EARTH
8Elemental HERO Plasma Vice
Archetype:
Elemental HERO
ATK:
2600
DEF:
2300
View:
4877
"Elemental HERO Sparkman" + "Elemental HERO Bladedge" Must be Fusion Summoned and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing Battle Damage to your opponent. You can discard 1 card to target 1 Attack Position monster your opponent controls; destroy that target.
Elemental HERO Plasma Vice — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss / End-board · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Plasma Vice's score comes from being a practical Elemental HERO Fusion body that is consistently played alongside its own material pair (Sparkman 89.5%, Bladedge 81.6% of its decks) and from a discard-cost effect that destroys an Attack Position monster, a 1-for-1 trade that is usable in combat. Its 2600 ATK and piercing damage earn almost nothing on their own: the rubric does not reward stats, and the body is weak as material and fragile to negation. Without any recorded combo evidence, conversion is text-only inference and is scored conservatively.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Summoned only via Fusion of Sparkman and Bladedge, which both appear as partners in 89.5% and 81.6% of its decks, but the Fusion route itself is not tabled in the evidence (observed co-occurrence; route inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No combo boards recorded (total_combos 0); the conversion from one card to a board rests only on the piercing attack and the destroy effect in the text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The effect costs one card from hand to destroy one monster, an even 1-for-1 trade with no refuel or search (verified text, inferred balance). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Destroys one Attack Position monster for a discard; it cannot touch Defense Position monsters and has no protection beyond what its owner's board gives it (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 30 | A Level 8 Earth Warrior Fusion Monster, which only other Fusion recipes can use as material; no generic material evidence exists in the pack and the effect is negated when blanked (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Negation strips the destroy effect and leaves a vanilla 2600 piercer on the field; no recursion or redundancy is evidenced (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Runs at 1 copy in 33 of 38 decks (avg 1.18), with no garnet or lock, but it occupies an Extra Deck slot and needs its Fusion route (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Boss/End-board (0.7) blended with Removal (0.3). Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Piercing damage on attack adds a pressure route against Defense Position monsters.
- Discard-cost destruction of an Attack Position monster is a clean 1-for-1 trade that works in combat.
- Fusion materials are the two Elemental HEROs it is most often run with (Sparkman 89.5%, Bladedge 81.6%), so the route is consistently present.
Weaknesses
- Fusion Summon only; cannot be Special Summoned by any other means.
- Requires Sparkman and Bladedge to be available for the Fusion, and the Fusion route itself is not in the evidence.
- The destroy effect needs a card to discard and only targets Attack Position monsters.
- No combo boards, guides or rulings in the pack to confirm how it plays in practice.
- The supplied text has no once-per-turn clause; this is not inferred as one.
Counters / choke points
- Negating its effect leaves a plain 2600 piercer.
- Defense Position monsters are unaffected by its destroy effect.
- Generic monster-effect negation (inferred, not from evidence).
Best use
Boss/End-board body with a discard-cost removal effect. Decks: Heroic, Elemental Hero, Elemental HERO, Heros. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Fusion Summon only; Fusion materials are Elemental HERO Sparkman and Elemental HERO Bladedge.; Text: piercing battle damage when attacking a Defense Position monster.; Text: discard 1 card to destroy 1 Attack Position monster the opponent controls.
- Observed: Appears in 38 of 38 sampled decks, 33 at 1 copy, avg 1.18 copies.; Sparkman co-occurs in 89.5% of decks and Bladedge in 81.6%.; Across 7 archetypes, with 15 of 38 decks in Heroic.
- Inferred: Fusion route is available in practice via Sparkman + Bladedge plus Fusion enablers, but the enablers are not tabled.; Discard-for-destroy is roughly even card economy.; Its value as material is limited to Fusion recipes.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no Fusion-enabler (Polymerization-type) data — Fusion accessibility is inferred from partner co-occurrence no rulings — once-per-turn status of the destroy effect is not established by the supplied text