EARTH
9Invoked Oceanus
Archetype:
Invoked
ATK:
3000
DEF:
3000
View:
1177
1 "Aleister" monster + 1 DARK or WATER monster While this card is in the Main Monster Zone, your opponent's monsters cannot target monsters for attacks, except this one. While this card is in the Extra Monster Zone, any monster sent to your opponent's GY is banished instead. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Fusion Monster you control; it can attack directly this turn. You can only use this effect of "Invoked Oceanus" once per turn.
Invoked Oceanus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49.5 · Deck: 52.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Invoked Oceanus is a 3000-ATK Fusion whose score comes from its board function, not its ATK: the Main Monster Zone clause stops opposing monsters from attacking anything but this card, and the Extra Monster Zone clause banishes opposing monsters sent to the GY. Its only reach is a once-per-turn GY banish that gives another Fusion Monster direct attack, and it needs an Aleister monster plus a DARK or WATER monster to Fusion Summon. The 3000 ATK earned no points, and the 400-deck and 100% inclusion figures confirm it is a staple of the Invoked lines rather than proof of intrinsic power. No combo data exists, so the combo axis is text-only inference and holds the score down.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | It is Extra Deck-only and needs Aleister plus a DARK/WATER monster, but Aleister and Invocation are present in 93-96% of the sampled decks, so it is reliably reachable within its archetype (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | combo data is empty, so conversion from a starter to a board is inferred only from the 3000-ATK body and the direct-attack route (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The GY banish is a one-time cost that buys a direct attack, with no searches or card advantage shown in the evidence (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | The MMZ attack-redirect protects the board and the EMZ GY-banish hates recursion, but both are situational and zone-dependent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 30 | It is itself a Fusion Monster with no clause making it a generic material, and its usefulness as Link or Xyz material is not in the evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Negating its effects removes both the attack protection and the GY-banish, and no redundancy or recovery route is shown (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One copy is run in 392 of 400 decks, the Extra Deck cost is a single Fusion slot, and no garnet or lock restriction is stated (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 49.5, Deck ≈ 52.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- 3000-ATK Fusion body with an attack-redirect that protects the monsters it sits beside in the Main Monster Zone
- Extra Monster Zone clause banishes opposing monsters sent to the GY, a hate effect for recursion
- Once-per-turn GY banish grants a Fusion Monster direct attack, a reach route that costs no board space
- Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks at about 1 copy each, with 100% inclusion in the Aleister and Invoked usage lines
Weaknesses
- Needs an Aleister monster plus a DARK or WATER monster to Fusion Summon, so it is dead without its archetype's enablers
- Both defensive clauses depend on the zone it occupies, which limits when they apply
- No combo evidence, so its conversion from a starter to a board is unverified
- Negating its effects removes both the protection and the GY-banish
Counters / choke points
- Negating this card's effects removes the attack-redirect and the GY-banish, per the card text
- Removing it from the field before its effects matter, using card effects outside the evidence (inferred, not tabled)
Best use
Board-presence Fusion body, GY-hate in the Extra Monster Zone, and a direct-attack enabler for Fusion Monsters. Decks: Invoked (archetype 635), Invoked (archetype 464), Aleister, Magistus, Mulcharmy. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: opposing monsters cannot attack anything except this card while it is in the Main Monster Zone; Card text: monsters sent to the opponent's GY while it is in the Extra Monster Zone are banished instead; Card text: once per turn, banish from GY to give a Fusion Monster direct attack this turn; Fusion requirement: 1 Aleister monster plus 1 DARK or WATER monster; Decks: 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, with 392 at 1 copy and 8 at 2
- Observed: Aleister the Reminiscent and Invocation co-occur in 95% or more of sampled decks; usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Aleister (2478) and Invoked (464), 78.8% in Invoked (635), 66.7% in Fabled and Magistus
- Inferred: Its Boss/End-board role follows from the 3000-ATK body plus the zone-based clauses, not from combo data; Its material utility is limited because it is a Fusion Monster and no evidence shows it used as Link or Xyz material; Its GY-hate and attack-redirect clauses are weakened by negation, which the card text confirms only partly
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter/material/payoff role frequencies are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) was assumed no top-card ranking data for this card no per-deck starter count, so the deck-resilience input is estimated