EARTH
3Crane Crane
ATK:
300
DEF:
900
View:
3440
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can target 1 Level 3 monster in your GY; Special Summon that target, but it has its effects negated. You can only use this effect of "Crane Crane" once per turn.
Crane Crane — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Crane Crane is a Level 3 body that, when Normal Summoned, revives one Level 3 monster from the GY with its effects negated, once per turn. That makes it a modest one-for-one board extender inside Burning Abyss, not a strong standalone threat. Its score is driven by reliable access and clean deck-building cost, while the 276-deck presence mostly confirms it is a consistent home-archetype staple rather than adding intrinsic power. Its 300 ATK and 900 DEF earned nothing, and the 82.6% concentration in one archetype limits how much portability it gets.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Included in 276 of 276 sampled decks, 228 of them Burning Abyss, at 1.75 copies on average (observed); a Level 3 Normal Summon body with no searcher route shown in the evidence (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Converts one Normal Summon into a body plus a negated Level 3 revive, but combo data has zero recorded boards, so the conversion is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Its GY-to-field revive is card-neutral (one body in, one body back) with no refuel or draw; the text shows no card advantage (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The only effect is a negated revive on Normal Summon, which gives no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 3 EARTH Winged Beast body is generic material, and the text does not stop it from being used as material after the effect is negated (verified text, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The effect is a single once-per-turn Normal Summon trigger with no redundancy shown; generic interruption of that trigger is an inference, not an observed counter (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | A Level 3 body with no garnet or lock, run at 1 to 3 copies per deck, so the slot cost is low (verified text, observed copy distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in most Burning Abyss hands: 276 of 276 sampled decks run it
- Clean one-for-one GY revive that does not cost card advantage
- Level 3 body that stays usable as material even after its effect is negated
- Low deck-building cost: no garnet, no lock, copies can be run up to 3
Weaknesses
- Effect is limited to one once-per-turn revive of a Level 3 monster
- No interaction: the revived monster is negated, so the card gives no opponent interaction
- Concentrated in one archetype (82.6% Burning Abyss), so portability is weak
- No combo data recorded, so its conversion value rests on text alone
Counters / choke points
- Interruption of the Normal Summon trigger by generic negation (inferred from card type; no counter data in evidence)
Best use
Level 3 Normal Summon body that revives one Level 3 GY monster (negated) for board extension and material. Decks: Burning Abyss.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Summon trigger, once per turn, targets one Level 3 monster in the GY and Special Summons it with effects negated (card text); Level 3 EARTH Winged Beast with 300 ATK and 900 DEF (card data); Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel (card data)
- Observed: Run in 276 of 276 sampled decks, 228 in Burning Abyss (archetype 115) at 82.6%; Copy distribution: 131 decks at 1 copy, 82 at 2, 63 at 3 (average 1.75); Top partners are Burning Abyss Malebranche monsters at about 90% co-occurrence; Gameplay mix: 85.9% gameplay type 3, 8.7% type 7, 5.4% type 4
- Inferred: Repeated GY revive is a card-neutral board extender with no card advantage; The Normal Summon trigger is exposed to generic interruption; The negated revived body remains usable as Level 3 material
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion, starter/material/payoff roles, and power index are text-only inference No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only Only one guide mention, a Burning Abyss overview with no direct Crane Crane line-up data