EARTH
1Gadget Driver
Archetype:
Gadget
ATK:
200
DEF:
200
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You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard and select any number of face-up "Morphtronic" monsters you control. Change the battle position of the selected monster(s). This effect can be activated during either player's turn.
Gadget Driver — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Gadget Driver's only effect is a hand-to-Graveyard activation that changes the battle position of face-up Morphtronic monsters, so it converts almost nothing into board or card advantage. Its score comes from being live from hand on either turn and from a stable place in Morphtronic lists (23 sampled decks, Morphtronic Celfon in every one), not from its 200 ATK or Level 1 body. No combo evidence is supplied, so the combo and starter roles are text-only inference and the score is capped accordingly.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live from hand on either turn with no field requirement to activate, but its utility needs face-up Morphtronics already on the field (verified text; deck placement observed in 23 decks). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Repositioning existing monsters adds no body and no follow-up; no combo boards were supplied to show otherwise (verified text, inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Hand-to-GY cost with no draw, search, or recovery; it is a pure -1 in card terms (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The effect only targets the controller's own Morphtronic monsters, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Level 1 Machine EARTH body that can serve as a generic Level material, but the 200 ATK body is weak and this is not verified in any combo (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Works on either turn and from hand, but it is a single-use cost and its effect can be shut off by removing the Morphtronic targets (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Low-cost 1-Level body with an average of 2.13 copies per deck and no garnet or lock restriction (observed in deck sample, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Activatable from hand on either turn with no field requirement
- Cheap 1-Level body that can be a generic Level material
- Consistently included in the sampled Morphtronic lists (Morphtronic Celfon in 23 of 23 decks)
Weaknesses
- Only effect repositions the controller's own face-up Morphtronic monsters; no search, draw, negate, or removal
- No combo evidence, so any starter or combo role is unverified
- Effect is archetype-locked to Morphtronic and is dead without them on the field
- 200 ATK body is easily outclassed as material
Counters / choke points
- Removing or destroying the face-up Morphtronic targets leaves the effect with nothing to act on (inferred from text)
- Negating the effect does not restore the card discarded as cost (inferred from cost-first wording; confirm with rulings)
Best use
Utility / Morphtronic support. Decks: Morphtronic. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand-to-GY cost, can activate on either turn; Effect changes battle position of face-up Morphtronic monsters you control only; Level 1, 200/200, EARTH Machine
- Observed: Present in 23 sampled decks, 2.13 copies average, mode of 2 copies; Morphtronic Celfon is a partner in 23 of 23 decks
- Inferred: Usable as a generic Level 1 material; Negation does not restore the discarded cost; Effect is dead without Morphtronic targets
- 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) average starter count when present is null — deck resilience cannot be measured