EARTHAgave Dragon
ATK:
3000
LINK-4
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2+ monsters, except Tokens If this card is Link Summoned: You can apply these effects in sequence, depending on the Types of monsters in the GYs (skip over any that do not apply). You can only use this effect of "Agave Dragon" once per turn. ● Inflict 100 damage to your opponent for each Dragon. ● This card gains 200 ATK for each Dinosaur. ● All monsters your opponent currently controls lose 300 ATK for each Sea Serpent. ● You gain 400 LP for each Wyrm.
Agave Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Board breaker, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Agave Dragon converts a Link Summon into a conditional finisher: its once-per-turn Link Summon trigger deals 100 damage per Dragon in either GY, adds 200 ATK per Dinosaur, gives opposing monsters -300 ATK per Sea Serpent, and gains 400 LP per Wyrm. The 3000 ATK and Link-4 body earn no points by themselves; the score rests on the text-only conversion and on the deck sample showing a real but Memento-concentrated home. Without combo evidence, the damage and ATK-reduction value is unconfirmed, and no card advantage, negation, or recursion is shown, so resource economy and interaction stay low to moderate.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Needs 2+ monsters to Link Summon, and the 400-deck sample (all of which contain the card) shows it is played in Memento and Goblin homes, but no starter or searched-to data exists (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The Link Summon trigger converts GY types into damage, ATK gain, and ATK loss, but the value depends on GY composition and no combo examples exist to confirm it (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Only LP gain per Wyrm is card-independent; there is no draw, search, or card-advantage effect in the text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The -300 ATK per Sea Serpent effect on opposing monsters is soft, conditional disruption with no negation or removal (verified text, inferred strength). |
| Material Utility | 25 | A Link-4 can serve as Link material, but it has no level or Synchro/Xyz material value and no effect-negation survival data (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The effect resolves on a single Link Summon trigger, which is hard to answer once it happens, but it is once per turn and fully dependent on the summon (verified text, inferred resilience). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy usage in 397 of 400 sampled decks, no garnet or lock text, and a flexible single-card slot (observed deck stat). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Board breaker (secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Link Summon trigger gives several outcomes (damage, ATK gain, ATK loss, LP gain) that scale with GY composition
- Single-copy slot in a deck with strong observed partner co-occurrence (Mementotlan cluster, 79% of sampled decks)
- No negation or garnet restrictions in the text
Weaknesses
- Conditional on GY types, so the typical value is unconfirmed without combo evidence
- No card advantage, search, or recursion effect
- Requires 2+ monsters to Link Summon, so it is not live from hand alone
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Link Summon trigger (not covered by evidence; inferred)
- Opponent monster removal or bounce before the trigger resolves (inferred)
Best use
Link-4 finisher and end-board piece with conditional ATK reduction and burn. Decks: Memento, Goblin, Goblin Biker, Mulcharmy, Bystial/Byssted. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-4 with arrows Left, Right, Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right; Wyrm, EARTH, 3000 ATK; Once-per-turn Link Summon trigger with four GY-dependent effects: 100 damage per Dragon, +200 ATK per Dinosaur, -300 ATK to opponent monsters per Sea Serpent, 400 LP per Wyrm; Played in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1 copy in 397, 2 copies in 3; Top partners include the Mementotlan cluster at 79% co-occurrence
- Observed: Deck sample is filtered to decks containing the card, so 400/400 is a sampling artifact, not an inclusion rate; Archetype spread is concentrated in Memento (about 32%) and Goblin (about 17%)
- Inferred: Needs 2+ monsters for Link Summon, so accessibility is conditional; Conversion value depends on GY composition and is unconfirmed by combos; Link material value is limited to Link summons
- 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 decks_evidence is filtered to decks containing the card (decks_running_main equals total_decks), so inclusion is not measured Memento appears twice as separate archetype IDs (1723 and 1578), which may inflate the Memento share