DARK
5Kiryu
ATK:
2000
DEF:
1500
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Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this card on the field, you can equip it to your "Dark Blade" as an Equip Spell Card, OR unequip the Union equipment and Special Summon this card in face-up Attack Position. While equipped to a monster by this card's effect, increase the ATK/DEF of the equipped monster by 900 points, and you can Tribute this card to allow the equipped monster to attack your opponent's Life Points directly this turn. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the equipped monster is destroyed as a result of battle, destroy this card instead.)
Kiryu — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 38 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Kiryu is a Level 5 DARK Dragon body with 2000 ATK. Its value comes from one once-per-turn effect that either equips it to a Dark Blade for +900 ATK/DEF and a direct-attack route, or returns it to the field from the Union equipment area. It has no search, draw, or negation, so its accessibility and resource economy stay low. The 2000 ATK earns no points on its own. The single observed deck places it in a Cyber Dragon build with a cluster of partners, but with no combo or guide data, that only confirms a real niche role and does not raise the score much.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No searcher or hand route appears in the text, and the only evidence is one deck with no combo starter/searched data (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Equipping to a Dark Blade gives a 2900/2400 body plus a tribute-based direct-attack route, but no combo examples exist to confirm how often that converts (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | No draw, search, or GY refuel; the direct-attack option costs the card itself (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Neither the equip nor the self-summon effect is negation or removal, so there is no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 5 DARK Dragon is a usable material body, but it is awkward to fuel given its Union restrictions (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It can move between field and equip zones, but it is destroyed with the equipped monster in battle and works only once per turn (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | It needs Dark Blade on the field for its best use, a single-copy restriction that adds deck-building cost (verified, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Dark Blade dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn self-revival from the Union area keeps the body recoverable
- Equip gives +900 ATK/DEF and a direct-attack route
- Level 5 DARK Dragon is a usable material body
- Appears in a real Cyber Dragon build with a cluster of partners
Weaknesses
- No search, draw, negation, or removal
- Destroyed with the equipped monster in battle
- Needs a Dark Blade on the field for its main use
- Only one observed deck and no combo data
Counters / choke points
- Equip-target removal or destruction of the Dark Blade
- Battle destruction of the equipped monster takes the card with it
Best use
Extender / Union body in a Dark Blade build. Decks: Cyber Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once-per-turn Main Phase equip to Dark Blade or self-summon from the Union area; +900 ATK/DEF while equipped, with tribute for direct attack; Level 5 DARK Dragon, 2000 ATK / 1500 DEF; Single observed deck, one copy, Cyber Dragon archetype
- Observed: Single observed deck with a cluster of Cyber Dragon partners
- Inferred: Accessibility is low because no searcher or hand route is shown; Combo conversion is text-only because no combo data exists; Material utility is moderate given Union restrictions
- 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 is inferred from one deck Dark Blade is named in the text but has no evidence entry of its own