EARTH
5K9-17 Izuna
Archetype:
K9
ATK:
2100
DEF:
1600
View:
1275
If your opponent has 2 or more cards in their hand, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributing. You can only use each of the following effects of "K9-17 Izuna" once per turn. During the Main Phase, if your opponent has activated a monster effect in the hand or GY this turn (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can send 1 "K9" card from your Deck to the GY, except "K9-17 Izuna".
K9-17 Izuna — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Hand trap
Why it scores here
K9-17 Izuna converts a live hand into a Level 5 body and a deck-to-GY send for the K9 engine, so it scores as a starter-style enabler rather than a disruptor. Its Quick Effect is a Special Summon from hand in the opponent's Main Phase, but it negates nothing and removes nothing, so effect_interaction stays low. Its 2100 ATK and the tributeless Normal Summon do not earn points on their own. The score is held down because the K9 send only works inside the K9 archetype (generic utility is capped at 50), and the combo evidence shows it is rarely the starter (1 of 16 appearances).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Live from hand on the opponent's turn, but the Special Summon needs the opponent to activate a monster effect and the tributeless Normal Summon needs 2+ opponent hand cards; in 400/400 decks and 16 of 25 combos (observed, verified by text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 62 | Converts into a body plus a K9 send from Deck to GY, and boards it appears in average power index 60.1 with examples up to 100 (observed, combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Deck-to-GY send is card-neutral and the tributeless Normal Summon saves a card, but there is no draw or recursion (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No negation, removal or floodgate; it only changes where the card sits (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 5 EARTH Warrior with 2100 ATK is a clean Level 5 material body; it has no evidence of being used as material in the recorded combos (inferred from stats; material role is 0). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two separate once-per-turn effects across hand, field and GY, with redundancy across 71 archetypes; both are still easily stopped by a single negate (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Runs at 2-3 copies in 400/400 decks with no garnet or lock; the only cost is that the send requires other K9 cards in the Deck (observed plus inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Hand trap, blended per axis weight. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live from hand on the opponent's turn once the opponent activates a monster effect
- Feeds the K9 engine with a deck-to-GY send that targets other K9 cards
- Clean Level 5 body, and it is in 400/400 sampled decks at 2-3 copies
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal or floodgate effect of its own
- Both effects need a condition from the opponent or the K9 Deck
- Starter role is rare in recorded boards (1 of 16 appearances)
Counters / choke points
- Monster-effect negates or hand-trap responses stop the Quick Effect
- Opponent shuffling or banishing the hand, leaving fewer than 2 cards to enable the tributeless Normal Summon
Best use
Opponent-turn hand body that adds a K9 send to the GY engine. Decks: K9 (Infernoble Knight K9 Mitsurugi), Vanquish Soul K9, Fur Hire K9. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Summon without Tribute needs the opponent to have 2+ cards in hand (card text); Quick Effect Special Summon from hand in the Main Phase after an opponent monster effect (card text); Deck-to-GY send of a K9 card, once per turn (card text); Copies per deck avg 2.53, 400 of 400 decks run it (deck data)
- Observed: Appears in 16 of 25 recorded combos, starter in 1, end-hand in 1 (combo data); Average power index 60.1 when present (combo data); Inclusion 100% in K9 gameplay type 6 and 2375, 47.8% in type 7 (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Mostly a body and fuel rather than a starter, so the score is held near the middle; Negated Quick Effect still leaves a body on the field only if the summon itself resolves
- Data gaps: No card rulings supplied Only 25 recorded combos in total, so combo statistics are thin legal copies lists OCG only; TCG and MasterDuel copy limits are not supplied top-card data empty: no ranking evidence Usage statistics cover K9 gameplay types only, not the whole format