EARTH
3Rookie Warrior Lady
ATK:
1000
DEF:
800
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When an attack is declared involving your other Warrior monster and an opponent's face-up monster: You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; that opponent's monster loses ATK equal to its original ATK, until the end of this turn. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 EARTH Warrior monster in your GY; add it to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Rookie Warrior Lady" once per turn.
Rookie Warrior Lady — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Rookie Warrior Lady earns its score primarily from reliable accessibility in any Warrior deck via Reinforcement of the Army — confirmed by 75.3% co-occurrence across 97 decks — and broad splash utility across 30 distinct archetypes. Its Effect 1 provides a real but situational combat trick that allows Warrior monsters to overcome stronger opponents in battle, while Effect 2 converts its GY presence into EARTH Warrior recovery and generates incremental card advantage, with an inferred engine line through Isolde. The 1000 ATK body earned no points; the score reflects the card's functional support-and-recovery role within the Warrior ecosystem, tempered by the complete absence of combo evidence and the reactive, battle-phase-only nature of its disruption.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 73 | Level 3 EARTH Warrior is directly searchable by Reinforcement of the Army, which appears in 75.3% of all decks running this card, confirming searchability as real and practical (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 22 | Zero combo appearances recorded — no board-building role confirmed; conversion potential is inferred only from the Isolde co-occurrence (43.3%) suggesting use as sendable Warrior material followed by Effect 2 recovery (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 48 | Effect 2 banishes this card from GY to add 1 EARTH Warrior from GY to hand; when following an Isolde send or a natural GY placement via Effect 1, the engine approaches neutral-to-slight-plus over two turns (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | Effect 1 reduces an opponent's monster's ATK to approximately 0 during the battle phase only — no main-phase disruption, no negation, no removal outside of combat (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 58 | Level 3 EARTH Warrior fits standard Extra Deck Warrior lines including Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights, which co-appears in 43.3% of decks consistent with use as sendable Warrior material (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 52 | Effect 1 is usable from hand or field; Effect 2 provides a follow-up from GY; the card operates across 30 distinct archetypes in multiple gameplay types, demonstrating real multi-home flexibility (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 62 | No archetype lock, no in-hand restriction, ROTA-searchable, clean Level 3 EARTH Warrior typing; average 1.74 copies across 97 decks confirms a typical 1–2 copy tech slot with no garnet pressure (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility (primary only, no blend). Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Directly searchable by Reinforcement of the Army in any Warrior deck
- Effect 1 enables Warrior monsters to win battles against stronger opponents and is usable from hand or field
- Effect 2 recovers EARTH Warriors from GY, providing incremental card advantage after GY setup
- Splashable across 30+ Warrior archetypes with no restrictive conditions
- Contributes to Isolde engine lines as sendable Level 3 Warrior material
Weaknesses
- Effect 1 is battle-phase-only and requires another Warrior to be involved in the declared attack — highly situational
- 1000 ATK / 800 DEF body provides negligible standalone field presence
- Effect 2 requires prior GY setup and then banishes itself — a dependent two-step process
- No proactive main-phase interaction or confirmed combo contribution
- Typical 1–2 copy count reflects limited depth of role per deck
Counters / choke points
- Called by the Grave — banishes this card from GY before Effect 2 can activate
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring — negates the GY-add from Effect 2
- Anti-Spell Fragrance — prevents Reinforcement of the Army from searching this card
- Effect Veiler / Infinite Impermanence — negates the on-field trigger of Effect 1 if it resolves on the field
Best use
Battle-phase combat enabler and GY recovery tech in Warrior decks. Decks: War Rock, Heroic, Amazoness, X-Saber, Ultra Athletes, Battleguard. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 3 EARTH Warrior type confirmed from card data; Effect 1: send from hand or field to GY — opponent's face-up monster loses ATK equal to its original ATK until end of turn (OPT); Effect 2: banish this card from GY — add 1 EARTH Warrior monster from GY to hand (OPT); Reinforcement of the Army searches Level 4 or lower Warrior monsters — this card qualifies
- Observed: Appears in 97 decks across 30 distinct archetypes spanning 2022–2026; ROTA co-occurrence: 75.3% of all decks running this card; Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights co-occurrence: 43.3% of decks; Average 1.74 copies per deck (distribution: 46×1, 30×2, 21×3)
- Inferred: Isolde sends this to GY in Warrior combo lines, enabling Effect 2 to recover another EARTH Warrior as a follow-up resource; Effect 1 allows a Warrior attacker to win a battle against a higher-ATK monster by reducing its ATK to ~0; Primarily a 1–2 copy tech slot rather than a core combo piece, based on copy distribution and 0 combo appearances
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only