EARTH
2Lefty Driver
ATK:
300
DEF:
100
View:
3580
If this card is Special Summoned: You can make this card become Level 3 until the end of this turn. During your Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY; add 1 "Righty Driver" from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Lefty Driver" once per turn.
Lefty Driver — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Lefty Driver's score comes from one reliable conversion: once per turn, banishing it from the GY during your Main Phase adds Righty Driver from the Deck to hand, a +1 card-advantage swing that is live in 274 sampled decks across 50 archetypes at about 1.26 copies per deck. It has no combo-board evidence, so the combo axis stays low, and it has no interaction, so the effect axis is near zero. Its 300 ATK and 2 Level earn nothing on their own; the score rests on access, GY recursion and clean deckbuilding cost.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Live in 274 of 274 sampled decks, reached through GY-sending routes such as Synchro/Junk material plays (observed; decks_evidence). Only a GY-banish searcher, so access is conditional on being in the GY (inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combos recorded, so conversion is text-only: it fetches Righty Driver, the 99.3% co-deck partner, but builds no board by itself (inferred from text; combos_evidence is empty). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Banish-from-GY search nets +1 card with no Deck-side cost, a repeatable advantage gain (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so the score is close to zero (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 2 Machine body that becomes Level 3 on Special Summon, giving level flexibility as material; the body remains usable when effects are negated (verified from card text; inferred for material fit). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The GY search is a search effect Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring can answer, and Ash is paired in 62.4% of decks; the search is once per turn with no redundancy (verified from text; observed partner rate). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Usually runs 1 copy (218 of 274 decks), needs no garnet, and is a cheap slot (observed from decks_evidence). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body (blend). Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a GY banish into a search for its 99.3% partner Righty Driver
- Live in 274 decks across 50 archetypes
- Cheap to run: 1 copy in most decks, no garnet
Weaknesses
- No interaction and no board-building on its own
- Conditional on being in the GY, so it needs a sending route
- Searches only one specific partner (Righty Driver)
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring can respond to the GY search effect (observed pairing in 62.4% of decks)
Best use
GY-activated searcher that fetches Righty Driver, serving as a Level-shifting Machine body. Decks: Synchron, Junk, Ursarctic, Crimson Dragon, Scrap. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Searcher effect: banish from GY in Main Phase to add Righty Driver, once per turn (card text); Special Summon Level change to 3 until end of turn (card text); 274 of 274 sampled decks run it; 1.26 copies average (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Righty Driver co-appears in 99.3% of decks; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring co-appears in 62.4% of decks; Copies distribution: 218 decks at 1 copy, 40 at 2, 16 at 3
- Inferred: Searches a single named partner, so the effect is a narrow tutor rather than a flexible one; Ash Blossom can respond to the GY search effect
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only