DARK
5Inzektor Giga-Cricket
Archetype:
Inzektor
ATK:
2000
DEF:
1300
View:
3193
If this card is in your Graveyard: You can banish 1 Insect-Type monster from your Graveyard to target 1 face-up "Inzektor" monster you control; equip this card from the Graveyard to that target. This effect of "Inzektor Giga-Cricket" can only be used once per turn. While this card is equipped to a monster, that monster's original ATK becomes 2000, and if it attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing Battle Damage to your opponent.
Inzektor Giga-Cricket — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 45 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Giga-Cricket's value is a once-per-turn recursion: from the Graveyard it banishes one Insect to equip itself onto a face-up Inzektor monster, turning a dead GY body into piercing board presence at 2000 ATK. It converts a Graveyard resource into a board body, but it does no searching, negation, or card advantage, and it is locked to a single archetype. The 2000 ATK and piercing text earn little by themselves, and the 20 of 20 sampled decks running it confirm only that it is a consistent staple, not that it is strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | It activates from the Graveyard whenever an Insect is also there and an Inzektor monster is face up, and it is in all 20 sampled decks (verified text, observed deck stat; no combo data to confirm the route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Its only board effect is an equip that sets a target's ATK to 2000 and gives piercing, with no extra bodies or follow-up (verified text; combo conversion is text-only inference because no combos were supplied). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | It costs one Insect from the Graveyard to gain one equipped board presence, a roughly even trade with no draw, search, or net advantage (verified text, inference on value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | It has no negation, removal, or disruption effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | It is a Graveyard-only effect with no field body that serves as material, and an equipped card is not a material (verified text, inference). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its single once-per-turn activation is easy to lose to Graveyard hate, and the equip is lost if the target is removed (verified text, inference). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It is a single copy in a single-archetype deck with no garnet or lock restriction, but it stays in hand until it reaches the Graveyard (observed deck stat, average 1.05 copies, plus inference). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 45, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recovers itself from the Graveyard without a Summon, as one Graveyard Insect is banished
- Once-per-turn equip gives a 2000 ATK piercing body on an Inzektor monster
- Appears in all 20 sampled Inzektor decks, and its top partners are all Inzektor cards
Weaknesses
- No search, negation, or card advantage
- Locked to the Inzektor archetype (1 distinct archetype)
- Needs an Insect in the Graveyard and a face-up Inzektor monster before it can activate
- The equip is lost if the target is removed
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard hate that stops Graveyard-based recursion (inferred)
- Removal of the equipped Inzektor monster (inferred)
Best use
Graveyard recursion that adds a piercing body to an Inzektor monster. Decks: Inzektor. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: once-per-turn Graveyard banish of an Insect to equip itself to a face-up Inzektor monster, with ATK set to 2000 and piercing; Deck stat: in 20 of 20 sampled decks, 1.05 average copies, Inzektor only
- Observed: Partners: Inzektor Ladybug, Hornet and Dragonfly each co-occur in 20 of 20 decks
- Inferred: Recovery/Recursion role from the Graveyard-to-field equip; Roughly even resource trade (one Insect banished for one board presence); Single-archetype dependency limits generic utility
- 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 deck sample only