Backup Operator

Effect Monster · LIGHT · Cyberse · Level 3

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$0.10

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You can target 1 face-up monster that a Link Monster you control points to; Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, return that monster to the hand. If Special Summoned this way, banish this card when it leaves the field. You can only use this effect of "Backup Operator" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 45,154 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0% of the corpus

#10,445

Most played

Of 14,082 cards played at all

1.36

Copies per deck

71.4% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0% of everything else

In the main deck of 14 decks. Sided in another 4, which is not counted above — completion is scored over main and extra decks only.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20160%
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20200%
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20250.1%
20260%