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EquipStoic Challenge
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You can only control 1 "Stoic Challenge". Equip only to a face-up Xyz Monster that has Xyz Material. It gains 600 ATK for each Xyz Material attached to a monster you control, and any battle damage your opponent takes from battles involving it and their monster is doubled, but its effects cannot be activated. During your opponent's End Phase: Send this card to the Graveyard. When this card leaves the field, destroy the equipped monster.
Stoic Challenge — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 47 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Stoic Challenge is a conditional Xyz-only equip: it does nothing until a face-up Xyz with material is on the field, then adds 600 ATK per material and doubles battle damage, at the cost of disabling the equipped monster's effects and being sent to the GY on the opponent's End Phase. It is 51 decks deep across 19 archetypes, but with no combo data the score rests on text, so the 51-deck count and its strong co-occurrence with Harpie's Feather Duster and Maxx "C" reflect generic staples and do not raise the score. The high ATK-style boost earns little on its own, since the card is a single-use, temporary threat with no card advantage and no interaction beyond damage doubling.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Shows up in 51 of the sampled decks (verified), but it is live only when a face-up Xyz with material is already on the field (verified text) (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Its text converts a Xyz into a larger threat with doubled battle damage, but there are no recorded boards to confirm how far that goes (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | A single equip that is sent to the GY on the opponent's End Phase and destroys the equipped monster when it leaves, with no card advantage or refuel (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | No negation or removal; the only interaction is doubled battle damage, and the card cannot activate its own effects (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | It is not a material body and provides no Xyz material, and it locks the equipped monster's effects (verified text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Vulnerable to the End Phase send-to-GY and to the equipped monster leaving the field, with no redundancy or recursion (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | A 1-of-style Xyz support card with no garnet or lock on the rest of the deck, though it is dead without Xyz (inferred from text and deck copies averaging 1.61 (observed)). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 47, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck, then modifier -2 (Final ≈ 44.6, rounded to 45)
Strengths
- Turns a Xyz with material into a much larger attacker and doubles battle damage (verified text).
- Runs in 51 sampled decks across 19 archetypes, so it is a live option in Xyz decks (observed).
Weaknesses
- Does nothing without a face-up Xyz with material on the field (verified text).
- Disables the equipped monster's effects and is sent to the GY on the opponent's End Phase, so the effect is temporary (verified text).
- Gives no card advantage or interaction beyond damage doubling (verified text).
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or destruction of the equipped Xyz, which also destroys this card (inferred from the leave-field clause).
Best use
Late-game Xyz finisher that pushes damage on a single Xyz with material. Decks: Xyz-focused decks such as Lyrilusc, Zoodiac and Gunkan (observed from archetype spread). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Equip only to a face-up Xyz monster with Xyz Material, gaining 600 ATK per material attached to a monster you control.; Doubles battle damage from battles involving the equipped monster; equipped monster's effects cannot be activated.; Sent to the GY during the opponent's End Phase; destroys the equipped monster when it leaves the field.; Appears in 51 sampled decks across 19 archetypes; copies average 1.61 per deck.
- Observed: Top partners Harpie's Feather Duster (54.9%) and Maxx "C" (52.9%) are generic staples, not signals of intrinsic power.
- Inferred: Xyz-focused archetypes are the practical homes for the card.; Deckbuilding cost is low, but the card is dead without Xyz.
- 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