EARTH
4Rose Shaman
Archetype:
Rose
ATK:
1700
DEF:
200
View:
2888
You can Tribute this card; draw 1 card. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Plant monster in your GY; add it to your hand, then, if you added a Plant monster whose original Level is 7 or higher, you can send 1 Plant monster from your Deck to the GY. You can only use 1 "Rose Shaman" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Rose Shaman — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Rose Shaman's value is recursion: its graveyard effect banishes itself to return a Plant from the GY to hand, and its tribute effect draws a card, so it converts a dead GY body into cards. Its score comes from that card-economy role and from being a single-copy, low-cost slot in Exodia lists (34 of 39 sampled decks). The 1700 ATK and Level 4 body earn nothing on their own. There is no hand-activated text and no combo evidence, so the score rests on text plus deck presence, with the combo-conversion and interaction axes kept low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No hand effect is stated; it is live only once it reaches the GY or the field, and it appears in 34 of 39 Exodia decks at 1 copy each, which shows a practical route but no combo confirmation (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The text yields one extra card (a Plant from GY) and a draw, but no recorded boards show it converting into a larger board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The tribute draw and the GY banish-to-hand give up to two card gains over its life, though the effects are once per turn and shared (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so opponent interaction is effectively absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Level 4 Earth Warrior is a usable generic material for Level 4 Earth requirements, but the evidence gives no material-usage data (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY effect works from the graveyard, which survives many interruptions, but the shared once-per-turn limit and the Plant-in-GY requirement cut its reliability (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It runs at one copy in 38 of 39 decks, has no garnet or lock restriction, and is cheap to include (verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role only (Recovery/Recursion); no secondary blend because the Material-body role is not a meaningful second home from the evidence. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recovers a Plant from the GY to hand, giving repeat card value
- Tribute effect draws 1 card
- Single-copy, cheap and easy to run; no garnet or lock cost
- Consistently included in Exodia decks (34 of 39 sampled decks)
Weaknesses
- No hand-activation text; it is dead in hand
- Needs a Plant in the GY to be useful
- Effects are once per turn and share one OPT clause
- No combo evidence, so board-conversion value is unproven
- Single-home, Exodia-dependent usage
Best use
Recovery/Recursion: GY Plant recursion plus tribute draw. Decks: Exodia. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tribute-and-draw effect text; GY banish-to-hand Plant recursion text; Shared once-per-turn clause; Level 4 Earth Warrior, 1700 ATK; Copies per deck avg 1.03; 38 of 39 decks run 1 copy
- Observed: 34 of 39 sampled decks are Exodia (87.2%); Co-occurs with Exodia pieces in all 34 Exodia decks
- Inferred: Live in practice only from the GY or field, not from hand; Generic Level 4 Earth material use; Accessibility rated moderate because no combo confirms a starter/searched route
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion based on deck sample only no rulings supplied; field-versus-GY activation of the tribute effect is inferred from wording no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited)