EARTH
8Grandtusk Dragon
ATK:
1400
DEF:
2400
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If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can target up to 2 other cards on the field; destroy them, and if you do, this card gains 600 ATK for each card destroyed. You can only use this effect of "Grandtusk Dragon" once per turn.
Grandtusk Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 67 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 66 · Deck: 68 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Grandtusk Dragon is a Level 8 Earth Dragon whose on-summon effect destroys up to 2 other cards on the field and grants it 600 ATK per card destroyed, once per turn. That makes it a removal-plus-boss body rather than a stat stick, so its 1400 ATK and 2400 DEF earn nothing on their own. Its score rests on being live in 400 recorded decks (95% with Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres, which is co-occurrence, not proof of power), appearing in 3 recorded 1-card combos with an average power index of 84.7, and offering 2-card removal that many decks can fire. The score is held back by a single-copy, unlabelled combo evidence set, an effect that is exposed to the common negations seen among its partners, and a resource trade that is only even when the removal targets are the opponent's cards.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Present in all 400 sampled decks at 1 copy each and co-listed with Hieratic Seal in 95% of them, but the summon routes are not tabled in the evidence (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 72 | Appears in 3 of 3 recorded boards with power indexes 100, 85 and 69, all as 1-card combos built around the Red-Eyes line, though combo role is empty (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Destroying up to 2 cards is a removal trade that can be net-positive in the recorded boards (netCardAdvantage 2 to 3), but the card draws or recurs nothing and the evidence gives no refuel line (observed, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 62 | Destroys up to 2 other cards on the field, including Spell/Trap cards, on each summon, but only once per turn and with no negation of its own (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 8 Dragon/Earth body is a clean generic material, but material role is 0 across the 3 combos, so the material value is inferred from the stat line rather than observed (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Its trigger is a targeted on-summon effect that is negatable, and the partner list includes common negation cards such as Effect Veiler and Ash Blossom, so the effect is exposed to a single response (observed, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One copy per deck, no garnet, no self-lock stated in the text, and a 2400 DEF body that is easy to splash; the cost of the slot is low (verified, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 66, Deck ≈ 68, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two-card removal on summon that can hit Spell/Trap cards as well as monsters, not only monsters
- ATK gain scales with the number of destroyed cards, so the body grows into a boss when the effect resolves
- Single copy per deck with no garnet or lock, easy to slot into 59 different archetype homes
- Live in 400 sampled decks and in all 3 recorded combos
Weaknesses
- Effect is once per turn and only fires on Normal or Special Summon, so it is not a repeatable board breaker
- Destroying the opponent's cards is card-even at best; the effect gives no draw, recursion or refuel
- The 1400 ATK base body and the 2400 DEF give no value when the effect is negated
- Combo evidence is thin: 3 boards, and combo role and the starter role, material role and payoff role counts are all zero
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the on-summon trigger, for example Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring or Infinite Impermanence (inferred, these are common answers to a targeted trigger, not verified against this card's text)
- Effect-negating the summon itself before the trigger resolves (inferred from the generic summon-trigger timing)
Best use
One-copy on-summon removal and boss body, run alongside Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres in the Dragon homes. Decks: Dragon, Crystal Beasts, Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: on Normal or Special Summon, target up to 2 other cards on the field, destroy them, gain 600 ATK per card destroyed, once per turn; Level 8, Earth, Dragon, 1400 ATK / 2400 DEF; no archetype; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel; 1 copy in each of the 400 sampled decks
- Observed: Appears in 3 of 3 recorded combos (power index 100, 85, 69; average 84.7), each a 1-card combo; Co-occurs with Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres in 95% of sampled decks; Used across 59 distinct deck archetypes; gameplay type 3 in 64.2% of decks; Guide 1245 places it in the main-deck monster section of a Dragon list
- Inferred: Summon routes exist because the card is in 400 decks, but the routes are not tabled; Its trigger is negatable by the common negation cards named in its partner list; Material value follows from its Level 8 Dragon/Earth stat line
- Data gaps: No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) starter role, searched-for role, material role and payoff role counts are all zero and combo role is empty across 3 combos, so the combo role is unconfirmed No summon-route data for the Level 8 body Only 1 guide, and it describes a pre-banlist, pre-skill-change build usage statistics covers only 2 archetypes