WATER
3Jabbing Panda
ATK:
1500
DEF:
1000
View:
2669
If 2 or more Beast-Warrior monsters are on the field, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). You can only Special Summon "Jabbing Panda" once per turn this way. If this card is sent from the field to your GY: You can target 1 face-up monster you control; it gains 500 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Jabbing Panda" once per turn.
Jabbing Panda — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 49.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Jabbing Panda is a Level 3 WATER Beast-Warrior that can be Special Summoned from hand only while you control 2 or more Beast-Warrior monsters, and its graveyard effect gives one face-up monster +500 ATK. Its 1500 ATK earns nothing on its own. The score comes from being a clean Level 3 generic body that stays useful as material even when its effects are negated, and from being cheap to run across 5 archetypes (1.83 copies per deck, 12 decks sampled). The hand-summon condition and the small graveyard buff keep it well below a true starter or board-maker, and the absence of recorded combo boards keeps conversion scoring low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs 2 Beast-Warriors already on the field before the hand-summon works, so it is not live in most openers; decks show it running in 12 lists across Ancient Warrior, Lunalight and Tri-Brigade, which confirms some practical routes (observed, inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No combo boards recorded, and the text converts one body into a +500 ATK buff on a face-up monster only after it reaches the graveyard, so there is no evidenced conversion into a full board (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | No card advantage or refuel; the graveyard effect is a stat buff, not a search, draw, or banish, so value is one-for-one at best (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text, so it gives the opponent no interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 3 WATER Beast-Warrior is a clean generic material body, and its material value does not depend on its effects, so it still converts when negated (verified from text, inferred for material use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its hand-summon depends on field conditions and its graveyard effect needs it to leave the field, so it is fragile early but has two zones and turns of use (inferred from text; deck partner counts observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One-copy-to-three is normal for a card with no banlist or garnet restriction, and decks run 1 to 3 copies with no locks or self-restriction (observed from deck data, verified from data gaps assumption). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body (blended). Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 49.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, meta unknown; no combos)
Strengths
- Clean Level 3 generic Beast-Warrior body that remains usable as material when its effects are negated
- Cheap to run: no garnet or lock restriction, 1 to 3 copies per deck
- Recurs across 5 archetypes, so the card has more than one home
Weaknesses
- Hand-summon requires 2 or more Beast-Warriors already on the field, so it is dead in many openers
- Graveyard effect is only a +500 ATK buff, with no card advantage, search, or board creation
- No opponent interaction and no recorded combo boards
Counters / choke points
- Board-wide or hand-based interruption before the hand-summon resolves
- Interruption of the field-to-graveyard step that enables the buff effect
Best use
Conditional hand-summoned Beast-Warrior body and material fodder. Decks: Ancient Warriors, Lunalight, Tri-Brigade. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 3 WATER Beast-Warrior, 1500 ATK / 1000 DEF, effect monster; Hand Special Summon requires 2 or more Beast-Warrior monsters on the field and is once per turn; Graveyard effect gives one face-up monster +500 ATK and is once per turn; 12 sampled decks, 1.83 average copies, 5 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Partner card Tri-Brigade Shuraig appears in 83.3% of the sampled decks running this card; 91.7% of sampled decks use one gameplay type (type 7)
- Inferred: Accessibility depends on having 2 Beast-Warriors on field, so it is conditional rather than opening-hand live; Its material value survives negation because the body does not depend on its effects
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % comes only from the 12-deck sample gameplay type 7 is not labelled in the evidence pack