Spell
QuickDraco Face-Off
Archetype:
Dracoslayer
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Reveal 1 "Dracoslayer" Pendulum Monster and 1 "Dracoverlord" Pendulum Monster from your Deck, your opponent randomly picks 1 of them for you to place in your Pendulum Zone or Special Summon (your choice), and you add the other card to your Extra Deck face-up. You can only activate 1 "Draco Face-Off" per turn.
Draco Face-Off — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60.2 · Deck: 64.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Draco Face-Off is a Quick-Play that searches two Pendulum monsters from the Deck: the opponent picks one, which you place in the Pendulum Zone or Special Summon, and the other goes face-up to the Extra Deck. Its value is a reliable two-card search from a live hand, usable on the opponent's turn, and it is run in 276 recent decks at an average of 2.6 copies, so the access score is earned. Its ATK-free, non-interactive profile means it earns nothing on effect interaction or material utility, and the lack of combo records keeps the combo conversion score at a text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Live from hand as a Quick-Play, usable on the opponent's turn, and run in 276 of 276 sampled decks at 2.6 average copies (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text yields one Pendulum body plus one Extra Deck card, but no recorded boards exist to confirm further conversion (inference, no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 75 | The spell is spent for two cards of value, one to the field and one to the Extra Deck, a net gain of one card (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption effect (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | It is a non-monster spell and provides no material body (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | A single spell that a single negate can stop, with partial recovery from the once-per-turn rule and multiple zones of use (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Runs at up to three copies with no garnet, lock, or self-restriction in the text (verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 60.2, Deck ≈ 64.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two-card search from deck with the opponent picking one, so the outcome is partly out of the controller's hands
- Quick-Play timing lets it be used on the opponent's turn
- Present in 83.3% of sampled decks under the main gameplay type with a high partner rate
Weaknesses
- The random pick means the controller cannot choose which Pendulum they receive
- Entirely dependent on the Dracoslayer and Dracoverlord Pendulum engine being present
- Limited to one activation per turn
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the spell while it is on the chain
- Floodgates that stop searching from the Deck
Best use
Pendulum search engine that supplies one body and one Extra Deck card. Decks: Dracoslayer, Majespecter, Odd-Eyes. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Searches one Dracoslayer and one Dracoverlord Pendulum Monster from the Deck, the opponent picks which one you get, and the other is added to the Extra Deck face-up; Once per turn activation limit; Run in 276 decks, 2.6 average copies, 190 decks at 3 copies; 83.3% of decks under gameplay type 7
- Observed: Top partner co-occurrence of about 90% with Ignister Prominence and about 87% with Dinoster Power
- Inferred: Reliable access from hand because it is a Quick-Play; Net card gain of one from the two-card split; Vulnerable to a single negate because it is one spell
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is from the deck sample only format 7 is not mapped to a named format