EARTH
2Nettles
ATK:
1200
DEF:
400
View:
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If this face-up card would be destroyed, you can destroy 1 face-up Plant-Type monster you control instead.
Nettles — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 36 ± 6 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 40 · Deck: 37 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Nettles scores low because it demonstrates minimal power even in its single niche home archetype. While functioning as a viable Level 2 Tuner body for Synchro material, it brings no combo potential or card advantage. The protection effect is situational and requires another Plant-Type on field, making it unreliable as a standalone defense tool. With zero combo appearances, no guide mentions, and presence in only one deck across all formats, there is no evidence of meaningful metagame impact or deck centrality.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 20 | Appears in only 1 deck in the full sample with no searcher routes identified, requiring it to be drawn and restricting it to Plant-Type archetypes. (observed) |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | No combo appearances recorded; only text-based inference suggests Level 2 Tuner potential for Synchro plays with no standalone board generation. (inferred) |
| Resource Economy | 25 | The protection effect is defensive and roughly neutral; no card draw or tutoring; functions only as material cost in Synchro contexts. (inferred) |
| Effect & Interaction | 28 | Redirects destruction to another Plant-Type monster if setup, but offers no proactive disruption, negation, or removal capability. (verified) |
| Material Utility | 65 | Clean Level 2 Tuner body (1200 ATK/400 DEF) suitable for Synchro material; EARTH attribute and Plant race align with home archetype support. (verified) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Optional effect prevents forced bad plays; low ATK (1200) makes it vulnerable to most removal; limited multi-turn utility beyond material role. (inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 35 | Appears at 2 copies in one niche archetype only; requires Plant-Type support and archetype commitment, not a generic splice. (observed) |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 40, Deck ≈ 37, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Extreme niche status (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Functional Level 2 Tuner body suitable for Synchro material
- Optional effect prevents forced bad plays and brick situations
- Plant type and EARTH attribute align with home archetype support
Weaknesses
- Extremely niche; evidence limited to a single deck
- Low ATK (1200) makes it vulnerable to most removal effects
- Protection effect requires setup (another Plant-Type on field)
- No combo potential or card advantage generation
Counters / choke points
- Non-destruction removal (effects that banish, return to hand, or send to GY)
- Board wipes or mass removal with no Plant-Type target remaining
- Decks without sufficient Plant-Type monsters to redirect destruction
Best use
Tuner material, defensive utility. Decks: Mystical Beast of the Forest. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text and mechanics: redirects destruction to another face-up Plant-Type monster you control; Type: Tuner Monster; Level: 2; ATK: 1200; DEF: 400; Appears in 1 Mystical Beast of the Forest deck at 2 copies (100% inclusion in that deck)
- Observed: Only 1 deck found across all formats (TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks); 2 copies per deck in the single observed list; Top partners all from the same Mystical Beast of the Forest deck
- Inferred: Level 2 Tuner likely used as Synchro material given card stats and type; Protection effect provides situational Plant-Type deck utility; Inaccessible outside of archetype-specific Plant-Type strategies
- Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied — no human-authored context on role or usage No banlist token — assumed unlimited (3 copies) in all formats No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from single-deck sample only Extremely limited deck sample (n=1) — cannot generalize to broader archetype performance No evidence of searchability or tutoring routes