WIND
4Gladiator Beast Equeste
Archetype:
Gladiator Beast
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1200
View:
3779
When this card is Special Summoned by the effect of a "Gladiator Beast" monster: Target 1 "Gladiator Beast" card in your Graveyard; add that target to your hand. At the end of the Battle Phase, if this card attacked or was attacked: You can shuffle it into the Deck; Special Summon 1 "Gladiator Beast" monster from your Deck, except "Gladiator Beast Equeste".
Gladiator Beast Equeste — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion, Material body
Why it scores here
Equeste is a Level 4 WIND Winged Beast whose value is recycling: it can shuffle itself into the Deck after attacking or being attacked to Special Summon another Gladiator Beast from the Deck, and when summoned by a Gladiator Beast effect it can add a Gladiator Beast from the Graveyard to hand. It is reliably present in the recorded decks (400 of 400, 51% in the main Gladiator Beast archetype, co-listed with Heraklinos in 99% of decks) and in all 5 recorded combos, but it is never the starter or searched piece there, and the observed combos have low power indices (17 to 22). Its 1600 ATK earns nothing; the score comes from access through the Gladiator Beast engine and the one-card-to-one-card recycle, not from the stat line.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Present in all 400 sampled decks and reached via Gladiator Beast partners, but the combo data shows it never as starter or searched (observed; route into the hand is inferred from the partner list). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Appears in 5 of 5 recorded combos with an average power index of 17.4 and no board-building role in the examples; it extends rather than creates a full board (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The self-shuffle plus Special Summon from Deck is roughly a one-for-one recycle, and the GY-to-hand add is conditional on a Gladiator Beast summon; net advantage is 0 in the sampled boards (verified from text, observed from board_summary). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 4 WIND Winged Beast is a usable generic material for Link and Synchro summons, and its body remains a material after its effects are negated (inferred from text and stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The self-shuffle lets it escape destruction and return for value, but its effects depend on Gladiator Beast context and it is exposed to any negate (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Runs 1 copy in most decks (avg 1.12, 355 of 400 at one copy), with no garnet or self-lock beyond committing to the Gladiator Beast archetype (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Extender primary role, no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck, then -2 archetype-restriction modifier (rounded to 55)
Strengths
- Live in nearly all sampled Gladiator Beast decks (400 of 400)
- Self-recycling body: shuffles back to the Deck and Special Summons another Gladiator Beast
- Level 4 WIND body is a usable generic material
- One-copy deckbuilding with no garnet or brick cost
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- Combos show low power indices (17 to 22) and no starter or searched role
- Conditional GY recovery needs a Gladiator Beast summon first
- Entirely dependent on the Gladiator Beast archetype
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred: generic hand or GY effect interruption)
- Any generic negate that stops the Special Summon trigger (inferred from text)
Best use
Extender / recycle body within the Gladiator Beast engine. Decks: Gladiator Beast (gameplay 7), Gladiator Beast (gameplay 4), Tri-Brigade hybrid lists. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: Special Summon-triggered GY-to-hand add, and end-of-Battle-Phase self-shuffle into a Gladiator Beast Special Summon from the Deck; Level 4 WIND Winged Beast, ATK 1600, DEF 1200; Deck counts: 400 of 400 decks run it; avg 1.12 copies
- Observed: Present in 5 of 5 recorded combos; starter role, searched-for role and material role are all 0; Average power index 17.4 and starter count 1.4 when present; Partner co-occurrence: Heraklinos 99.2%, Gyzarus 89.8%; StatisticsCard inclusion 100% in Gladiator Beast 698 and Fire Formation, 71% in Gladiator Beast 242
- Inferred: Material usability in Link and Synchro summons, based on Level 4 WIND Winged Beast stats; Resilience from self-shuffle escape; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring as a counter, from the generic effect-interruption role
- Data gaps: no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combo data has only 5 boards, so combo conversion is thin no dated metagame sample, so meta power is null