DARK
Gorgonic Guardian
Archetype:
Gorgonic
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1200
View:
3507
2 Level 3 Rock-Type monsters Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; its ATK becomes 0, and if it does, its effects are negated. These effects last until the end of this turn. Once per turn: You can target 1 monster on the field with 0 ATK; destroy it.
Gorgonic Guardian — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58.8 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Gorgonic Guardian's score comes from its effect package, not its 1600 ATK or Rank 3 body. One detach zeroes and negates a face-up opponent monster on either turn, and a separate once-per-turn clause destroys any 0-ATK monster for free, so one material can remove a monster and the free clause then clears it. Its effect interaction (weight 0.316) carries most of the score. Accessibility, combo conversion and deck cost are held back because the card needs two Level 3 Rock materials and no recorded board shows it as a starter, searched piece or end-board.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs two Level 3 Rock materials for Xyz Summon, with no searcher or starter evidence in the pack; 368 sampled decks confirm it is played, not how reliably it is reached (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No recorded combo boards (total_combos 0), so conversion rests on text: it removes or neutralises one monster per turn rather than building a board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The first effect costs one Xyz Material; the free destroy can then clear the zeroed monster, so a single material can answer one opposing monster with no card loss (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 75 | Zeroes and negates a face-up opponent monster on either turn, and the free destroy follows up on 0-ATK monsters; strong and flexible removal, though it needs a face-up target (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 30 | No evidence of use as Xyz material for other summons, and the card is a rank 3 Xyz with no clear material value (inferred, speculation weighted low). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Two separate once-per-turn clauses work on both turns, but it is a 1600/1200 monster that can be removed or negated, and the destroy needs a 0-ATK target (verified from text, inferred for interaction). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | A single Extra Deck slot with a common Level 3 Rock material requirement and average 1.34 copies per deck; no garnet or lock restriction is visible (observed from decks_evidence, inferred for material availability). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 58.8, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two separate once-per-turn effects usable on either turn; the free destroy clause needs no material cost
- Zeroes and negates an opposing monster in one detach, a strong response to boss monsters
- Appears in 368 sampled decks across 40 archetypes, with Electromagnet Warrior partners in roughly 70% of those decks
Weaknesses
- No recorded combo boards, so starter, searched and end-board roles are unconfirmed
- Destroy clause only hits monsters with 0 ATK, so it depends on the first effect or an existing zero-ATK target
- Requires two Level 3 Rock materials, which limits access outside Rock-based decks
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or negation in response to either effect
- Hand traps that stop the Xyz Summon
- Targets with ATK other than 0 or boards with no face-up monster to zero
Best use
Removal / Negation with a boss-finisher role in Gorgonic lists. Decks: Magnet Warriors, Triamids, Adamancipator, Gorgonic. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect 1: detach 1 Xyz Material to target a face-up opponent monster; its ATK becomes 0 and its effects are negated (card text); Effect 2: once per turn, target 1 monster on the field with 0 ATK and destroy it (card text); Summon requires two Level 3 Rock monsters (card text); 368 sampled decks contain the card across 40 archetypes (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Electromagnet Warrior partners appear in about 70% of the sampled decks (decks_evidence); Gorgonic guide calls it the final boss that zeroes opponent ATK (guides_evidence)
- Inferred: Combined use of both effects can remove one monster per turn for one material and no card loss; Moderate deckbuilding cost because the material requirement is generic Rock Level 3
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference decks_evidence counts only decks that contain the card, with no denominator, so inclusion rates cannot be measured no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no legal_copies data for any format