EARTHSunvine Gardna
Archetype:
Sunvine
ATK:
600
LINK-1
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Link Arrow:
Top
1 Plant Normal Monster If a "Sunavalon" Link Monster you control leaves the field by card effect: Destroy this card. When an attack is declared involving this card, linked to a "Sunavalon" Link Monster, and an opponent's monster: You can activate this effect; the damage you take from that battle is halved. When this card is destroyed by battle: End the Battle Phase after the Damage Step.
Sunvine Gardna — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Sunvine Gardna is a 600-ATK Link-1 whose text does little on its own: it has a mandatory self-destroy if a Sunavalon Link Monster you control leaves by card effect, an optional battle-damage halving that needs a Sunavalon Link monster and an opponent's monster involved, and an End-Battle-Phase trigger when destroyed by battle. The 205-deck presence (100% of the sample, 98% co-occurrence with Sunavalon Dryas, 29 archetypes) confirms it is a reliably included staple, but per guardrail 3 that frequency is not what earns the points. High ATK earned nothing; the score comes from a reliable but low-impact Link body, with the mandatory self-destroy and conditional text pulling it down.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Always in the 205 sampled decks with 1 copy each, but it is not searchable and no board-level starter data exists, so it is only live through its Sunavalon partners (observed, text-inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Zero recorded combo boards and no combo examples; the card only links into Sunavalon Link monsters and its text converts nothing on its own (inferred from text, no combo evidence). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | No draw, search, refuel or card advantage in the text; the only self-interaction is a mandatory destroy that is a net loss (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Battle-damage halving and the End-Battle-Phase trigger are soft, conditional interaction with no negation or removal (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Plant EARTH Link-1 body that can serve as Link material; the text does not blank it, but its generic-material value is modest and the body is tied to Sunavalon links (inferred from text and attributes). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The Sunavalon-linked conditions and the Top-only link arrow limit where it works, and it is a single body with no redundancy (inferred from text and link arrow). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy usage (avg 1.04, max 3) and a Link-1 body make it cheap to run with no garnet or brick risk; the mandatory self-destroy is the main cost (observed from decks, verified from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-destruct restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Included in all 205 sampled decks (1 copy each) across 29 archetypes, so it is a reliably live Link-1 body
- Strong co-occurrence with Sunavalon Dryas (98%) and other Sunavalon-linked support, confirming it is a real part of the Sunavalon link web
- Battle-damage halving can reduce damage taken when it attacks while linked to a Sunavalon Link monster
Weaknesses
- No searcher or recorded combo starts, so accessibility depends on other cards bringing it out
- Mandatory self-destroy when a Sunavalon Link monster leaves by effect is a liability
- Its battle effects require a Sunavalon link and an opponent monster, which limits when they apply
- Only a Top link arrow, which limits its linking options
Counters / choke points
- Board-wide disruption that removes Sunavalon Link monsters by effect, which forces the self-destroy
- Negation effects that shut down its battle-triggered text
- Opponent monsters that can attack through it without a Sunavalon link to trigger the damage halving
Best use
Utility / Link-1 body in Sunavalon-linked lines; a 1-copy generic material and battle-damage reducer. Decks: Sunavalon, Ragnaraika, Rikka, Aroma. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-1, 600 ATK, Plant, EARTH, Top arrow, archetype field Sunvine; Mandatory destroy if a Sunavalon Link Monster you control leaves the field by card effect; Optional battle-damage halving with a Sunavalon link and an opponent monster; End Battle Phase after Damage Step when destroyed by battle; Usage statistics show 100% inclusion in one Ragnaraika gameplay list at 1 copy
- Observed: Present in 205 of 205 sampled decks at 1.04 average copies; Sunavalon Dryas co-occurs in 98% of those decks; 29 distinct archetypes across the sample
- Inferred: Accessibility comes only through Sunavalon partners and other Sunavalon-linked cards, since there is no searcher; Its value as material is modest because the body is only a Link-1 Top-arrow monster
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) archetype field reads Sunvine while the card text refers to Sunavalon; the Sunavalon linkage is taken from the text