Spell
FieldAdvanced Dark
Archetype:
Crystal Beast
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All "Crystal Beast" monsters on the field and in the GY become DARK. If an "Ultimate Crystal" monster attacks, negate the effects of the attack target during that Battle Phase. During damage calculation, if a "Crystal Beast" monster you control battles and you would take damage: You can send 1 "Crystal Beast" monster from your Deck to the GY; you take no battle damage from that battle.
Advanced Dark — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Advanced Dark is a Crystal Beast-specific Field Spell whose text gives a DARK attribute shift, a conditional negation of an attack target's effects when an Ultimate Crystal attacks, and a battle-damage nullification that costs one Crystal Beast sent from the Deck to the GY. It is not a searcher, starter, or board-maker, and the combo sample is empty, so nothing in the evidence shows it converting into a board. The strong deck numbers (228 decks, about 97% co-occurrence with Crystal Bond) confirm it is a reliable core piece of its home archetype, but that frequency does not raise the score; its ATK, rarity, and view count earn no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | A Field Spell with no searcher text, and it is reached only through Crystal Beast's own support; 228 recent decks run it at about 1.4 copies each, which confirms it is live in practice (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Text shows an attribute shift and a conditional battle-phase negation but no board-building step, and combo data is empty (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The damage nullification trades one Crystal Beast from the Deck to the GY for avoided battle damage, a deck-to-GY cost with no card advantage (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | It negates an attack target's effects only when an Ultimate Crystal attacks and only during battle, which is situational rather than flexible interaction (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell card cannot be used as material, so this axis is near zero by design (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | It works on the field and in the GY across battle steps, but as a single Field Spell it is exposed to field removal and a single negation (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It is usually run at one copy in an archetype that already runs it, costing one Field slot with no garnet or lock pressure, but it has little use outside its home archetype (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Negation/Interaction. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Core Crystal Beast support: 228 recent decks run it, and it co-occurs with Crystal Bond in about 97% of them
- Its battle-damage nullification is a cheap defensive option in its home archetype
- Plays across the field and the GY, so it is not dead when the Field Spell zone is contested
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence: it does not build a board or start a line by itself
- Its negation is conditional on an Ultimate Crystal attacking, so it is not reliable interaction
- Little use outside Crystal Beast, which limits its generic portability
Counters / choke points
- Field-removal or Field Spell destruction effects
- Negation of its continuous effect or its battle-phase trigger
Best use
Utility / conditional battle protection for a Crystal Beast deck. Decks: Crystal Beast, Advanced Crystal Beast, Rainbow Dragon / Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon lines. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: attribute shift for Crystal Beast monsters on the field and in the GY; Text: conditional negation of an attack target's effects when an Ultimate Crystal attacks during the Battle Phase; Text: battle-damage nullification with a Crystal Beast sent from the Deck to the GY; Spell card, so it cannot be material
- Observed: 228 of the recent decks run it, 1.38 copies on average, with 59% in the Crystal Beast archetype; Co-occurrence with Crystal Bond in 222 decks (97.4%)
- Inferred: Its value is archetype-bound, with no searcher or starter route in the evidence; Field-removal exposure makes its resilience moderate
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited)