EARTH
4Gate Blocker
ATK:
100
DEF:
2000
View:
3470
Negate the effects of your opponent's Field Spells. Your opponent cannot place counters on cards on the field. Your opponent cannot target other monsters you control with card effects.
Gate Blocker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
Gate Blocker is a 100 ATK / 2000 DEF Level 4 Earth Rock whose effect is narrow: it negates opponent Field Spell effects, blocks counter placement, and blocks targeting of other monsters you control. Its score comes mainly from being a cheap, one-copy Rock body that appears in 119 sampled decks across 32 archetypes, mostly as a single copy alongside Adamancipator and Koa'ki Meiru partners. The text gives it no card advantage or board-building route, and no combo data is supplied, so combo conversion stays low. The 2000 DEF and its high inclusion do not earn points on their own; the score reflects the body's material fit and deck cost, not stats or popularity.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Appears in 119 of 119 sampled decks, but no searcher or search route is in the evidence, so access is assumed from deck presence (observed; route inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Its text builds nothing on its own and no combo boards are supplied; the Field Spell negation and counter block do not advance a board (verified text; no combo stat). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | No draw, search, or GY refuel in the text and no card-advantage evidence (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Negates only Field Spell effects and blocks counters and targeting of other monsters, a narrow floodgate effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 4 Earth Rock body that sits in Rock-archetype decks, so material fit is plausible; no material counts are supplied (inferred from level/race and deck partners). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Only a 2000 DEF body with no recursion, so it has little redundancy across zones or turns (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Typically a single copy (93 of 119 decks), with no garnet or self-lock in the text (observed deck copies; verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Floodgate/Control (blended). Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Runs in 119 sampled decks across 32 archetypes, so it is portable between homes (observed)
- Typically one copy per deck, with no garnet or self-lock in the text (observed; verified)
- Level 4 Rock body that fits the Adamancipator and Koa'ki Meiru partners seen in decks (observed; inferred material fit)
Weaknesses
- Effect is narrow: it only negates Field Spell effects, blocks counters, and blocks targeting of other monsters (verified)
- No combo, search, or card-advantage evidence, so it converts nothing into board presence on its own (verified text; no combo data)
- The body is a 100 ATK / 2000 DEF wall, so it contributes little beyond its level and race (inferred)
Counters / choke points
- No counter data supplied; as an on-field body it is exposed to generic on-field removal and monster-targeting effects (inferred)
Best use
Level 4 Rock material body with a narrow Field Spell and counter floodgate. Decks: Adamancipator, Koa'ki Meiru, Vernusylph/Vernalizer Fairy. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: negates opponent Field Spell effects; Text: opponent cannot place counters on cards on the field; Text: opponent cannot target other monsters you control with card effects; Stats: Level 4, EARTH, Rock, 100 ATK / 2000 DEF, no link rating
- Observed: 119 of 119 sampled decks run it, 74.8% in gameplay type 7; Average 1.29 copies per deck; 93 decks run one copy; Strongest partners are Gallant Granite (85.7%) and Adamancipator Researcher (84.0%)
- Inferred: Material fit comes from its Level 4 Rock body and the Rock-archetype partners; Floodgate role is the secondary reading from the text; Search route for accessibility is assumed from deck presence, not shown in evidence
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no banlist token: legal copies assumed 3 (unlimited) no searcher or search route in evidence no rulings or timing data for the negation and targeting restrictions