Spell
FieldChaos Zone
Archetype:
Chaos
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Each time a monster(s) is banished, place 1 Chaos Counter on this card for each of those monsters. Once per turn: You can remove 4 or more Chaos Counters from your field, then target 1 banished monster with a Level equal to the number removed; Special Summon that target. When this card on the field is sent to the GY by your opponent's card effect: You can add 1 LIGHT or DARK monster from your Deck to your hand, whose Level is less than or equal to the number of Chaos Counters that were on this card.
Chaos Zone — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Searcher / Tutor
Why it scores here
Chaos Zone is a Field Spell that turns banished monsters into Chaos Counters, then spends those counters to Special Summon a banished monster of matching Level, and it can search a LIGHT or DARK monster when an opponent's effect sends it to the GY. Its score comes from that recovery loop (resource_economy and recursion) and from its real presence in 91 decks, 50 of them D/D/D. It has no interaction, no material value, and no combo evidence, so its score stays near the middle. High stats earn nothing here: the card is a conditional engine, not a body.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Present in 91 of the sample decks, with top partners such as Foolish Burial at 79%, but a Field Spell has no direct search and needs a banish setup first (inferred from text and deck stats). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | No combo data rows exist, so the loop of banishing, counting and summoning is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Each banish-triggered counter set and the counter-cost Special Summon give repeated value, and the GY-trigger search adds a card when it is sent away (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | It is a Spell Card with no material value (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A Field Spell is vulnerable to field-destruction effects, and its GY trigger only fires on an opponent's effect (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a 3-copy staple at an average of 2.33 copies per deck, with no garnet or lock restriction (observed from deck copies distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts banished monsters into a recurring Special Summon loop
- Adds a search on opponent-triggered GY send
- Broadly played in D/D/D and across 22 archetypes
- Cheap to run at about 2.3 copies per deck with no garnet
Weaknesses
- Needs a banish setup before it can do anything
- Field Spell is vulnerable to field destruction
- Zero interaction and zero material value
- No combo evidence supplied to confirm the loop in practice
Counters / choke points
- Field-destruction or field-removal effects
- Opponents who avoid sending the card to the GY
Best use
Recursion engine that spends banished monsters for a Special Summon, plus a conditional search. Decks: D/D/D, Chaos Phantom, Black Luster Soldier.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: banish triggers Chaos Counters, a once-per-turn 4+ counter cost for a banished-monster Special Summon, and a LIGHT/DARK search when opponent's effect sends it to GY; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; Deck count 91, 50 in D/D/D (54.9%)
- Observed: Average 2.33 copies per deck; 55 decks run 3 copies; Top partners Foolish Burial 79.1%, Necroface 72.5%
- Inferred: Loop is only realistic in banish-heavy decks; Recovery/Recursion is the primary role, Searcher secondary
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only