DARKBorrelend Dragon
Archetype:
Borrel
ATK:
3500
LINK-5
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3+ Effect Monsters Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects, also neither player can target this card with monster effects. This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls, once each. (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Effect Monster on the field and 1 "Rokket" monster in your GY; negate the effects of that monster on the field, and if you do, Special Summon that monster from your GY. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this effect's activation. You can only use this effect of "Borrelend Dragon" once per turn.
Borrelend Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 71 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 70 · Deck: 71 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Negation/Interaction, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Borrelend Dragon scores on what it converts into: a Link 5 body that cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects and cannot be targeted by monster effects, plus a once-per-turn quick effect that negates a field monster and Special Summons a Rokket from the GY. The 3500 ATK earns no points; the score comes from resilience, the negate-plus-recursion line, and a single-copy slot that sits in 400 of 400 sampled decks. Confidence stays Medium because the combo evidence is one board (a payoff at power index 100), so the combo and conversion axes rest on a thin sample.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Reached through Rokket and Dragon Link lines with high partner density, but the combo sample shows zero starter or searched appearances, so access is inferred from partners rather than observed as a starter (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 75 | The single recorded board is a payoff with 3 boss monsters and netCardAdvantage 5 at power index 100, which is one sample and not a broad conversion rate (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The GY Special Summon of a Rokket is recursion of a body rather than card advantage, and the one board shows netCardAdvantage 5 with no refuel evidence beyond that (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 75 | The quick negate ignores opponent responses and works on any effect monster on the field, limited to once per turn; the card text is explicit (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Link 5 DARK Dragon text states no material role and no material stats are in the evidence, so material value is a weak inference (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 80 | Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects and cannot be targeted by monster effects, which blocks the common destruction and monster-targeting interrupts (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Runs at 1 copy in 387 of 400 decks with no garnet or lock recorded, and the usage statistics show 1 typical copy across all 10 archetypes (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Removal/Negation (secondary role blend). Intrinsic ≈ 70, Deck ≈ 71, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects, and cannot be targeted by monster effects
- Quick-effect negate on any field effect monster, usable in response-proof form, once per turn
- Recovers a Rokket from the GY as part of the negate, so the interaction returns a body
- Runs at 1 copy in almost every deck, so it costs little deck space
Weaknesses
- The 3500 ATK earns nothing, and the body is not clean material (no material stats in evidence)
- Once-per-turn limit on the negate; one use per turn
- Dependent on Rokket monsters in the GY for the recursion half
- Combo evidence is a single board, so the conversion rate is unproven
Counters / choke points
- Its text blocks destruction by battle and card effects and monster-effect targeting, so those interrupts do not work
- Non-destruction effects (negation of the card itself or banish) are not addressed by the card text and are not in the evidence, so they cannot be scored
Best use
Boss/End-board. Decks: Dragon Link, Borrel, Rokket. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects; cannot be targeted by monster effects (card text); Quick negate of a field effect monster and GY Special Summon of a Rokket, once per turn (card text); Runs at 1 copy in 387 of 400 decks (deck stat)
- Observed: Single combo appearance as payoff, in end board, power index 100 (combo stat); Included in 100% of Dragon Link and Rokket usage stat rows at 1 typical copy (usage stat); Top partners Absorouter Dragon, Striker Dragon, Rokket Tracer at 94.2% co-deck rate (deck stat)
- Inferred: Accessibility via Rokket and Dragon Link partner density, not via observed starter lines (inference from partners); Resource value is recursion of a body, not card advantage (inference from text)
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combo evidence is one board; conversion and starter role rates are not statistically usable No rulings data No material-usage data for Link 5 Dragon DARK bodies