EARTH
3Junk Forward
Archetype:
Junk
ATK:
900
DEF:
1500
View:
4144
If you control no monsters, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand).
Junk Forward — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Junk Forward is a Level 3 Warrior whose only text is a hand Special Summon that requires you to control no monsters, so its value is a clean, free body that can be summoned in a monsterless spot and then used as material. Its score comes from accessibility, Level 3 material fit, and near-zero deck cost, not from its 900 ATK or 1500 DEF. The 400-of-400 deck inclusion is a staple signal (guardrail 3) that confirms it is easy to run, not that it is strong; no combo, refuel, or interaction evidence supports a higher score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | The hand-summon route only opens when you control no monsters, and no combo or searcher evidence shows a live route (verified text, observed 400/400 decks; with 0 combo appearances, the route itself is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The card is a 900-ATK body with no recorded board appearances, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The card gives no card advantage, refuel, or GY recovery in its text, so the resource value is a tempo-neutral free summon (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | It is a non-Tuner Level 3 Earth Warrior, which makes it a generic material body; combo data is absent, so the fit is inferred from level and type (verified level/type, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its single hand-summon route depends on an empty monster zone, which limits when it works, and no counter data is supplied (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | The card is run at 1-3 copies across 400 decks (avg 1.97), has no garnet or lock text, and is splashable (observed copy counts, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free hand summon that adds a Level 3 body without spending a card
- Generic material fit for Level 3 plays (inferred from level and type)
- Runs in 85 distinct archetypes at 1-3 copies, so it is portable across homes
- Clean deckbuilding cost with no garnet or lock text
Weaknesses
- Requires an empty monster zone, so it cannot be used when you already control a monster
- No recorded combo appearances, so board conversion is unproven
- No refuel, recursion, or negation effect
- 900 ATK / 1500 DEF is a weak body and earns no points
Counters / choke points
- Any monster you control blocks the summon condition (verified text)
- No counter data is supplied in the evidence, so any negation of its hand-summon is unverified
Best use
Material body / empty-field hand-summon filler. Decks: Phantom Knights, Gouki, Wind-Up, Synchron, Infernoble Knight. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Special Summon from hand only if you control no monsters; Level 3, Earth, Warrior, Effect Monster (not Tuner), ATK 900 / DEF 1500; Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 1-3 copies (avg 1.97) across 85 archetypes; No combo appearances recorded (total_combos 0)
- Observed: Top partners: Reinforcement of the Army (74.5%), Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (57.2%), Isolde (49.5%); Copy distribution: 161 decks at 1, 91 at 2, 148 at 3; Guide 634 describes Warrior special summons as the core of the Warrior deck, which is the only guide support for its role; usage_statistics covers 2 archetypes only: Genex 100% (typical 3 copies), Battlin' Boxer 60% (typical 1 copy)
- Inferred: The card is a generic Level 3 material body, based on level and type with no combo evidence; The hand-summon route is live mainly when the field is cleared, which limits access to specific turns
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) decks_running_main is 400 of 400 sampled decks (100%), which is unusually high; verify the CardId match is not over-broad usage_statistics covers only 2 archetypes no counter or negation data for the hand-summon route no metagame sample supplied, so meta_power is null