DARK
4
8Harmonizing Magician
Archetype:
Magician
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
View:
6803
[ Pendulum Effect ] All monsters you control gain 100 ATK and DEF for each face-up "Magician" Pendulum Monster with different names in your Extra Deck. [ Monster Effect ] Cannot be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck. Cannot be used as material for a Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz Summon, unless all other materials are "Magician" Pendulum Monsters. When this card is Pendulum Summoned from the hand: You can Special Summon 1 "Magician" Pendulum Monster from your Deck in Defense Position, except "Harmonizing Magician", but negate its effects, also banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use this effect of "Harmonizing Magician" once per turn.
Harmonizing Magician — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Harmonizing Magician's value is a conditional extender: a hand Pendulum Summon that puts a Magician Pendulum monster from the Deck onto the field in Defense Position, plus a Pendulum-zone ATK/DEF buff scaled by distinct Magician Pendulum names in the Extra Deck. Its practical reach is confirmed by deck data (in 400 of 400 sampled decks, with Beyond the Pendulum as a 98.5% partner), but combo data is absent, so conversion is text-based and the score is held to the medium band. High ATK/DEF or the Extra Deck buff alone earned no points; the score rests on access, a body-producing effect, and low deck cost, while the self-negation and Extra Deck summon/material restrictions cap the rating.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Deck data shows the card in all 400 sampled decks at 1.66 copies on average, with Beyond the Pendulum and Astrograph Sorcerer as common partners, though no starter or searched counts exist to confirm live-in-hand rates (observed, with inferred routing). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The hand Pendulum Summon reliably puts one Magician Pendulum monster from the Deck onto the field, but no combo boards were supplied to verify the follow-up value (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The effect is a card-neutral deck-to-field body with no draw, refuel, or card advantage; the Pendulum-zone buff is a static bonus, not advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No opponent-facing negation or removal; the only negation applies to the monster it summons, which is self-directed (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 Dark Tuner usable as Synchro material, but Fusion, Synchro and Xyz use requires all other materials to be Magician Pendulum monsters (verified from text, with inferred usefulness). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The Pendulum-zone buff is a continuous effect with no redundancy, and the hand summon is one-shot and once per turn; no interaction or recovery data was supplied (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Plays 1 to 3 copies, carries no garnet or lock beyond the Extra Deck restriction, and is a generic staple in the Pendulum Magician shell with 25 distinct archetypes (observed from decks; restriction verified from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Extra Deck summon and material restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand Pendulum Summon puts a Magician Pendulum monster from the Deck onto the field, giving a body without spending a card
- Pendulum-zone ATK/DEF buff scales with distinct Magician Pendulum names in the Extra Deck
- Appears in all 400 sampled decks at low copy counts, so it is easy to run
- Level 4 Dark Tuner gives Synchro material options
Weaknesses
- Self-negates the Pendulum monster it summons and banishes it when it leaves the field, so the body has limited value
- Extra Deck summon and material restrictions limit its use outside Magician Pendulum builds
- No opponent interaction
- Deck inclusion depends heavily on Pendulum partners such as Beyond the Pendulum
Counters / choke points
- Floodgates or hand traps that stop Pendulum Summons from the hand
- Monster-effect negation on the summoned body (no supplied counter data)
Best use
Extender in Magician Pendulum builds, with Synchro material use. Decks: Pendulum Magician, Supreme King, Magician Girls, Odd-Eyes. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Pendulum scale 8, Level 4 Dark Tuner, Spellcaster; Hand Pendulum Summon effect puts a Magician Pendulum monster from the Deck in Defense Position, negated and banished on leaving; Cannot be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck; Fusion, Synchro and Xyz material restriction
- Observed: Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 1.66 average copies across 25 archetypes; Beyond the Pendulum co-occurs in 98.5% of decks; Pendulum Magician guides list the card as a core support piece
- Inferred: One-body extender role with card-neutral economy; Restriction and self-negation limit it to Magician Pendulum shells; Medium confidence because combo data is absent
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so conversion and starter/searched shares are text-based inference no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed as the legal limit no interaction or counter data to test resilience usage statistics covers 4 archetype rows only