EARTH
4Junk Breaker
Archetype:
Junk
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1000
View:
3361
During your Main Phase, if this card was Normal Summoned this turn: You can Tribute this card; all face-up monsters on the field have their effects negated until the end of this turn.
Junk Breaker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Junk Breaker's power is a one-shot, board-wide negation in your own Main Phase. It is reliable but conditional: it needs a Normal Summon that same turn and the card is Tribute-ed to use it. Its 1800 ATK earns nothing. The score rests on that conditional interaction, a generic Level 4 body, and a cheap single-slot deck cost. Its 21 of 21 deck inclusion across eight archetypes shows it is a portable, practical pick, but frequency does not raise the score, and the absence of combo data caps confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | 21 of 21 sampled decks run it at an average of 2.19 copies, but the effect is live only on a turn it is Normal Summoned, which is a real gate (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No combo boards are in the evidence, and the effect removes board effects rather than building a board on its own (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Tribute is a self-cost with no recovery in the card text, so the negation is a one-for-zero exchange on the card itself (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | It negates every face-up monster's effects on both sides until end of turn, which is strong when live but limited to your own Main Phase after a Normal Summon (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 Warrior Earth body is a clean generic material by its stats, but no material-usage combo data confirms it is played that way (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The effect is a single timed activation in your Main Phase, so one response can end it before it resolves, and no redundancy is evidenced (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It takes one slot with no garnet or lock, and up to three copies are standard in the sample, so it is cheap to run (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker / Going-second profile; no secondary blend (no secondary role supported by evidence). Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Board-wide negation of all face-up monsters' effects, both sides, in one activation
- Level 4 Normal-summonable body that is easy to fit into decks
- Single-slot, no garnet or lock, so low deckbuilding cost
- Portable: appears across eight archetypes in the sample (Junk, Synchron, Crimson Dragon, Harpie and others)
Weaknesses
- Requires a Normal Summon on the same turn, so it is not live on most turns
- Tribute is a self-cost, so the card is lost to use the effect
- Negation applies only during your own Main Phase
- No combo evidence to show the card converts into a board beyond the negate itself
Counters / choke points
- Responding to the activation in the chain with a negate or hand trap (inferred; no counter data in the evidence)
- Opponent's cards that stop the Normal Summon or punish the single-turn window (speculation; not in evidence)
Best use
Board breaker. Decks: Junk, Synchron, Crimson Dragon, Harpie.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 Warrior, EARTH, 1800/1000 Effect Monster; Effect: Normal Summoned this turn, Main Phase, Tribute to negate all face-up monsters' effects until end of turn; Available in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks formats
- Observed: Run in 21 of 21 sampled decks at 2.19 average copies (distribution 1:8, 2:1, 3:12); Top partners: Junk Synchron 100%, Junk Anchor 95.2%, Jet Synchron 90.5%; Spread across eight distinct archetypes in the sample
- Inferred: Effect is live only on a turn it is Normal Summoned; Primary role is Board breaker rather than Starter or Material body, because the effect removes board effects
- 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