Spell
NormalDrytron Eclipse
Archetype:
Drytron
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Target 1 "Drytron" monster in your GY; add it to your hand. During your Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 "Drytron" monster you control; it gains 2000 ATK until the end of your opponent's turn. You can only use each effect of "Drytron Eclipse" once per turn.
Drytron Eclipse — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 53.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Drytron Eclipse is a recursion spell: its first effect returns a Drytron monster from the Graveyard to hand, and its second effect banishes itself from the GY to give a Drytron monster +2000 ATK through the opponent's turn. It is played in 62 sampled decks (about 56% in the main Drytron archetype, 100% alongside several Drytron partners), which confirms it is a live, practical support card. No combo boards were supplied, so conversion is text-only inference and scores moderately; the card's effects are Drytron-locked, which caps its portability.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Usable from hand with a Drytron monster in the GY; co-occurs with the Drytron engine in 62/62 sampled decks, but no combo starter data exists (inferred, observed deck frequency). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Text-only: recovers one Drytron monster and gives a +2000 ATK pump; no combo boards supplied to confirm conversion depth (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 65 | Recovers a monster for one card and the GY banish effect is a cost-based pump rather than extra card advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card, so it is never material and offers no level or attribute body (verified from card frame). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Two once-per-turn effects spanning hand and GY; the GY effect survives a hand-level interaction, but a Spell is still negatable (inferred from text and rules). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically 1 copy per deck with no garnet or lock, but it needs Drytron-named targets, which constrains splashing (observed in decks, avg 1.31 copies). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 53.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recovers a Drytron monster from the GY to hand for one card
- Repeatable pump via GY banish, usable as a cost-light follow-up
- Near-universal inclusion across the sampled Drytron decks (62 of 62 contain the engine's partners)
Weaknesses
- Requires a Drytron monster in the GY and a Drytron target on the field
- Spell card with no material or interaction value
- No combo evidence to confirm conversion depth
Counters / choke points
- Spell negation (text-level inference, no interaction data supplied)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion support for the Drytron engine. Decks: Drytron. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect 1: add a Drytron monster from GY to hand (card text); Effect 2: banish from GY to give +2000 ATK until end of opponent's turn (card text); Once-per-turn limit on each effect (card text); Spell card, no material value (card frame)
- Observed: Present in 62 of the sampled decks, 56.5% in archetype 726 (deck data); Avg 1.31 copies per deck (deck data); Co-occurs with Drytron partners in 91-100% of decks (deck data)
- Inferred: Recursion-first role, with GY pump as a secondary use (text reading); Accessibility depends on a Drytron monster being in the GY (text reading)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no starter count data for deck resilience