FIRE
3Dora Dora
ATK:
400
DEF:
200
View:
5692
If this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragon monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Dora Dora" once per turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can excavate the top card of your Deck, and if it is a FIRE Dragon monster, send it to the GY, and if you do, this card gains 1000 ATK for each "Dora Dora" you control. Otherwise, place the excavated card on the bottom of your Deck.
Dora Dora — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter/Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Dora Dora's value is its Normal Summon search for a Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragon, which converts one hand card into a body on the field plus one card from the deck, but only once per turn and only on a Normal Summon. Its Main Phase excavate adds a conditional +1000 ATK per Dora Dora controlled when a FIRE Dragon is hit, and it has no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach. The 400 ATK and Level 3 body earn nothing directly; the score rests on the search and the deck-level fit, and the combo evidence is absent, so the combo axis is text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Text gives a once-per-turn Normal Summon search and the card is a 1-copy body in the sample, but the sample is selected on this card so its 400/400 inclusion is not a frequency signal, and no starter role or searched-for role counts exist (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | One searched FIRE Dragon body plus a conditional +1000 ATK per Dora Dora on a FIRE Dragon excavate hit, but the hit rate depends on FIRE Dragon density that the evidence does not table (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The search is a one-for-one hand-to-board swap that nets one extra card on the board, and the excavate is card-neutral (hit goes to GY, miss goes to the bottom), with no draw or refuel of its own (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 3 FIRE Dragon body with 400 ATK; the evidence has no Tuner flag and no material stats, and no material role count exists, so this is generic Level 3 fodder at best (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Two effects, one of them conditional on a Normal Summon and a Main Phase, and a 400 ATK body that dies to most interaction; redundancy is limited because 78% of sampled decks run one copy (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | A single-copy body with no garnet or lock text, and 1-copy usage across the sample; the Normal Summon requirement is a play-pattern restriction, not a slot cost (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches a Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragon once per turn on Normal Summon, a real searcher route the text supports
- The excavate effect is card-neutral: a hit goes to the GY and a miss goes to the bottom, so it costs no cards
- Appears in the sampled Tenpai Dragon shells at 1 copy, a cheap slot in those lists
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap reach; the opponent interacts with it for free
- The Normal Summon requirement uses the Normal Summon slot and a hand card, so it is not a free search
- The 400 ATK body and the +1000 ATK excavate both depend on conditions the evidence does not quantify
- Zero combo evidence, so the score is text-only on the combo axis
Counters / choke points
- Monster-effect negation or removal on the Normal Summon (the search is lost if the effect is negated, inferred from the text)
- Board breakers and sends that remove the 400 ATK body
Best use
Searcher that puts a FIRE Dragon engine card in hand and adds a conditional ATK pump. Decks: Tenpai Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Summon search: add 1 Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragon from Deck to hand, once per turn (card text); Main Phase excavate: FIRE Dragon goes to GY and gains 1000 ATK per Dora Dora controlled; otherwise bottom of Deck (card text); No negation, removal or hand-trap text (card text); Level 3, 400 ATK / 200 DEF, FIRE Dragon Effect Monster, formats TCG and OCG (card); Copies distribution across 400 sampled decks: 311 at 1, 57 at 2, 32 at 3; average 1.3 (deck stat); Usage statistic: 66.7% inclusion in Tenpai Dragon (gameplay 4), typical copies 1 (usage stat)
- Observed: Gameplay type 7 accounts for 86.5% of the sampled decks (deck stat); Tenpai Dragon archetypes make up about 52% of the sampled decks (deck stat); Tenpai Dragon Chundra co-occurs in 100% of sampled decks, Ash Blossom in 92.5% (deck stat); Guide 967 describes Tenpai Dragon as a thin core with staple handtraps (guide snippet)
- Inferred: The search is the primary value and the excavate pump is secondary (text reading); The hit rate of the excavate depends on FIRE Dragon density in the deck, which is not tabled (inference); A Normal Summon search is card advantage on the board, net +1, with the hand swap counted as neutral (inference); The 100% running rate reflects a sample selected on this card, so it is not a true inclusion rate (inference from the matched_reference field)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference, and starter role/searched-for role/material role counts are absent The deck sample appears selected on this card (matched_reference CardId, 400/400 running main), so the 100% inclusion and partner co-occurrence are not population frequencies No table of the Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragon search pool, so which engine cards are actually searched is unverified No FIRE Dragon density or excavate hit-rate evidence No Tuner flag or material stats for the Level 3 body No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No rulings or guide text on how the excavate interacts with the search