EARTH
2Scrap Worm
Archetype:
Scrap
ATK:
500
DEF:
100
View:
3296
This card can attack your opponent directly. If this card attacks, it is destroyed at the end of the Battle Phase. If this card is destroyed by the effect of a "Scrap" card and sent to the Graveyard, you can select 1 "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard, except "Scrap Worm", and add it to your hand.
Scrap Worm — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53.8 · Deck: 52.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion, Extender
Why it scores here
Scrap Worm earns its points almost entirely as a clean Level 2 EARTH Tuner body that costs one deck slot and carries no summon restriction, which is why it appears at a low 1.14 average copies as an engine material in Scrap/Adamancipator lists (71.4% Adamancipator, 100% co-deck with Scrap Chimera/Wyvern/Raptor). Its 500 ATK and the direct-attack clause are not scored as strengths: the attack clause actively self-destructs it at the end of the Battle Phase, and its only true text upside — retrieving a Scrap monster from the Graveyard — is conditional on being destroyed by the effect of a Scrap card, so it is often not cashed in. With zero recorded combo appearances, combo conversion and resilience are text-only inference rather than observed performance, which caps the ceiling. This is a functional, cheap tuner-material card, not a power card.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 58 | Not a standalone starter, but a Level 2 EARTH Tuner with no summon restriction and 100% co-decking with Scrap Raptor/Wyvern/Chimera in the sample implies an in-engine fetch route (observed + inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 42 | Does nothing on its own beyond being a Tuner body; 0 recorded combo appearances and no avg_power_index in combos_evidence means conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 48 | The Graveyard effect is a genuine +1 (add 1 Scrap monster from GY to hand) but only triggers if it is destroyed by a Scrap card's effect, so it is roughly even and conditional (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Text provides no negation, removal, or disruption of any kind; direct attack and self-destruction are not interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 62 | Level 2 EARTH Tuner with no lock converts cleanly into Synchro/Link material even if its effect is negated, and decks run it as a 1-of body (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 42 | 500/100 body dies to any interaction and the recursion requires a specific Scrap destroy-effect setup; no multi-zone or multi-turn recursion is demonstrated (verified + inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 62 | One slot at 1.14 average copies, no tribute/cost, no self-lock, so redundancy is cheap, though the third effect needs dedicated Scrap support to matter (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 53.8, Deck ≈ 52.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 2 EARTH Tuner with no summon restriction — clean, low-cost material for Synchro/Link plays
- Sits inside a coherent Scrap engine core (100% co-deck with Scrap Chimera, Scrap Wyvern and Scrap Raptor)
- Conditional Graveyard effect can trade a body for a Scrap monster back to hand, adding recovery to a line
- Only one slot and 1.14 average copies — cheap to main-deck with no brick/garnet penalty
Weaknesses
- 500 ATK / 100 DEF — trivially outclassed in battle
- Direct attack clause causes it to destroy itself at the end of the Battle Phase
- Recursion only triggers if it is destroyed by the effect of a Scrap card, so it is frequently dead text
- Provides zero disruption, negation, or removal; blanking it leaves only a tiny body
- No recorded combo appearances, so its role is inferred rather than demonstrated
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation on the Scrap engine's summon/destroy line (e.g. Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, which co-decks in 71.4% of sampled lists)
- Graveyard hate such as D.D. Crow or Called by the Grave denies the retrieval clause
- Any body with more than 500 ATK simply runs it over
- Removing the Scrap enabler (Raptor/Wyvern) leaves Scrap Worm as a vanilla 500-ATK Level 2
Best use
Level 2 EARTH Tuner / Synchro-Link material with optional Scrap recursion. Decks: Scrap, Adamancipator. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Scrap Worm is a Level 2 EARTH Insect Tuner with 500 ATK / 100 DEF and no summon restriction; It can attack directly and is destroyed at the end of the Battle Phase if it does; If destroyed by the effect of a Scrap card and sent to the Graveyard, it can add 1 Scrap monster from the Graveyard (except itself) to the hand; Card is legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links with no banlist token supplied (assumed 3 copies)
- Observed: 7 sampled decks run it, all in the main deck, at 1.14 average copies (max 2); 71.4% of those decks are Adamancipator; 100% co-deck rate with Scrap Chimera, Scrap Wyvern and Scrap Raptor; 0 recorded combo appearances and no avg_power_index in combos_evidence; No guides mention it and no usage_statistics rows exist
- Inferred: Its realistic function is a Level 2 EARTH Tuner material supplied by the in-archetype Scrap engine rather than a starter; The Graveyard clause is conditional and likely cashed in only when a Scrap destroy-effect line is already resolved; Attack-clause self-destruction makes the direct-attack text a liability rather than reach
- 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 only 7 decks in the sample, and 2 archetype labels are unnamed ('Không có'), limiting cross-home portability reading