Spell
FieldGateway to Chaos
Archetype:
Black Luster Soldier
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When this card is activated: Add 1 "Black Luster Soldier" Ritual Monster or 1 "Gaia The Fierce Knight" monster from your Deck to your hand. Each time a Monster Card(s) is sent from the hand or field to the GY, place 1 Spell Counter on this card for each of those cards (max. 6). Once per turn: You can remove 3 Spell Counters from this card; add 1 Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand. You can only activate 1 "Gateway to Chaos" per turn.
Gateway to Chaos — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Gateway to Chaos is a Field-type engine: on activation it fetches a Ritual monster or Gaia The Fierce Knight, and monsters sent to the GY from hand or field build Spell Counters that can be spent once per turn to tutor a Ritual Spell. That is real, repeatable card flow, so resource_economy and the searcher axis carry the score. Its high presence in the 400-deck sample (Ash Blossom at 90.8%) reflects staple status across 44 archetypes, not intrinsic power, so it earned no points for that. The card has no interaction, no material value, and no recorded combo boards, which keeps the score in the mid-50s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Hand-activated Spell with no recorded search route for itself; 1 copy in most decks, with partners showing it is routinely drawn (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Searches a Ritual monster or Gaia, but no combo boards or starter/payoff stats exist, so conversion past the search is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 65 | Monsters sent to the GY build counters (max 6), and 3 counters tutor a Ritual Spell once per turn, which is repeatable card flow (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or disruption in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell Card that is not a monster, so it provides no material body (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Its search is a deck-to-hand effect that hand traps of the Ash Blossom class can respond to, and the Field-type position persists across turns but is vulnerable to field removal (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy slot in most decks (avg 1.25 copies), with no garnet or self-lock (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable Ritual Spell tutor fed by GY monsters via counters
- Searches Black Luster Soldier, a Ritual boss, or Gaia The Fierce Knight
- Single-copy slot with no garnet or self-lock cost
Weaknesses
- No interaction, negation, or removal
- Not a monster, so no material or body value
- Tutor depends on owning Ritual monsters and Ritual Spells, so it is dead without that support
- Field-type position can be removed
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring-style hand traps can negate the search activation (inferred)
- Field removal or Field-destruction effects
Best use
Ritual-support tutor and counter engine. Decks: Black Luster Soldier, Gaia, Blue-Eyes, Gimmick Puppet, Primite. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Activation adds a Ritual monster or Gaia The Fierce Knight from Deck to hand; Monsters sent from hand or field to GY place counters, max 6; Once per turn: remove 3 counters to add a Ritual Spell from Deck; Race is Field, so the card persists on the field; Archetype is Black Luster Soldier
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, avg 1.25 copies, 44 distinct archetypes; Partners: Ash Blossom 90.8%, Called by the Grave 81%, Infinite Impermanence 78%; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 73% of decks
- Inferred: Ash Blossom-style hand traps can negate the search activation; Fetched Ritual monsters, once they are in hand, are the real payoff
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only the 400 decks are the sample that contains the card, not a random meta sample legal copies is empty