DARK
10Steelswarm Hercules
Archetype:
Steelswarm
ATK:
3200
DEF:
0
View:
2830
Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 "Steelswarm" Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). Once per turn: You can pay half your Life Points; destroy all other cards on the field.
Steelswarm Hercules — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 41 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 39 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Steelswarm Hercules converts a three-Steelswarm board into a single 3200-ATK body plus a once-per-turn board wipe that costs half your Life Points. Its ATK earns nothing by itself: it cannot be Special Summoned and needs three Steelswarm tributes, so access is gated by the archetype. The score comes from the wipe, which is strong interaction but also destroys your own board, and from the 7 of 7 Steelswarm (Inverz) decks it appears in. No combo data was supplied, so the combo and resilience numbers are text-based inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 30 | Needs three Steelswarm monsters for a Normal Summon and cannot be Special Summoned, so it is live only in a Steelswarm board (verified text; 7 of 7 decks are Steelswarm (Inverz)). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The wipe turns a Steelswarm board into a lone 3200-ATK end-board, but no combo boards were recorded to confirm how far it goes (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The wipe removes every other card on both sides and costs half your LP, so it is card-disadvantageous except when it ends the game (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | A once-per-turn board wipe is strong, hard-to-play-around interaction for a Normal-Summoned body, but it has no hand-trap reach (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | Level 10 DARK Fiend with no recorded material use; this is speculation about high-Level material routes and does not move the score (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The body survives its own effect, but one negation of the effect or the summon route ends its use (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 35 | Mostly one copy per deck, but it locks the build into the Steelswarm archetype (verified from 7 of 7 decks; 1 deck runs 2 copies). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Board breaker/Going-second. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 39, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn board wipe that leaves a 3200-ATK body on the field
- Live in all 7 recorded Steelswarm (Inverz) decks
- Strong recorded partner support from Steelswarm Girastag, Moth and Caller
Weaknesses
- Cannot be Special Summoned and needs three Steelswarm tributes to Normal Summon
- Destroys your own board as well as the opponent's
- Costs half your Life Points
- Locked to a single archetype, so it has little value outside a Steelswarm build
Counters / choke points
- Interrupting the three-tribute Normal Summon setup (inferred from text)
- Negating the effect or removing the body after summon (inferred from text)
Best use
Boss/End-board finisher with a board reset. Decks: Steelswarm (Inverz) builds. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be Special Summoned; needs 3 Steelswarm tributes to Normal Summon; once-per-turn: pay half LP to destroy all other cards on the field; 7 of 7 recorded decks run it in Steelswarm (Inverz), 100% gameplay type 7
- Observed: Top partners appear with it in 71-86% of decks (Steelswarm Girastag, Steelswarm Moth, Steelswarm Caller)
- Inferred: The wipe also destroys your own board, so it works best as a finisher or reset; Access depends on a Steelswarm board already being present
- 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 no rulings or recorded tribute-interaction data