Spell
ContinuousCynet Recovery
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If a Link Monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect: You can target 1 monster in your GY, except a Link Monster; Special Summon it in Defense Position. You can only use this effect of "Cynet Recovery" once per turn.
Cynet Recovery — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Cynet Recovery is a recurring, once-per-turn recursion engine: when a Link Monster you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect, it Special Summons a non-Link monster from your GY in Defense Position. Its score comes from that repeatable body recovery and its cheap one-copy footprint, not from any interaction or card advantage. The 43-deck sample and the Cynet partner cluster confirm it is a real, practical role, but the card does not convert its own cards into value, so it is not scored higher for being widely played.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Present in 43 of 43 sampled decks at 1.23 copies on average, but it only works once a Link Monster has been destroyed, so it is not live from the opening hand (observed; text-based inference for timing). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No combo boards were supplied, so the only conversion is one non-Link body returned to the field per trigger, which is a fair board with help rather than a full combo (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Recursion from the GY back to the field is repeatable once per turn, but it adds no card advantage and nothing is banished or searched (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect and provides no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Continuous Spell is never material, so this axis is essentially zero and the card cannot convert through material use (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It sits as a face-up Continuous Spell that spell and trap removal can answer, and its single once-per-turn trigger limits repeated use (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | One-copy average, no garnet or lock restriction, and a clean spell slot that is cheap to run in Cynet-style decks (observed from deck copies, inferred for the slot cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Recovery/Recursion only; no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable once-per-turn recovery of a non-Link monster from the GY to the field
- Cheap one-copy footprint with no garnet or lock restriction
- Consistently run across 43 sampled decks, with strong Cynet partner co-occurrence
Weaknesses
- Needs a Link Monster to be destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect; self-destruction does not trigger it
- Cannot revive Link Monsters, and the revived body enters in Defense Position only
- No combo evidence, so its conversion value is text-only and unverified
- Adds no card advantage or interaction
Counters / choke points
- Spell/trap removal or banishment aimed at the face-up Continuous Spell (inferred from text)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion. Decks: Cynet. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Link Monster destroyed by battle or opponent's card effect triggers a once-per-turn Defense Position Special Summon of a non-Link monster from the GY; Formats: TCG, OCG and MasterDuel
- Observed: 43 of 43 sampled decks run it, average 1.23 copies, 19 distinct archetypes; Cynet partners such as Backup Secretary (65.1%) and Cynet Storm (62.8%) co-occur with it
- Inferred: Recovery is a body-return effect, so its conversion is one body per trigger; Accessibility depends on a Link Monster being destroyed first, so it is not live from the opening hand
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no rulings supplied for the Link-destruction trigger window