EARTHTri-Gate Wizard
ATK:
2200
LINK-3
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2+ monsters, except Tokens This card gains these effects based on the number of monsters co-linked to this card. ● 1+: If a monster co-linked to this card battles your opponent's monster, any battle damage it inflicts to your opponent is doubled. ● 2+: Once per turn: You can target 1 card on the field; banish it. ● 3: Once per turn, when a card or effect is activated (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation, and if you do, banish that card.
Tri-Gate Wizard — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 65 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 65.9 · Deck: 64.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Tri-Gate Wizard's score comes from its effects, not its body: a once-per-turn Quick Effect that negates any card or effect activation and banishes it, plus a once-per-turn banish of any field card at Link 2+. Its 2200 ATK, Link-3 body and Cyberse type earn nothing, and it converts poorly as material because Link monsters have no Level or Rank. Combo conversion stays low because no recorded boards exist, so its role is supported by text and deck usage alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Extra Deck Link-3 that needs only two non-token monsters to summon, with no searcher required; it appears in all 400 sampled decks, but that sample is conditioned on the card being present (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text shows a reactive body that banishes and negates rather than building a board, and no combo boards were supplied to confirm a starter or payoff role (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The negate-and-banish is a clean one-for-one against the opponent's card, with no refuel, search or recursion in the text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 78 | Negates any card or effect activation once per turn and banishes it, plus banishes any field card at Link 2+; a strong, flexible interaction profile (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Link monster has no Level or Rank, so it only serves as Link material, with its Top, Left and Right arrows as its main value (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Both effects are once per turn and work only while the card is on the field, so one removal effect on the body ends its interaction; it does get two independent effects across turns (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 78 | A single copy in the Extra Deck with no garnet, lock or banlist token supplied; spread across 76 archetypes it is portable across decks (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 65.9, Deck ≈ 64.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Clean single-copy Extra Deck slot (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Negates any card or effect activation once per turn and banishes the card
- Banishes any card on the field once per turn at Link 2+
- Single-copy Extra Deck slot with no garnet or lock
- Spread across 76 archetypes, so portable across homes
Weaknesses
- Needs two non-token monsters to Link Summon
- Both effects are once per turn and need the card on the field
- Negligible material value beyond its Link arrows
- No recorded combo boards to confirm its conversion
Counters / choke points
- Opponent effects that remove or banish the Link-3 body before it can activate
- Using effect 2 or effect 3 earlier in the same turn, which blocks the second use
- Cards that stop Link Summons, so the body never reaches the field
Best use
Negation and banish of opponent activations from a Link-3 body. Decks: Maliss, Dracoslayer, Danger!, @Ignister, Dark World. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-3 with Top, Left and Right arrows; requires two or more non-token monsters to Link Summon; Effect 1: doubles battle damage from a co-linked monster's battle at Link 1+; Effect 2: once per turn, target and banish 1 card on the field at Link 2+; Effect 3: once per turn Quick Effect, negate a card or effect activation and banish it at Link 3; Single copy per deck in the 400-deck sample, with an average of 1 copy; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 77% of the sample
- Observed: All 400 sampled decks run it, but the sample is conditioned on the card being present, so this is not an inclusion rate; Spread across 76 archetypes; top 10 archetypes hold about 53% of decks; Top partners: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (79%), Called by the Grave (74.5%), S:P Little Knight (66.8%), Droll & Lock Bird (61.2%); Usage statistics cover only SPYRAL and Dark World, both at 100% inclusion with 1 copy; this is a small sample; Guides name it as a staple or a mention in SPYRAL and Code Talker content
- Inferred: Effect 3 is the main value and makes the card a reliable answer to activated spells, traps and effects; Link monsters have no Level or Rank, so material use is limited to Link material; The Link-3 body needs to stay on the field, which limits resilience to one removal effect
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference decks_evidence is conditioned on the card being present (400 of 400), so inclusion rate and practicality cannot be read from it usage_statistics covers only 2 archetypes no banlist token, so assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings supplied for the once-per-turn and Quick Effect interactions