Science Soldier

Science Soldier — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 38 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 39 · Deck: 37 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Material body

Why it scores here

Science Soldier is a 800/800 Normal Monster whose entire text box is flavor, so it converts into exactly one body and nothing else: it appears in 0 of the recorded combo boards and produces no search, no card advantage, and no disruption. What little value it has is structural rather than textual — a Level 3 DARK Warrior with no archetype lock, no cost and no restriction is a clean generic material for Rank 3 / DARK / Warrior plays even if its (nonexistent) effect is irrelevant. Its 800 ATK/DEF earn it nothing here, and the observed decks that run it are casual vanilla piles (top partners are Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Dark Magician, Big Koala and other Normal Monsters at 60% co-deck) rather than any real engine.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Material body/Normal (primary) + 0.3 default Utility — no meaningful secondary role observed, so single-role weights applied. Intrinsic ≈ 39, Deck ≈ 37, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Genuinely generic: Level 3 DARK Warrior with no archetype, no lock and no summoning condition, so it can serve as material wherever it is summoned
• Cost-free and text-free — nothing to resolve, nothing to negate, no once-per-turn clause to police
• Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links with no banlist friction (unlimited assumed)

Weaknesses

• No effect at all: it converts into a single 800/800 body and produces no advantage, interaction or recursion
• 800 ATK / 800 DEF are unplayable in combat against any modern board
• No searchable route appears in the evidence, so it is drawn or not at all
• Not part of any engine; copies in a real deck are dead slots that crowd out starters and hand traps

Counters / choke points

• Any single piece of removal (destruction, banish, bounce) or a Normal Summon negate blanks it entirely
• Any monster with more than 800 ATK simply beats it in battle
• Its complete lack of an effect means it cannot play around or force out interaction, so opponent resources are never spent answering it

Best use

Generic Level 3 DARK Warrior material body; filler body in vanilla builds. Decks: Casual Normal Monster / vanilla beatdown piles, Low-power event or themed 'Limit 1' style jank builds. Suggested copies: 3.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Science Soldier is a Level 3 DARK Warrior Normal Monster with 800 ATK / 800 DEF and no archetype; Its only text is flavor text — no effect, no cost, no once-per-turn clause, no lock; It is listed as legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links with no banlist token supplied
• Observed: 10 recent decks run it, all in the main deck, averaging 1.8 copies (6 decks at 1 copy, 4 decks at 3 copies); It co-occurs at 60% with other Normal Monsters such as Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Dark Magician, Big Koala and Red-Eyes Black Dragon, indicating casual vanilla piles rather than an engine deck; 0 of the recorded combo boards include it, with 0% as starter, searched, material or payoff
• Inferred: With no searcher or summon route in the evidence, the card is drawn or not at all, so its reliability is pure topdeck; As a Level 3 DARK Warrior with no lock it is still a usable generic material for Rank 3 / DARK / Warrior plays even when its effect is irrelevant; One card in, one body out: no card advantage, no recursion, one-for-one at best; A single removal spell or trap removes it permanently with no follow-up
• 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 deck sample is small (10 decks) and appears dominated by casual/vanilla lists, so it is weak evidence of any competitive role