Trap
NormalAltergeist Revitalization
Archetype:
Altergeist
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Target 1 "Altergeist" Link Monster in your GY; Special Summon it. You can banish this card from your GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Altergeist" monster. You can only use 1 "Altergeist Revitalization" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Altergeist Revitalization — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 47 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
The card's text is a once-per-turn graveyard effect: it banishes itself from the GY to Special Summon an Altergeist Link monster from the GY, then Normal Summon an Altergeist monster. That converts a dead GY Link back into a board body plus a second body, which is a real recursion role. It is not live in an opening hand, has no interaction, and is not a material body, so it scores low on those axes. Its 352-deck presence (84.7% in the Altergeist archetype, 100% co-occurrence with the core Altergeist Links) confirms it is an engine piece that is consistently run, but that frequency is not used as a power driver. No combo data exists, so combo conversion is text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Only live when an Altergeist Link is already in the GY and the card is in the GY, with no hand or search route in the text (inferred; 352-deck presence confirms it is run, not that it is reliably reached). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text gives a two-body result (Special Summon a Link from the GY, then Normal Summon an Altergeist) but no combo boards were supplied (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Self-banish from the GY as cost returns one Link body and adds one Normal Summon, a roughly +1 net body with no draw or refuel (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Trap in the GY is not a material body, so the axis is near zero (verified from card text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Once-per-turn limit and dependence on a Link in the GY limit repeatability, though a GY-activated effect is not exposed to a hand-trap (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Runs 1 copy in 92% of decks (avg 1.09) at a single-archetype slot, a mild Altergeist-only restriction (observed from deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Recovery/Recursion, no blend (secondary Extender not applied to weights). Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 47, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a dead Altergeist Link in the GY into a board body and a Normal Summon
- Consistently run at 1 copy across 352 recent decks
- Low deckbuilding cost for a single-archetype engine piece
Weaknesses
- Requires an Altergeist Link already in the GY, so it is not live in an opening hand
- Once per turn, and no interaction or material value
- Archetype-locked, so it has no value outside Altergeist
Counters / choke points
- Opponent GY-targeting or banish effects that remove the Link before activation (inferred)
- Graveyard hate that removes the Link target (inferred)
Best use
GY recursion engine piece that adds a body after the Altergeist Link is in the GY. Decks: Altergeist. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once-per-turn GY effect that Special Summons an Altergeist Link from the GY and Normal Summons an Altergeist monster (card text); Present in 352 of the sampled decks, 1 copy in 92% (deck stats)
- Observed: 84.7% of sampled decks are Altergeist; 100% co-occurrence with the core Altergeist Links (deck stats)
- Inferred: The GY activation makes it live only after an Altergeist Link has already gone to the GY; Recovery/Recursion is the primary role; the combo corpus is empty, so the role is text-only
- 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 guide mention is archetype-general and does not name this card's role