DARK
5Vendread Chimera
Archetype:
Vendread
ATK:
2300
DEF:
0
View:
3695
You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Vendread" Ritual Spell. When a card or effect is activated that would destroy a card on the field (Quick Effect): You can banish 1 Zombie monster from your GY; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card. If this card is Tributed, or banished, for a Ritual Summon: All monsters your opponent controls lose 500 ATK/DEF. You can only use each effect of "Vendread Chimera" once per turn.
Vendread Chimera — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Vendread Chimera's score comes mainly from its on-field quick effect: it negates a card or effect that would destroy a card on the field and then destroys that card, at the cost of banishing a Zombie from the GY. The 2300 ATK body earns almost nothing on its own, and the ATK figure itself did not raise the score. Its reliability is capped by the Vendread-specific Ritual Summon requirement and by the lack of any recorded combo data. Deck evidence (present in all 30 sampled decks, with 100% co-occurrence with several Vendread staples) supports a real, practical role, but that frequency is not used to inflate the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Ritual Summon requires a Vendread Ritual Spell and the card is in 30 of 30 sampled decks, but no combo starter or searched data exists (verified text; deck count observed; route inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No recorded boards, so conversion is text-only: the -500 ATK/DEF debuff on a Ritual Summon is the only board effect stated (verified text; inferred value). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The negate costs a Zombie banished from the GY and the card is a 1-for-1 at best, with no card advantage stated (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Strong but conditional on-field negate-and-destroy against destruction effects, with no omni-negate and a Zombie GY cost (verified text; inferred for strength). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 5 DARK Zombie is a clean Ritual material, and its tribute/banish effect still applies (verified text; inferred for conversion). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The effect only works while the card is on the field and can be removed by ordinary interaction; the once-per-turn limit applies to each effect (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | Requires a Vendread-specific Ritual Spell, so it is tied to the archetype's garnets, though only one copy is typically run (observed copies; verified text; inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked Ritual Summon (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Quick-effect negate-and-destroy against on-field destruction effects, which is hard to play around for a single card
- Level 5 DARK Zombie body is a clean Ritual material
- Present in all 30 sampled decks at one copy each, with strong co-occurrence with Vendread staples
Weaknesses
- Needs a Vendread Ritual Spell and a Zombie in the GY, so it is blank in many openings
- Only works while on the field; ordinary removal ends the effect
- Not a hand trap, so it cannot stop activations from the hand
- The 2300 ATK body earns no points
Counters / choke points
- Cards that destroy or banish it before its effect is used
- Interaction that bypasses a negate on the field, such as effects that do not activate a destruction effect
Best use
Removal / Negation with Ritual Boss body. Decks: Vendread. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Quick effect: banish 1 Zombie from GY to negate an on-field destruction activation and destroy that card (card text); -500 ATK/DEF to opponent monsters when Tributed or banished for a Ritual Summon (card text); Ritual Summon via any Vendread Ritual Spell; each effect once per turn (card text); Present in 30 of 30 sampled decks at 1 copy, with 1 deck at 2 copies (decks evidence)
- Observed: Vendread archetype accounts for 21 of 30 decks (70%) and 5 distinct archetypes overall (decks evidence); Strong co-occurrence with Vendread partners (100% for six of them) (decks evidence); Guide snippet describes the combo as disruptive but noting weak omni-negate coverage (guides evidence)
- Inferred: Negate effect is the card's main interaction value, scored at 60 effect_interaction; Ritual Summon route is practical given the archetype's ritual spells; Small deck-power penalty for the Ritual Spell dependency
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no starter role or searched-for role data — accessibility is inferred from decks and text usage statistics limited to a single archetype/gameplay entry