Spell
NormalGladiator Proving Ground
Archetype:
Gladiator Beast
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Add 1 Level 4 or lower "Gladiator Beast" monster from your Deck to your hand.
Gladiator Proving Ground — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
The card is a one-for-one searcher that adds one Level 4 or lower Gladiator Beast monster from the Deck to hand. Its score comes from reliable access, since it runs in all 400 sampled decks at an average of 2.91 copies, and from clean deck-building cost, since it is a non-garnet Spell. It converts access into a body, not a board, and the combo evidence is empty, so the combo axis rests on text inference alone. High inclusion and deck counts confirm the card is consistently played, not that it is intrinsically strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 82 | Runs in 400/400 decks at 2.91 average copies, and the text gives a live Spell search (observed, verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards are supplied, so conversion is limited to the text's one-monster search (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Spending the card for one Deck monster is card-neutral, a roughly even trade (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified). |
| Material Utility | 25 | The card adds no material, and its searched monster's material value is outside this card's text (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It is a Spell in hand with no board presence, and partner data shows Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring co-appears in 83% of decks, a sign of opposing interaction (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | A 3-copy Spell with no garnet or lock restriction, run in nearly every sampled deck (verified, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Searcher/Tutor primary weights, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in 400/400 sampled decks at about three copies each
- Single Spell search to a Level 4 or lower Gladiator Beast monster, with no garnet cost
- Consistent inclusion across three archetype homes in the usage statistics
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked by its text, so it has no value outside Gladiator Beast
- Card-neutral and does not add board presence or interaction on its own
- No combo or guide evidence to confirm how it converts in practice
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (co-appears in 83% of decks, a common hand-trap answer to the searched line)
Best use
Searcher for the Gladiator Beast engine. Decks: Gladiator Beast (archetype 698), Gladiator Beast (archetype 242), Gladiator Beast (archetype 527). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Spell that adds one Level 4 or lower Gladiator Beast monster from Deck to hand; Runs in 400 of 400 decks at 2.91 average copies; Usage statistics show inclusion of 100%, 85.7% and 50% across three archetype homes
- Observed: Gladiator Beast Heraklinos co-appears in 94.2% of decks, the highest partner rate; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring co-appears in 83.0% of decks
- Inferred: Card-neutral trade, so resource economy is roughly even; Combo conversion is limited to a one-monster search, without board evidence
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed legal copies is empty, so per-format limits are unknown