Trap
ContinuousMeteoroa Drytron
Archetype:
Drytron
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If a "Drytron" card(s) is banished (except during the Damage Step): You can Tribute 1 "Drytron" monster, then target up to 2 of your banished "Drytron" cards; add them to your hand. You can reveal 1 "Meteonis Drytron" in your hand; Ritual Summon 1 Machine Ritual Monster from your hand or GY, by Tributing Machine monsters from your hand or field whose total ATK equals or exceeds its ATK. You can only use each effect of "Meteoroa Drytron" once per turn.
Meteoroa Drytron — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Meteoroa Drytron is an archetype-locked engine trap. Its banish trigger converts a Tribute of one Drytron into up to two banished Drytron returned to hand, which is a net card-advantage refuel, and its second effect ritual summons Meteonis Drytron from hand or GY. It has no interaction, is not a useful material body, and only works inside Drytron, so the score stays in the 50 range despite 299 supporting decks. Deck presence confirms it is a live staple here; it does not raise the intrinsic score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Live in 299 of the sampled decks, almost all Drytron (74.2% archetype, 92.3% gameplay type 7), but it needs a Drytron banish event and a set trap to start, with no combo starter data (observed + inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text converts a banish into hand recovery and a Ritual Summon, but there are no recorded boards to show the converted value (inferred from text; no combo sample). |
| Resource Economy | 72 | Tribute 1 Drytron to add up to 2 banished Drytron is a net +1 card when both targets exist, and the card refuels the GY/banish zone (verified from text; reinforced by 100% Meteonis/Alpha Thuban co-occurrence, observed). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No opponent-facing negation, removal, or hand trap text in the description (verified). |
| Material Utility | 15 | Trap card with no Level/ATK body; it is never material, and its Ritual effect is the only card-interaction role (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Continuous Trap that stays on the field across turns with two independent once-per-turn effects, but it is exposed to backrow removal and only works in Drytron boards (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | Runs at 1.03 average copies in one archetype home, so it is cheap to play in Drytron but needs an archetype-specific slot with no redundancy (observed, 1.03 copies per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked self-restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Net card advantage from banish recursion (up to 2 cards back for 1 Tribute).
- Second effect ritual summons Meteonis Drytron from hand or GY, linking to the engine.
- Present in 299 sampled decks, paired with almost every Drytron core card (100% with Alpha Thuban, Nu II, Zeta Aldhibah, and Meteonis Drytron).
Weaknesses
- No interaction or disruption from the opponent's side.
- Archetype-locked: no value outside Drytron.
- Trap card that must be set and survive backrow removal.
- Not a material body.
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or trap destruction before the banish trigger resolves.
- Banish-hate or GY/banish-zone interaction that denies Drytron targets.
Best use
Recursion engine trap that refuels banished Drytron and enables Meteonis Drytron Ritual Summons.. Decks: Drytron. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Trap; banish trigger tributes 1 Drytron to add up to 2 banished Drytron to hand.; Second effect reveals Meteonis Drytron to Ritual Summon a Machine Ritual Monster from hand or GY.; Each effect is once per turn.; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel.
- Observed: 299 sampled decks run it, with 92.3% in gameplay type 7 and 74.2% in the Drytron archetype.; Average 1.03 copies per deck; 293 decks run 1 copy.; Top partners co-occur at 97–100%, Alpha Thuban and Meteonis Drytron among them.
- Inferred: Primary role is Recovery/Recursion with Extender as secondary, based on the banish refuel and the Ritual Summon text.; Accessibility is moderate: it needs a banish event and a set trap, and there are no combo starter counts.; Value outside Drytron is near zero because both effects need Drytron targets.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only