Spell
FieldBeetrooper Formation
Archetype:
Beetrooper
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You can target 1 "Beetrooper" monster in your GY; Special Summon it, but it cannot attack this turn, also you lose LP equal to its original ATK. If a face-up Insect monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Beetrooper Token" (Insect/EARTH/Level 3/ATK 1000/DEF 1000). You can only use each effect of "Beetrooper Formation" once per turn.
Beetrooper Formation — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Beetrooper Formation converts a Beetrooper monster in the GY into a board presence, at the cost of LP equal to its original ATK, and turns each destroyed face-up Insect into a Level 3 1000/1000 Insect token. Its value is recursion plus token generation inside a single-archetype engine, not raw stats. It has no interaction, so effect_interaction stays low. The 400-deck sample and the high combo power index (99.2) show the card is played in Beetrooper boards, but combo data records no starter, searched, material or payoff role for it, so that index is not credited to the card and the score rests on the card text and deck placement.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Field Spell activated from hand with a Beetrooper monster needed in the GY for effect 1 and an Insect destruction for effect 2; present in 400/400 decks (verified text, observed deck stats). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Appears in 6/6 recorded combos, but combo role is empty and starter role/searched-for role are 0, so conversion is only partly confirmed by the examples (observed; inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Revives one GY body and creates a token on each Insect destruction, paid for with LP; repeated tokens give modest advantage, with no card-draw or direct refuel (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | The Level 3 Insect token and the revived Beetrooper bodies are generic material for Insect and Beetrooper plays (verified text; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Two once-per-turn effects on a Field Spell; it is vulnerable to a field-replacing or destroy-the-field effect, and nothing in the evidence shows redundancy (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | One copy is run in 353/400 decks, with no garnet or self-lock clause in the text; it is cheap to run (observed; verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recursion of a Beetrooper monster from the GY, which keeps a body on board
- Token generation on each Insect destruction, which feeds material and board presence
- Near-zero deckbuilding cost: one copy in most decks, no garnet clause
Weaknesses
- No interaction: no negate, removal or hand-trap effect
- LP cost scales with the revived monster's original ATK
- Two effects, each limited to once per turn, so output per turn is capped
- Requires an Insect destruction for the token effect
Counters / choke points
- Field-replacing or field-destroying effects
- Card-based interaction on the revived Beetrooper monster in the GY
Best use
Recovery/Recursion field spell in Insect engines. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Ragnaraika, Inzektor, Kaiju. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect 1: target one Beetrooper monster in the GY, Special Summon it, it cannot attack this turn, and you lose LP equal to its original ATK; Effect 2: when a face-up Insect is destroyed by battle or card effect, Special Summon one Beetrooper Token (Insect/EARTH/Level 3/1000/1000); Each effect is once per turn
- Observed: Present in 400/400 sampled decks, 97.2% in gameplay type 7; Single copy in 353/400 decks, average 1.15 copies; Appears in 6/6 recorded combos but with no combo role recorded
- Inferred: Recursion plus token generation makes it a Recovery/Recursion piece with Extender support; Combo power index of the boards it appears in reflects the Beetrooper engine, not the card, so it is not credited
- Data gaps: No banlist token, so unlimited copies assumed No StatisticsCard usage data; inclusion inferred from the 400-deck sample only Combo combo role is empty, so the combo-role corroboration is partial Only one guide mention; no rulings data