Spell
NormalAbyss Script - Dramatic Story
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Target 1 "Abyss Actor" Pendulum Monster you control; Special Summon 1 "Abyss Actor" monster from your Deck with a different name, then place the targeted monster in your Pendulum Zone or destroy it. If this Set card in its owner's control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect, and you have a face-up "Abyss Actor" Pendulum Monster in your Extra Deck: You can return up to 2 cards on the field to the hand. You can only activate 1 "Abyss Script - Dramatic Story" per turn.
Abyss Script - Dramatic Story — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
The card's value is as an Abyss Actor engine piece: it converts one Pendulum body into a second Abyss Actor from the Deck and then places or destroys the targeted monster, which is a real starter-level conversion. Its interaction is conditional and narrow, since the bounce only triggers when the set card is destroyed by an opponent's card effect and needs a face-up Abyss Actor Pendulum in the Extra Deck. The high deck count (236 decks, 61.9% in one archetype) confirms it is a reliably played part of the engine, not that it is intrinsically strong, so the score stays in the middle band. No combo boards were supplied, so the conversion score rests on text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Played in 236 of the sampled decks at an average of 1.62 copies, with 100% co-occurrence with the core Abyss Actor partners, but it is a Set card that needs a Pendulum target on the field to be live (verified deck stats; card text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The effect Special Summons one Abyss Actor from the Deck and repositions or destroys the targeted Pendulum, a one-card body gain with no board-size evidence because combo data is empty (inferred from card text). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Net exchange is roughly even: the card is spent and a Deck monster is Special Summoned, which is a card-for-card trade with a small tempo gain (inferred from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The only opponent-facing effect is conditional, a bounce of up to 2 field cards that requires an opponent's effect to destroy it and an Extra Deck Abyss Actor Pendulum (verified card text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | A Spell card that never becomes material and does not contribute a monster body to the field beyond the Special Summon it resolves (verified card text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The bounce trigger gives some value when the set card is removed by an opponent's card effect, but it is a face-down backrow card with a once-per-turn name restriction (verified card text; inferred impact). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy-dominant (139 of 236 decks run one copy), no garnet or lock clause, and it fits a single-archetype build cleanly (verified deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Board breaker / Going-second. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Special Summons a second Abyss Actor monster from the Deck, which keeps the engine running from one Pendulum body
- Present in 236 sampled decks with 100% co-occurrence with the core Abyss Actor partners
- Low deckbuilding cost: one-copy-dominant, no garnet or lock clause
Weaknesses
- Needs an existing face-up Pendulum Abyss Actor target on the field to be live
- The bounce clause is conditional on an opponent's card effect destroying a face-down card and on an Extra Deck Abyss Actor Pendulum
- Once-per-turn name restriction limits repeated use
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or mass destruction on the face-down set card
- Opponent's negation on the Special Summon or the Pendulum target
Best use
Starter: Special Summon engine that places or destroys a Pendulum body for a second Abyss Actor. Decks: Abyss Actor (archetype 577), Abyss Actor (archetype 229). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Special Summon 1 Abyss Actor monster from Deck with a different name, then place the targeted monster in the Pendulum Zone or destroy it; Card text: conditional bounce of up to 2 field cards when destroyed by an opponent's card effect with an Extra Deck Abyss Actor Pendulum; Deck stats: 236 decks, average 1.62 copies, 139 decks at 1 copy
- Observed: Co-occurrence of 100% with the Abyss Actor core partners in the sampled decks; Usage statistics: 71.4% inclusion in the Abyss Actor archetype at typical 1 copy
- Inferred: Starter role from the Special Summon-from-Deck text, since no combo evidence was supplied; Roughly even resource exchange from card text alone
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter role are text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no ruling data for Pendulum Zone placement timing against the bounce clause