Turbo Booster

Turbo Booster — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 57.8 · Deck: 59.2 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body, Utility

Why it scores here

Turbo Booster is a conditional hand extender: once a monster has been Normal Summoned it Special Summons itself for free, supplying a Level-1 EARTH Machine body that becomes Synchro material without spending the Normal Summon. Its deck sample (318 decks, concentrated in Synchron/Junk/Stardust lines with Junk Synchron, Jet Synchron, Formula Synchron and Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon as top partners) confirms that role is practical, and its 51 distinct archetypes show the text reads generically. However, it is unsearchable in the supplied evidence, dead in hand on any turn without a Normal Summon, and completely blanked if that Normal Summon is negated. Its 0 ATK/DEF and its Tribute-to-destroy clause (which only works against a monster that already battled this turn) earn essentially nothing — the score comes from reliable, cheap body generation and broad archetype fit, not from stats or text length.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 57.8, Deck ≈ 59.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Free Special Summon from hand after any Normal Summon, giving an extra body without spending the Normal Summon itself
• Generic Level-1 EARTH Machine non-Tuner that slots into any Tuner-based Synchro ladder
• Broad accessibility in practice: 318 sampled decks, 51 distinct archetypes, main deck in 100% of those decks
• Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links, and run at the full 3 copies in 154 of 318 decks

Weaknesses

• 0 ATK / 0 DEF body that contributes nothing in combat and is trivially run over
• Conditional: only live from hand if a monster was Normal Summoned this turn; otherwise a dead card
• Not searchable in the supplied evidence — the top partners tutor other cards (e.g. Reinforcement of the Army tutors Junk Synchron, not this)
• Tribute destruction clause only hits a monster that already battled this turn, so it is effectively dead text
• Zero recorded combo appearances, so its contribution to boards is inferred from text rather than measured

Counters / choke points

• Negating or removing the Normal Summon (e.g. Solemn Strike, Effect Veiler/Infinite Impermanence on the summoned monster) blanks the Special Summon condition
• Hand traps on the Synchron/Junk starter stop the whole line before Turbo Booster is even live
• Nibiru, board breakers and generic removal after the material is committed waste the extra body
• A single Synchro negation removes the payoff the body was invested into, with no recursion to recover it

Best use

Free Level-1 non-Tuner extender for Tuner-based Synchro ladders. Decks: Synchron, Junk, Stardust, Synchro ladder / Accel Synchro builds. Suggested copies: 2.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'If you have Normal Summoned a monster this turn, you can Special Summon this card from your hand.'; Card text: 'You can Tribute this card to destroy 1 monster your opponent controls that battled one of your monsters this turn.'; Stats and identity: Level 1, EARTH, Machine, 0 ATK / 0 DEF, Effect Monster, no archetype (evidence.card); Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links (evidence.card.formats); 318 sampled decks run it, all in the main deck, average 2.09 copies per deck (deck data)
• Observed: Copy-count distribution is bimodal: 154 decks at 3 copies and 125 decks at 1 copy (deck data); Top partners: Junk Synchron 64.8%, Jet Synchron 62.9%, Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon 61.9%, Formula Synchron 61.0%, Junk Speeder 60.4% (deck data); Archetype spread: Synchron 20.1%, Junk 11.9%, Synchro Event 10.7%, Stardust 10.4%, across 51 distinct archetypes (deck data); Zero recorded combo appearances (combo data.total combos = 0, appearances = 0); Only one guide mention, inside a Crusadia tech-options section (guide data)
• Inferred: Its practical function is a free Level-1 non-Tuner body that ladders into Synchro plays with Level-1 Tuners such as Jet Synchron; Because the condition requires a completed Normal Summon, a negated Normal Summon leaves this card dead in hand; It is not reachable via any searcher present in the supplied evidence and must therefore be drawn; Effect-negated, it still functions as a legal Level-1 EARTH Machine material
• 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 deck sample only no dated metagame sample, so meta power is left null/provisional no guide explaining the card's specific role beyond a generic tech list