EARTH
5
2Mandragon
ATK:
2500
DEF:
1000
View:
2811
''This mandragora harbors the soul of a sorrowful dragon. The cursed tones of its wailing cause both fear and despair.''
Mandragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 35 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 38 · Deck: 36 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Mandragon is a Normal Monster with only flavor text and no mechanical effect, limiting its value to serving as a Pendulum Zone body or generic tribute fodder. While its 2500 ATK and Pendulum Scale 2 provide modest utility in select archetype decks (Metalfoes, Igknight, Exodia, Chronomaly), the card generates no advantage, cannot disrupt opponents, and appears in no recorded combo boards. It functions purely as a filler piece taking up deck slots that could otherwise hold disruption or synergy engines.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 28 | Requires tribute to Normal Summon or Pendulum setup; appears only in 4 niche decks across different archetypes (observed) |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Zero combo board appearances and no mechanical effect mean it cannot build or extend any board state beyond serving as tribute material (observed) |
| Resource Economy | 15 | Provides no card draw, search, or recursion; costs one Normal Summon or Pendulum Summon with minimal return (verified) |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Entirely lacks a mechanical effect, providing no disruption, negation, removal, or opponent interaction (verified) |
| Material Utility | 52 | Usable as generic Level 5 body for Fusions, Rituals, or Synchros, and as Pendulum Zone Scale 2 filler, but low-priority compared to synergistic pieces (inferred) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 24 | Vulnerable to removal with no recovery or multi-turn value; lacks effects or recursion to survive interaction (inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 25 | Niche inclusion limited to 4 archetypes; likely a brick in hands without Pendulum setup or available tribute; occupies valuable deck space without generating advantage (observed) |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal. Intrinsic ≈ 38, Deck ≈ 36, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Garnet/brick potential (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Decent 2500 ATK for a Level 5 Normal Monster
- Pendulum Scale 2 usable in Pendulum decks
- Appears in multiple archetype homes (Metalfoes, Igknight, Exodia, Chronomaly)
- Viable as generic tribute fodder or material
Weaknesses
- No mechanical effect—purely flavor text
- Requires tribute to Normal Summon (high summoning cost)
- Zero combo presence or synergy
- Limited to 4 niche decks
- Likely a brick in many hands
- Generates no card advantage
- No disruption or opponent interaction
Counters / choke points
- Any removal spell or trap (Raigeki, Dark Hole, etc.)
- Hand traps that stop Normal Summons
- Floodgates that disable field monsters
Best use
Pendulum Zone filler / generic tribute fodder. Decks: Metalfoes, Igknight, Exodia, Chronomaly. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Pendulum Normal Monster, Level 5, EARTH Plant, 2500 ATK / 1000 DEF (card text); Pendulum Scale 2 (card text); No mechanical effect, only flavor text (card text and description); Appears in main deck, 1 copy each, across 4 decks: Metalfoes, Igknight, Exodia, Chronomaly (deck data)
- Observed: Zero combo board appearances across all recorded boards (combo data: 0 appearances); Top partners in decks: Flash Knight (100%), Dragong (100%), Metalfoes Volflame (75%); Not a top card in any format (top-card data: top-card status = false); Runs 1 copy per deck, all main deck
- Inferred: Likely used as Pendulum Zone filler in Pendulum-focused decks (Metalfoes, Igknight); Likely used as generic Level 5 tribute fodder in non-Pendulum decks (Exodia, Chronomaly); Requires one tribute to Normal Summon due to Level 5 status; Modest contribution to decks (4 total copies across niche homes suggests filler status)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied—combo conversion assessed from text only (no board integration data) No guides supplied—no human context on optimal roles or strategies No usage statistics (StatisticsCard)—archetype inclusion rates inferred from small deck sample (4 decks) only No banlist token—assumed 3 copies unlimited (irrelevant to scoring)