EARTH
3Chronomaly Gordian Knot
Archetype:
Chronomaly
ATK:
300
DEF:
900
View:
3413
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Chronomaly" monster from your hand, and if you do, this card's Level becomes the current Level of that Special Summoned monster.
Chronomaly Gordian Knot — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53.8 · Deck: 55.3 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Chronomaly Gordian Knot converts one Normal Summon into two bodies: it Special Summons a Chronomaly from hand and copies that monster's Level, so it works as a Level 3 hand starter for the archetype. Its 300 ATK and 900 DEF earned nothing; points come from its place in 33 recent decks and the 93.9% pairing with Chronomaly Nebra Disk and Vimana, which confirms the role is real but is not proof of power on its own. Effect interaction is near zero, and the score is held back by archetype-locked text and the absence of recorded combo boards.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Normal Summonable at Level 3 without tribute, and it needs only one Chronomaly in hand as its target; it appears in 33 recent decks at 1.88 copies on average, but no starter counts confirm how often it is reached (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text turns one Normal Summon into two bodies, the card plus a hand Chronomaly, and the copied Level can enable Level-based follow-ups, but no recorded board shows the follow-up depth, so the score stays mid-range (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Two hand cards become two field bodies with no draw, search, or graveyard refuel, so card economy is roughly even at best (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption; its only effect is the Normal Summon trigger (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 3 EARTH Rock body that can take the Level of the Chronomaly it summons, which matters for Level-based summons; even when its effect is negated it remains a Level 3 material (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A single negation of the trigger leaves a plain Level 3 body, and the hand-to-field line can be stopped by generic negation such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | The text has no garnet, lock, or self-restriction, and the 1.88 average copies per deck show that redundancy is cheap to run (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 53.8, Deck ≈ 55.3, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live from hand when a Chronomaly is also in hand, giving a clean hand-to-field body
- Level copy lets it match the Level of the Chronomaly it summons
- Runs at a low, redundant copy count with no garnet or lock cost
Weaknesses
- Needs a second Chronomaly in hand to do anything
- Its only effect is a single Normal Summon trigger with no follow-up of its own
- Negating the trigger leaves a plain Level 3 body with no further value
- 300 ATK and 900 DEF give it no board presence
Counters / choke points
- Generic negation of the Normal Summon trigger, such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred)
- Hand disruption that removes the Chronomaly target before the summon
Best use
Hand-to-field starter and Level-setting body within a Chronomaly build. Decks: Chronomaly core decks (Chronomaly archetype, 818 and 26).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Summon trigger: Special Summon 1 Chronomaly from hand, and copy that monster's Level (card text); Level 3 EARTH Rock Effect Monster, 300 ATK / 900 DEF, legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks (card data); Appears in 33 recent decks, with 93.9% co-occurrence with Chronomaly Nebra Disk and Vimana (deck data)
- Observed: Average 1.88 copies per deck; distribution 1 copy in 10 decks, 2 in 17, 3 in 6 (deck data); 81.8% of decks are gameplay type 7, 15.2% type 3, 3% type 4 (deck data); Chronomaly archetype ids 818 and 26 hold 20 of 33 decks (deck data)
- Inferred: Starter / Combo enabler role, from the trigger that puts a second Chronomaly on the field; Level-setting can match Level-based summons; negated body remains a Level 3 material; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is a plausible generic negation of the trigger
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion inferred from the deck sample only format 7 is not labelled in the evidence, so the gameplay mix is observed without a named format Chronomaly is split across archetype ids 818, 26 and 1306, so distinct archetypes overstates portability no rulings supplied for the timing of the Level copy on Special Summon resolution