Spell
QuickDestruction Swordsman Fusion
Archetype:
Destruction Sword
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Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster that lists "Buster Blader" as Material from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or either side of the field as Fusion Materials. If this card is in your Graveyard: You can send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Destruction Swordsman Fusion" once per turn.
Destruction Swordsman Fusion — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54.2 · Deck: 59.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Destruction Swordsman Fusion reliably converts Buster Blader material from hand or field into a Fusion body from the Extra Deck, and its graveyard effect returns it to hand for a one-for-one recursion. The score is held down by the absence of any opponent interaction, the lack of recorded combo boards, and its dependence on the Buster Blader Fusion route. High deck inclusion (400 of 400 sampled decks, 1.24 copies on average) confirms that the card is a consistent home-archetype piece, not that it is intrinsically strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Quick-Play Spell live from hand with Buster Blader as the required Fusion material, and it runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks (observed; live-route wording is verified from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | The text converts one card plus Buster Blader material into one Fusion Monster, but no combo boards are recorded, so the board-level payoff is unmeasured (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The graveyard effect costs one card from hand to return itself, a roughly even one-for-one refuel with no net card gain (verified from text, inferred for balance). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it gives the opponent no interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Quick-Play Spell cannot be used as material, so only the default body-value floor applies (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | The graveyard effect lets it recover from the graveyard once per turn, giving some redundancy across zones and turns, but it is exposed to spell-negation on activation (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Single-copy slot usage (331 of 400 decks run one copy) with no garnet or lock, but it is tied to Buster Blader Fusion targets (observed deck stats plus verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 54.2, Deck ≈ 59.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts Buster Blader material into a Fusion body from hand or field
- Graveyard effect recovers the card itself for a one-for-one exchange
- Cheap single-copy slot with a live route in most Buster Blader builds
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect of its own
- Requires Buster Blader on board or in hand, so it is dead outside that route
- No recorded combo boards to confirm its real conversion rate
Counters / choke points
- Generic spell-negation or hand-trap responses to its activation (inferred from text, not from combo evidence)
- Graveyard hate that removes it before its recursion effect can be used (inferred from text)
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler on the Buster Blader Fusion route, with graveyard recursion. Decks: Buster Blader, Destruction Sword. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Quick-Play Spell with a Fusion Summon effect that lists Buster Blader as material from hand or either side of the field; Graveyard effect: send 1 card from hand to the Graveyard to add this card to hand, once per turn; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks with an average of 1.24 copies
- Observed: Top partners: Buster Blader Fusion (97.5%) and Buster Dragon (96%); Archetype spread across 54 distinct archetype ids, led by Buster Blader (20.8%)
- Inferred: Acts as the starter for the Buster Blader Fusion route; Graveyard recursion gives one-for-one redundancy; Vulnerable to spell-negation on activation
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only average starter count when present is unavailable, so DeckResilience is estimated from archetype spread