EARTH
4Dust Knight
ATK:
1400
DEF:
1200
View:
2477
FLIP: Send 1 EARTH monster from your Deck to the Graveyard.
Dust Knight — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: 41 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Dust Knight is a Level 4 EARTH Warrior whose only effect is a flip-timed send of one EARTH monster from Deck to Graveyard. The card converts into a graveyard-filling body and little else, and no recorded combo board shows it starting or finishing anything. Its two sampled decks show it is playable across two archetypes, but that reflects a cheap generic slot rather than strength; the 2,431 view count and the 3-copy inclusion were not used to raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | It is a generic Level 4 monster in two sampled decks at 3 copies each, but its flip effect needs a face-down Set first, and no searcher or starter route is recorded (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The only text is a Deck-to-GY send, which adds nothing to a board by itself, and combo data records zero appearances (verified, observed). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Sending a monster from Deck to GY is card-neutral: it neither draws nor refuels, so there is no card advantage (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negate, removal, or disruption text of any kind (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 4 EARTH Warrior is a clean generic material, and its effect is not needed to be useful as material, so it still converts when blanked (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The effect is a single one-shot flip trigger with no recurring value and no redundancy beyond the body itself (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It is a cheap, unrestricted generic card with no garnet or lock, so 3 copies cost very little deck space (verified, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role default; Material body listed as secondary, not blended. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ 41, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean, unrestricted Level 4 EARTH body that is easy to fit into a deck
- Its Deck-to-GY send is free to use and needs no extra card
Weaknesses
- Flip-only trigger: it must be Set face-down before its effect works
- Effect adds no card advantage, negation, or board presence
- Recorded combo evidence is empty, so no real starter or payoff role is shown
Counters / choke points
- Any effect that stops a face-down Set or flip prevents the only effect entirely
- Opponent can ignore it, since its body is a generic 1400 ATK monster with no lasting value
Best use
Utility Level 4 EARTH body with a Deck-to-GY send. Decks: Fossil, Vernusylph. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Flip effect: send 1 EARTH monster from Deck to Graveyard (card text); Level 4, EARTH, Warrior, 1400 ATK / 1200 DEF, no archetype (card data); Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks (card data)
- Observed: Appears in 2 of 2 sampled decks (Fossil, Vernusylph) at 3 copies each (deck data); Zero recorded combo boards, so no starter, searched, material or payoff role observed (combo data)
- Inferred: Flip-only trigger means it must be Set face-down before the effect can be used (text + rules); Generic Level 4 EARTH body is usable as material even when its effect is negated (text + rules)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the 2-deck sample only deck sample is from 2024-07-29 only, so recency is stale no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) assumed