DARK
3Garbage Ogre
ATK:
800
DEF:
1300
View:
1443
You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard; add 1 "Garbage Lord" from your Deck to your hand. You can only use the effect of "Garbage Ogre" once per turn.
Garbage Ogre — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Garbage Ogre converts into one search for Garbage Lord by sending itself from hand, which is reliable but narrow. The value of that search depends on Garbage Lord, whose text is not in this evidence pack, so the conversion is scored low and marked as a gap. The 800 ATK and 1300 DEF earn nothing; the score comes from a hand-activated search live across 108 sampled decks with a cheap 1-copy slot cost, plus a Level 3 DARK Fiend body that can plausibly serve as generic material. Interaction and resilience are weak: the card has no negation, and its hand-activated effect is exposed to hand traps.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Hand-activated search with no field requirement, live in 108 sampled decks across 17 archetypes, with Garbage Lord co-appearing in 97.2% of them (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The text only converts into a Garbage Lord search, and no combo boards were supplied to show what follows from it (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | It trades itself from hand for one searched card, which is roughly card-neutral with no graveyard refuel evidenced (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect of its own (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 3 DARK Fiend fits generic Level 3 material lines, and hand-send does not depend on the body staying face-up (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The effect works only from hand and is exposed to hand traps that stop hand-activated searches, though the card is spread across several zones and archetypes (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Averages 1.27 copies per deck with no garnet or lock restriction, and 3 copies appear in only 11 of 108 decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap hand-activated search for Garbage Lord, which co-appears in 97.2% of the sampled decks
- Level 3 DARK Fiend body that can serve as generic Level 3 material (inferred)
- Averages 1.27 copies per deck with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Value is tied to Garbage Lord, whose effect is not in this evidence pack
- Hand-activated effect is exposed to hand traps that stop hand-activated searches (inferred)
- No combo, guide or usage-statistics evidence to show what it converts into on a real board
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps that negate hand-activated search effects (inferred; no specific counter named in the evidence)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor (hand-cost search for Garbage Lord). Decks: Resonator, Archfiend, Earthbound.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: send from hand to Graveyard, add 1 Garbage Lord from Deck to hand, once per turn; Legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel; no banlist token supplied, so 3 copies assumed; Averages 1.27 copies per deck across 108 decks; 3 copies in 11 decks
- Observed: Appears in 108 sampled decks across 17 archetypes, 25% each in Resonator and Archfiend; Garbage Lord co-appears in 105 decks (97.2%); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring co-appears in 87%; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 86.1% of decks
- Inferred: Primary role is Searcher/Tutor from the hand-send-to-search text; Material body is secondary; Level 3 DARK Fiend body suits generic Level 3 material lines; Hand-activated effect is exposed to hand traps that stop hand-activated searches
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied Garbage Lord's effect text is not in this pack, so the value of the search is unverified no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed no StatisticsCard usage statistics; inclusion inferred from the deck sample only no rulings supplied