Spell
QuickDedication through Light and Darkness
Archetype:
Dark Magician
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Tribute 1 "Dark Magician"; Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician of Chaos" from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard.
Dedication through Light and Darkness — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
The card is a Quick-Play Spell that converts one Dark Magician into Dark Magician of Chaos, drawn from hand, Deck or Graveyard. That is a real body upgrade with flexible sources, and 121 recent decks run it across 27 archetypes, but it is bound to Dark Magician support and gives no card advantage or interaction of its own. Its score comes from accessibility and a cheap, single-slot cost, not from its ATK or the Level of the monster it summons. No combo boards are supplied, so conversion is judged from text alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Summon source is hand, Deck or Graveyard and 121 decks run it, though it needs a Dark Magician on the field first (verified; 1.12 average copies per deck). |
| Combo & Conversion | 48 | Text converts one Dark Magician into Dark Magician of Chaos, a single-card upgrade, with no combo boards to confirm the follow-up (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Tributing Dark Magician and summoning Dark Magician of Chaos is roughly card-neutral, with recursion from the Graveyard but no draw or search (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 30 | It creates a body rather than being material itself, and it spends a Dark Magician that could otherwise serve as material (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | It is a Quick-Play Spell that can be responded to, and it needs a specific Dark Magician on the field, though it works from several zones (inferred from text and deck evidence). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | One copy in most decks, no garnet or lock, but it sits inside the Dark Magician package and is not splashable (observed in 121 decks; 1.12 average copies). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a Dark Magician into Dark Magician of Chaos from hand, Deck or Graveyard, giving multiple summon routes
- Cheap single-copy slot inside a widely run archetype (121 decks, 27 archetypes)
- Quick-Play timing allows responses during the opponent's turn
Weaknesses
- Requires a Dark Magician on the field, so it is dead without that body
- Gives no card advantage, search or interaction of its own
- Score is bound to Dark Magician support, so GenericUtility stays moderate despite the wide archetype spread
Counters / choke points
- Negating or responding to this Quick-Play Spell (inferred from text)
- Removing or banishing the Dark Magician before the Spell resolves (inferred from text)
Best use
Starter / Extender: converts a Dark Magician into Dark Magician of Chaos. Decks: Dark Magician archetype decks. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Tribute 1 Dark Magician; Special Summon 1 Dark Magician of Chaos from hand, Deck or Graveyard; Quick-Play Spell with no negation, removal or hand-trap effect; 121 of the sampled decks run it, average 1.12 copies, with Dark Magician of Chaos (95.9%) and Dark Magician (93.4%) as top partners
- Observed: Deck spread: 27 distinct archetypes; Dark Magician archetype 23.1% of decks; Gameplay type 7 in 51.2% of decks
- Inferred: Converts one Dark Magician into a Dark Magician of Chaos, a net body upgrade with roughly neutral card economy; Responses and negation are possible because it is a Quick-Play Spell; Sits inside the Dark Magician package; not splashable
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is from the deck sample only Dark Magician of Chaos's own effect text is not in the evidence pack no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no Top-Card ranking data supplied