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Tribute 1 face-up monster; Special Summon from your Deck, 1 monster with the same original Type and Attribute that the Tributed monster had on the field, but 1 Level lower. You can only activate 1 "Downbeat" per turn.
Downbeat — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Downbeat converts one face-up monster into a Deck monster one Level lower, so its value comes from the bodies it can reach, not from its own stats. Its presence in 127 of 127 sampled decks, with an average of 2.19 copies, confirms it is live and played, but deck frequency is not treated as power. The boards it appears in are strong (power index 100), yet no role was recorded for it, so starter credit is withheld. Being a Spell with no negation and a roughly even card economy keeps the score mid-range.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | 127 of 127 sampled decks run it, averaging 2.19 copies with 62 decks at 3 copies, but its starter and searched counts are both 0 (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | It appears in 6 of 6 recorded combos, with board power index 100 and 4 end monsters including 2 bosses, though combo role is empty (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Tribute 1 and Deck-summon 1 is roughly card-neutral on the board and costs one card from hand, so the economy is about even (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The text has no negation, removal, or search-based disruption, so the opponent-interaction contribution is negligible (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell cannot be used as material, and the body it summons is not itself the card being scored (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | It is a once-per-turn Spell needing a face-up monster and a matching Type and Attribute, so one negate ends it and it has limited spots (verified text, inferred impact). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | No garnet or lock is evident and it is run at 1 to 3 copies, but the matching-Type and matching-Attribute restriction narrows the homes it fits (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Present in every sampled deck that runs it, at high copy counts (observed)
- Boards it appears in are structurally strong (observed)
- Reaches a lower-Level Deck body from a single face-up monster (verified)
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction (verified)
- Once-per-turn and requires a face-up monster with matching Type and Attribute (verified)
- No recorded starter or searched role, so its own contribution is unproven (observed)
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Spell (inferred)
- Board removal before activation (inferred)
Best use
Extender. Decks: Infernity lines (Infernity Launcher, Infernity Sage, Infernity Archfiend partners). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Spell Card with the stated Tribute and Deck-summon text, once per turn; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; 127 of 127 sampled decks run it, average 2.19 copies
- Observed: Appears in 6 of 6 recorded combos; Board power index 100 across the three examples; Partner counts led by Transmodify (63%) and Infernity Archfiend (57.5%)
- Inferred: Primary role is Extender, with Combo enabler secondary; Card economy is roughly neutral; Practical homes are restricted to lines with matching Type and Attribute
- Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only combo combo role arrays empty, so starter and material credit cannot be assigned only 6 combos, a thin sample archetype field is null although deck archetypes are dominated by Infernity variants