Spell
ContinuousGearbreed
View:
3296
During your Draw Phase, instead of conducting your normal draw: You can add 1 Equip Spell from your Deck or GY to your hand. If you control an Equip Spell: You can place 1 FIRE Warrior monster or 1 Gemini monster from your GY on the bottom of your Deck; draw 1 card. You can only use each effect of "Gearbreed" once per turn.
Gearbreed — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Gearbreed converts its Draw Phase into a selective Equip Spell search, and once an Equip Spell is on the field it can also recycle a FIRE Warrior or Gemini from the GY into a draw, so its value is repeated, modest card selection rather than board presence. It is a Continuous Spell that must be live on the field before any of this works, which caps accessibility. Its ATK and DEF are zero, so no stat-based score is given, and the card earns its points from searching, refueling and cheap deck cost. The lack of combo evidence keeps the combo axis at a midrange value and holds confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Must be played to a spell zone before its Draw Phase effect is live, but deck evidence shows it in 29 decks across 16 archetypes at about 1.2 copies per deck (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No recorded combo boards exist, so conversion relies on the text: an Equip Spell search each turn with no stated board output (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The search replaces the normal draw and the GY-to-Deck draw costs one GY monster, which gives repeated selective card flow (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Neither effect negates, removes or hinders the opponent, so interaction is effectively absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell Card cannot be used as Xyz, Link or Fusion material, so the axis scores zero (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It is a single field card, so one Spell destruction ends its value; it recurs each Draw Phase while it stays on the field (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It runs at 1 to 2 copies with no garnet or lock restriction, but it depends on Equip Spells and FIRE Warrior or Gemini monsters being in the deck (verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Replaces the normal draw with an Equip Spell search each turn, which gives repeatable selection without a hand cost
- Second effect refuels the GY into a draw while an Equip Spell is present
- Cheap to run: one or two copies, no garnet or lock restriction
- Appears across 16 archetypes and both gameplay types in the sample
Weaknesses
- Scores zero on material utility and near zero on interaction
- Not live in the opening hand: it has to be played to a spell zone first
- Its value depends on Equip Spells and FIRE Warrior or Gemini monsters being present
- No recorded combo evidence, so the combo-conversion score is text-based inference
Counters / choke points
- Spell or Trap destruction targeting the Continuous Spell (inferred from card type)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for an Equip Spell each Draw Phase, with an optional GY-to-Deck refuel draw. Decks: Infernoble Knight, Elemental HERO, Red-Eyes. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Draw Phase: instead of the normal draw, add 1 Equip Spell from Deck or GY to hand; If an Equip Spell is controlled: place 1 FIRE Warrior or Gemini monster from GY on the bottom of the Deck and draw 1 card; Each effect may be used once per turn; Continuous Spell, so it is a field card and not a material
- Observed: Present in 29 of the attached decks, with 16 distinct archetypes; Copies per deck averaged 1.21 (23 decks at 1 copy, 6 at 2); Most frequent partner: Immortal Phoenix Gearfried in 48.3% of decks
- Inferred: The primary role is Searcher/Tutor because the Draw Phase effect searches Equip Spells every turn; Net card advantage is roughly even on the search, since it replaces a random draw with a selected Equip Spell; The Continuous Spell can be removed by Spell or Trap destruction
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no Equip Spell quality or hit-rate data, so the value of the search cannot be measured