D/D Scale Surveyor – #BLMM-EN042
Pendulum Effect
During the Standby Phase: You can target up to 2 cards in the Pendulum Zones; their Pendulum Scales become 0 until the end of this turn. You can only use this effect of “D/D Scale Surveyor” once per turn.
Monster Effect
If you control a “D/D” Pendulum Monster Card: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can make this card Level 4. If this card is sent to the GY, or added to the Extra Deck face-up: You can target 1 “D/D” Pendulum Monster Card you control; return it to the hand. You can only use each effect of “D/D Scale Surveyor” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: September 22nd, 2025
Rating: 3.25
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
We’re got a mixture of D/D support and Orcust coming to you this week on Pojo, starting with D/D Scale Surveyor.
D/D are no stranger to Pendulums, and with a scale of nine,Scale Surveyor is going to accommodate everything in the Main Deck, minus the three Level 10 monsters within the D/D, D/D/D archetype. As a Pendulum Effect, Scale Surveyor can make up to any two cards in the Pendulum Zones have zero scales for the turn. This happening during the Standby Phase could be used against a fellow Pendulum player, however, this only hurts them if they have a completed scale, as you’d shut down their Pendulum Summons for the turn if they can’t replace their scales. As for your own, it could make having the same scale on different or duplicate monsters a non-factor, giving you the option to summon from Levels 0-9 with Scale Surveyor in the Pendulum Zone.
As a monster, Scale Surveyor is an extender, able to Special Summon itself when you’ve got a D/D Pendulum Monster on the field. There’s several options to search Scale Surveyor, one of them being tomorrow’s CoTD: Count Surveyor. The point is, once you search Scale Surveyor off a D/D card, you’ll likely be getting the Special Summon. Level 2 with not much to speak of in terms of attack power, but Scale Surveyor can make itself Level 4 on summon, helping with the Synchro Summons the archetype can produce like D/D/D First King Clovis. When it leaves the field it can bounce a D/D Pendulum Monster back to the hand when it leaves the field. This effect clears out your scale for something better, but it being an extender off being searched gets you an easy Link-2: King Gilgamesh, which gets you a full scale with different names from the Deck. What you do with that is up to you, though you can go through a few copies of King Gilgamesh to get to a High King Caesar and D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex, though you’d be blowing through your archetype Links without benefiting from the deck thin and scale filling.
A good start to boosting the archetypes potential with future support incoming. While the Pendulum Effect isn’t too much to talk about, being an extender off something enables further plays and getting to cards you may have not opened with. Much better when you get that extender effect going.
Advanced- 3/5 Art- 3.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We’ll finish the Trinity Box support with Orcust later this week, but first will be some Doom of Dimensions prep to fill things out by looking at D/D cards. We haven’t done a ton of D/D reviews, and I wish we have done more, so now is a time to correct that by starting with D/D Scale Surveyor.
Scale Surveyor as a Pendulum Scale is a Scale 9 where during the Standby Phase, you can target up to 2 cards in the Pendulum Zones to change their Scales to 0 for the turn. I guess you can mess with the opponent’s Scales before they begin their plays and reenter you turn changing your other Scale to 0 for a more optimal Pendulum Summon. It’s a HOPT effect too, but what’s important here mainly would be a Main Deck D/D Pendulum with a high Scale and no negative effect coming with it.
Scale Surveyor as a monster is a Level 2 DARK Fiend Pendulum with 0 ATK and 1000 DEF. Low stats, though ATK makes it extra searchable in D/D now, and a DARK Fiend is great. If you control a D/D Pendulum Monster, you can Special Summon this card from your hand, getting you a potential extender for summoning D/D/D Abyss King Gilgamesh, the archetype’s important Link-2. Upon Normal or Special Summon, you can also change this card’s Level to 4, which helps make D/D/D Wave King Caesar to be Linked or Fused away to search a Dark Contract, or D/D/D Wise King Solomon to search your D/D cards and have an Xyz with a banish effect for a benefit when you summon D/D/D/D Dimensional King Arc Crisis to try and close the game. Finally, if this card is sent to the graveyard or added face-up to the Extra Deck, you can target a D/D Pendulum you control and return it to your hand, mainly useful potentially to use a D/D Pendulum Effect and then bounce it to be Pendulum Summoned while setting the Scales with better options. HOPT on all effects too. Scale Surveyor is fine for the Deck, being an extender for your Links and Xyzs to be summoned easier, can help you reuse and reset your D/D Pendulum Monsters and Scales, and has a high Scale for a Main Deck option without any downside. Don’t need to max on it, it’s super searchable and recoverable, especially as a Pendulum, but it should be ran.
Advanced Rating: 3.25/5
Art: 3.5/5 Did Frieza become a ruler… literally?
Mighty
Vee
Our Monster Mayhem coverage is chugging along, and since we don’t really have anything to pair with Orcust, we’re instead pairing it with the D/D support, just in time to prepare for the main wave in Doom of Dimensions. With that in mind, sorry, I’m spoiling the future D/D cards, there’s no point in covering the interim combos! D/D Scale Surveyor is our first card this week, a level 2 DARK Fiend Pendulum monster not unlike most D/D cards. If you know D/D, you will know this card has a million searchers, though since it’s not a combo starter, you’ll likely be searching it in the middle of your combo with something like D/D Gryphon, D/D/D Wisdom King Solomon (name pending), or tomorrow’s card. Scale Surveyor has a pretty impressive scale of 9, which goes great with D/D/D Zero Demise King Zero Machinex (can we get this name changed?) and its scale of 0. Predictably for a level 2 monster, Scale Surveyor has a much less impressive 0 attack and 1000 defense, though at least having 0 attack makes it an alternative search target with Nightmare Throne. Yahoo!
Scale Surveyor has a single hard once per turn Pendulum Effect, which triggers during the Standby Phase to let you target up to 2 cards in any Pendulum Zone and make them 0. This has 2 intended functions– to either set up a huge Pendulum Summon as follow-up by making your other Pendulum Scale 0 (again, Scale Surveyor has a great scale of 9), or to screw up your opponent’s Pendulum plays by messing with their scales. Of course, giving them a 0 scale in a vacuum can very easily help them, so in general this isn’t a very reliable effect. Definitely not one I’d go out of my way to put Scale Surveyor in the Pendulum Zone for, at any rate.
What we really want to look at are Scale Surveyor’s monster effects; it has a whopping 3 of them, though it’s not as crazy as it sounds. You can Special Summon Scale Surveyor from your hand as long as you control a D/D Pendulum monster card (card! So scales count too); it’s a simple, but much-appreciated extender effect, because that leads into Scale Surveyor’s second monster effect, triggering if it’s Normal or Special Summoned to let you make it level 4. This is mostly to help make Solomon if you search it with Gryphon, or if you happen to have D/D Savant Copernicus around. Finally, if Scale Surveyor is sent to the Graveyard or added to the Extra Deck face-up, it’ll let you target and return a D/D Pendulum monster card from your field back to the hand. This pairs well with D/D/D Abyss King Gilgamesh to retrieve any D/D monsters you put directly into your Pendulum Zones, though naturally you should pick whatever you need for the (spreadsheet-worthy) combos. Scale Surveyor isn’t a pivotal combo piece for the deck, unlike some other recent cards, but it’s a worthy extender to run, especially since it’s technically one of your better level 4 names. A little depressing, I know. I see a lot of lists run 3, which seems good to me, though if you really want to save on space you don’t strictly have to play it.
+Easily searchable extender that can fix combos in a pinch
+Has a set of niche but useful combo effects that can come up surprisingly often
-Can be bricky with bad hands
-Pendulum effect has very limited practical applications
Advanced: 3.5/5
Art: 2.75/5 What exactly am I looking at? A mummy Frieza with a very fancy protractor? Well, I guess his name is “Scale Surveyor”…
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