EARTH
Playmaker
ATK:
2600
DEF:
2500
View:
1432
3 Level 5 monsters If this card is Special Summoned: Change all face-down Defense Position monsters on the field to face-up Attack Position. (Flip monsters' effects are not activated at this time.) At the end of the Damage Step, if this card attacked a monster: You can detach 1 material from this card, then target 1 monster your opponent controls with the highest ATK (your choice, if tied); this card can attack again in a row, on that monster.
Playmaker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 40 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 39 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Playmaker's 2600 ATK and 2500 DEF earn nothing on their own. Its score rests on the effect: after it attacks a monster, detaching one material lets it attack again in a row into the opponent's highest-ATK monster, which converts one Xyz body into repeated pressure on a single target. Access is the main limit. The card needs three Level 5 materials, the evidence has no searcher or combo route, and its only deck sample is a single 2022 Dinomist list with no combo appearances, so the score is text-led and the band is wide.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 30 | Needs three Level 5 materials (verified from text) and no searcher or starter route appears in the evidence; the only deck sample is one 2022 list (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The card text shows a combat follow-up that hits the highest-ATK monster again, but combos_evidence has zero appearances, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Detaching one material to attack again is a cost with no refuel, draw, or recovery in the text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | The on-attack effect repeats damage onto the highest-ATK opposing monster, which is real board pressure but requires attacking first and gives no negation (verified). |
| Material Utility | 20 | As an Xyz monster it is not a material body for other summons, and its effect-negated form remains a 2600 ATK attacker only (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Its effects need it face-up on the field and attacking, with no protection or recursion; it is a single-zone threat (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | A single copy with no garnet or lock, but it constrains the deck to Level 5 Xyz material support (verified from text; the restriction is inference). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker primary (1.00), no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 39, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeats its attack in one turn onto the opponent's highest-ATK monster, which keeps pressure on a single target
- The Special Summon trigger flips face-down Defense Position monsters to face-up Attack Position, a board-wide effect
- Generic Xyz frame with no archetype lock, legal in MasterDuel and Duel Links
Weaknesses
- Needs three Level 5 materials, and the evidence shows no searcher or starter route
- The repeat attack requires attacking a monster first and detaching a material, so the effect is combat-gated
- Only one 2022 deck sample and zero combo appearances, so real-world conversion is unproven
Counters / choke points
- Negating or responding to the Special Summon trigger stops the flip
- Removing or swapping the highest-ATK opposing monster before the damage step ends
- Blocking with a monster that survives the attack, since the follow-up attack depends on the first attack
Best use
Board breaker and repeated attacker in Level 5 Xyz boards. Decks: Dinomist (1 deck in the sample, 2022). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: XYZ Monster, Rank 5, EARTH Warrior, ATK 2600 / DEF 2500 (card); Requires 3 Level 5 monsters as materials (card text); On Special Summon, flips face-down DEF monsters to face-up ATK (card text); After attacking a monster at the end of the Damage Step, may detach 1 material to attack again in a row on the highest-ATK opponent monster (card text); Listed in MasterDuel and DuelLinks formats (card)
- Observed: Appears in 1 of the sampled decks, a Dinomist list from 2022-01-09 (decks_evidence); Zero recorded combo boards (combos_evidence)
- Inferred: Board breaker is the primary role, since the effect is combat-driven repeated pressure (text); Real-world conversion is limited by the three-material requirement and the attack-first condition (text + rules reasoning); Blanked body remains a 2600 ATK attacker with little material value (text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied single 2022 deck sample, so the deck signal is stale and thin no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is not measured no legal_copies data, so the copy limit is assumed to be 3 card archetype is null, so no archetype home is established no rulings supplied for the attack-again and detach-timing interaction