EARTH
8Amazoness Empress
Archetype:
Amazoness
ATK:
2800
DEF:
2400
View:
5315
"Amazoness Queen" + 1 "Amazoness" monster Other "Amazoness" cards you control cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects. If your "Amazoness" monster attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. If this face-up Fusion Summoned card is destroyed by battle, or leaves the field because of an opponent's card effect while its owner controls it: You can Special Summon 1 "Amazoness Queen" from your hand, Deck, or GY.
Amazoness Empress — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 59 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Amazoness Empress scores on what it protects and what it leaves behind, not its 2800 ATK. Its text makes other Amazoness uncommon to destroy by battle or card effects and returns an Amazoness Queen when it is destroyed or removed by an opponent's effect, so it converts a board loss into a replacement body. It runs in all 267 sampled decks and sits at 100% inclusion in its main archetype, but that confirms it is consistently played, not that it is intrinsically strong. With no recorded combos and no guides, its combo conversion and interaction scores stay modest.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Fusion Summoned from the Extra Deck, and it appears in all 267 sampled decks with Amazoness Augusta and Polymerization-type partners at 65–97% co-occurrence; no combo starter data exists to confirm the live route (observed deck stats, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text yields protection and a conditional Queen revival, but there are zero recorded boards, so any conversion into a full board is inferred only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The Queen Special Summon after an opponent's removal is a replacement body rather than card advantage, and there is no measured netCardAdvantage (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | It gives no opponent interaction; its protection shields the player's own Amazoness from battle and effect destruction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | Its text does not describe any material use, and it is a Fusion body that is not a clean generic material (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 80 | The protection clause and the Queen revival from hand, Deck or GY both keep the engine alive after removal, and both are printed text (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | It takes one Extra Deck slot with no printed garnet or lock, and the sample averages 2.36 copies; the banlist token is absent so 3 copies is assumed (verified text, data gap). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 59, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Protects other Amazoness from battle and card-effect destruction
- Revives Amazoness Queen from hand, Deck or GY after removal by an opponent's effect
- Live in every sampled deck with strong partner co-occurrence
Weaknesses
- Zero recorded combo boards, so conversion is text-only
- Provides no opponent interaction
- Power depends on the Amazoness archetype, so the card does not travel across homes
Counters / choke points
- Effects that remove it without triggering its leave-field clause, if the opponent can avoid the revival trigger
- Targeted interaction on the Fusion route (Polymerization-type support) before summon
Best use
Protected Fusion body that revives Amazoness Queen when removed. Decks: Amazoness. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: other Amazoness cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects; Card text: piercing damage from an Amazoness attacking a Defense Position monster; Card text: Queen Special Summon when destroyed by battle or removed by an opponent's effect; Fusion monster frame, Amazoness archetype
- Observed: Present in 267 of 267 sampled decks, average 2.36 copies; Top partner Amazoness Augusta at 97% co-occurrence; Usage statistics show 100% inclusion in archetype 815 (typical copies 3)
- Inferred: Accessibility is moderate, via Fusion routes that need Polymerization-type support; Recursion is a replacement body rather than card advantage; Material utility is low because the text describes no material use
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)