DARK
1Hydralander Orbit
ATK:
0
DEF:
1500
View:
2989
If you have 4 or more monsters in your GY and no monsters in your GY with the same name: You can Tribute this card; excavate the top cards of your Deck, equal to the number of monsters in your GY (or as many as possible), and if you do, if 2 or more monsters were excavated and all excavated monsters had different names, add 1 of those monsters to your hand, also place the remaining cards on top of your Deck in any order. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 monster in your GY; place it on the bottom of the Deck. You can only use each effect of "Hydralander Orbit" once per turn.
Hydralander Orbit — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 38 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 36 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Hydralander Orbit converts a full Graveyard into value: its first effect excavates up to the GY monster count and can add one monster with a unique name to hand, and its second effect banishes it from the GY to return a GY monster to the bottom of the Deck. Those conditions (4+ monsters in the GY, no same-name monsters there) make it a late-game piece, so accessibility and combo conversion stay modest. The 0 ATK and 1500 DEF earn nothing, and the single Orcust deck confirms it is playable but not that it is strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 30 | Needs 4+ GY monsters with no same-name duplicates before its search works, and the only deck evidence is one Orcust list with no starter or searched stats (verified text, observed deck sample). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards exist, so the card's conversion is text-only: one searched monster or a GY-to-bottom recycle, with no evidence of a board result (inferred from text; combo data is empty). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Tributing itself to search is roughly card-neutral, and the excavated cards not added go back on top of the Deck, so it is near even rather than a net gain (verified text, inferred net). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The text has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it offers no opponent interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Level 1 DARK Machine body is a usable material, but its effect is a Tribute cost and no combo or deck evidence shows it being used as material (verified stats, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | One effect works from the field and the other from the GY, so it has two zones and two once-per-turn uses, but both depend on a crowded GY (verified text, inferred resilience). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | It has no garnet or lock clause, is a single-copy Level 1 body, and its only deck run is a 1-copy slot, so it is cheap to run (verified text, observed deck sample). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion (primary role blend). Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 36, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Conditional search: adds one unique-name monster from excavation when the GY threshold is met
- Two once-per-turn effects in two zones (field and GY), giving repeatable GY-to-Deck recycling
- Plain, single-copy Level 1 body with no garnet or lock cost
Weaknesses
- Gated behind 4+ GY monsters with no same-name monsters in the GY, so it is dead early
- 0 ATK and no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect
- No combo evidence and only one deck sample, so conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- No counter evidence is supplied in the pack. Inferred from the text: same-name monsters in the GY or a thin GY shut off both effects.
Best use
Conditional late-game searcher and GY recycler. Decks: Orcust. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: 4+ GY monsters with no same-name GY monsters gates the excavate-and-add effect; the GY-banish effect returns a GY monster to the Deck bottom; each effect is once per turn; Level 1, DARK, Machine, Effect Monster, DEF 1500, ATK 0, in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel; Banlist: none supplied, so 3 copies assumed
- Observed: Appears in 1 of the attached decks (Orcust, 1 copy, main deck); 0 combo boards recorded
- Inferred: Late-game searcher because of the GY threshold; Its net card advantage is about even; Usable as a Level 1 material body, though no evidence shows it used that way
- 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): inclusion % inferred from a single deck only Activation zone for the excavate effect is not stated in the card text Deck evidence is a single Orcust deck, so partner and archetype signals are not statistically meaningful