Trap
ContinuousAmazoness Hot Spring
Archetype:
Amazoness
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When this card is activated: You can take 1 "Amazoness" monster from your Deck, and either add it to your hand or (if it is a Pendulum Monster) place it in your Pendulum Zone. When you take battle damage while you control an "Amazoness" Monster Card: You can gain LP equal to the damage you took. You can only use this effect of "Amazoness Hot Spring" once per turn.
Amazoness Hot Spring — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 41 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Amazoness Hot Spring converts itself into one Amazoness monster on activation, which is a fair one-for-one search with no recorded combo evidence behind any larger board. Its ATK-free, text-driven value is capped by how narrow it is: every legal target is an Amazoness monster, and the card does nothing to the opponent. Its strong deck score comes from near-universal inclusion in the Amazoness archetype (168 decks, 85.7% in one archetype, 100% inclusion in usage statistics at one copy), not from the card being intrinsically powerful.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set-and-activate trap that must be drawn; reaches the field from hand and is confirmed in 168 decks at about 1.45 copies on average, but no searcher route in the evidence (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Searches one Amazoness monster on activation, a single-card conversion with no combos_evidence to show a larger board (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Trap for monster is card-neutral, so there is no net advantage; LP gain on battle damage is a small extra (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A trap card that is not a monster, so it is never material (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Continuous trap sits on the field and can be removed by backrow answers; the LP effect is limited to once per turn (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One-copy slot in an archetype-locked deck with no garnet or lock; usage data shows typical copies of 1 (observed from usage_statistics). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Utility blend (secondary role Utility). Intrinsic ≈ 41, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- One-card search of an Amazoness monster on activation, including Pendulum placement when the target is a Pendulum Monster
- LP gain tied to battle damage while an Amazoness monster is controlled
- Near-universal inclusion in its home archetype at a single copy
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked: every legal search target is an Amazoness monster
- Trap must be set before activation, so it is slower than a hand searcher
- No combo, starter, or material data recorded; the role is text-only
- Continuous trap is exposed to backrow removal
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or destruction of continuous traps (inferred; not in evidence)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor: one Amazoness monster per activation, with LP gain as a secondary effect. Decks: Amazoness (archetype 815). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: on activation, take one Amazoness monster from the Deck to hand, or to the Pendulum Zone if it is a Pendulum Monster; Card text: gain LP equal to battle damage taken while controlling an Amazoness monster, once per turn; 168 decks; 144 (85.7%) in Amazoness archetype 815; 100% inclusion in usage_statistics for archetype 815 at 1 copy
- Observed: Average 1.45 copies per deck (93 decks at 1, 74 at 2, 1 at 3); Amazoness Princess, War Chief, Call and other archetype cards appear in 100% of its decks
- Inferred: The search is the card's main value route; the once-per-turn limit is read as applying to the LP effect (its position in the text); Backrow removal is the common way to answer a continuous trap
- Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No rulings supplied for the once-per-turn wording or the Pendulum Zone placement