EARTH
4Throwstone Unit
ATK:
900
DEF:
2000
View:
536
Tribute 1 Warrior-Type monster on your side of the field to destroy 1 face-up monster on the field whose DEF is equal to or less than the ATK of this card.
Throwstone Unit — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 36 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 36 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Throwstone Unit converts into only a narrow, conditional piece of soft removal: it must tribute a face-up Warrior you control and can only destroy a face-up monster whose DEF is at or below its own 900 ATK, which excludes most meaningful threats. Its 900 ATK earns it nothing here — the removal ceiling is exactly what that low ATK allows — and its 2000 DEF only matters as a defensive body. With no deck or combo evidence showing it in any real line, its strongest contribution is being a generic Level 4 EARTH Warrior material, so it lands near the low end of the scale.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | A generic Level 4 with no archetype and no searcher listed, but the effect is not live from the hand alone since it requires an existing Warrior on your field and a qualifying low-DEF target (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 12 | No combo evidence exists (0 appearances, 0 starter role/material role), and the text produces no board on its own beyond a single conditional destruction (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 28 | Trading one of your Warrior bodies plus a summon for one conditional opponent monster is roughly even at best and frequently a net loss when no legal target exists (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 22 | Removal is face-up-only and capped at DEF <= 900 by its own printed ATK, so it misses most bosses and all set/floating threats (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A clean Level 4 EARTH Warrior with 2000 DEF remains usable as generic Rank 4 / Warrior material even when its effect is negated or irrelevant (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 32 | A single negate leaves only a 900/2000 body, and the card is dead in most spots where no low-DEF face-up target exists (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 48 | One slot with no garnet, no lock and no archetype restriction, but it also contributes almost nothing, so redundancy is not worth the space (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 36, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Intrinsic (no decks and no combos supplied; provisional)
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 EARTH Warrior body that fits Rank 4 and Warrior/EARTH material pools without any archetype lock
- 2000 DEF makes it a functional defensive set even when the effect is unusable
- Unconditional summonability with no cost, no once-per-turn lock and no self-restriction
- Removal effect requires no discard or Life Point payment, only a Warrior already on the field
Weaknesses
- Destruction is capped at face-up monsters whose DEF is equal to or less than its own 900 ATK, missing nearly all relevant bosses
- Requires tributing a Warrior you control, so the effect is a 2-for-1 investment in card and board presence
- Cannot hit set monsters, Spell/Trap cards, or anything with a DEF above 900
- No archetype, no searcher and no cards observed supporting it, so it is not consistently reachable or worth searching
Counters / choke points
- Monsters with DEF above 900 (most boss monsters) are immune to its effect
- Face-down monsters and backrow are untouchable
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and generic monster-effect negation blank the effect, leaving only the 900/2000 body
- Any removal aimed at the Warrior before the tribute is paid leaves the effect unusable
Best use
Conditional face-up removal on a Level 4 EARTH Warrior material body. Decks: Generic Warrior / EARTH Rank 4 strategies, Casual Warrior beatdown builds.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Tribute 1 Warrior-Type monster on your side of the field to destroy 1 face-up monster whose DEF is equal to or less than this card's ATK; Printed stats: Level 4 EARTH Warrior, 900 ATK / 2000 DEF, no archetype, legal in TCG/OCG/MasterDuel; Evidenced removal ceiling is DEF <= 900 because the card's ATK is 900; deck data total decks = 0 and combo data appearances = 0
- Observed: No recorded deck lists, combo boards or guides include this card in the supplied sample; usage statistics unavailable, so no inclusion percentage exists for any archetype
- Inferred: The removal effect is not live from an empty board since it needs an existing Warrior to tribute; Trading a Warrior plus this card's activation for one conditional destruction is roughly card-neutral to negative; As a Level 4 EARTH Warrior it still functions as generic Rank 4 / Warrior material when its effect is irrelevant; A single negate or an absent low-DEF target reduces it to a 900/2000 body
- Data gaps: no decks supplied — deck/synergy signals unavailable 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