DARK
5Dark Summoning Beast
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0
DEF:
0
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You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames", "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder", or "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms" from your hand or Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions, also monsters you control cannot attack for the rest of this turn. You can only use this effect of "Dark Summoning Beast" once per turn. You can banish this card from your Graveyard; add 1 "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames", "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder", or "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms" from your Deck to your hand.
Dark Summoning Beast — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 64 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 67 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Dark Summoning Beast converts one body into a Special Summon of Uria, Hamon, or Raviel, ignoring summoning conditions, and its graveyard effect returns one of those three to hand from the Deck. Those named targets are the real payoff, and the 400-deck sample confirms the card is run as a live enabler: 98.8% of its decks also run Dark Beckoning Beast, and 78-96% run each of the three Lords. The score is held down by the absence of combo data, the narrow three-target scope, and the lack of any opponent interaction; the high archetype spread and deck share earn only modest credit.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Live in 400 of 400 sampled decks with 1.86 average copies, and paired with Dark Beckoning Beast in 98.8% of them, but no combo starter or search counts exist to confirm the in-hand route (observed deck stats; route inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | Text converts one card into a Special Summon of one of three named Lord monsters that ignore summoning conditions, with Lord co-occurrence at 78-96% in decks (verified text, observed partner stats; no board examples, so inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Self-Tribute for a Special Summon is roughly card-neutral, and the graveyard banish adds one of the three Lords from Deck, a modest refuel (verified text; no netCardAdvantage data, so inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Its only restriction stops its own side's monsters from attacking this turn, and it offers no opponent-facing negation or removal (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 5 DARK Fiend body is usable as material, but no combo material counts exist and the card is largely consumed as a Tribute (inferred from text and level). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two effects work from separate zones, the Deck/hand summon and the graveyard banish, but each is once per turn and no interaction-survival data exists (verified text; resilience inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Single-copy typical use with 1-3 copies across decks and no garnet or lock text, but the card only pays off with three named Lord targets (verified text, deck distribution; restriction inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Searcher / Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 67, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts one card into a Special Summon of a large Lord monster that ignores summoning conditions
- Graveyard banish returns one of those three Lords from Deck to hand, giving a second use
- Near-universal deck presence (400 of 400 sampled decks) with strong partner pairing
Weaknesses
- Only three named targets, so the effect is narrow
- Self-attack lock on own monsters for the turn is a real cost
- No opponent interaction and no combo or board data to confirm conversion
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps or on-summon negation that stop the Special Summon
- Sending the Lord targets away before the summon resolves
Best use
Starter / Lord-summon enabler. Decks: Sacred Beast, Yubel, Phantasm Spiral, Danger!, Fiendsmith. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Tribute this card to Special Summon one of Uria, Hamon, or Raviel from hand or Deck, ignoring summoning conditions; Text: monsters you control cannot attack for the rest of the turn; Text: banish from graveyard to add one of the three Lords from Deck to hand; Text: each effect is once per turn; Deck evidence: 400 of 400 decks run it, 1.86 average copies, 36 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Partner rates: Dark Beckoning Beast 98.8%, Hamon 95.8%, Raviel 86.8%, Uria 78.5%; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Sacred Beast gameplay with typical 1 copy
- Inferred: The hand/Deck summon route is practical given deck presence and the three-target design; Combo conversion is high because the summoned Lords are large bodies (text-only; no board data); Resilience is moderate because two once-per-turn effects use separate zones
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited)