DARKFlash Charge Dragon
ATK:
2300
LINK-3
View:
3301
Link Arrow:
Top-Left
Top
Top-Right
2+ Dragon monsters You cannot Summon/Set monsters to a zone this card points to. Once per turn, if a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned, to a zone(s) this card points to (except during the Damage Step): You can destroy 1 monster this card points to, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to your opponent. When a card or effect is activated that targets this face-up card (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 monster; negate the activation.
Flash Charge Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58.5 · Deck: 58.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
Flash Charge Dragon is a Link-3 Dragon whose value is a field-based interaction package: a zone lock, a once-per-turn destruction tied to zones it points to, and a Quick negation of a targeted face-up copy at the cost of a Tribute. It reliably converts a live Dragon board into a disruption piece, and its deck presence (203 decks, 62.6% in Borrel Link) confirms it is playable and consistently included. The 2300 ATK and Link-3 body earn almost nothing by themselves, and the lack of recorded combo boards keeps conversion and resource scores low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Live in 203 sampled decks and summoned through the Borrel Link line with strong partners such as Borrelsword Dragon at 88.7% co-occurrence, though no starter or searched appearances are recorded (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Zero recorded combo boards, so conversion rests on the text alone: one destruction and 500 damage per trigger, with no board-building step (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The negation costs a Tribute and the destruction trades one-for-one, with no GY refuel or repeated advantage in the text (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Quick negation of a targeted face-up card plus a zone lock gives real, conditional interaction, though it is blunted when the controller has no monster to Tribute (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Link-3 Dragon can feed higher Dragon Links, but no combo or deck data shows it used as material and its negation depends on being targeted (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its negation needs the card face-up and targeted and a Tribute available, so one interruption ends it; the zone lock and destruction work across several zones (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | A single-copy Extra Deck slot (1.04 average copies, 195 of 203 decks running one) with no garnet or lock restriction beyond the Dragon requirement (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Floodgate/Control. Intrinsic ≈ 58.5, Deck ≈ 58.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Quick negation of a targeted face-up card, available in the Borrel Link and Dragon Link lines
- Zone lock and destruction on the zones it points to
- Single-copy, low-cost Extra Deck slot with many partners
Weaknesses
- Negation requires a Tribute, so it is weak when the controller has no monster to spare
- Negation only triggers when the card is targeted, so untargeted plays get past it
- Pure Dragon restriction limits use outside Dragon decks
- No recorded combo evidence to show it converts into a board
Counters / choke points
- Board-wide or untargeted effects that do not activate its targeted negation (inferred)
- Negating or removing the Tribute resources it needs (inferred)
Best use
Single-copy Dragon Link disruption piece that negates a targeted monster and locks zones. Decks: Borrel Link, Dragon Link, Rokket. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-3 Dragon, DARK, 2300 ATK, arrows Top-Left/Top/Top-Right; requires 2+ Dragon monsters (card text); Can't Summon/Set to zones it points to; once-per-turn destruction plus 500 damage when a Normal or Special Summon occurs there (card text); Quick negation of a targeted face-up card by Tributing 1 monster (card text)
- Observed: Present in 203 recent decks; 195 run one copy (decks_evidence); Borrel Link is 62.6% of decks; top partners co-occur at 73–89% (decks_evidence); Three guides mention it in Extra Deck sections (guides_evidence)
- Inferred: Negation is limited by Tribute availability and by targeting; Material value as a Link-3 Dragon for higher Dragon Links, not confirmed by combo data; Vulnerable to untargeted or board-wide effects
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only