DARK
3Flower Cardian Cherry Blossom
Archetype:
Flower Cardian
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
View:
3464
If you control a Level 2 or lower "Flower Cardian" monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, also you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except "Flower Cardian" monsters. Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 "Flower Cardian" monster; draw 1 card, and if you do, show it, then, if it is a "Flower Cardian" monster, you can take 1 "Flower Cardian" monster from your Deck, except "Flower Cardian Cherry Blossom", and either add it to your hand or Special Summon it. Otherwise, send the card you drew to the GY.
Flower Cardian Cherry Blossom — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56.5 · Deck: 60.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Flower Cardian Cherry Blossom is a Level 3 hand-summon engine. Its hand Special Summon needs a Level 2 or lower Flower Cardian on the field, and its once-per-turn effect converts a Flower Cardian tribute into a draw that can search or summon another Flower Cardian, so it reliably turns the archetype's own bodies into card flow. The 122 of 122 sampled decks and 100% inclusion in both archetype statistics confirm it is a core piece, but that frequency was not used to raise the score (guardrail 3). Its 100/100 body, lack of negation, and archetype-locked text keep it from scoring higher, and the absence of combo data caps confidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Hand Special Summon is conditional on a Level 2 or lower Flower Cardian, and it is played in 122 of 122 sampled decks with 3 copies in 116 (verified/observed; no starter role stats supplied, so route reliability is partly inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | The draw-then-search text can chain into further Flower Cardian summons, but no recorded boards show what it builds (inferred from text only; no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 66 | One tribute for one draw plus a conditional search or summon is roughly card-neutral to positive when the draw hits, and the card can refuel the deck from the Deck (verified text; inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | Its only opponent-facing effect is a restriction on non-Flower Cardian summons for the rest of the turn, which is soft and irrelevant against most decks (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | It is a Level 3 DARK Warrior body, but its material value is not in evidence and the body is archetype-specific, so it has limited generic material use (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | It has multi-turn value through its repeatable once-per-turn draw and three copies, but a single negate on the draw effect ends it that turn (inferred from text plus deck copy counts). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Three copies run routinely, but the summon restriction locks out non-Flower Cardian monsters for the turn, which is cheap only inside a mono-archetype deck (verified text; observed copies). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher. Intrinsic ≈ 56.5, Deck ≈ 60.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand Special Summon lets it enter the board without a card spent from hand, provided a Level 2 or lower Flower Cardian is out.
- Once-per-turn draw can search or summon another Flower Cardian from the Deck, so it recycles the archetype's own bodies.
- Present in 122 of 122 sampled decks and at 100% inclusion in both archetype statistics, so the line is consistently played.
- Cheap to run: three copies are standard and the archetype's partners are near-universal.
Weaknesses
- Its effect is archetype-locked, so it has little value outside Flower Cardian decks.
- The summon restriction blocks non-Flower Cardian summons that turn, which limits flexibility.
- A 100/100 body with no negation or removal, so it offers no interaction on its own.
- Its draw is conditional on the tributed card, and a miss sends the drawn card to the Graveyard.
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the hand-summon or the draw effect, which shuts down the once-per-turn line for that turn.
- Hand traps or monster-effect negates played in response to the summon or the tribute.
- Board-wide disruption that removes the Level 2 or lower Flower Cardian needed to enable the hand summon.
Best use
Starter and draw engine that converts the archetype's bodies into card flow and searches. Decks: Flower Cardian (archetype 655, gameplay type 7), Flower Cardian (archetype 323, gameplay type 4). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: hand Special Summon needs a Level 2 or lower Flower Cardian; once-per-turn tribute 1 Flower Cardian to draw 1, with a conditional search or summon of another Flower Cardian from the Deck, excluding itself; restriction on non-Flower Cardian summons for the rest of the turn.; Level 3 DARK Warrior, ATK 100 / DEF 100, archetype Flower Cardian.; Present in 122 decks, 3 copies in 116 of them; top partners co-occur at 83.6% to 100%.
- Observed: Inclusion is 100% in both archetype statistics rows (Flower Cardian 655 and 323).; The guide describes Flower Cardian as built around hand-summoning and drawing into the archetype, with this card as a repeated summon and draw piece.
- Inferred: Starter/searcher role: the hand summon and the draw-then-search effect start and refuel the line.; Low generic utility: the text is archetype-locked, so it does not port to other homes.; Limited material value beyond tribute fodder because the body is archetype-specific.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter reliability are text-only inference no banlist token supplied, so the card is assumed to be 3-copy unlimited no material-use data for the Level 3 body no metagame sample, so meta power is null