DARK
4Blue Rose Dragon
Archetype:
Rose Dragon
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1200
View:
3884
When this card on the field is destroyed and sent to the GY: You can target 1 "Black Rose Dragon" or 1 Plant monster in your GY; Special Summon that monster.
Blue Rose Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Material body, Extender
Why it scores here
Blue Rose Dragon's value comes from its own destruction: when it is destroyed and sent to the GY, it Special Summons a Black Rose Dragon or a Plant from the GY, so the body is recovered rather than lost. It runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks at about 2.55 copies on average, which confirms it is a routine, low-cost slot in the Rose Dragon shell, but that frequency is not counted as power. Its 1600 ATK and Level 4 body earn little on their own, and the absence of recorded combo boards means conversion is scored from card text only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Present in all 400 sampled decks at about 2.55 copies, but no combo starter or searched data is recorded, so access to the hand is inferred only (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards were supplied, so the one-card-to-board conversion is text-only; the GY Special Summon of Black Rose Dragon or a Plant is the only verified payoff (verified/inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The GY trigger returns a body from the graveyard after the card is destroyed, a recovery of one card (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text, so it gives no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 4 DARK Dragon with 1600 ATK is a usable Level 4 material, and its GY effect still works when it is used as material, but no material stats were recorded (verified/inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The effect fires from the GY-destruction path, so a negate on the field does not remove it, but any banish, bounce, or negation of the trigger stops it (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Three copies are common with no garnet or lock restriction in the text, and the card sits inside an existing deck shell rather than demanding a splash (observed/verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts its own destruction into a Special Summon of Black Rose Dragon or a Plant from the GY (verified)
- Present in all 400 sampled decks, averaging about 2.55 copies (observed)
- Clean, low-cost body that needs no garnet and fits the existing Rose Dragon shell (observed)
Weaknesses
- Trigger only fires when it is destroyed on the field, not from hand (verified)
- No effect-based interaction or negation (verified)
- No combo boards recorded, so practical conversion value is unmeasured (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Banishing, bouncing, or negating the card in response to its destruction trigger (inferred)
- Board-wipe or hard removal lines that prevent the destruction path (inferred)
Best use
Recovery / Recursion. Decks: Rose Dragon (archetype 387), Rose Dragon (archetype 831). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect: when destroyed and sent to the GY, Special Summon 1 Black Rose Dragon or 1 Plant from the GY; Level 4 DARK Dragon, 1600 ATK / 1200 DEF
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, average 2.55 copies, 302 decks run 3; Top partners are Rose Dragon cards at 96% to 99.5% co-occurrence
- Inferred: Recovers a card from the GY, a one-for-one refuel after its own destruction; Usable as Level 4 material with the GY effect intact
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed legal no rulings or material-usage stats recorded usage statistics show only one Junk archetype entry, so non-Rose-Dragon inclusion is not measured