DARK
4Exarion Universe
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1900
View:
2730
During your Battle Step, if this card attacks a Defense Position monster: You can make this card lose exactly 400 ATK, and if it does, it will inflict piercing battle damage. These effects last until the end of this turn.
Exarion Universe — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 42 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Exarion Universe is a vanilla-sized Level 4 DARK Beast-Warrior whose only effect is a narrow Battle Step option: lose exactly 400 ATK to pierce a Defense Position monster. It converts nothing into card advantage, board, or interaction on its own, and the 1800 ATK earns no points. Its score comes from being a cheap, generic, easy-to-run body that appears in 25 decks across 13 archetypes, with no combo evidence to push conversion higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Plain Level 4 body in 25 decks across 13 archetypes, but no searcher or combo starter evidence to show it is reliably live (observed + inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Effect only changes its own ATK during a Battle Step; 0 combos recorded and no combo steps in the text (verified + observed). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | No draw, search, banish or recursion in the text; the ATK cost is not a card cost (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | Generic Level 4 non-Tuner body that can be material; the effect is irrelevant as material, so it converts even when negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its one effect is a battle-step option that a single negate or a non-battle turn removes; no redundancy evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Average 1.92 copies per deck, max 3, no garnet or lock, no banlist entry supplied (observed + verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 42, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 body that fits many homes with no garnet cost
- Battle Step piercing option gives a small extra attack route into Defense Position monsters
- Cheap to run: 1 to 3 copies with no restriction
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence, so no starter, extender or payoff role is shown
- No card advantage, search or interaction
- The effect costs 400 ATK and only matters on attacks into Defense Position monsters
Counters / choke points
- Any effect that stops the Battle Step or negates the monster (inferred from text; no counter stats supplied)
Best use
Utility body that gives a narrow piercing option on Defense Position attacks. Decks: Generic Level 4 beatdown decks across the 13 archetypes seen in the sample. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 DARK Beast-Warrior, ATK 1800 / DEF 1900 (card); Effect: during Battle Step, attacking a Defense Position monster, may lose exactly 400 ATK for piercing damage (card text); Avg 1.92 copies per deck, max 3 (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Present in 25 of 25 sampled decks across 13 archetypes (decks_evidence); Top partners are generic staples (Pot of Greed, Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm) at 60–76% co-occurrence, which is frequency not synergy (decks_evidence); 0 combo appearances (combos_evidence)
- Inferred: Accessibility is generic draw-based only; no searcher routes evidenced; The piercing option is a niche battle-step effect with limited impact; Material value is generic Level 4 fit with no Tuner or attribute bonus
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no top-card ranking supplied