DARK
1Left Leg of the Forbidden One
Archetype:
Exodia
ATK:
200
DEF:
300
View:
8401
A forbidden left leg sealed by magic. Whosoever breaks this seal will know infinite power.
Left Leg of the Forbidden One — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 40 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 36 · Deck: 42 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility
Why it scores here
The card is a vanilla Level 1 Normal monster with no effect, so it converts nothing on its own. Its value comes entirely from being one of five Exodia pieces that together form a win condition, and the 400 of 400 deck inclusion and 99 percent co-occurrence with the other legs confirm that role is real and practical. High deck presence and a clean one-copy build are counted as accessibility and deckbuilding evidence, not as raw strength. Because the line needs all five pieces, the score is held down by the all-or-nothing dependence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Every attached deck runs it and the guides say searchers such as Blue Dragon Summoner and Treasure Panda fetch it, but the combo evidence records zero as_searched appearances, so the route is only partly tabled (observed plus inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | It appears in 3 of 3 recorded boards with an average power index of 16.3, yet it is never tagged as starter, searched, material or payoff and the boards have no end-board or boss monsters (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | It is a plain body with netCardAdvantage 0 in every example and no refuel or draw effect in its text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | The card text has no effect, so it provides no negation, removal or hand-trap reach (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | It is a Level 1 DARK Spellcaster that could serve as Synchro or Xyz material, but as_material is zero and the fit is inferred from its stats only (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | As a face-up or hand-only normal monster with no protection, a single board wipe or targeted removal ends its usefulness (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a one-copy, unrestricted slot legal in all four formats with no garnet cost, but the Exodia shell it commits a deck to is heavily self-locking (verified plus inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role default weights; no secondary role blend (combo role counts are all zero). Intrinsic ≈ 36, Deck ≈ 42, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Required piece of a five-piece instant-win line that runs in every attached deck
- Clean single-copy build with no garnet cost and legal in all listed formats
- Strong pairing with the other four legs (99 percent co-occurrence)
Weaknesses
- No effect, so it does nothing alone and has no interaction
- Depends on searchers that are not clearly evidenced in the combo data
- Dead on its own if any other leg is missing or removed
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps and board breakers that remove the other legs before they are assembled
- Negating the searchers that fetch the legs (inferred)
Best use
Utility piece of the Exodia five-piece win line. Decks: Exodia, Millennium, Exodd. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster with no card effect, Level 1, DARK, Spellcaster, 200 ATK; Legal 1 copy in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and Goat; Run in 400 of 400 attached decks at 1 copy in 386 and 2 copies in 14
- Observed: Appears in 3 of 3 recorded combos with average power index 16.3 and netCardAdvantage 0; Co-occurs with the other four Forbidden One legs in 99 to 100 percent of decks; Usage statistics show 100 percent inclusion in the main Exodia archetypes
- Inferred: Functions only as one piece of the five-piece Exodia win condition; Searchers such as Blue Dragon Summoner and Treasure Panda fetch it per the guides; Material fit as a Level 1 DARK Spellcaster is inferred from stats
- Data gaps: combos_evidence role_in_combo is empty, so the role split is inferred from text rather than tabled as_searched and as_material are zero, so the searcher and material routes are not directly measured No rulings or top-card ranking are available for this card