EARTH
8Great Moth
ATK:
2600
DEF:
2500
View:
4631
This monster cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by Tributing "Petit Moth" during your 4th turn after "Petit Moth" has been equipped with "Cocoon of Evolution".
Great Moth — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 33 ± 10 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 36.8 · Deck: 29.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss / End-board · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Great Moth's text only allows a Special Summon by tributing Petit Moth on your 4th turn after Petit Moth is equipped with Cocoon of Evolution, so the card scores on how hard that gate is to reach and what the body converts into once it arrives. Access is slow and needs two specific supporting cards, and the evidence has one deck and no recorded combos, so nothing observed shows it converting into a board. Its Level 8 Earth Insect body is the clearest value, which keeps material utility as its best axis. The 2600 ATK and 2500 DEF earned no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 25 | The summon needs Petit Moth, Cocoon of Evolution and a 4th-turn timing window, and the single deck sample shows no searcher route (verified, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No combo boards are recorded, and the text shows no effect beyond the summon restriction, so conversion is unproven (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Tributing Petit Moth is a one-for-one exchange and the evidence shows no recursion or extra card advantage (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | No interaction effect appears in the supplied text and no hand trap or negation is recorded (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 8 Earth Insect is a clean material body, and the deck sample pairs it with Xyz and Synchro partners (verified, observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The card depends on Petit Moth and Cocoon staying on the field until the 4th turn, and one interrupt ends the line (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 35 | It needs two specific supporting cards and a turn-count gate, which is a mild restriction on the deck (verified, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 36.8, Deck ≈ 29.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 8 Earth Insect body that is a clean material for Level 8 requirements (verified text, inferred use)
- Appears alongside Petit Moth and Cocoon of Evolution in the one recorded deck (observed)
Weaknesses
- Summon gate needs Petit Moth, Cocoon of Evolution and the 4th turn after equip (verified)
- No recorded combos or guides, so its on-field role is unconfirmed (verified from data gaps)
Counters / choke points
- Removing or negating Petit Moth or Cocoon of Evolution before the 4th turn stops the summon (inferred)
Best use
Boss / End-board, with Material body as a secondary use. Decks: Insect decks running Petit Moth and Cocoon of Evolution (observed in 1 deck). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon restriction: cannot be Normal Summoned or Set; Special Summon only by tributing Petit Moth on the 4th turn after Petit Moth is equipped with Cocoon of Evolution; Level 8 Earth Insect, ATK 2600, DEF 2500; Appears in 1 of the sampled decks at 1 copy
- Observed: Single 2022 deck sample pairs it with Petit Moth, Cocoon of Evolution and several Insect Xyz and Synchro partners
- Inferred: Acts as a late-game end-board body once summoned; Material use follows from Level 8 Earth Insect, not from a recorded combo
- Data gaps: Only the summon restriction is in the supplied description; any other effect text is absent, so effect and interaction axes are text-limited no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no archetype membership recorded for this card only 1 deck sampled from 2022, so the deck signal is thin no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available, so archetype inclusion is unknown no banlist token supplied, so 3 copies are assumed