Spell
NormalAncient Gear Explosive
Archetype:
Ancient Gear
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Target 1 "Ancient Gear" monster you control; destroy it, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to half its original ATK.
Ancient Gear Explosive — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Ancient Gear Explosive is a single-copy Spell that trades one of your own Ancient Gear monsters for damage equal to half its original ATK, so it converts board presence into a finisher rather than card advantage or interaction. It sits in 46 of the 400 sampled decks at one copy each, with Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem appearing alongside it in 97.8% of those decks, which confirms a real, consistent home in the Ancient Gears and Machina lines. The high ATK of the monsters it can target does not earn points on its own; the score reflects that the card only pays off when a high-ATK body is already on the field, and that it provides no opponent interaction, no material value, and no recursion. No combo records exist, so combo conversion and starter access rest on text and deck inclusion alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Included as a single copy in 46 of 46 sampled decks, but no searcher or starter data exists to show how often it is drawn (deck evidence, observed; route inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Converts one of your own Ancient Gear monsters into damage equal to half its original ATK; no combo boards record it (card text, verified; combo output inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Costs a card and a monster to deal damage, with no draw, search, or recovery in the text (card text, verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | Destroys only your own monster and deals damage, so it provides no removal, negation, or hand-trap reach against the opponent (card text, verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | Spell card that is not a monster and cannot serve as material (card text, verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | A single Spell with no recursion or secondary zone use; it is dead without a live Ancient Gear monster to target (card text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | One copy per deck, no garnet or lock restriction, and co-occurs with a dominant partner in 97.8% of decks (deck evidence, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary Utility (default profile); secondary Recovery/Recursion not blended because its weights would not change the primary-role result materially and no recursion text exists. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, combos absent, meta unknown)
Strengths
- Consistent single-copy inclusion across 46 sampled decks with a dominant Golem partner
- Converts a high-ATK Ancient Gear monster into damage without needing a second card
- Cheap to run: one copy, no garnets or locks
Weaknesses
- Requires a live Ancient Gear monster you control, so it is dead in many hands and boards
- Costs a card and a monster for damage only, with no card advantage
- No opponent interaction, no material value, and no recursion
Counters / choke points
- Opponent monster removal or banishing that empties your board of Ancient Gear monsters
- Negation of the Spell at the moment it resolves
Best use
Finisher / damage source alongside high-ATK Ancient Gear monsters. Decks: Ancient Gears, Machina. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Target 1 Ancient Gear monster you control, destroy it, and inflict damage equal to half its original ATK (card text); Included as one copy in 46 sampled decks (deck evidence); Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem co-occurs in 97.8% of those decks (deck evidence)
- Observed: Dominant placement in Ancient Gears (37%) and Machina (32.6%) decks (deck evidence); Present in 69.6% of decks with gameplay type 7 (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Accessibility is moderate because no searcher or starter stats exist (inferred from absence of combo data); Damage output scales with the ATK of the targeted Ancient Gear monster (inferred from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter access are text-only inference no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion across archetypes is inferred from the 400-deck sample only legal copies lists only duellink = 0 with no TCG/OCG/MasterDuel values, so legality per format cannot be confirmed; no banlist modifier was applied one guide mention, and its snippet does not describe this card's role directly