Spell
EquipVile Germs
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A Plant-Type monster equipped with this card increases its ATK and DEF by 300 points.
Vile Germs — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 35 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 34 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility
Why it scores here
Vile Germs is a single-effect equip spell that gives +300 ATK/DEF to a Plant-type monster. It converts into a small, conditional stat boost and nothing more: it adds no body, no card advantage, and no interaction. Its score comes mainly from being a cheap, single-copy, garnet-free spell that appears in 11 sampled decks, mostly alongside Infinitrack and Mikanko. The high ATK/DEF it adds earns no points by itself.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Ordinary spell with no searcher in evidence; it appears in 11 of 11 sampled decks at 1 copy each, so it is reachable but not guaranteed to be live (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Text grants +300 ATK/DEF only while equipped to a Plant; no combo boards are recorded, so conversion is text-only (verified, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | No draw, search, or recursion in the text; it is a -1 with no return (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | Spell card, not a monster, so it cannot be used as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | Relies on a Plant target staying on the field and has no redundancy or recovery in the text (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy spell with no garnet or lock restriction, and it runs at 1 copy in every sampled deck (verified, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default), no blend. Intrinsic ≈ 34, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap single-copy spell with no deckbuilding restriction
- Plant-type stat boost usable across 4 sampled archetypes (Mikanko, Infinitrack, Vaylantz, plus one unlabelled deck)
Weaknesses
- No combo, search, draw, or interaction effect in the text
- Conditional on a Plant-type monster being on the field
- Ceiling is a flat +300 ATK/DEF with no board-building effect
Counters / choke points
- Spell/Trap destruction or equip-removal effects (inferred; no specific counter cards in evidence)
Best use
Utility equip spell for Plant-type monsters. Decks: Infinitrack, Mikanko, Vaylantz. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: +300 ATK/DEF to an equipped Plant-type monster; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; Sampled decks: 11, all running 1 copy in the main deck
- Observed: Appears in 11 of 11 sampled decks; 90.9% of decks are in gameplay type 6, with 4 distinct archetypes; Top partners are Infinitrack cards at 90.9% co-occurrence
- Inferred: Value depends on a Plant-type monster being on the field; No searcher or recursion route in evidence, so accessibility is an estimate
- 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