DARKCrossrose Dragon
Archetype:
Rose Dragon
ATK:
800
LINK-2
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2 monsters with different Types During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card and 1 Plant monster; Special Summon 1 "Rose" Synchro Monster or 1 Plant Synchro Monster from your Extra Deck. (This is treated as a Synchro Summon.) If a monster(s) you control is destroyed by card effect, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can banish this card; Special Summon 1 "Rose Dragon" monster from your GY. You can only use each effect of "Crossrose Dragon" once per turn.
Crossrose Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Crossrose Dragon is a Link-2 that converts itself plus a Plant monster into a Synchro Summon from the Extra Deck, and later banishes itself from the GY to revive a Rose Dragon when your monsters are destroyed by card effects. Its real value is access to Rose-family and Plant Synchro bodies, which the deck evidence supports: it runs in all 400 sampled decks and in 34.5% of Rose Dragon lists. The Link-2 body itself earns little, since it cannot be a Synchro material and provides no interaction. The high deck count confirms that it is a consistent, practical piece, not that it is strong on its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks and is live through Link Summon from the Extra Deck, but needs a Plant to use its main effect (verified text, observed deck counts). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Text gives one Plant plus self-Tribute into a Synchro from the Extra Deck, an extra board body rather than a full board (verified text; no combo examples supplied, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Costs itself and one Plant to produce one Synchro, so it is card-negative on the main effect; the GY banish gives a recursion body only if a monster is destroyed (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Neither effect negates, removes or disrupts an opponent card (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Link-2 has no Level, so it cannot be a Synchro material; its usefulness as material is limited to Link Summons and its self-Tribute cost (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The GY effect works from the graveyard across turns, but only after one of your monsters is destroyed by card effect, and each effect is once per turn (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | One Extra Deck slot, avg 1.06 copies per deck, no garnet or lock restriction; a clean slot in the Rose Dragon shell (observed deck data, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts Tribute of itself plus a Plant into a Synchro Summon from the Extra Deck (verified text)
- GY effect banishes itself to Special Summon a Rose Dragon after card-effect destruction (verified text)
- Core Rose Dragon piece: 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, 34.5% in Rose Dragon lists (observed)
- Low deckbuilding cost: one Extra Deck slot, about one copy per deck (observed)
Weaknesses
- Main effect costs itself and a Plant, so it is card-negative (verified text)
- Cannot be a Synchro material because it has no Level (inferred from Link rules)
- No opponent interaction of any kind (verified text)
- Both effects are once per turn and the GY effect needs a card-effect destruction first (verified text)
- No combo or guide evidence supplied, so its board-level conversion is text-only (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Negating the Quick Effect in response to its activation (inferred from text)
- Preventing the card-effect destruction that the GY effect requires (inferred from text)
Best use
Synchro access and graveyard recursion inside Rose-family builds. Decks: Rose Dragon, Azamina, Diabellstar, Crimson Dragon, Rikka. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Main effect: Tribute itself plus a Plant to Special Summon a Rose or Plant Synchro from the Extra Deck (card text); GY effect: banish itself to Special Summon a Rose Dragon after card-effect destruction, once per turn (card text); Link-2, Left and Bottom arrows, DARK Dragon, Rose Dragon archetype (card data)
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1.06 avg copies, 47 distinct archetypes (deck evidence); Rose Dragon 34.5%, Azamina 18%, Diabellstar 7.5% (deck evidence); Top partners Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 97.5%, Black Rose Dragon 90.5% (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Extender role: the main effect's value is Extra Deck Synchro access, which fits the Extender profile; Card-negative main effect and non-material status derived from Level and cost rules; Counters limited to the response window and the card-effect destruction the GY effect needs
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only legal_copies is empty; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) as the banlist token is absent