Spell
NormalFusion Recovery
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Target 1 "Polymerization" in your GY, and 1 monster in your GY that was used as material for a Fusion Summon; add them to your hand.
Fusion Recovery — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Fusion Recovery is a Normal Spell that returns one Polymerization from the GY plus one Fusion material from the GY to hand, so its main value is a net +1 card refuel that depends on the GY being pre-loaded. Its score comes from resource_economy and deckbuilding cost; it has no interaction and no material body of its own. The 400-deck sample (52.8% Predaplant, 76.8% with Fusion Recycling Plant) confirms it is a reliable, cheap single-slot in one engine, but its one recorded combo shows no starter, searched or material role for the card, so combo conversion is scored low. The Dark Magician and Amazoness deck counts are noted as breadth, not as evidence of power.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Not live in hand; needs Polymerization and a Fusion material already in the GY, and starter role and searched-for role are both 0 in the recorded combo (observed; GY-setup routes are inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The only combo (power index 91) has an empty combo role for this card, so its conversion is unproven and the score rests on text-level inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 75 | Spends one spell to return two cards, a net +1 from the GY (verified from card text; ~+1 per use is inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell with no material body; it only returns materials (verified from card text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A single GY-dependent spell that is weak to being negated and to GY setup loss; redundancy comes only from the 1.26 average copies (inferred from text and deck stats). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | One slot in 313 of 400 decks with 1.26 average copies; restricted to a Fusion-based shell but cheap to run (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Recovery/Recursion weights, no secondary blend (Searcher/Tutor not applied as a 0.3 blend). Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Refuels two cards from one spell, a net +1 card advantage
- Cheap single-slot inclusion in the dominant Predaplant shell
- Strong deck-partner pairing with Fusion Recycling Plant and Fusion Substitute
Weaknesses
- Needs Polymerization and a Fusion material in the GY before it can do anything
- No interaction, no board presence, no material body
- Only one recorded combo, with no starter or searched role for the card
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the spell itself (generic counter)
- GY hate or GY banish that removes the Polymerization or the material before use
Best use
Recovery of Polymerization and a Fusion material to hand, feeding the Fusion engine. Decks: Predaplant (main), Fusion-based Predaplant-adjacent builds. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: target 1 Polymerization in GY and 1 Fusion-material monster in GY, add both to hand; Predaplant is the dominant home at 52.8% of 400 decks; Copies average 1.26 with 313 of 400 decks running one copy
- Observed: Fusion Recycling Plant co-occurs in 76.8% of decks; The single recorded combo has starter role 0, searched-for role 0, material role 0; Usage statistics show 66.7% Predaplant inclusion at typical 1 copy
- Inferred: Net +1 card advantage per use (2 cards back for 1 spell); Accessibility is GY-dependent, so live use is not guaranteed in the opening hand; Fusion-specific text caps GenericUtility despite 29 archetypes
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Only one recorded combo, so combo conversion is weakly evidenced No rulings or once-per-turn clause data in the evidence pack