DARK
4Tindangle Trinity
Archetype:
Tindangle
ATK:
0
DEF:
1500
View:
3097
FLIP: You can Special Summon 1 "Tindangle Base Gardna" from your Deck. If this card was flipped face-up, your "Tindangle" monsters cannot be destroyed by battle. If this card is sent to the GY as Link Material for the Link Summon of a "Tindangle" monster: You can add 1 "Gergonne's End" from your Deck to your hand, and if you do, send 1 Spell/Trap from your Deck to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Tindangle Trinity" once per turn.
Tindangle Trinity — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51.3 · Deck: 52.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Tindangle Trinity converts into a deck-sourced Special Summon of Tindangle Base Gardna when flipped, and into a Gergonne's End search when it is sent to the GY as Link Material for a Tindangle Link Summon. Both effects are conditional and once per turn, and no combo data confirms how often they fire, so the score stays in the middle band. High deck inclusion (35 of 35 decks, 74% Tindangle) confirms it is a consistent engine piece, but it does not raise the score by itself; the 0 ATK, the archetype lock and the absence of any negate keep it from scoring higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Usually live in the opening hand or set zone across 35 decks at an average of 1.8 copies, but no combo starter or searched data exists to confirm the route (observed; inferred from deck copies). |
| Combo & Conversion | 52 | Text gives one body (Base Gardna from Deck) plus a conditional search after Link use, with no recorded board examples or power index (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The GY link-material trigger nets a search of Gergonne's End and a deck-to-GY send, a plus of one card when it fires, with no measured netCardAdvantage (verified from text, inferred for value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | Flipped-face-up protection stops battle destruction only for Tindangle monsters and provides no negate, removal or hand trap (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 4 DARK Fiend that is a usable Link material, but its valued effect only triggers after it is consumed, so it is not a clean generic body (inferred from text and level/attribute). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Relies on a set-then-flip sequence and a once-per-turn GY effect, with no hand-trap resistance or multi-turn redundancy in evidence (verified from text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Runs 1 to 3 copies inside an archetype core with 100% partner inclusion, so it is cheap to play but locks the deck toward Tindangle (observed from decks and usage statistics). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher. Intrinsic ≈ 51.3, Deck ≈ 52.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked line (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- The flip effect gives a deck-sourced Special Summon (Tindangle Base Gardna), so it produces a body without a hand search.
- The GY link-material trigger adds Gergonne's End from Deck, a searcher-style gain that fires after the card has already been used.
- Consistent inclusion: present in 35 of 35 recent decks and 100% inclusion in the Tindangle StatisticsCard row, at a typical 1 copy.
Weaknesses
- Level 4 Flip monster with 0 ATK and 1500 DEF; it does nothing on the board by itself.
- Both effects are conditional, and the flip summon needs the card to be set and then flipped, which is slow.
- Archetype-locked, so portability outside Tindangle is low.
- No combo evidence, so real conversion rate is unmeasured.
Counters / choke points
- No negate is printed on the card; a hand trap or generic interruption that stops the flip summon or the GY search would shut the effect down (inferred). No specific counter card is in the evidence.
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler (flip deck-summon and GY link-material searcher). Decks: Tindangle. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: flip effect Special Summons Tindangle Base Gardna from Deck; flipped-face-up battle protection for Tindangle monsters; GY link-material search for Gergonne's End with once-per-turn limit.; Stats: Level 4, DARK Fiend, ATK 0, DEF 1500.
- Observed: 35 recent decks, 74.3% Tindangle archetype, average 1.8 copies per deck.; Main Tindangle partners appear in 100% of the 35 decks.; StatisticsCard inclusion 100% in Tindangle (typical 1 copy).
- Inferred: The flip summon makes it a starter-type piece in a Tindangle line.; The GY search is a conditional gain, not an unconditional card advantage.; Limited hand-trap resistance based on the text alone.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Tindangle Base Gardna stats and text are not in the evidence no rulings supplied for the flip and link-material interactions