EARTH
5Sand Stone
ATK:
1300
DEF:
1600
View:
2623
Appears from underground and attacks with long, snake-like tentacles.
Sand Stone — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 18 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 22 · Deck: 19 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Sand Stone is a vanilla Level 5 EARTH Rock Normal Monster with no effect, so its only possible value is its body, Level, and typing. It converts into essentially nothing: 0 combo appearances, only 2 recorded decks, no archetype, no searcher, and no synergy network. Its 1300 ATK is below what its own tribute cost demands and earns no points here, and there is no reliable route to winning value. The score sits near the floor for a card that is effectively a blank slot.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 15 | Level 5 Normal Monster with no archetype and no searcher — it needs a tribute to Normal Summon and shows 0 combo appearances (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 3 | 0 appearances across recorded combos and no effect that builds anything on its own (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 4 | No search, no draw, and no GY recursion — playing it trades a body plus a tribute for a 1300-ATK vanilla (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | The card text is pure flavour with no effect at all, so it offers zero disruption or removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 18 | A Level 5 EARTH Rock body is awkward as material — no Level-4-or-lower synergy like Rescue Rabbit, and it would need a second Level 5 for an Xyz (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 10 | As a Normal Monster it is blanked by any removal with no recovery, and it is dead in most spots or turns (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 18 | No locks or garnet clauses, but every copy is a dead slot; it is only seen at 2 copies in a 2-deck, non-synergistic sample (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Single role: Material body / Normal (no meaningful secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 22, Deck ≈ 19, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Dead-slot brick penalty (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Vanilla body with no effect, so there is no effect to negate or play around.
- Level 5 EARTH Rock typing keeps it legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links with no archetype lock.
Weaknesses
- No effect text whatsoever — no search, recursion, disruption, or advantage.
- 1300 ATK / 1600 DEF is far below what a tribute-requiring Level 5 should offer.
- No archetype, no searcher, and 0 combo appearances mean no practical route or synergy.
- Appears only in 2 recorded lists whose partners (Wow Warrior, Darkfire Soldier #2) suggest no genuine synergy.
Counters / choke points
- Any removal or bounce — it has no protection and no recovery.
- Any 1700+ ATK body simply outclasses it in combat.
- Effect negation is irrelevant because there is no effect to negate, which highlights how little it does.
Best use
Filler Normal Monster / potential material body. Decks: No competitive home — casual vanilla/Dark Magician-labelled lists only. Suggested copies: 0.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text is a vanilla Normal Monster: Level 5, EARTH, Rock, 1300 ATK / 1600 DEF, no effect (Sand Stone).; No archetype membership; listed as legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, and DuelLinks.
- Observed: Appears in 2 decks, all labelled Dark Magician, at 2 copies each, main deck.; 0 appearances across recorded combo boards (share of combos = 0).
- Inferred: As a Level 5 Normal Monster it requires a tribute to Normal Summon, making it a costly, low-value body.; Its presence in those 2 lists is filler, not synergy — partners include unrelated vanillas like Wow Warrior and Darkfire Soldier #2.
- 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 deck sample is only 2 lists, which is essentially empty and non-representative