LIGHT
3Advanced Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle
Archetype:
Advanced Crystal Beast
ATK:
300
DEF:
300
View:
3123
If "Advanced Dark" is not in a Field Zone, send this monster to the GY. 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. While this card is treated as a Continuous Spell: You can Special Summon this card, then you can Special Summon as many "Advanced Crystal Beast" Monster Cards as possible from your Spell & Trap Zones. You can only use this effect of "Advanced Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle" once per turn.
Advanced Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
The card's value comes from a conditional engine: while Advanced Dark is in a Field Zone it stays in play as a Level 3 body, and if it is destroyed in the Monster Zone it can be recovered as a Continuous Spell and used to Special Summon further Advanced Crystal Beast monsters from the Spell & Trap Zone, once per turn. The 294-deck sample (84.7% in one gameplay type, 70% in the Crystal Beast archetype) confirms it is a real, routinely run piece, but the rubric does not reward that frequency as strength. Its 300 ATK and Level 3 body earn little; the score rests on the recursion and multi-body conversion, which are capped by the Advanced Dark requirement and the absence of any recorded board evidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Runs as 1 to 2 copies in 294 decks and is typically live only with Advanced Dark on the field, with no recorded starter or searched data (observed deck frequency; verified text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Text lets it Special Summon itself and then multiple Advanced Crystal Beast monsters from the S&T zone, a multi-body conversion, but there are no combo boards to confirm it (verified text; inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Recovery from a monster-zone destruction into the S&T zone and summons from there give board presence rather than card advantage, with no refuel or search evidence (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or disruption effect of its own (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 3 LIGHT Fairy body is a usable material, but the text does not make it a generic material and no material stats were supplied (verified text; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 70 | The monster-zone destruction clause lets it survive by moving to the S&T zone and keeps it live across turns, though only once per turn (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Running it depends on Advanced Dark, which appears in 65% of the sample decks, so it is a mild restriction on the build (observed deck pairing; verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Advanced Dark dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Can Special Summon itself and then multiple Advanced Crystal Beast monsters from the Spell & Trap Zone once it is a Continuous Spell (verified text)
- Recovers into the S&T zone instead of the GY when destroyed face-up in the Monster Zone, which helps it survive (verified text)
- Routinely run: 294 decks, 84.7% in one gameplay type, with strong partner pairings such as Crystal Bond and Rainbow Bridge of the Heart (observed)
Weaknesses
- Sends itself to the GY if Advanced Dark is not in a Field Zone, so it needs that setup (verified text)
- Effect is once per turn (verified text)
- Level 3, 300 ATK body with no direct interaction; no combo boards or guides to confirm its real conversion (verified text; data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Monster-zone removal that stops the S&T placement is a plausible interaction (inferred from text; not in evidence)
Best use
Extender. Decks: Crystal Beast, Advanced Crystal Beast.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Advanced Dark condition, GY send, monster-zone-to-S&T recovery, Continuous Spell special summons, once-per-turn limit; 294 decks; 85% in gameplay type 7; top partner pairings (Crystal Bond 96.3%, Rainbow Bridge of the Heart 95.2%)
- Observed: Crystal Beast archetype present in 70.4% of decks; Copies per deck: average 1.53, most decks run 1 copy; Advanced Dark co-occurs in 65% of decks
- Inferred: Extender role from the text (no combo confirmation); Resource value is board presence rather than card advantage; Monster-zone removal would stop the recovery clause
- 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