DARK
6
3Dragon Horn Hunter
ATK:
2300
DEF:
1000
View:
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[ Pendulum Effect ] All Normal Monsters gain 200 ATK. You take no battle damage from battles involving Normal Monsters you control. [ Monster Effect ] ''The horns were needed to prepare a medicine for her village, suffering from a plague. Unknown to her, the dragons burned and trampled her village, once displaced from their den.''
Dragon Horn Hunter — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Dragon Horn Hunter is a Level 6 DARK Warrior Normal Monster with a Pendulum effect that gives all Normal Monsters +200 ATK and prevents battle damage from battles involving your Normal Monsters. Its monster-effect section is quoted flavour text, so the card has no real monster effect. Its score comes mainly from being a clean, effect-free Level 6 body that still converts as material when its Pendulum effect is shut off. The Pendulum effect only supports Normal Monster lines and does not build a board or generate advantage, so the 2300 ATK earns nothing on its own. The 16-deck sample shows it is run in 12 archetypes, but no combo evidence exists to confirm a starter or payoff role.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Sits in 16 sampled decks at about 1.8 copies each with no searcher or combo appearances to show how it is reached (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | No combo boards are recorded and the text only supports a support effect that builds nothing by itself (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 10 | No draw, search, recursion or card-advantage text is present (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | Only prevents battle damage from Normal Monster battles and does not negate or remove anything (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 6 DARK Warrior Normal Monster is a clean material with no monster effect to negate, so it converts when blanked (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | A plain Normal body with a Pendulum effect that has no redundancy; it is only partly protected by the Pendulum zone and has no recovery route (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Costs one or two slots with no garnet or lock and 1 to 3 copies are fine, but the Pendulum scale ties it to Pendulum builds (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Material body / Normal, no secondary weighting applied. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 6 DARK Warrior Normal body that converts as material even when its Pendulum effect is shut off
- Spread across 12 archetypes in the 16-deck sample, so it is not tied to one home
- Cheap to run with no garnet and 1 to 3 copies per deck
Weaknesses
- No searcher, combo or recursion evidence, so the accessibility of the card is unconfirmed
- The Pendulum effect only helps Normal Monsters and does not build a board or generate advantage
- No negation or removal, so it does not interact with the opponent
Counters / choke points
- Pendulum effects can be shut down by effects that negate the Pendulum zone; no specific counter cards are in the evidence
Best use
Material body and Pendulum support for Normal Monster lines. Decks: Primite, Dracoslayer, Pendulum Magician.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 6 DARK Warrior Pendulum Normal Monster, ATK 2300 / DEF 1000, scale 3; Pendulum effect: all Normal Monsters gain 200 ATK and no battle damage from Normal Monster battles; No monster effect exists; the 'Monster Effect' section is quoted flavour text
- Observed: Present in 16 sampled decks, 12 distinct archetypes, average 1.81 copies; Top partners include Sky Dragoons of Draconia and Lancephorhynchus at 75% of decks; Gameplay mix is 9 decks in one gameplay type and 6 in another
- Inferred: Acts as a clean material body with no effect to negate; Pendulum scale limits its use to Pendulum builds
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available, so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no banlist token supplied, so 3 copies are assumed legal