Spell
QuickAssault Mode Zero
Archetype:
Assault Mode
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Tribute 1 Synchro Monster; Special Summon 1 "/Assault Mode" monster from your hand whose name includes the Tributed monster's name. (This is treated as a Special Summon with "Assault Mode Activate".) During your Main Phase: You can banish this card from your GY; Set 1 "Assault Mode Activate" directly from your hand or Deck. It can be activated this turn. You can only use each effect of "Assault Mode Zero" once per turn.
Assault Mode Zero — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52.6 · Deck: 58.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Assault Mode Zero is an engine starter: it tributes a Synchro to summon an Assault Mode monster from hand and, from the GY, sets Assault Mode Activate from the Deck, which gives the archetype a repeatable setup route. Its power comes from converting the Synchro and GY into the Activate, not from its own stats, which are not scored at all. The 149-deck sample (99.3% paired with Assault Mode Activate) confirms the role is real and practical, but the absence of recorded boards means the conversion figures rest on text and deck frequency rather than observed combos.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | Needs a Synchro monster on the field to Tribute, so it is not live from an opening hand; the GY-banish route makes it repeatable later in the turn (inferred from text, supported by 99.3% Activate pairing in decks). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Summons an Assault Mode monster and sets the Activate in one card, but there are zero recorded boards, so the conversion value is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Converts GY cards into a set Activate from the Deck (a deck-to-field gain) at the cost of a Tributed Synchro, a roughly even exchange (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No opponent interaction; it is a non-negating Quick-Play with no disruption effect (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card that cannot be used as material, so it contributes nothing as a body (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The GY effect survives the field being cleared, and the Deck-set Activate is recoverable, but the Quick-Play activation can be stopped by a single negation and each effect is once per turn (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Average 1.26 copies per deck with 118 of 149 decks running one copy, so it is cheap to run and needs no garnets (observed from deck sample). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher. Intrinsic ≈ 52.6, Deck ≈ 58.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable setup: the GY-banish effect sets Assault Mode Activate from the Deck (verified from text).
- Very high deck pairing with Assault Mode Activate at 99.3% of sampled decks (observed).
- Cheap to run: one copy in 118 of 149 decks (observed).
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked text: needs Assault Mode monsters and an Assault Mode Activate target (verified from text).
- Needs a Synchro to Tribute for the main effect, so it is weak without a Synchro on the field (verified from text).
- Zero recorded boards, so its combo conversion cannot be checked against real play (verified from data gaps).
Counters / choke points
- A single negation of the Quick-Play activation stops the card's main line (inferred from card type).
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler (engine starter with a secondary searcher and GY-recursion route). Decks: Assault Mode, Synchron, Resonator. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tribute 1 Synchro Monster to Special Summon an Assault Mode monster from hand (card text).; During Main Phase, banish from GY to set Assault Mode Activate from hand or Deck (card text).; Each effect is once per turn (card text).; Quick-Play Spell with no material use (card type).
- Observed: 149 decks, 99.3% paired with Assault Mode Activate (deck data).; 118 of 149 decks run one copy; average 1.26 (deck data).; 35 distinct archetypes, but 34.9% of decks are Assault Mode (deck data).
- Inferred: Repeatable setup route through the GY effect (text plus Activate pairing).; Single negation can stop the Quick-Play activation (card type).
- 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