DARK
Firewall eXceed Dragon
ATK:
2500
DEF:
2000
View:
7139
2+ Level 4 monsters This Xyz Summoned card gains 500 ATK x the total Link Rating of Link Monsters linked to this card. You can detach 2 materials from this card, then target 1 Link-4 Cyberse Link Monster in your GY; Special Summon it to your field so it points to this card, also you cannot Special Summon other monsters or attack directly for the rest of this turn.
Firewall eXceed Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Firewall eXceed Dragon converts a Rank 4 body into a board presence that grows by 500 ATK per total Link Rating of linked Link monsters, and it can spend two materials to revive a Link-4 Cyberse from the GY so it points at the card. Its power is that recursion of a Cyberse Link body, not the 2500 ATK, which earns almost nothing on its own. The 400-of-400 deck inclusion and 91 archetypes confirm it is a reliable, cheap staple, but per guardrail 3 that frequency is not used to inflate the score. No combo data is supplied, so conversion and resilience are text-based inference and the score stays in the mid-range with a Medium confidence band.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Needs two Level 4 materials, but it appears in all 400 sampled decks with a 1.06 average copy count and co-occurs with Accesscode Talker (67%) and Transcode Talker (62.5%) (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text gives a revive-and-ATK-boost route from one card, but there are no recorded combo boards to confirm how far it converts (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Detaching two materials to revive a GY Link-4 body is a roughly even recursion trade, not a card-advantage engine (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card carries no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach, so opponent interaction is essentially absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | As a Rank 4 Xyz it is a weak material provider, with no clean generic material role shown in the evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its revive and ATK boost both depend on the ignition effect and its materials, so a single negate on the effect removes most of its value (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 78 | Single-copy usage (1.06 average), no garnet or lock requirement, and splashable into generic Cyberse and Ignister shells (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Revives a Link-4 Cyberse Link Monster from the GY onto the field, giving recursion of a body that the deck already runs
- ATK boost scales with total Link Rating of linked Link monsters, so the board gets stronger as the field grows
- Present in every sampled deck across 91 archetypes at a single-copy rate, so it is cheap to run
Weaknesses
- Negating the ignition effect removes both the revive and the ATK boost
- Revive restricts the rest of the turn: no other Special Summons and no direct attacks
- Requires two Level 4 materials to summon and a Link-4 Cyberse in the GY to revive
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the ignition effect (not evidenced in the pack; inferred from text)
Best use
Boss/End-board with GY-revive recursion. Decks: Cyberse, @Ignister, Firewall, Code Talker. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: 500 ATK per total Link Rating of linked Link monsters, detach 2 to revive a Link-4 Cyberse from GY, and the self-restriction on the rest of the turn; Deck sample: 400 of 400 decks run it, average 1.06 copies, 91 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Co-occurrence with Accesscode Talker (67%) and Transcode Talker (62.5%); Gameplay type 7 accounts for 77.8% of sampled decks
- Inferred: Primary role Boss/End-board with secondary Recovery/Recursion from the revive clause; Negating the ignition effect strips both the revive and the ATK boost; Revive targets are limited to Link-4 Cyberse, so recursion depends on a Cyberse GY body
- 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 deck sample reports 400 of 400 running the card, so inclusion may reflect sampling rather than population frequency