WATER
5Sea Lancer
ATK:
1300
DEF:
1000
View:
3100
You can target any number of your banished Fish, Sea Serpent, and Aqua-Type monsters; equip them to this card. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field. If this face-up card on the field would be destroyed, you can destroy 1 of those cards, instead. This card gains 1000 ATK while equipped with a monster(s) by this effect.
Sea Lancer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 32 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 31.7 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Utility, Material body
Why it scores here
Sea Lancer is a Level 5 WATER Beast-Warrior that only recovers already-banished Fish, Sea Serpent, and Aqua monsters as equips, gaining 1000 ATK and a one-time destruction shield. It has no self-summon, no search route, and no disruption, so it needs a dedicated banish-heavy shell and a Tribute to function. No decks, combos, or guides were supplied, so its practical conversion and deck synergy cannot be confirmed. Its ATK and stats earned no points; the low score comes from conditional access, weak interaction, and high deck-building cost.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 22 | Effect offers no self-summon and evidence shows no search route, so it needs a Tribute or separate engine (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Equipping banished Fish/Sea Serpent/Aqua only boosts ATK and shields it; no combo evidence shows it building a board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Recovers banished monsters as equips for one-time protection and a 1000 ATK boost, but does not generate net advantage beyond that (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No opponent interaction — it only equips your own banished monsters and protects itself (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | Level 5 WATER Beast-Warrior; a clean body for Tribute or Xyz use but no Special Summon and no archetype material role in evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 38 | Once equipped, it can survive destruction by destroying an equipped card, but is vulnerable before that and to non-destruction removal (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 20 | Requires a banish-heavy Fish/Sea Serpent/Aqua shell and a Tribute for a Level 5; no archetype or generic slot efficiency (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 31.7, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Intrinsic (no decks/combos supplied; Deck = null)
Strengths
- Can recover any number of banished Fish, Sea Serpent, and Aqua monsters as equips once while face-up.
- Gains 1000 ATK and can protect itself from destruction by destroying an equipped monster.
- Level 5 WATER Beast-Warrior body that can be used as Tribute or Xyz material.
Weaknesses
- 1300 ATK base; without equips it is small and cannot Special Summon itself.
- Requires already-banished Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monsters to do anything.
- No disruption or interaction on the opponent's turn.
- No deck, combo, or guide evidence to confirm practical use.
Counters / choke points
- Negating its equip effect leaves it as a 1300 ATK Level 5 body.
- Non-destruction removal such as banish, bounce, or send bypasses its destruction-replacement.
- Preventing the banished zone from being filled stops its equip effect entirely.
Best use
Recovery/Recursion body that converts banished resources into protection and ATK. Decks: Fish/Sea Serpent/Aqua banish-focused decks. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: target any number of banished Fish, Sea Serpent, and Aqua-Type monsters and equip them to this card.; Card text: this effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field.; Card text: if this face-up card would be destroyed, you can destroy 1 equipped card instead.; Card text: gains 1000 ATK while equipped with a monster by this effect.; Card is legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links formats.; No banlist token supplied; assumed 3 copies.
- Observed: No decks supplied (total decks = 0).; No combos supplied (appearances = 0).; No guides supplied (total guides = 0).; No usage statistics available.
- Inferred: No self-summon or search route in evidence, so it needs a Tribute or external engine.; Without banished Fish/Sea Serpent/Aqua monsters it is a 1300 ATK Level 5 body.; It provides no disruption to the opponent.; Its role is limited to recovering banished WATER-adjacent monsters as equips.
- Data gaps: no decks supplied — deck/synergy signals unavailable 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