DARK
3Hunter Dragon
ATK:
1700
DEF:
100
View:
3676
This dragon has taken down countless prey with its sharp fangs. It strikes very quickly, because if it does not strike first it is vulnerable to a counter-attack.
Hunter Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Hunter Dragon is a vanilla Level 3 DARK Dragon Normal Monster with no effect, so its power comes almost entirely from its body as material and its deckbuilding cost. It converts into a Level 3 Dragon-type material that stays useful even when blanked, and it appears in 103 of the attached decks (mostly Exodia and Materiactor shells) with 1.25 copies on average. The 1700 ATK earns nothing on its own: with no combo boards, no searches and no interaction, the card scores as a clean, cheap material body rather than a driver of the line.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | A plain Normal Monster with no search or summon effect, so it is reached through the deck's own draws and searchers; the decks evidence shows it running in 103 of 103 main decks but no combo starter or searched role is recorded (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | No recorded boards (total combos 0) and no effect text, so it converts nothing by itself; any board value comes from being a material for other cards (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | No card advantage, refuel, or searches in the text, so it is an even body rather than a resource engine (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | No effect text and no negation or removal role in the evidence, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 3 DARK Dragon is a generic material fit, and as a vanilla monster it converts fully even if an effect is negated, with the Materiactor partner cluster supporting this use (inferred from text and observed co-occurrence). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Nothing to negate, so it survives interaction, but it is inert in most spots and only matters as a body on the field or in hand (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Vanilla, no garnet, no lock, and 1 to 3 copies are all acceptable, so it is near a free-roll slot (verified from text and copies per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Material body / Normal; no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Splashable vanilla body (2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, combos absent, meta unknown); +2 modifier applied to Final
Strengths
- Generic Level 3 DARK Dragon material fit
- No effect text to negate, so the body survives interaction
- Near-zero deckbuilding cost with no garnet or lock
- Spread across 30 archetypes in the attached decks
Weaknesses
- No effect, search, or interaction of its own
- No recorded combo boards, so combo conversion is unproven
- Concentrated in Exodia and Materiactor shells, which lowers generic value
- Does not generate advantage
Counters / choke points
- Not applicable: the card has no effect to counter, so opponents do not need to answer it specifically
Best use
Level 3 Dragon-type material body. Decks: Materiactor, Exodia. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster, Level 3, DARK Dragon, ATK 1700, DEF 100, no effect text (card); Appears in 103 of 103 main decks, average 1.25 copies (deck data); Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks (card.formats)
- Observed: Partner cluster with Materiactor cards at roughly 50% co-occurrence (top partners); Flamvell usage inclusion at 100% with 3 typical copies (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Acts as a generic Level 3 Dragon-type material body; Survives interaction only because there is nothing to negate
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed (unlimited) usage statistics covers only one archetype (Flamvell), which does not match the attached deck archetypes