DARK
3Earthbound Prisoner Line Walker
Archetype:
Earthbound
ATK:
800
DEF:
1100
View:
2744
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Earthbound Prison" or "Harmonic Synchro Fusion" from your Deck or GY to your hand. If you control a Level 6 or higher "Earthbound" monster: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Effect Monster your opponent controls that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck; shuffle that face-up Effect Monster into the Deck, then your opponent can Special Summon 1 monster with the same name from their Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of "Earthbound Prisoner Line Walker" once per turn.
Earthbound Prisoner Line Walker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 65 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 65 · Deck: 65 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher / Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
The card's value is its summon-triggered search for Earthbound Prison or Harmonic Synchro Fusion, which it can make from either Deck or GY, so it converts into a live partner card rather than a body alone. It is a Level 3 Tuner, which adds material utility. Its second effect is narrow and only a soft interaction, and the lack of combo evidence keeps conversion near the middle. The 800 ATK and 1100 DEF earn no points, and the 98.5% partner rate confirms the card is a reliable Earthbound staple rather than a standalone power source.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 82 | Summon-triggered search from Deck or GY, and it appears in all 400 sampled decks with Earthbound Prison at 92.2% and Harmonic Synchro Fusion at 84.8% (verified/observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | No combo boards are recorded, so conversion relies on the text-only search into partner cards (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | One search on summon is a net +1 card, and the GY-banish second effect is a cost paid from the GY (verified/inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The second effect shuffles an opponent's Extra Deck-summoned effect monster and lets them re-summon a same-name monster, which is situational and not hard removal (verified/inferred). |
| Material Utility | 68 | A Level 3 DARK Fiend Tuner is a generic synchro tuner body, and the body stays usable even if its effects are negated (verified/inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two once-per-turn effects with one of them usable from the GY give some multi-zone recovery, but a negation removes the search (verified/inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Average 2.02 copies per deck with a light restriction on the second effect (Earthbound Level 6+ on field), so it is cheap to run in its home deck (observed/inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 65, Deck ≈ 65, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Summon-triggered search for Earthbound Prison or Harmonic Synchro Fusion from Deck or GY (verified)
- Present in all 400 sampled decks, with 98.5% co-occurrence with Earthbound Prisoner Ground Keeper (observed)
- Level 3 Tuner body (verified)
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence, so board conversion is text-only (data gap)
- Second effect requires a Level 6+ Earthbound on field plus a GY banish, a narrow condition (verified)
- Score is driven by the search and the Earthbound home rather than the 800 ATK body (inferred)
Best use
Searcher / Tuner body. Decks: Earthbound. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Search on Normal or Special Summon for Earthbound Prison or Harmonic Synchro Fusion from Deck or GY; Second effect needs a Level 6+ Earthbound on field and a GY banish; Level 3 DARK Fiend Tuner, 800 ATK / 1100 DEF
- Observed: Appears in 400/400 sampled decks, avg 2.02 copies; Partner rates: Ground Keeper 98.5%, Stone Sweeper 97%, Earthbound Prison 92.2%, Harmonic Synchro Fusion 84.8%; Gameplay types 7 (74.5%) and 4 (24.5%)
- Inferred: Search converts to a practical board via the partner cards; Tuner body keeps material value when its effects are negated; Score anchors on the Earthbound home, with 55 archetypes mostly one-offs
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only top-card data has no rankings (top-card status false)