EARTH
3Peropero Cerperus
ATK:
0
DEF:
1800
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If you take damage by battle or an opponent's card effect while this card is in the GY: You can banish this card from the GY, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it.
Peropero Cerperus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49.2 · Deck: 49.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Peropero Cerperus earns a mid-range score as a reactive GY removal tech card: its consistent presence across 32 distinct archetypes confirms it fills a real role, but that role is inherently conditional — it requires prior GY setup and taking damage before it can act. The Rescue Cat partnership at 69.5% co-appearance provides a clean single-card route to loading it into the GY in Beast-type strategies, giving meaningful accessibility in those homes. However, the damage-triggered condition, one-time banish cost, and complete absence from all recorded combo lines cap its ceiling well below proactive disruption pieces. Zero ATK and high DEF played no part in this score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Rescue Cat co-appears in 69.5% of the 151 decks running this card, providing a reliable route to the GY in Beast strategies; outside that engine the GY placement requires other mill or dump effects, making it moderately rather than freely live. (observed) |
| Combo & Conversion | 22 | Zero appearances across all recorded combo lines in the database — it is not a combo starter, extender, or end-board piece, providing only a single reactive destruction trigger rather than advancing any established board. (observed) |
| Resource Economy | 42 | The effect costs only the banish of itself from the GY with no hand cost, yielding a 1-for-1 destruction; the damage already absorbed is an implicit resource loss, landing the card close to neutral on card economy. (inferred) |
| Effect & Interaction | 38 | The effect destroys any 1 card on the field — monster, spell, or trap — but only triggers when you take damage from battle or an opponent's card effect, making it reactive and conditional rather than proactive. (verified) |
| Material Utility | 45 | As a Level 3 EARTH Beast it fits cleanly into Rank 3 Xyz plays and Beast-type synergies; the 1800 DEF provides a tolerable body but the 0 ATK prevents any offensive battle contribution, holding material utility at moderate. (inferred) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 38 | Operating from the GY makes it resistant to hand disruption and on-field negation, but it triggers only once before banishing itself permanently and can be preemptively neutralized by Called by the Grave or D.D. Crow before the damage window opens. (inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 68 | Run as a 1-of in 141 of 151 decks (93%) and spread across 32 distinct archetypes spanning multiple gameplay modes, indicating very low slot cost; Rescue Cat searchability makes a single copy sufficient in most configurations. (observed) |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 49.2, Deck ≈ 49.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Damage-condition dependency (-2); One-time GY use (-1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- GY-based destruction covers any card on the field — monster, spell, or trap
- Rescue Cat provides a clean single-card route to load it into the GY in Beast-type strategies
- Extremely low slot cost — 93% of decks run exactly 1 copy
- Wide splash potential across 32+ archetypes spanning multiple gameplay modes
- Operating from the GY makes it resistant to standard field negation and hand disruption
Weaknesses
- Activation requires taking damage first — reactive and not under the controller's control
- 0 ATK offers zero offensive battle presence
- One-time use: banishes itself permanently after the effect resolves
- No recorded appearance in combo lines — does not advance or enable any established boards
- Effect does not prevent or compensate for the damage that triggers it
Counters / choke points
- Called by the Grave — preemptively banishes it from the GY before the damage window opens
- D.D. Crow — banishes it from the GY in response to the damage trigger
- Macro Cosmos / Dimensional Fissure — continuous banish effects prevent it from reaching the GY
Best use
GY tech piece providing conditional spot removal in Beast-based strategies. Decks: Melffy, Tri-Brigade, Rescue Cat Beast, Chimera. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 3 EARTH Beast with 0 ATK and 1800 DEF; GY effect: banish from GY when taking damage (battle or opponent effect) to target and destroy 1 card on the field; Legal in TCG, OCG, and MasterDuel formats; Present in 151 decks across 32 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Run as a 1-of in 141 of 151 decks (93%); Top co-card partner is Rescue Cat at 69.5% co-appearance rate across 105 shared decks; Most common homes are Melffy (23.8%) and Tri-Brigade (19.2%); Zero appearances across all recorded combo lines in the database; Active in decks from February 2022 through July 2026
- Inferred: Rescue Cat special summons it from deck, it goes to GY at end of turn, enabling the GY effect in the same duel turn; As a Level 3 Beast it provides clean Rank 3 Xyz material in Beast-type strategies; Flexible targeting of any card type (monster, spell, trap) gives it broad utility as a tech removal piece
- Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied — no human-authored context on optimal usage patterns or ruling edge cases No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available — archetype inclusion percentages inferred from deck sample only Ruling clarity on damage-step timing interactions not confirmed by guide or ruling data