaction. The score is carried by a Boss body that appears in all 400 sampled decks and in all 5 recorded boards, not by its ATK, and the high ATK earns no points on its own. Those boards show it as a body on the field, but none of them record it as starter, searched, material or payoff, so the role is inferred rather than confirmed.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 58 | Needs 2 Insects in the GY to Special Summon from hand, and the card is in 400/400 sampled decks across 23 archetypes, so the route is live but conditional (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Appears in 5/5 recorded combos with average power index 100 and 3 end-monsters, but combo role is empty and the card is never tagged as starter or payoff, so the conversion credit is modest (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Battle-damage mill only; no draw, search, or GY refuel is printed, and netCardAdvantage of 6 is a board-level figure not attributable to this card (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 8 Earth Insect with a clean body usable as Level and Attribute material, but material role is 0 in the combo data (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The Special Summon restriction and the Graveyard cost leave it dead in many spots and it has no protection beyond its body (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Runs as a single copy in every sampled deck with no garnet or lock-out, though the Insect-only summon condition limits splashing (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Boss / End-board, no secondary blend applied (secondary Material body treated as a tie-breaker only).. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking summon restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- In all 400 sampled decks with 23 archetypes, so it is portable across homes
- Single-copy cost with no garnet and no splash burden
- Strong 2800 ATK body that holds the field in Insect boards
Weaknesses
- Requires 2 Insects in the GY before it can be Special Summoned
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect
- Battle-damage mill gives no card advantage
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Special Summon or the effect
- Graveyard hate that removes the Insect fuel
- Board-breaking removal once it is on the field
Best use
Boss / End-board body for Insect decks. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Ragnaraika, Inzektor, Kaiju. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon restriction: Special Summon from hand by banishing 2 Insect-Type monsters from the GY, no other way to Special Summon; Battle-damage effect sends the top card of the opponent's Deck to the GY; Single copy in 400/400 sampled decks
- Observed: Present in 400/400 decks across 23 archetypes; Present in 5/5 recorded combos with average power index 100; Top partners include Resonance Insect (99.8%) and Inzektor Picofalena (99.2%)
- Inferred: Boss / End-board role inferred from the body and the end-board presence in combos; Accessibility is conditional on Insect fuel in the GY
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) so archetype inclusion % comes from the deck sample only combo data has combo role empty, so combo role is inferred from board presence only only 5 recorded combos, which is thin for a confident combo-conversion score