WIND
4Advanced Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus
Archetype:
Advanced Crystal Beast
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1200
View:
3508
If "Advanced Dark" is not in a Field Zone, send this monster to the GY. If this card is Summoned: You can place 1 of your "Advanced Crystal Beast" monsters that is banished, or in your hand, Deck, or GY, face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell. 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 Sapphire Pegasus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card's power comes from its body and recursion, not its 1800 ATK. It is a Level 4 WIND Beast that converts cleanly into Advanced Crystal Beast material (as_material in 1 of 3 boards) and, on Summon, can place a banished, hand, Deck or GY Advanced Crystal Beast monster as a Continuous Spell; if that Continuous Spell is destroyed in a Monster Zone it can be re-placed instead of going to the GY. It does no opponent interaction and its Advanced Dark dependency (send to GY if Advanced Dark is not in a Field Zone) is a real deckbuilding cost, so the score stays in the mid-range despite near-universal inclusion in the sample.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Present in 297 of 297 sampled decks at about 2.2 copies per deck, but as_starter and as_searched are both 0, so access comes from the wider Crystal Beast engine rather than its own search (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 62 | Appears in 3 of 3 recorded boards with average power_index 87 and avg starter count 1.67, but it is only a material piece in the top example and is not a starter or payoff (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The Summon effect and the destroyed-in-MZ re-placement recycle a monster into the S/T zone, which gives repeated value, but it is not direct card advantage (verified from text, inferred for value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Its text has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so opponent interaction is effectively zero (verified). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 4 WIND Beast material that appears in board materials (as_material 33%) and keeps its material value when its effect is negated (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Recursion from GY, banish and hand plus re-placement after destruction gives multi-zone and multi-turn presence, but it has no protection against negation (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Its Advanced Dark dependency and the GY-send clause make it a conditional slot, with Advanced Dark appearing in 64.6% of its decks; this is a real but not severe restriction (verified from text, observed for the partner rate). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Advanced Dark dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 4 Beast material that keeps its material value even when its effect is negated
- Summon effect can place a banished, hand, Deck or GY Advanced Crystal Beast monster as a Continuous Spell, giving recursion
- Destroyed-in-MZ re-placement gives the card a second use instead of going to the GY
- Near-universal inclusion in the Crystal Beast sample (297 of 297 decks) with strong partner rates
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction: no negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- Advanced Dark dependency means it can be a dead or self-sending card without the field spell
- Score is driven by the body and the engine, not by its own power, so it is weak when the engine is absent
- Few recorded boards (3), so combo conversion evidence is thin
Counters / choke points
- Negation of its Summon effect still leaves the material body usable
- Interaction that removes the Advanced Dark Field Zone condition (such as the field spell being destroyed) turns its clause on
Best use
Level 4 material body and recursion piece in Advanced Crystal Beast builds with Advanced Dark. Decks: Crystal Beast, Advanced Crystal Beast. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 WIND Beast, 1800 ATK / 1200 DEF, Advanced Crystal Beast archetype (card text); Summon effect places a banished, hand, Deck or GY Advanced Crystal Beast monster face-up as a Continuous Spell (card text); Destroyed face-up in a Monster Zone can be re-placed in the S/T Zone instead of going to the GY (card text); Sends itself to the GY if Advanced Dark is not in a Field Zone (card text)
- Observed: Present in 297 of 297 sampled decks, average 2.22 copies per deck (decks_evidence); Top partners: Crystal Bond 94.6%, Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon 93.9%, Advanced Dark 64.6% (decks_evidence); Appears in 3 of 3 combos; as_material 33.3%; as_starter and as_searched 0%; avg power_index 87 (combos_evidence)
- Inferred: Accessibility comes from the Crystal Beast engine rather than its own search, since no searcher routes are recorded; Material body value survives negation because the body stays a Level 4 WIND Beast; Recursion gives multi-turn presence but no defence against negation
- Data gaps: no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only combo sample is only 3 boards, so combo conversion rests on thin evidence no rulings supplied for the Advanced Dark field-zone clause or the destroyed-in-MZ re-placement