Trap
ContinuousCrusadia Vanguard
Archetype:
Crusadia
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When you activate this card: You can also Tribute 1 "Crusadia" or "World Legacy" monster; if you did, Special Summon 1 "Crusadia" or "World Legacy" monster, with a different original name, from your Deck or GY. While you control a "Crusadia" Link Monster, your opponent's monsters can only target Link Monsters for attacks. You can only activate 1 "Crusadia Vanguard" per turn.
Crusadia Vanguard — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46.8 · Deck: 54.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
Crusadia Vanguard reliably converts one tributed Crusadia or World Legacy monster into one different-named Crusadia or World Legacy monster from the Deck or GY, which makes it a body-for-body upgrade engine rather than a board-width card. Its opponent-side effect only limits attacks while you control a Crusadia Link Monster, so it is a conditional soft restriction, not removal or negation. The 99-of-99 deck presence and near-100% partner rates confirm it is a required engine piece in this archetype, but no combo boards were supplied, so none of the score rests on measured conversion. The high-profile Crusadia lineup earns no points on its own; the score comes from access, the Deck/GY summon route, and a clean one-copy trap slot.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Appears in 99 of 99 recent decks at 1.33 copies on average, with 73 decks running one copy (observed); it is a trap that needs its Crusadia tribute and Deck/GY target to be live, and no starter role or searched-for role data exists to confirm the route (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Its text converts one tributed monster into one Deck or GY Special Summon with no extra body, and no combo examples or power index data were supplied, so this is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The tribute-for-summon is body-neutral and the Deck or GY pickup gives a GY recursion route, but no netCardAdvantage data was supplied (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The attack restriction only applies while a Crusadia Link Monster is controlled and only forces attacks onto Link Monsters, so it is a conditional soft interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | It is a Continuous Trap card and cannot be used as Link, Xyz, Fusion, or Synchro material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | As a face-up Continuous Trap it can be removed by backrow destruction, and its main effect is limited to once per turn (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a single trap slot at about 1.3 copies per deck with no garnet or banlist token supplied, and its only restriction is the once-per-turn clause on its own effect (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Floodgate/Control. Intrinsic ≈ 46.8, Deck ≈ 54.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Present in 99 of 99 recent decks, mostly as a single copy, showing it is a required engine piece in Crusadia lists
- Its summon route reaches both Deck and GY, so it can recur monsters from the GY as well as pull from the Deck
- Its near-100% partner rates with the Crusadia Link and Crusadia monsters confirm it is embedded in the archetype's core lines
Weaknesses
- Its effect is archetype-locked to Crusadia and World Legacy, which limits how much it can be ported to other decks
- The opponent-side restriction only applies while a Crusadia Link Monster is controlled and only restricts attacks
- As a face-up Continuous Trap it is exposed to backrow removal and cannot serve as material
Counters / choke points
- Backrow destruction that removes the face-up Continuous Trap
- Negating its activation or the Crusadia summon effect
Best use
Tribute-for-summon engine that trades one body for a different Crusadia or World Legacy monster from the Deck or GY, with a conditional attack restriction while a Crusadia Link is out. Decks: Crusadia, World Legacy, Kaiju, Mekk-Knights, Sky Striker. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Trap that conditionally Tributes 1 Crusadia or World Legacy monster to Special Summon a different-named Crusadia or World Legacy monster from Deck or GY; Attack restriction applies only while you control a Crusadia Link Monster, limiting opponent attacks to Link Monsters; Once-per-turn activation clause; Not a monster, so it cannot be used as material
- Observed: Appears in 99 of 99 recent decks; 97% in gameplay type 7; Average 1.33 copies per deck, with 73 decks running one copy; Crusadia Arboria, Crusadia Draco, Crusadia Maximus, Crusadia Magius, and Crusadia Equimax co-appear in 99 or 100% of decks
- Inferred: Body-neutral tribute swap with a GY recursion route makes resource economy neutral; Attack restriction is a conditional soft interaction, not removal or negation; Accessibility is high because the card is run in nearly every Crusadia list, but its trigger still depends on a Crusadia monster to tribute
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and centrality are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so legal copies are assumed to be 3 no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for archetype inclusion % no starter role, searched-for role, or material role data to corroborate the Extender role