Spell
NormalGraceful Charity
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Draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards.
Graceful Charity — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53.6 · Deck: 54.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility
Why it scores here
Graceful Charity converts a hand into a better hand: draw 3, discard 2 is a reliable net +1 card with no board requirement, and the discards fuel the graveyard for GY-based decks. Its score comes from accessibility and resource economy; it builds no board, has no interaction, and cannot be material, so those axes stay low. Its presence in 400 recent decks confirms it is a staple, not that it is intrinsically strong (Guardrail 3), and ATK, rarity and view count earned nothing. A Forbidden-format penalty of −6 applies because legal copies is 0 in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 85 | Normal Spell playable from the opening hand with no searcher needed, and it appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Improves hand quality but builds no board, and no combo boards were recorded to show further conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 72 | Draw 3 then discard 2 is a net +1 card, and the discards refuel the graveyard (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap reach; it does not interact with the opponent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell with no level, attribute or body, so it cannot be used as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Dies to any spell negation with no recovery, but up to 3 copies per deck are observed for redundancy (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One copy per deck with no garnet or lock cost; legality is handled in the modifiers (verified text, observed copies). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default); no listed role fits a pure draw-and-discard spell. Intrinsic ≈ 53.6, Deck ≈ 54.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Forbidden-in-format (-6). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Reliable net +1 card in hand with no board requirement
- Discards refuel the graveyard for GY-based decks
- Highly portable: 78 distinct archetypes in the sample
- Clean one-copy deckbuilding with no garnet or lock
Weaknesses
- No board presence, interaction or material value
- Forbidden in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel per legal copies
- Pure card advantage; it converts nothing into a board on its own
Counters / choke points
- Spell negation (speculation: not in evidence)
Best use
Card-advantage draw and filter. Decks: Black Luster Soldier, Thunder Dragon, Monarch, Dark Magician. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards; legal copies: 0 in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel; 1 in GOAT
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks; 1 copy in 372 of them; Spread across 78 distinct archetypes; Top partners include Pot of Greed (89.5%) and Mirror Force (85.5%)
- Inferred: Net +1 card in hand with graveyard fuel from the discards; No board presence, so combo conversion is text-only
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference legal copies shows 0 in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel, yet 400 recent decks run it; the banlist status needs confirming No metagame or win-rate data, so Meta is null No rulings supplied No DuelLinks legal-copy value in the evidence top-card data is not ranked