LIGHT
6YZ-Tank Dragon
Archetype:
ABC
ATK:
2100
DEF:
2200
View:
3995
"Y-Dragon Head" + "Z-Metal Tank" Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above cards you control. (You do not use "Polymerization".) Cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can discard 1 card, then target 1 face-down monster your opponent controls; destroy that target.
YZ-Tank Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42.8 · Deck: 43.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
YZ-Tank Dragon converts two field monsters into a 2100/2200 body plus a narrow removal effect that hits only face-down monsters and costs a discard. Its 2100 ATK and 2200 DEF earned no points. The score rests on Fusion access through two named partners that appear in nearly every one of its decks, and it is held down by the dependency on those two field cards, net-negative resource use, and the absence of combo data.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Fusion Summon needs Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank on the field, and both appear in 98.4% of its decks, but there is no combo starter or searcher evidence to confirm a reliable route (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text converts two field cards into one 2100/2200 body plus a face-down removal, but no recorded boards back that conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The summon banishes two field monsters and the effect discards one card to destroy one monster, so the card runs net-negative on resources with no refuel (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | It destroys only a face-down monster the opponent controls, with a discard cost, so the interaction is narrow and situational (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | The evidence contains no material-use text, so its use as material is unevidenced and scored low (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Disrupting either of its two materials before the Fusion resolves stops the summon, and it cannot be recovered from the Graveyard (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It takes one Extra Deck slot, is mostly run as a single copy (55 of 63 decks), and its partners are already in the same deck, so the cost is modest (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 42.8, Deck ≈ 43.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Named-partner dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- A 2100/2200 body once summoned, with no garnet or lock cost in the evidence
- Face-down removal for a single discard
- Present in 63 recent decks, with its two material partners in 98.4% of them
Weaknesses
- Needs two named monsters on the field to Fusion Summon
- Banishes two field monsters as the summon cost
- Cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard
- Removal is limited to face-down monsters
- No combo evidence to confirm conversion
Counters / choke points
- Disrupting either of the two material monsters before the Fusion Summon resolves (inferred from the summon requirement)
- Negating the Fusion Summon itself (inferred)
Best use
Fusion boss with face-down removal. Decks: ABC, Armed Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Fusion Summon requires banishing Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank that you control; Cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard; Effect: discard 1 card, then destroy 1 target face-down monster the opponent controls; ATK 2100, DEF 2200, Level 6, LIGHT Machine Fusion; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks
- Observed: 63 recent decks, with 63.5% in gameplay type 7; Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank each co-occur in 98.4% of its decks; Average 1.14 copies per deck; 55 of 63 decks run one copy
- Inferred: The removal is narrow because it only hits face-down monsters; The body is a generic Fusion boss once summoned; The partner co-occurrence reflects a material route, but no route evidence was supplied
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion rests on card text alone No guides supplied No banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for inclusion trends The card text gives no timing or once-per-turn clause for the destroy effect Stats and material text of Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank were not supplied No top-card ranking data beyond is_top_card false