DARK
8The Grand Jupiter
ATK:
2500
DEF:
2000
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Once per turn: You can discard 2 cards, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; equip that face-up monster to this card. This card gains ATK equal to the combined original ATK of the monsters equipped to it by this effect. Once per turn, during the End Phase: You can target 1 Monster Card equipped to this card by this card's effect; Special Summon it to your field.
The Grand Jupiter — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 33 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 35.3 · Deck: 31.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal/Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The Grand Jupiter converts very little reliably: it must be drawn and tribute/summoned with no archetype search, then pays a discard-2 cost to steal a single face-up opposing monster and only later rebuys it in the End Phase, so its winning value is a slow, costly soft removal plus an ATK boost. Across the sample it appears in just 3 decks at 1 copy with zero recorded combos or guides, confirming it is a niche pick rather than a combo engine. Its 2500 ATK and Level 8 DARK Warrior body are useful as generic material even when the effect is negated, but its high stats earned no points here. Its overall power is capped by the heavy discard cost and lack of any search or combo role.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 25 | No archetype, no searcher, and no special-summon condition — it must be drawn and summoned, so getting it live is unreliable (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 18 | combos_evidence records 0 appearances, 0 as_starter, and no examples, so it builds nothing from a realistic start (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | The effect discards 2 cards to steal one monster, and the End Phase Special Summon is the only return, leaving a net card deficit (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | It equips one face-up opponent's monster as a soft removal that is undone if Jupiter leaves the field and offers no negation (verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 8 DARK Warrior with 2500 ATK is a clean generic body usable as material even when its effect is blanked (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | A single effect negation ends the steal and the equip reverts if Jupiter is removed, so it dies to the common interrupt (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 35 | It carries no locks or garnets, but also no search or archetype support, so it is a standalone slot that must be drawn (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 35.3, Deck ≈ 31.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Steals an opponent's face-up monster and gains ATK equal to its original ATK (soft removal plus boost).
- End Phase can Special Summon a monster equipped by its effect to your field, giving limited recursion.
- Level 8 DARK Warrior 2500 ATK body is usable as material even if the effect is negated.
Weaknesses
- Discard 2 cards is a heavy cost that produces net card disadvantage for one removal.
- No archetype, no searcher, and no Special Summon condition — it must be drawn and summoned.
- Only targets one face-up monster and the steal is undone if Jupiter leaves the field.
- Zero recorded combo and guide presence confirms it is a niche, non-meta pick.
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation (e.g. Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Strike) blanks the equip effect; the discard cost is still paid.
- Removing The Grand Jupiter before it equips sends the target back, undoing the steal.
- Boards without a vulnerable face-up monster make the equip effect dead.
Best use
Costly removal and ATK-gaining beatstick / material body. Decks: Heroic, Warrior/HERO. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: once per turn discard 2 cards to equip 1 face-up opponent monster; gains ATK equal to combined original ATK of equipped monsters.; Text: once per turn in the End Phase, Special Summon 1 monster equipped by this effect to your field.; Level 8 DARK Warrior, 2500 ATK / 2000 DEF, no archetype.; Appears in 3 decks at 1 copy each (decks_running_main 3).
- Observed: combos_evidence: 0 appearances, 0 as_starter, 0 as_material, 0 as_payoff.; decks_evidence: 2 of 3 decks are Heroic, 1 untyped; 100% co-deck with Destiny HERO pieces.; No guides mention the card (total_guides 0); usage statistics unavailable.
- Inferred: With no searcher or Special Summon condition, reliably getting it onto the field is difficult.; The discard-2 cost yields net card disadvantage for a single soft removal.; Level 8 DARK Warrior body converts as generic material even when the effect is negated.
- 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