WATER
1Duck Dummy
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the GY. While this card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with these effects. ● Cannot be destroyed by card effects. Neither player can target this card with card effects. ● The attacks from your opponent's monsters become direct attacks.
Duck Dummy — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Duck Dummy is a Level 1 WATER Winged Beast whose value is as a cheap body. Its effects only switch on after a Normal Summon, and they protect the card itself from card effects. The direct-attack clause is a real drawback for its controller, so it does not add interaction value. Its 7-deck sample supports a real but niche role, and the score reflects that. No combo evidence exists, so combo conversion rests on text alone and stays low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Level 1 Normal-style body appears in 7 recent decks, mostly as a main-deck copy (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | No combo boards recorded, and the text shows no board-building action beyond its own body (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 10 | No draw, search, or GY refuel; it is a plain body with no card advantage (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | Protects itself from card effects, but offers no removal or negation and the direct-attack clause hurts its controller (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 1 WATER Winged Beast Normal body is a clean material fit even when its effects are negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Cannot be destroyed or targeted by card effects, so it resists common effect removal, though battle still ends it (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy-friendly, no garnet or lock, and mostly 1-copy in decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body / Normal + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cannot be destroyed by card effects, and cannot be targeted by card effects
- Clean Level 1 WATER body that can serve as material
- Appears across 4 archetypes in the deck sample
- Cheap to run: mostly 1-copy, no garnet
Weaknesses
- Effects only activate after a Normal Summon, which costs the Normal Summon
- Opponent monster attacks become direct attacks, so its controller takes the damage
- No combo evidence and no card advantage
- Dies to battle and to non-targeting effects such as board wipes
Counters / choke points
- Battle damage and attacks that go direct to the controller
- Non-targeting destruction effects
Best use
Material body that resists targeted effect removal. Decks: Goblin Biker, Chemicritter, Argostars, Adamancipator. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Normal Monster on field or GY; becomes an Effect Monster after Normal Summon; Cannot be destroyed by card effects; neither player can target it with card effects; Opponent monster attacks become direct attacks; Level 1, WATER, Winged Beast
- Observed: Appears in 7 recent decks, 6 as main-deck, avg 1.29 copies; Co-occurs in 85.7% of decks with listed partners such as Poly-Chemicritter Dioxogre and Geminize Lord Golknight
- Inferred: Material body role follows from the Level 1 Normal body; Protection value against targeted removal is inferred from the text
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from the 7-deck sample only no rulings supplied for the Normal-to-Effect timing