WATER
3Advanced Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise
Archetype:
Advanced Crystal Beast
ATK:
600
DEF:
2000
View:
3114
If "Advanced Dark" is not in a Field Zone, send this monster to the GY. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; change its battle position. If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
Advanced Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Emerald Tortoise is a Level 3 Water Aqua body whose main text is a once-per-turn Quick Effect that changes the battle position of one face-up monster, which is minor interaction. Its conditional clause sends it to the GY unless "Advanced Dark" is in a Field Zone, so it cannot reliably stay on the field. Its one resilience gain is that, if destroyed in a Monster Zone, it can be placed face-up as a Continuous Spell instead. The 251-deck presence (every sampled deck runs it, with 78% partnered with Sapphire Pegasus) confirms it is a live Advanced Crystal Beast staple, but that frequency does not earn points by itself. No combo or guide evidence exists, so its conversion value is text-only inference and is scored modestly.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | It runs in 251 of 251 sampled decks, almost all in Crystal Beast variants (observed), but combo starter/searched data is absent so route reliability is unmeasured (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The position change and Continuous Spell conversion on destruction are verified from text, but no combo boards were supplied to show what it builds into (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The conditional self-send to the GY is a cost, and the Continuous Spell conversion keeps the body on the field rather than generating card advantage (verified/inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | A once-per-turn battle-position change is soft interaction that can dodge some attacks but does not negate or remove anything (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 3 Water Aqua body is a plausible generic material, but the evidence contains no Xyz/Link material usage data, so the score is moderate (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | If destroyed on a Monster Zone it can persist as a Continuous Spell, which is a real multi-zone survival route (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It averages 1.15 copies per deck (221 of 251 decks run one copy), so it is cheap to run, but it is tied to the Advanced Crystal Beast archetype (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-send restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in 251 of 251 sampled decks, mostly as a single copy
- Its Continuous Spell conversion on destruction keeps it on the field
- Cheap to run, with a Quick Effect that can change a monster's battle position
Weaknesses
- Sends itself to the GY unless "Advanced Dark" is in a Field Zone
- Its position-change effect is minor interaction
- No combo evidence, so what it builds into is unmeasured
Counters / choke points
- Negation of its Quick Effect stops the position change
- Mass removal or destruction that is not in a Monster Zone prevents the Continuous Spell route
Best use
Level 3 material body with a battle-position change, mainly for Advanced Crystal Beast builds. Decks: Crystal Beast, Advanced Crystal Beast, Tearlaments. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: once-per-turn Quick Effect changes the battle position of one face-up monster; Card text: conditional send to the GY unless "Advanced Dark" is in a Field Zone; Card text: if destroyed in a Monster Zone, can be placed face-up as a Continuous Spell instead; Deck sample: 251 decks run it, 1.15 average copies, 86.5% in gameplay type 7
- Observed: Partner rates of 60–78% with the Advanced Crystal Beast Level 3–4 cards and Rainbow Bridge pieces; Archetype spread: 22 distinct archetypes, dominated by Crystal Beast (63.3%)
- Inferred: Level 3 Water Aqua body is a plausible generic Xyz/Link material; Continuous Spell conversion is the main resilience route
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no Xyz/Link material usage data — material_utility is inferred from level and attribute