WATER
3Sylvan Mikorange
Archetype:
Sylvan
ATK:
400
DEF:
1100
View:
3163
When this card you control is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by card effect) and sent to your Graveyard: You can excavate the top card of your Deck, and if it is a Plant-Type monster, send it to the Graveyard. Otherwise, place it on the bottom of your Deck. If this card is excavated from the Deck and sent to the Graveyard by a card effect: All Plant-Type monsters you currently control gain 300 ATK and DEF.
Sylvan Mikorange — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Sylvan Mikorange converts into a small Level 3 Plant WATER body with two minor, conditional effects: a mill/cycle when it is destroyed by the opponent, and a +300 ATK/DEF buff to your Plant monsters when it is excavated from the Deck. It earns most of its value as a clean material body and semi-generic Plant name, not from any board presence or disruption. Its 400 ATK and two soft effects produce no card advantage and no interaction, and with 0 appearances across recorded combos it is not evidenced as a starter or payoff. The score is driven by inexpensive, low-restriction material utility rather than stats or text length.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 52 | Main-decked at ~1.43 copies in all 7 sampled decks with no locks, but no searcher or starter route appears in the evidence (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | 0 appearances across recorded combos and no text that builds anything beyond one small body (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | On destruction it excavates and mills one Plant or cycles it to the bottom, roughly neutral with no net card advantage (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 12 | Neither effect removes, negates, or disrupts the opponent; the buff is a passive stat boost (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 3 Plant WATER body with the Sylvan name is usable material even when its effects are blanked (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 42 | Triggers in two zones (field destruction and Deck excavation), but both are conditional and it cannot recur itself (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 52 | No locks, no garnet risk, and 1-2 copies are fine, though it is confined to Plant/Sylvan shells (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 3 Plant WATER body usable as material for Rank 3 Xyz or Level 3 Synchro plays.
- Two-zone utility: its on-destroy effect excavates/mills a Plant and its excavated effect buffs all Plant monsters you control.
- Carries the Sylvan name, so it contributes to Sylvan excavation lines.
- No locks or garnet risk; 1-2 copies in the main deck is clean.
Weaknesses
- Both effects are minor: no card advantage, no removal, no negation.
- Effects are conditional — it must be destroyed by the opponent or excavated by a card effect.
- 400 ATK body is trivially outclassed and offers no combat presence.
- Zero recorded combo appearances: no evidence it drives or extends any board.
Counters / choke points
- Effects that banish instead of sending to the Graveyard deny both triggers.
- Effect negation stops the excavation and buff lines.
- Removing or negating the opponent's excavation pieces blanks the buff trigger.
- Any wall past 400 ATK simply ignores it in battle.
Best use
Level 3 Plant material body / Sylvan excavation fodder. Decks: Sylvan, Rose Dragon, Plant engine variants. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: when this card you control is destroyed by the opponent's card and sent to the GY, you can excavate the top card of your Deck and mill it if it is a Plant, otherwise place it on the bottom.; Text: if this card is excavated from the Deck and sent to the GY by a card effect, all Plant-Type monsters you currently control gain 300 ATK and DEF.; Card stats: Level 3, WATER, Plant, Effect Monster, 400 ATK / 1100 DEF, Sylvan archetype.
- Observed: Appears in 7 sampled decks, all main deck, average 1.43 copies (max 2).; Spread across 5 archetype labels, most often Sylvan (28.6%) and Rose Dragon (28.6%).; 0 appearances across recorded combos, with no starter role/material role/payoff role data.; Top partners are overwhelmingly Sylvan cards (Bladefender, Peaskeeper, Mount Sylvania, Sylvan Charity, etc.).
- Inferred: Functions as a small Level 3 Plant material body and Sylvan excavation fodder rather than a starter or payoff.; Its accessibility depends on Plant/Sylvan support not enumerated in the evidence.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no searcher/route data confirming how the card is accessed