LIGHT
4Striping Partner
ATK:
1200
DEF:
1600
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Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by the following effect. If the effect activation of a monster you control is negated (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. When this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower Cyberse monster in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only use this effect of "Striping Partner" once per turn.
Striping Partner — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47.6 · Deck: 49.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Striping Partner converts a negated monster effect into a free Level 4 Cyberse body from hand, and its GY effect revives one Level 4-or-lower Cyberse, so it reliably produces one or two bodies from a single card. It cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and needs a negation event to leave hand, which caps accessibility and deck efficiency. Its 1200 ATK and 1600 DEF earn no points; the score comes from recursion and body conversion only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 52 | Present in 6 of 6 sampled Cynet and Code Talker decks at 1.67 copies average, but it needs a negated monster effect to leave hand and cannot be Normal Summoned (verified deck stats; text) (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 42 | Hand SS on negation plus a GY revive of one Level 4-or-lower Cyberse gives up to two bodies, with no stated chain beyond that (verified text; no combo examples) (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The GY revive is a free recursion with no card cost, but it nets no card advantage on its own (verified text) (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | It is a bodies-generating response to negation, not a negation, removal, or disruption effect (verified text) (inferred). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 4 LIGHT Cyberse is a usable generic Level 4 material, and it remains a Level 4 Cyberse after its effect is negated (verified card stats; inference on material use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | It works from hand and GY, two zones, but its hand trigger depends on a negation event and its GY effect is once per turn (verified text) (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | It typically runs 1 to 2 copies with no garnet or lock, but a copy stuck in hand without a negation event is a dead draw (verified deck stats; text) (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 47.6, Deck ≈ 49.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a negated monster effect into a free Level 4 Cyberse body from hand
- GY effect revives a Level 4-or-lower Cyberse at no card cost
- Included in all 6 sampled Cynet and Code Talker decks, so the line is real and practical
Weaknesses
- Needs a negated monster effect to leave hand; it cannot be Normal Summoned or Set
- Dead-draw risk when no negation event occurs
- GY revive is limited to Level 4 or lower Cyberse and is once per turn
Counters / choke points
- Opponents who avoid negating monster effects leave the hand effect unusable (inference)
- Removing or banishing the Level 4-or-lower Cyberse target in the GY limits the revive (inference)
Best use
Extender and GY recursion body in Cyberse builds. Decks: Cynet, Code Talker.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: cannot be Normal Summoned or Set; hand SS when a monster's effect activation is negated (except Damage Step); GY SS of a Level 4-or-lower Cyberse, once per turn; Card stats: Level 4 LIGHT Cyberse, 1200 ATK / 1600 DEF; Deck sample: 6 of 6 decks run it, 1.67 copies average, Cynet and Code Talker
- Observed: Present in all 6 sampled decks at 100% partner co-occurrence with Code Exporter and Code Radiator
- Inferred: Primary role Extender with Recovery secondary, from text; Level 4 material utility and dead-draw risk, from text and card stats
- 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