EARTH
3Exploder Dragon
ATK:
1000
DEF:
0
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3623
If this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard: Destroy the monster that destroyed it. Neither player takes any battle damage from attacks involving this attacking card.
Exploder Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Exploder Dragon is a plain Level 3 EARTH Dragon body with no search, recursion, or hand effect, so its score comes mainly from being a clean Level 3 material and an inexpensive single-copy slot. Its only effect is a battle-destruction punisher that trades one-for-one at best, and the 1000 ATK earns no points on its own. The 47-deck sample (mostly Red-Eyes and Dragon partners) confirms it is a practical, portable filler rather than a power driver. The absence of any combo evidence keeps conversion low and widens the uncertainty band.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No search or hand effect in the text and no combo starter/searched records; it is played in 47 decks at 1.53 copies average, which shows a live but unspecialised route (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Text shows only a conditional GY trigger and no board-building effect, and there are zero recorded combos, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | One-for-one at best: the GY effect destroys the monster that destroyed it, with no draw, search, or recursion (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The destruction effect only answers a monster that attacked and destroyed it, a narrow punisher with no hand-trap reach (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 3 EARTH Dragon is a clean generic material and the body stays usable if its effect is negated, though the text does not state Xyz or Synchro use (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Destroyed by battle, it still punishes the attacker only from the GY and has no multi-zone or multi-turn presence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy normal Dragon with no garnet or lock, and the copy distribution (34 decks at 1 copy) shows it slots in cheaply (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Single role (Material body / Normal); no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 3 EARTH Dragon material body that remains useful even when its effect is negated
- Single-copy, cheap slot with no garnet or lock restriction
- Portable across 21 distinct archetypes in the deck sample, mostly Dragon-based homes
Weaknesses
- 1000 ATK and no searchable or hand effect give it little reliable access
- Battle-destruction punisher is narrow and only trades one-for-one at best
- No recorded combo appearances, so no observed conversion into a winning board
Counters / choke points
- Any monster-effect negation or removal before it is destroyed by battle, which stops the GY trigger
- Attacks that avoid battle destruction, such as direct effect removal, which bypass the punisher
Best use
Level 3 Dragon material and a cheap battle-punisher filler. Decks: Red-Eyes, Dragon-based Synchro and Fusion lines, Koa'ki Meiru, Flamvell. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 3 EARTH Dragon Effect Monster with 1000 ATK and no archetype (card text); GY effect destroys the monster that destroyed it and negates battle damage from its attacks (card text)
- Observed: Appears in 47 of the sampled decks, 1.53 copies average, 3 copies in 12 decks (deck data); Top partners are Dragon-based cards, led by Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon at 68.1% co-occurrence (deck data)
- Inferred: Material body value from Level 3 EARTH Dragon fit, without a dated Xyz or Synchro sample (text plus rule); Punisher trades at most one-for-one (text reasoning)
- 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 deck sample only no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited)