DARK
12Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul
Archetype:
Cosmic Synchro Monster
ATK:
3500
DEF:
3000
View:
1527
2 Tuners + 1 non-Tuner Must be either Synchro Summoned, or Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing 2 Tuners and 1 "Red Dragon Archfiend" from your GY. Cannot be destroyed by card effects. If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 card from your GY to your hand, and if you do, this card gains 2000 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul" once per Duel, and only if you have Synchro Summoned "Red Dragon Archfiend".
Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51.5 · Deck: 56.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card's value is a 3500-ATK Synchro body that cannot be destroyed by card effects, plus a once-per-Duel GY-to-hand recovery that adds 2000 ATK. Its ATK is not scored; the points come from resilience and the reliability of reaching the Extra Deck summon, which requires two Tuners and a Red Dragon Archfiend in the GY. Deck evidence (400 of 400 decks, 92.8% with Red Dragon Archfiend) confirms that the summon route is real and practical, but no combo boards were supplied, so combo conversion rests on text alone and the score is held down accordingly.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Needs 2 Tuners plus Red Dragon Archfiend in the GY; deck evidence shows it is live in 400/400 decks with Red Dragon Archfiend a partner in 92.8% of them (observed, with the GY requirement from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | One extra boss body with a conditional +2000 ATK; no combo examples were supplied, so conversion beyond the single body is inferred from text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The SS route banishes 3 GY cards as a cost, and the recovery is limited to one card, once per Duel (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | The card has no negation or removal; effect-destruction immunity is protection rather than interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 25 | Level 12 Synchro with no material-usage evidence in the supplied data, so its material value is unmeasured (inferred; no combos supplied). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 70 | Cannot be destroyed by card effects, which resists the common destruction-based interaction; the once-per-Duel recovery adds limited redundancy (verified from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | One copy in every deck as an Extra Deck slot, with no garnet lock beyond its Tuner and Archfiend enablers; redundancy is not evidenced (observed from deck copies, inferred for cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 51.5, Deck ≈ 56.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cannot be destroyed by card effects, so destruction-based removal does not end it (verified)
- Live in 400 of 400 recent decks with strong partner overlap (observed)
- Once-per-Duel GY recovery adds a card and +2000 ATK when it works (verified)
Weaknesses
- Needs 2 Tuners and a Red Dragon Archfiend in the GY, which gates the summon (verified)
- No negation or removal of its own (verified)
- Once-per-Duel recovery means a single use across the whole Duel (verified)
Counters / choke points
- Summon negation or Extra Deck summon interruption, which would stop the summon route (inferred from text)
- Banishing or redirecting the GY cards needed for the SS cost (inferred from text)
Best use
Boss/End-board body in Red Dragon and Resonator Synchro lines. Decks: Resonator, Archfiend, Bystial/Byssted. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be destroyed by card effects (card text); SS requires 2 Tuners and Red Dragon Archfiend banished from GY (card text); Once-per-Duel GY-to-hand recovery with +2000 ATK (card text); Level 12 Synchro with 3500 ATK (card data)
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 recent decks, 1 copy each (deck evidence); Red Dragon Archfiend co-occurs in 92.8% of decks (deck evidence); Usage statistics show 100%, 60%, and 53.5% inclusion across three archetype homes (usage statistics)
- Inferred: SS route is practical given the deck-level enablers (deck evidence plus text); Summon-interruption counters apply to the Extra Deck summon (inferred from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and material usage are text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) the guide mention is about the Resonator line and does not discuss this card's text directly no starter-count data, so DeckResilience uses archetype spread only