DARK
8Vampire Voivode
Archetype:
Vampire
ATK:
2800
DEF:
2100
View:
4638
If this card is Normal Summoned: You can target up to 2 monsters in your opponent's GY; Special Summon those monsters to your field in Defense Position, but their effects are negated. When a monster's effect is activated, while a monster(s) with its same name is in the GY(s) (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned from your opponent's GY: You can Tribute 2 monsters; Special Summon this card from your GY. You can only use each effect of "Vampire Voivode" once per turn.
Vampire Voivode — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Negation/Interaction, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Vampire Voivode converts a Level-8 tribute body plus Zombie graveyard setup into a conditional Quick Effect negation, a self-revive from the GY, and a Normal-Summon effect that steals up to two opponent GY monsters with their effects negated. Its value is real but conditional: the negation only fires while a monster with the same name sits in a GY, and the revive only triggers when the opponent Special Summons from their own GY, so it is a payoff rather than a reliable engine. The 2800 ATK and Level-8 DARK Zombie typing earn it nothing directly — points come from the Rank-8/Link material utility and the multi-zone recursion. With zero recorded combo appearances and only one direct archetype home, it lands in the middle of the scale.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | It is a Level-8 monster with no printed self-Special-Summon, so it needs a Tribute Summon or graveyard setup (Foolish Burial co-appears in 66.8% of its decks) to become live (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 42 | Combo evidence records 0 appearances and 0 starter role, so it is a payoff boss that does not build a board on its own (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 56 | The Normal Summon effect trades the tributes for up to 2 stolen opponent monsters and the third effect recurs it from the GY once per turn, keeping it roughly even-to-positive over time (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 50 | The Quick Effect negate is repeatable but gated on a same-named monster existing in either GY, making it situational rather than flexible hard removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 8 DARK Zombie is clean material for Rank 8 (The Zombie Vampire co-appears in 87.6% of its decks) and for Zombie Link plays even if its effects are blanked (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 58 | It functions from both the field and the GY, reviving itself when the opponent Special Summons from their GY, but a single negate on summon still ends the line (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Decks run an average of 1.22 copies with 237 of 298 at a single copy, so it is a compact one-to-two slot boss without locks, though extra copies brick (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Negation/Interaction. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Level-8 tribute / setup dependency (-2); Compact single-copy boss (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable Quick Effect that negates an activation while a same-named monster is in a GY.
- Self-recursion from the GY when the opponent Special Summons from their GY.
- Normal Summon effect steals up to 2 opponent GY monsters as Defense-position bodies with negated effects.
- Level-8 DARK Zombie body doubles as Rank-8 and Zombie-material utility (The Zombie Vampire, Vampire Sucker).
- Compact: most decks run a single copy with no self-locking restriction.
Weaknesses
- Requires a Tribute Summon or graveyard setup (e.g. Foolish Burial) before it functions.
- Negation is conditional on a monster with the same name existing in a GY, so it often does nothing.
- No recorded combo appearances — it is a payoff, not a starter or extender.
- Each of its three effects is once per turn, limiting throughput.
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard hate (D.D. Crow, Abyss Dweller, Called by the Grave) denies the same-name negation condition and the revive trigger.
- Banish or negate the Normal Summon, or prevent the card reaching the GY.
- Removal that bypasses the field, such as banishing effects on the card itself.
- Playing a deck with few duplicate names makes the Quick Effect negate near-dead.
Best use
Level-8 boss with a conditional negation, GY recursion and opponent-GY theft. Decks: Vampires, Zombie World, Eldlich, Vendread. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Normal Summon steals up to 2 opponent GY monsters in Defense Position with negated effects.; Text: Quick Effect negate while a monster with the same name is in a GY(s).; Text: self-revive from GY by Tributing 2 monsters when a monster is Special Summoned from the opponent's GY.; Text: each effect of 'Vampire Voivode' is once per turn.; Stats: Level 8 DARK Zombie, 2800 ATK / 2100 DEF, archetype Vampire.
- Observed: 298 decks run it, all in the main deck, 74.8% of them in gameplay type 7.; Average 1.22 copies per deck; 237 decks run 1 copy, 57 run 2, 4 run 3.; 39 distinct archetypes, led by Vampires (45.3% + 8.4% + 3.4%) and Eldlich (8.4% + 1.7%).; Top partners: Vampire Sucker 91.6%, The Zombie Vampire 87.6%, Vampire Fascinator 77.2%, Zombie World 70.8%, Foolish Burial 66.8%.; usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Vampires with typical 2 copies.; 0 combo appearances and 0 guides supplied.
- Inferred: Because it has no self-Special-Summon clause, reaching the board requires a Tribute Summon or sending it to the GY first.; The Rank-8 route via The Zombie Vampire is the likely reason the Level-8 body is retained.; The negation is frequently dead against decks that do not duplicate monster names across field and GY.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no average power index or starter-count data for boards containing this card no metagame sample supplied, so meta power is null/provisional