Spell
ContinuousDark World Grimoire
Archetype:
Dark World
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During your End Phase, if you discard a monster(s) to the Graveyard because you had more cards than your hand size limit: You can target 1 of those monsters; Special Summon that target.
Dark World Grimoire — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 34 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 33 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Dark World Grimoire is a conditional recursion piece: it only Special Summons one monster from the Graveyard, and only when a monster was discarded at End Phase for exceeding the hand-size limit. The score stays low because that trigger is narrow and no combo or guide evidence shows it converting into board or advantage in practice. Its presence in 6 of 6 sampled decks, paired with Dark World staples, confirms it is a real, played card, but that frequency is not counted as power.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Live only after an overflow discard at End Phase, which is not a reliable opening-hand or mid-turn route; the 6-deck sample shows it is run (1.5 copies on average) but never tied to a search route in the evidence (verified text; observed deck count). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Converts one discarded monster into one board body, with no recorded combo boards or worked examples to show a larger payoff (inferred from text; no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Returns one monster from the Graveyard for no card cost, a modest refuel gated on the overflow condition (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The effect provides no negation, removal or hand-trap reach against the opponent (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Continuous Spell with no material, level or attribute value, so the body contribution is nil (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Sits face-up in the Spell/Trap zone and is exposed to backrow removal; the trigger can be starved if the hand never overflows (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Cheap to run at 1–2 copies with no garnet or lock restriction, but a dead card in hands that never overflow (observed copy distribution; inferred from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Recovery/Recursion profile; no secondary role blended. Intrinsic ≈ 33, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean, free recursion of a monster from the Graveyard with no card cost
- Cheap to run at 1–2 copies with no garnet or lock restriction
- Appears in both sampled Dark World and Danger! shells, so it has more than one home
Weaknesses
- Trigger requires a hand-size overflow discard at End Phase, which is conditional and not reliable
- Returns only one monster and adds no advantage beyond that body
- No interaction, no material value and no combo evidence showing a larger payoff
Counters / choke points
- Backrow or Spell/Trap removal on the face-up Continuous Spell (inferred from text)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion: conditional revival of a monster discarded at End Phase from hand-size overflow. Decks: Dark World, Danger!. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: End Phase revival of one monster discarded for hand-size overflow; Card type: Continuous Spell; no ATK, DEF, level or material value; Sample: 6 decks, 2 archetypes (Dark World 4, Danger! 2), 1.5 copies average
- Observed: Partner co-occurrence with Dark World staples at 66–100% of the 6 decks, which confirms the card is played but is not counted as power; No combo appearances, so no observed conversion data
- Inferred: The trigger is narrow and depends on hand overflow, so accessibility is conditional; Backrow removal can shut off the effect because the card stays face-up
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the 6-deck sample only no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) legal copies is empty for all formats format 7 is unnamed in the evidence no rulings or top-card ranking data