DARK
4Vision HERO Gravito
Archetype:
Vision HERO
ATK:
500
DEF:
2000
View:
3464
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can target 1 of your banished "HERO" monsters; add it to your hand. You can Tribute this card, then target 2 "Vision HERO" Monster Cards in your Spell & Trap Zone; Special Summon them. You can only use each effect of "Vision HERO Gravito" once per turn.
Vision HERO Gravito — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Vision HERO Gravito converts into card advantage and extra bodies rather than raw stats: its on-summon effect adds a banished HERO to hand, and its Tribute effect turns one 500-ATK body into two Vision HERO monsters from the Spell & Trap Zone. Its 500 ATK and 2000 DEF earn nothing, and the search is conditional on having a banished HERO. Appearing in all 66 sampled decks alongside Stratos and Vyon confirms a practical role in HERO shells, not intrinsic power, so the score stays in the mid-50s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Reachable through HERO and Vision HERO routes, with Faris, Increase and Stratos in 43–97% of sampled decks, but the on-summon search needs a banished HERO monster to be live (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 52 | The text supports a summon-then-search line and a Tribute line into two Vision HERO bodies, but no recorded boards exist to confirm how far it converts (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The search gives +1 card and the Tribute gives two bodies for one card, so it nets card advantage when both effects are live (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect of its own, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | As a Level 4 DARK Warrior it is usable material, but once its effects are negated it is a plain 500-ATK body with no further value (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Both effects are once per turn each and depend on the card staying in play, so a single negation or removal ends most of its value (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It is a non-garnet HERO monster that 52 of 66 decks run at one copy, with 11 decks running three, so it is cheap and redundant to include (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Its on-summon search returns a banished HERO to hand, giving card advantage
- Its Tribute effect turns one body into two Vision HERO monsters from the Spell & Trap Zone
- It is cheap to run: 52 of 66 decks use one copy and none need a garnet
- Its partners (Stratos, Vyon, Faris, Increase) show it sits in a practical, recognised HERO line
Weaknesses
- 500 ATK / 2000 DEF gives no board impact on its own
- The search is dead when no HERO monster is banished
- Both effects are once per turn each, so repeat use is not possible
- Its effects depend on it staying on the field, and its value collapses once they are negated
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation removes both the search and the Tribute revival, leaving a 500-ATK Level 4 body (inferred from text)
- Removal of the card in response to its summon effect (inferred from text)
Best use
Starter / searcher body for HERO shells. Decks: Heros, Heroic, Destiny HERO, Elemental Hero.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect Monster, Level 4, DARK Warrior, 500 ATK / 2000 DEF, archetype Vision HERO; On-summon effect: add 1 banished HERO monster to hand, once per turn; Tribute effect: Special Summon 2 Vision HERO monsters from the Spell & Trap Zone, once per turn; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks
- Observed: Present in all 66 sampled decks (97% with Elemental HERO Stratos and Vision HERO Vyon); 52 of 66 decks run one copy, 11 run three; average 1.38 copies; Spread across 8 archetype labels and 3 gameplay types
- Inferred: Primary role is a starter/combo enabler with a conditional searcher secondary role; Searcher and Tribute routes are real but unquantified without combo data; Negation or removal of the card would collapse most of its value
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference, and the starter role/material role shares are unknown no guides supplied no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited); current limit status unverified no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion % comes from the 66-deck sample only average starter count when present unknown, so DeckResilience rests on archetype spread alone