DARK
6
8Chronograph Sorcerer
Archetype:
Magician
ATK:
2000
DEF:
1700
View:
6409
[ Pendulum Effect ] During your Main Phase: You can destroy this card, and if you do, take 1 "Timegazer Magician" from your hand or Deck, and either place it in your Pendulum Zone or Special Summon it. You can only use this effect of "Chronograph Sorcerer" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If a card(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then you can Special Summon 1 monster from your hand. You can banish this card you control, plus 4 monsters from your hand, field, and/or GY (1 each with "Pendulum Dragon", "Xyz Dragon", "Synchro Dragon", and "Fusion Dragon" in their names); Special Summon 1 "Supreme King Z-ARC" from your Extra Deck. (This is treated as a Fusion Summon.)
Chronograph Sorcerer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 68 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 64 · Deck: 70 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor, Boss/End-board enabler
Why it scores here
Chronograph Sorcerer reliably converts a Pendulum-zone or hand presence into board presence: its Pendulum effect trades itself for a Timegazer Magician placed in the Pendulum Zone or summoned, and its monster effect Special Summons itself from hand when your cards are destroyed. Its main ceiling is the banish-self-plus-four-Dragons cost that Fusion Summons Supreme King Z-ARC, which gives it boss-level payoff. The 1500-to-2000 ATK body earns nothing by itself; the points come from its 400-of-400 deck presence, its partner network, and its enabling role. No combo data exists, so conversion is scored from text and deck evidence only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Present in all 400 sampled decks at 1.65 average copies, and reachable by hand Special Summon and by Timegazer Magician placement (observed; hand/Pendulum routes verified from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | Its Fusion route to Supreme King Z-ARC is a verified text-level payoff, but no recorded boards measure it, so the score rests on text plus deck partners (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The Pendulum effect is a self-destroy that nets one Timegazer Magician, and the monster effect adds one more Special Summon, but the Fusion route costs five cards (verified text, inferred balance). |
| Effect & Interaction | 8 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect of its own, so interaction is essentially absent (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 6 Dark Spellcaster is a usable body, but its Fusion route banishes it as a cost rather than using it as material (verified from text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | The hand Special Summon works across hand and field trigger points, and a Timegazer route gives a second zone, yet a single negate of the trigger can stop it (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It is a 1-to-3-copy Pendulum staple inside Magician-family decks with no garnet or lock restriction (observed copy distribution, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 64, Deck ≈ 70, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Places Timegazer Magician into the Pendulum Zone or Special Summons it from the Deck or hand, giving a second Pendulum-zone body
- Special Summons itself from hand when your cards are destroyed, so it is live in hand-based lines
- Fusion route banishes itself plus four Dragon monsters to Special Summon Supreme King Z-ARC from the Extra Deck, a boss-level payoff
- Present in all 400 sampled decks across 31 distinct archetypes, showing a portable enabler
- Strong deck synergy: 98% with Astrograph Sorcerer, 95.5% with Beyond the Pendulum, 92.2% with Exceed the Pendulum
Weaknesses
- The Pendulum effect costs the card itself and is once per turn by name
- The Fusion route needs four specific Dragon-named monsters plus the card itself, so it is demanding to set up
- No recorded combo boards, so real conversion efficiency is unmeasured
- Zero interaction: it gives no negation, removal or disruption
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring can respond to the hand Special Summon if the opponent chains them (inferred from text; the partner data shows players run such hand traps alongside it)
- Once the card is on the field, board removal or a single negate on the Fusion effect ends the boss-level payoff (inferred from text)
Best use
Starter / Pendulum body and Supreme King Fusion enabler. Decks: Supreme King, Odd-Eyes, Performapal, Magician Girls, Pendulum Magician. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Pendulum effect: self-destroy to place or Special Summon Timegazer Magician from hand or Deck, once per turn (card text); Monster effect: Special Summon from hand when your cards are destroyed by battle or effect (card text); Fusion route: banish itself plus four Dragon-named monsters to Special Summon Supreme King Z-ARC from the Extra Deck (card text); Level 6 Dark Spellcaster Pendulum with scale 8 and ATK 2000 / DEF 1700 (card data)
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, averaging 1.65 copies, with 224 decks at 1 copy, 91 at 2 and 85 at 3 (deck evidence); Spans 31 distinct archetypes; largest are Odd-Eyes 19.2%, Performapal 13.2% and Supreme King 12.5% (deck evidence); Top partners: Astrograph Sorcerer 98%, Beyond the Pendulum 95.5%, Exceed the Pendulum 92.2% (deck evidence); 93.5% of decks are in gameplay type 7 (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Accessibility is high because the card is in every sampled deck and has a hand Special Summon route; Combo conversion is judged from text, since combo evidence is absent; Fusion route to Z-ARC is treated as a boss-level payoff, but its cost makes it hard to reach consistently; Interaction is near zero because the card has no negation or removal effect
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion, starter/material shares and power index are text-only inference no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings data supplied for the Pendulum and Fusion interactions no dated metagame sample, so meta_power is null