DARK
4Thousand Umbral Horror
Archetype:
Umbral Horror
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
View:
475
(Quick Effect): You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; place 1 "Barian's Seventh Untopia" from your hand or Deck, face-up in your Field Zone, also you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck until the end of your next turn after this effect resolves, except Xyz Monsters. If an Xyz Monster(s) is Special Summoned, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card, also you take no effect damage from your card effects this turn. You can only use each effect of "Thousand Umbral Horror" once per turn.
Thousand Umbral Horror — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card scores on what it converts into: a hand or field send that places Seventh Barian's face-up in the Field Zone, plus a once-per-turn GY revival after an Xyz Special Summon. Its ATK/DEF of 0 earns nothing and the score does not depend on it. The 66-deck sample (3 copies on average, 100% partner rate for Seventh Tachyon and Hope Chaos) confirms the line is live and practical, but no recorded combos exist to confirm the conversion, so the combo score stays moderate.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Usable from hand by sending it to the GY, and it runs in 66 of 66 decks, but the GY route needs an Xyz Special Summon first (text plus deck stat; observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Placing Seventh Barian's is the only verified conversion; no combo boards were supplied, so the payoff size is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 50 | It is a -1 send to the GY that places a card from hand or Deck, with a GY revival as a partial refund, so the net is roughly even (verified text; inferred net). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect against the opponent, so interaction is near zero (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 4 DARK Fiend body is generic material, but no material role combo data was supplied, so the value is inferred from level and attribute only (verified stats; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | It can respond from hand or field, and the GY revival is repeatable across turns, but its once-per-turn limits cap resilience (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Three copies in a 66-deck sample with no garnet, but the Extra Deck Special Summon lock is a real self-restriction (observed deck stats; verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking Extra Deck restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand-sendable, so it is live without a searcher
- Places Seventh Barian's face-up in the Field Zone from hand or Deck
- GY revival after an Xyz Special Summon gives it repeat value
- Appears in 66 of 66 recent decks across 9 archetypes with a strong partner set
Weaknesses
- ATK/DEF of 0 means it does nothing as a body
- The Extra Deck Special Summon lock is a self-restriction
- GY revival requires an Xyz Special Summon first
- No combo or guide evidence to measure its real conversion
Counters / choke points
- Generic hand traps that respond to hand-sent effect activations (inferred from text; not in the evidence)
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler: places Seventh Barian's and recurs from the GY after an Xyz Special Summon. Decks: Umbral Horror, Ryzeal, Utopia. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand or field send to GY is a cost-free starter route; Places 1 Seventh Barian's face-up in the Field Zone from hand or Deck; Extra Deck Special Summon lock until the end of the next turn, except Xyz; GY revival after an Xyz Special Summon, once per turn, with a damage-step exception; 66 of 66 recent decks run it, averaging 3.18 copies; Seventh Barian's co-occurs in 60 of 66 decks (90.9%)
- Observed: 9 distinct archetypes in deck data; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Heraldic, 66.7% in Umbral Horror; Strong partner rates: Seventh Tachyon 100%, Hope Chaos 100%, Maxx "C" 100%
- Inferred: Role is Starter/Combo enabler with Recovery secondary, from text; Hand-send makes it live in hand despite the 0 ATK; Material value is generic Level 4 Fiend, with no material role data; Hand traps that respond to activations could counter the hand send
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Seventh Barian's card text and evidence were not supplied, so its payoff is unverified no official rulings supplied for the once-per-turn and damage-step wording