EARTH
5Zanki
ATK:
1500
DEF:
1700
View:
3071
''His swiftly drawn blade delivers quick and fatal damage.''
Zanki — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50.8 · Deck: 43.7 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal
Why it scores here
Zanki is a Level 5 EARTH Warrior Normal Monster whose evidence text is flavor only, so it has no effect to convert into value. Its score comes from being a clean, effect-free body that can be used as material and costs almost nothing to run as a single copy. Its 1500 ATK and 1700 DEF earn no points, and the zero combo appearances keep the combo and resource axes low. Frequency across four archetypes confirms it is a generic filler body, not a strong card.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Drawn as a plain card with no searcher or route in the evidence; it is live once drawn but not reliably reachable (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 10 | Zero combo appearances and no effect text, so it builds nothing on its own (observed, verified). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | No draw, search, or recursion text, so it is at best an even body trade (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No effect text and no negation or removal, so no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 5 EARTH Warrior with no effect to negate, so it converts cleanly as material, but zero as_material appearances in combos (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Nothing to negate, but it has no redundancy or recovery and is dead once removed from the board (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Single copy per deck across 4 archetypes, no garnet, no restriction, and no banlist limit in evidence (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal, single role, no blend. Intrinsic ≈ 50.8, Deck ≈ 43.7, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean generic body with no effect, so nothing to blank out when used as material
- Level 5 EARTH Warrior body that fits generic Level-5 material requirements (inferred)
- Near-zero deckbuilding cost: one copy per deck, no garnet or restriction
- Runs in 4 different archetypes at 1 copy each, so it is portable
Weaknesses
- No effect text: does nothing on its own and has zero combo appearances
- No searcher or route in the evidence, so it is only drawn
- One copy per deck gives no redundancy
- 1500 ATK and 1700 DEF earn no points under this rubric
Counters / choke points
- No specific counter in evidence; with no effect to negate, negation is irrelevant to it
Best use
Material body. Decks: Tearlaments, Spright, Mathmech, Kewl Tune. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster frame, EARTH, Warrior, Level 5, ATK 1500, DEF 1700; Description is flavor text only; no effect text supplied; Appears in 4 of 4 sampled decks at 1 copy each across 4 archetypes; Top partners are generic staples present in 100% of the sampled decks
- Observed: Zero combo appearances, so no measured starter, material, or payoff role; Partners such as Maxx C, Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird co-occur in every sampled deck, which reflects staple density, not Zanki's power
- Inferred: Having no effect, it always converts cleanly as material; Only drawn, with no searcher or route, so accessibility is partial; Level 5 EARTH Warrior fits generic Level-5 material requirements
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and material use are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only description contains flavor text only; no effect text, so the body is scored as a vanilla Normal Monster