Bond Between Teacher and Student

Bond Between Teacher and Student — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter / Combo enabler

Why it scores here

The card's power is a conditional engine: while Dark Magician is on the field it Special Summons Dark Magician Girl from hand, Deck, or GY and Sets one of four named Spells from the Deck, so it converts a Dark Magician board into an extra body plus a delayed spell at no card cost. The score is held down by the Dark Magician requirement, which makes it dead outside that core, and by the absence of any combo or guide data to show what the board looks like in practice. The high deck count (400 of 400 sampled decks) is a selection artifact of decks chosen for containing the card, so it confirms the card is live in its home, not that it is strong; the 36 distinct archetypes are also Dark Magician-adjacent and do not make the text generic.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter / Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Dark Magician dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Converts a Dark Magician board into an extra body (Dark Magician Girl) with no card cost
• Sets a delayed Spell from Deck, adding card presence without spending a hand card on it
• One copy in almost every deck, so it is cheap to run inside its home
• Four distinct Spell targets give some redundancy

Weaknesses

• Dead without Dark Magician on the field, so it cannot be used outside that core
• No opponent interaction of any kind
• A Spell, so it contributes nothing as material
• No combo or guide evidence to confirm what it does on a real board

Counters / choke points

• Hand traps that respond to the activation or the Special Summon, such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred from text: the effect is a Special Summon and a Deck-to-field placement)
• Negation of the Spell activation, which ends the whole effect in one response (inferred from text)

Best use

Searcher/Tutor that places a Dark Magic Spell from Deck while summoning Dark Magician Girl, inside a Dark Magician core. Decks: Dark Magician, Magician Girls, Shining Sarcophagus. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Effect text: if you control Dark Magician, Special Summon Dark Magician Girl from hand, Deck, or GY, then Set 1 of four named Spells from Deck; once per turn; Spell card, no material use, no negation text; Copies: 395 of 400 decks run 1 copy
• Observed: Present in all 400 sampled decks (selection artifact, not an inclusion rate); Dark Magician Girl (99%), Magician's Rod (98%), and Dark Magician (97.8%) are the top co-decks; Spread across 36 archetypes, all Dark Magician-adjacent
• Inferred: Searcher/Tutor primary role: a Deck-to-field placement of a named Spell; Hand traps that respond to the activation are a realistic interaction route; Low generic utility because the text names Dark Magician directly
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only the 400-deck sample appears to be decks that contain the card, so 100% inclusion is not a usable rate no rulings or timing data for the Set-from-Deck clause