Spell
NormalHammer Shot
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Destroy 1 face-up Attack Position monster with the highest ATK. (If it is a tie, you get to choose.)
Hammer Shot — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Hammer Shot is a one-card answer: it destroys the highest-ATK face-up Attack Position monster, which gives it real removal value in any archetype. It converts nothing into a board on its own and is a straight 1-for-1, so most of its score comes from interaction reach and from being a free, unrestricted slot. Its 62-deck presence across 38 archetypes is treated as confirmation that it is practical and portable, not as evidence that it is powerful; the ATK-based targeting and attack-position-only restriction are why it does not score higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Normal Spell that is live whenever drawn and appears in 62 of 62 sampled decks, but there is no combo or searcher data to show how reliably it is drawn (verified deck count; inference for the draw reliability). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Card text only destroys one monster and adds no board, and no combo boards are recorded for it (verified text; no combo evidence). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | A straight 1-for-1 spell with no recursion or refuel in the text, so card economy is roughly even (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Strong, flexible removal that hits any face-up Attack Position monster, but only the highest-ATK one and with tie choice, so it is situational and can be played around (verified text; inference on play-around). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card with no material or level role (verified frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Can be negated as a Spell, and only works while a face-up Attack Position monster exists with the highest ATK, so it is not multi-zone or multi-turn (verified text; inference on spell negation). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Normal Spell with no garnet, no lock and no restriction, and it is run in 1.21 copies on average, so it is cheap and redundant to run (verified deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Removal / Negation; no secondary weight blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free, unrestricted Normal Spell that is splashable and redundant in deck builds
- Generic removal that works across 38 archetypes
- Reliable answer to the highest-ATK face-up Attack Position monster
Weaknesses
- Only hits Attack Position monsters, not set or defense-position ones
- Only hits the single highest-ATK monster, so it misses the rest of the board
- Does not build any board or card advantage
Counters / choke points
- Set or defense-position monsters (verified from text: Attack Position only)
- Spell negation (inference: negates the Spell on activation)
- Lower-ATK fodder that shields the real threat from the highest-ATK targeting (inference)
Best use
Removal. Decks: Hole, Wind-Up, Synchron, Guardian, Gaia The Fierce Knight, Toon, Monarch, Armed Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Destroys 1 face-up Attack Position monster with the highest ATK, with tie choice (card text); Present in 62 of 62 sampled decks, average 1.21 copies, 38 distinct archetypes (deck evidence); Legal in all listed formats (card formats)
- Observed: Top partners include Mystical Space Typhoon (46.8%) and Solemn Judgment (33.9%) (deck evidence); Gameplay type 4 accounts for 50% of decks (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Playable as generic removal across archetypes (text plus deck spread); Can be played around with set monsters or fodder (text-based inference); Spell negation stops it (text-based inference)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only guides evidence is a single section mention with no role description