FIRE
8Destruction Dragon
Archetype:
Legendary Knight
ATK:
2000
DEF:
3000
View:
4550
Must be Special Summoned with "The Fang of Critias", using "Ring of Destruction". Once per turn: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it. Then, if it was a Monster Card, inflict damage to your opponent equal to its original ATK.
Destruction Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54.1 · Deck: 54.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Destruction Dragon converts its Fusion Summon into one flexible, once-per-turn targeted destruction that can hit any card the opponent controls, followed by burn scaled to the destroyed monster's original ATK. Its 2000 ATK and Fusion frame earn nothing by themselves. The 81-deck sample confirms the summon route is live through Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction, but that frequency is an accessibility signal, not a power signal, and zero recorded combos keep the conversion score low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | The summon requires The Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction, which co-occur in 92.6% and 81.5% of the 81 decks, so the route is live but narrow (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The text describes one destruction plus conditional burn with no board-building, and zero recorded combos means no observed conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | It destroys one card for a Fusion Summon whose cost is paid by two partner cards, which nets roughly one-for-one plus a damage clause (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Once-per-turn targeted destruction of any card the opponent controls, plus burn scaled to the target's original ATK, gives flexible removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 15 | A Level 8 Fusion body with zero recorded material appearances and no text granting material value (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It is a single once-per-turn effect that depends on a fusion summon through two named partners, with no evidence of multi-turn or multi-zone reach (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It uses one Fusion Extra Deck slot at a 1.12 average copy count, but the summon depends on two partners, so the line is not a free-roll (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 54.1, Deck ≈ 54.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn targeted destruction can hit any card type the opponent controls, not only monsters
- Burn scales with the destroyed monster's original ATK, giving a finishing clause
- Live in 81 recent decks across 32 archetypes, with common staples as top partners
Weaknesses
- The summon is gated by The Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction, so it is dead without both
- Only one use per turn, which is limited against several threats
- Level 8 Fusion body with no observed material or recursion value
- Score rests on zero recorded combos, so conversion is text-only inference
Counters / choke points
- Interrupting the summon by removing or negating The Fang of Critias or Ring of Destruction before the Fusion Summon (inferred from the summon text)
Best use
Removal finisher through a Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction summon route. Decks: Blue-Eyes, Lady of Lament, Legendary Knight. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Fusion Monster, FIRE Dragon, Level 8, 2000 ATK / 3000 DEF; Summon requires The Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction; Once per turn, target one card the opponent controls and destroy it; if it was a monster, inflict damage equal to its original ATK; 81 of 81 recent decks run it in the main deck, averaging 1.12 copies; The Fang of Critias appears in 92.6% of decks and Ring of Destruction in 81.5%
- Observed: Spans 32 distinct archetypes, led by Blue-Eyes (21%) and Lady of Lament (12.3%); Gameplay types 7 (54.3%) and 4 (30.9%) make up most decks; Zero recorded combo appearances, so no starter, searched, material, or payoff role is measured
- Inferred: The destruction clause can hit backrow as well as monsters, so it is flexible removal; The Fang of Critias and Ring of Destruction co-occurrence is largely the summon route, not an independent strength; Negating or removing either summon partner before the Fusion Summon stops the line
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no evidence of summon-failure or negation outcomes for the Fang and Ring route