DARK
4
3Vector Pendulum, the Dracoverlord
Archetype:
Pendulum
ATK:
1850
DEF:
0
View:
3500
[ Pendulum Effect ] Negate all card effects in your opponent's Pendulum Zones. [ Monster Effect ] ''This Overlord overran an entire world with his army of Dracofiends, using his Dragon Alchemy to convert all life into his terrible minions. The source of this power is unidentified, and probably extra-dimensional.''
Vector Pendulum, the Dracoverlord — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57.7 · Deck: 59.4 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Vector Pendulum is a Level 4 DARK Dragon Normal Monster, so its value is mainly as a clean generic material body that converts even when its Pendulum effect is irrelevant. Its only effect negates effects in the opponent's Pendulum Zones, which is situational and does not drive the score. Its 146-deck presence confirms it is a real, practical body in Dracoslayer-style lists, not an intrinsically powerful card; combo evidence is absent, so combo conversion is scored from text alone. The 1850 ATK earns nothing on its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Played in 146 of the sampled decks across 30 archetypes, so it is reliably available as a body (observed); no combo starter or searched stats are supplied (data gap). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards, so any conversion is text-only inference: it is a body that enables Level 4 material plays but builds nothing by itself (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | A Normal Monster with no draw, search, or recursion effect; it is a 1-for-1 body with no card advantage (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | The Pendulum-zone negate only affects opponent Pendulum Zone cards, a narrow and situational window (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 80 | Level 4 DARK Dragon Normal Monster is a clean generic material that works fully even though it has no monster effect (verified from card text, supported by partner co-occurrence in Dracoslayer decks (observed)). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | A plain Normal body dies to any removal and its only effect is zone-specific, so it has little recovery or multi-zone reach (inferred from card text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Average 1.65 copies per deck with a 1-3 copy spread, and it occupies a Pendulum-scale slot only when Pendulum-summoning is used (observed deck stats; scale reading verified from card text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Removal/Negation (Pendulum-zone negate). Intrinsic ≈ 57.7, Deck ≈ 59.4, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean generic Level 4 DARK Dragon material that converts even when its effect is negated
- Widely included across 30 archetypes in the sample, confirming real accessibility
- Normal-monster body with no effect-timing risk
Weaknesses
- Pendulum-zone negate is narrow and situational
- No card advantage, search, or recursion
- Dies to any removal and offers little resilience
- High ATK earns no points under the rubric
Best use
Material body. Decks: Dracoslayer. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 DARK Dragon Normal Monster, scale 3, ATK 1850, DEF 0 (card text); Pendulum effect negates effects in opponent's Pendulum Zones only (card text); Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks (evidence)
- Observed: Present in 146 sampled decks, avg 1.65 copies, 30 distinct archetypes (deck data); Top partners co-occur in 44–88% of its decks (deck data)
- Inferred: Functions as a generic material body in Dracoslayer-style Level 4 plays (text + deck co-occurrence); Low resilience because a plain Normal body is removal-exposed (text)
- Data gaps: 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 no top-card ranking context