DARK
5Great Long Nose
ATK:
1900
DEF:
1700
View:
2198
This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn that this card is Normal Summoned or flipped face-up. If this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, your opponent skips their next Battle Phase.
Great Long Nose — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 39 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 36 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
Great Long Nose is a 1900-ATK Level 5 body that cannot be Special Summoned and returns to hand at the End Phase of its Normal Summon turn, so it is only ever a one-turn Normal Summon with no card advantage and no searcher route in the evidence. Its only real effect is a conditional Battle Phase skip after battle damage, which is a soft lock rather than interaction. The 1900 ATK earns no points on its own, and the two sampled decks confirm that it is a niche, hand-only pick rather than a proven staple.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Hand-only Normal Summon with no searcher or live route in the evidence; two sampled decks run it (verified text, observed deck count; 40 is a judgment, not a measured rate). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Zero recorded combos; the only conversion is the text-level Battle Phase skip after battle damage (verified text, no combo stat). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Returns to hand, so no advantage, refuel or banish value; a free repeatable Normal Summon at most (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Conditional Battle Phase skip on battle damage is soft interaction with no negate or removal (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 25 | Level 5 DARK Beast-Warrior, but it is only on the field until the End Phase, so it is rarely available as material (inferred from text, no as_material data). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Bounce to hand dodges sorcery-speed removal, but it cannot be revived or Special Summoned and has only one turn on field (verified text; the resistance is inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | One copy, no garnet or lock beyond the Normal Summon restriction, and no archetype requirement (verified text, deck stat). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility default weights; no 0.7/0.3 secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 36, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable Normal Summon body that can be recycled to hand each turn
- Battle Phase skip is a real tempo lock once battle damage connects
- Returns to hand, so it avoids sorcery-speed removal
Weaknesses
- Cannot be Special Summoned, so it competes for the Normal Summon every turn
- Returns to hand at End Phase, so it contributes no lasting board presence
- No searcher or recursion route in the evidence, and no recorded combos
Counters / choke points
- Any effect that stops battle damage (for example a battle-damage negation or a battle-phase-skip counter)
- Opponent hand traps or monster negation before the battle step, if a battle is planned
Best use
Normal Summon bounce body that imposes a Battle Phase skip after battle damage. Decks: Drytron, Kashtira. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be Special Summoned; returns to hand at End Phase of its Normal Summon or flip turn; Battle Phase skip after battle damage (card text); Two sampled decks run one copy each in Drytron and Kashtira (deck stat)
- Observed: Two sampled decks, one copy each, with Terminal World as the most common partner (deck stat)
- Inferred: Hand-only access with no searcher means accessibility is modest; Bounce to hand dodges sorcery-speed removal (inferred from text); Material use is rare because the card leaves the field at End Phase (inferred from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion % inferred from the two-deck sample only