LIGHT
1Outstanding Dog Mary
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
View:
2515
If this card is sent to the GY: You can activate 1 of these effects; ● Place this card on the bottom of your Deck. ● Add 1 "Outstanding Dog Marron" from your Deck to your hand, and if you do, place this card on top of your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Outstanding Dog Mary" once per turn.
Outstanding Dog Mary — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Outstanding Dog Mary is a GY-activated tutor that searches its partner card "Outstanding Dog Marron" and sets itself on top of the deck for future cycles. The card is designed to be dumped via Foolish Burial or similar outlets and works as a support/enabler piece rather than a standalone engine. Its poor stats (100 ATK/DEF) and Level-1 body create severe brick risk when drawn, which significantly limits the overall score despite clear tutor synergy; without recorded combos showing how the tutored card converts to winning value, the actual power contribution remains unverified. It is accessible in decks built around intentional GY dumping, but resilience is limited to once-per-turn activation and no on-field presence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Foolish Burial and Foolish Burial Goods appear in 50% of running decks, providing reliable GY outlets; however, the card is unplayable in hand due to its 100 ATK/DEF frame (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The tutor mode adds 'Outstanding Dog Marron' to hand and positions this card on top deck for future cycles, but with zero recorded combo appearances, the actual board conversion to winning conditions is unverified (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The searcher mode mills the card as a dump cost and tutors a named card, roughly net-even on card advantage; the recycle mode refuels the deck on a future turn; once-per-turn limits cycling (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | The card has no opponent interaction, negation, removal, or hand-trap effect—purely self-utility (verified). |
| Material Utility | 30 | Level-1 Beast body with no archetype lock can serve as synchro material, but 100 ATK makes it a filler contribution to most lines (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | GY-triggered effect with no on-field presence, no alternate modes, and once-per-turn timing; vulnerable to GY banish effects and negation of GY activation (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | 100 ATK / Level-1 frame is a dead draw when in hand; requires intentional deck design around dump outlets; some decks run 3 copies, increasing brick risk (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary: Searcher/Tutor (1.0). Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Severe garnet/brick (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Tutors a named partner card (Outstanding Dog Marron) enabling consistent search lines in GY-dump archetypes
- Played across 7 distinct archetypes (Lunalight, Infernoid, Fluffal, Adventurer Token, Sky Striker, RaidRaptor, Exodia) confirming multi-archetype accessibility
- Foolish Burial and Foolish Burial Goods are top partners (50% each), providing reliable dump outlets
- Once-per-turn recycling to bottom deck enables refuel mechanics for subsequent turns
- Positioned on top of deck after search creates board setup for next-turn activation
Weaknesses
- 100 ATK / Level-1 frame is a severe brick when drawn directly instead of dumped
- Requires intentional GY dump to activate—no value if deck cannot reliably access GY
- Zero recorded combos mean actual power conversion to winning boards is unverified
- No opponent interaction (negation, removal, disruption) limits defensive utility
- Once-per-turn activation prevents spamming and limits burst value in extended games
- GY effect vulnerable to banish effects (Dimensional Fissure) or GY-effect negation
Counters / choke points
- Dimensional Fissure (banishes GY contents, preventing GY-effect activation)
- Macro Cosmos (blanks GY effects)
- Artifact Lancea (stops GY sends and disables GY effects)
- Any effect that negates GY activations or locks the graveyard
Best use
Searcher/support enabler in GY-dump-heavy archetypes. Decks: Lunalight, Infernoid, Fluffal.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level-1 Beast with 100 ATK/DEF (card text); GY-triggered effect with once-per-turn activation (card text); Tutors 'Outstanding Dog Marron' from deck to hand (card text); Can recycle to bottom deck as alternative effect (card text); Appears in 12 real decks across 7 archetypes (deck data); Foolish Burial and Foolish Burial Goods are 50% co-inclusion partners (deck data); Zero recorded combo appearances (combo data); No guide mentions this card (guide data)
- Observed: Most heavily run in Lunalight (25%) and Infernoid (25%); Mostly run 1–2 copies per deck; some decks run 3 (distribution: 1 copy=67%, 2 copies=17%, 3 copies=17%); Top partner with Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (75% of decks), confirming common hand-trap synergy; Paired with discard enablers and GY-dump outlets across all archetypes
- Inferred: Level-1 frame enables synchro material contribution to multi-level Synchro summoning lines; GY-triggered tutor suggests a 'dump-and-search' combo pattern designed into the archetype; Recycle-to-deck option enables refuel mechanics across multiple turns without hard restrictions; Card is a support/enabler piece, not a combo engine (based on low copy count and partner dependency); Archetype spread (7 distinct) suggests moderate portability, limited by specific 'Outstanding Dog Marron' search target
- Data gaps: No combos supplied — actual board conversion from tutored card is not recorded, significantly limiting combo_conversion verification No guides supplied — human context on the card's intended role and deck position is absent No banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) in all formats; no format-specific restrictions evident No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion percentages inferred from 12-deck sample only Outstanding Dog Marron stats/effect unknown — cannot verify tutor destination's actual power contribution