Triamid Hunter

Triamid Hunter — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 61 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 60.3 · Deck: 62.2 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Starter, Material body

Why it scores here

Triamid Hunter scores as a reliable in-archetype enabler rather than a standalone power card: it is a 3-of in 96% of the 100 sampled decks and converts a live Field Spell into a second Rock-Type Normal Summon plus a Quick-Effect Triamid Field Spell swap during the opponent's turn. Those are real, repeatable engines inside its own deck, but both effects are conditional (a Field Spell must be face-up, and the swap needs a Triamid Field Spell in the Field Zone), it provides no negation, removal or hand-trap reach, and it has zero recorded combo appearances in this evidence pack. Its 1400 ATK and Level-3 EARTH Rock body earn points only as clean Rank-3/Rock material, never for stats; the archetype-locked ceiling, fragile 1400/1100 body and thin cross-archetype record keep it in the low 60s.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60.3, Deck ≈ 62.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Core 3-of in the Triamid archetype: 100% main deck, 96% of lists run the full 3 copies
• Turns a live Field Spell into an extra Rock-Type Normal Summon, adding a second body for Rank-3 Xyz or Rock lines
• Quick Effect on the opponent's turn swaps Triamid Field Spells from Deck, enabling turn-adaptive tool-boxing
• Clean Level-3 EARTH Rock material that still functions when its effects are negated
• No garnet cost and no self-locking restriction

Weaknesses

• Both effects are conditional: the extra Normal Summon needs a face-up Field Spell, and the Quick Effect needs a Triamid Field Spell in your Field Zone
• No negation, removal or hand-trap reach — it does not interact with the opponent's cards directly
• 1400 ATK / 1100 DEF body dies to any single piece of removal
• Effect is archetype-locked outside Triamids; cross-archetype use relies only on the generic Rock extra Normal Summon
• No combo evidence recorded (0 appearances), so practical combo value is text-only inference

Counters / choke points

• Removing the face-up Field Spell (e.g. Cosmic Cyclone, Twin Twisters) turns off the extra Normal Summon
• Effect negation such as Infinite Imperceptible or Effect Veiler on the extra Normal Summon or the Quick Effect
• Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit on the Field Spell being activated or swapped
• Any single-target removal on the 1400/1100 body before the opponent's turn

Best use

Extra Normal Summon enabler and opponent's-turn Field Spell swap engine. Decks: Triamids, Rock-Type / Adamancipator hybrid builds. Suggested copies: 3.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: while a Field Spell is face-up, one additional Normal Summon of a Rock-Type monster (once per turn); Card text: once per turn, during the opponent's turn, Quick Effect to send a Triamid Field Spell to the GY and activate a differently named Triamid Field Spell from Deck; Card identity: Level 3, EARTH, Rock, 1400 ATK / 1100 DEF, archetype Triamid, legal in TCG/OCG/Master Duel/Duel Links; Deck sample: 100 decks, all main deck, average 2.95 copies, 96% run 3 copies
• Observed: 99% co-deck rate with Triamid Dancer, Triamid Fortress, Triamid Cruiser and Triamid Kingolem; 96% with Triamid Master; 95% with Triamid Pulse; 65% co-deck with Rank-3 Xyz Gorgonic Guardian, 44% with Number 20: Giga-Brilliant, 42% with Digital Bug Corebage; Cross-archetype presence: Adamancipator (5%+2%), Vernusylph 2%, Megalith 1% of the sample; Zero combo appearances in the recorded combo sample
• Inferred: The additional Rock-Type Normal Summon is the practical route to a second body and Rank-3 Xyz material plays; Sending a Triamid Field Spell to the GY to fetch another triggers the sent Field Spell's own GY effect (supported by the guide snippet), making the swap roughly card-neutral; No in-archetype or generic searcher for Triamid Hunter is shown, so its access is opening-hand/draw dependent; Removing the face-up Field Spell shuts off the extra Normal Summon
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from the deck sample only no measured avg_power_index or starter-count when present, so deck resilience is estimated from deck counts alone archetype list contains multiple Triamids rows, so distinct_archetypes (15) overstates true cross-archetype breadth