EARTH
1Explossum
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
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You can target 1 face-up Xyz Monster your opponent controls; equip this monster from your hand or your side of the field to that target. If a monster equipped with this card by this effect has no Xyz Materials, destroy that monster. While this card is equipped to a monster, during each of your opponent's Standby Phases: Detach 1 Xyz Material from the equipped monster.
Explossum — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 12 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation
Why it scores here
Explossum turns one face-up opposing Xyz Monster into a slow, conditional removal target: it is equipped to that monster from hand or side, strips 1 Xyz Material during each opponent Standby Phase, and destroys the target only once it has no materials. Its 100 ATK / 100 DEF body and Level 1 status earn no points on their own. With no deck, combo or guide evidence, the score rests on card text alone and is provisional, so the band is wide.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs a face-up opposing Xyz Monster as target, and the evidence shows no recorded starter or searched appearances (no combo data) (inference). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | The card builds no board by itself; its value is only what happens to an opposing Xyz, and no combo examples exist (inference from text). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | It stays on the field equipped to the opponent's monster rather than gaining advantage, and the material drain is slow (verified text; no observed card-advantage data). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Answers opposing Xyz monsters through a material drain and a conditional destroy; soft, situational interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 1 Earth Beast body is generically usable as material, but once equipped it is no longer a material and no material usage is observed (inference). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The equip is lost if the equipped card or its target is removed or moved, and no redundancy or multi-zone routes are evidenced (inference). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | A single Level 1 monster with no garnet or lock restriction in the evidence, so it is cheap to run (verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Removal / Negation primary, no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (no decks and no combos; provisional, Deck = null)
Strengths
- Directly answers face-up opposing Xyz Monsters
- Can be played from hand or side, so it needs no field space to set up
- Drains one material per opponent Standby Phase and destroys the target once it has none
Weaknesses
- Requires a face-up opposing Xyz Monster as target
- Slow: the destroy only follows material depletion over several opponent turns
- No deck, combo or guide evidence supports real play
Counters / choke points
- Keeping Xyz Materials attached to outpace the per-Standby detach (inferred)
- Removing the equipped card or the target through the opponent's own effects (inferred)
Best use
Anti-Xyz removal tech. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: target 1 face-up opposing Xyz Monster, equip from hand or side of field; Effect text: destroy the equipped monster if it has no Xyz Materials; Effect text: detach 1 Xyz Material from the equipped monster during each opponent Standby Phase; Level 1 Earth Beast Effect Monster, 100 ATK / 100 DEF; legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Inferred: Acts as a slow answer to opposing Xyz monsters, not a fast one-card removal; Level 1 body is generically usable as material when not equipped
- Data gaps: no decks supplied — deck/synergy signals unavailable 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 rulings supplied — timing of the no-material destroy check is unverified