WATER
1Treeborn Frog
Archetype:
Frog
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
View:
3516
Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, if this card is in your Graveyard and you do not control "Treeborn Frog": You can Special Summon this card. You must control no Spell/Trap Cards to activate and to resolve this effect.
Treeborn Frog — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 64 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Treeborn Frog's value is its once-per-turn Standby Phase self-revive from the Graveyard, which turns a dead card in hand into a repeatable Level 1 body and material each turn. Its Spell/Trap-free condition and lack of any opponent interaction keep effect_interaction near zero. The high deck count (377 of 377 sampled decks, 1.82 copies average) confirms it is consistently played and easy to slot, but that inclusion was not used to lift the score. With no combo evidence, combo_conversion stays low and is text-only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | It is dead in hand and must already be in the Graveyard, but it is run in all 377 sampled decks across 38 archetypes, so the route is live (observed; text-based route inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo boards were supplied, so the only conversion is one Level 1 body per Standby Phase from the text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Each revive is a free, repeatable body with no cost or card loss, a recursion-style advantage (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or disruption effect, so it brings no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | It is a generic Level 1 Aqua non-Tuner that Synchron decks use, and the body stays usable as material even when its effect is negated (observed from deck archetypes and text; inferred for the negated case). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | It recurs every turn while it stays in the Graveyard, but a single Spell/Trap on the field shuts the effect off (verified from text; inferred for multi-turn use). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | It is a near free-roll with about 1.8 copies per deck and only one soft restriction (no other Treeborn Frog controlled, plus no Spell/Trap for the effect) (observed from deck copies; verified from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 64, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Revives itself from the Graveyard once per turn during Standby Phase
- Generic Level 1 Aqua body usable as material
- Run in 377 of 377 sampled decks across 38 archetypes
Weaknesses
- Dead in hand; must be in the Graveyard first
- Blocked while you control any Spell/Trap
- No combo evidence, so combo conversion rests on text alone
Counters / choke points
- Controlling any Spell/Trap card stops both activation and resolution
- Controlling another Treeborn Frog stops the effect
Best use
Recursive Level 1 body and Synchro material. Decks: Frog, Monarch, Heroic, Synchron. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once-per-turn Standby Phase Special Summon from the Graveyard, conditioned on not controlling another Treeborn Frog; Spell/Trap-free condition on both activation and resolution; Level 1 Aqua Effect Monster with 100 ATK / 100 DEF
- Observed: Run in 377 decks, 1.82 copies average, across 38 archetypes; Top partners are Heavy Storm (83.8%) and Mystical Space Typhoon (82.0%); Frog archetype inclusion 75% at typical 2 copies
- Inferred: Recurring Level 1 body and material every Standby Phase; Body remains a usable material when its effect is negated
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) usage_statistics covers only one archetype row