Spell
QuickALERT!
Archetype:
Rescue-ACE
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(This card is always treated as a "Rescue-ACE" card.) Add 1 "Rescue-ACE" monster from your GY to your hand, or if you control "Rescue-ACE Hydrant", you can add 1 "Rescue-ACE" monster from your Deck to your hand instead. You can only activate 1 "ALERT!" per turn.
ALERT! — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
ALERT! reliably returns one Rescue-ACE monster from the GY to hand, and with Rescue-ACE Hydrant on the field it searches the Deck instead, so its value is GY recursion plus conditional search. It is a single-copy, once-per-turn, archetype-locked support card with no interaction, no material value and no combo appearances in the evidence. The high deck inclusion (400 of 400 decks, all Rescue-ACE homes) confirms it is a dependable slot in its own archetype but does not raise its power beyond that; the score reflects the archetype-only portability and the lack of any observed board conversion.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Live from hand as a Quick-Play, with 400 of 400 decks running it and Rescue-ACE Hydrant (100% co-occurrence) enabling the Deck search route (verified; observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No combo boards recorded, and the text only returns a monster to hand, so conversion into a full board is inferred to be modest (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Spending itself to return a GY monster is roughly card-neutral, with the Hydrant branch giving a deck search that adds advantage (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A spell card that is never on the field as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Single copy, once per turn, and requires a Rescue-ACE monster in the GY, so it is only live in some spots (verified; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | Costs one slot with no garnet or lock, but it is only useful in Rescue-ACE decks (verified; inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live from hand as a Quick-Play, with the Hydrant branch giving a Deck search
- Recovers a GY Rescue-ACE monster, supporting recursion in its archetype
- Near-universal inclusion in Rescue-ACE decks (400 of 400 in the sample)
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked: the text is always Rescue-ACE, so value is limited to one theme
- Once per turn and needs a Rescue-ACE monster in the GY or a Hydrant on the field
- No combo, interaction or material evidence, so board conversion is unproven
Counters / choke points
- No card-specific counter in the evidence; generic GY interaction would blank its recovery effect
Best use
Recovery/Recursion and conditional searcher for Rescue-ACE. Decks: Rescue-ACE (archetype 843), Rescue-ACE (archetype 1485), Rescue-ACE (archetype 1149). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: add 1 Rescue-ACE monster from GY to hand, or from Deck if you control Rescue-ACE Hydrant; once per turn; always treated as Rescue-ACE; 400 of 400 decks run it at an average of 1.06 copies; Rescue-ACE Hydrant co-occurs in 100% of decks
- Observed: Inclusion in Rescue-ACE homes: 100%, 100% and 87.5% in usage statistics; Core Rescue-ACE guides feature it in the combo and deck-list sections
- Inferred: Recursion value is modest without a board that reaches the GY; Board conversion is modest, since no combo evidence is recorded
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) all distinct_archetypes are Rescue-ACE variants, so GenericUtility is capped low