Spell
ContinuousHeavy Forward
Archetype:
Infinitrack
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When this card is activated: You can add 1 "Infinitrack" monster from your Deck to your hand. Once per turn: You can target 1 Machine Xyz Monster you control, then activate 1 of these effects; ● Change its battle position. ● Attach this card to it as material. You can only activate 1 "Heavy Forward" per turn.
Heavy Forward — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Heavy Forward reliably converts into a live Infinitrack monster search on activation and can attach itself as material to a Machine Xyz, so its value is a card-neutral search plus a material conversion that the combo sample confirms (60% of appearances as material). Its 0-point effect interaction and a Continuous Spell body that sits in one spell zone keep it low on resilience, and its ATK/DEF is 0 so none of its score comes from stats. The strong deck-level signal (79.5% of decks in gameplay 7, 3 copies typical, 32 distinct archetypes) confirms the card is a generic, low-cost staple for Machine Xyz builds rather than a standalone power card.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Searchable and castable from hand, run at 3 copies in 302 of 400 decks, but no combo board shows it as a searched or starter piece, so access to it is inferred from deck counts (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The search delivers an Infinitrack monster and the attach effect feeds a Machine Xyz, and the 5 sampled boards average power index 64.4 with 2 boss monsters in the top examples (inferred from text, observed in combos). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Spell-for-monster search is roughly card-neutral with quality gained, and the attach effect spends the card as material, so the economy is about even (inferred from text, verified by card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no opponent-facing effect; its only effects reposition or attach one of the player's own Machine Xyz monsters (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Attaching the card as material is its own once-per-turn effect and needs a Machine Xyz on board, and as_material appears in 3 of 5 combos, so the body converts to material in practice but only through its own activation (verified/observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The on-field part is a single Continuous Spell zone that generic spell removal can clear, and its once-per-turn attach needs the card to remain on field (inferred from text and card type). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | No garnet, lock or self-restriction beyond one-copy-per-turn; it is run at 3 copies in most decks with redundant copies acceptable (observed from copies_per_deck and usage_statistics). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Card-neutral search of an Infinitrack monster on activation
- Attaches to a Machine Xyz as material, which converts it to a body in combos
- Run in 79.5% of sampled decks with near-universal partner overlap
- Cheap, non-garnet slot that can run 3 copies
Weaknesses
- Search route is not reflected in combo tagging (0 as_searched)
- Single-zone Continuous Spell that is exposed on field
- Only one activation per turn limits redundancy
- Material use depends on a Machine Xyz already being on board
Counters / choke points
- No counter cards are evidenced in the pack; the card is exposed to generic spell removal or negation while it sits on field (inferred)
Best use
Search a Infinitrack monster and feed a Machine Xyz as material. Decks: Infinitrack, Machina, Train, Earth Machine. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: on activation search 1 Infinitrack monster from Deck to hand; Card text: once per turn target 1 Machine Xyz to change its battle position or attach this card as material; Card text: only 1 Heavy Forward per turn; Played in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 2.66 average copies
- Observed: as_material in 3 of 5 combo boards (60%); avg power index 64.4 across boards where the card appears; top partners at 80-96% co-occurrence; usage_statistics inclusion 60-100% across 5 archetype homes
- Inferred: Accessibility is good because the card is a 3-copy staple, not because a search route to it is recorded; Material conversion is conditional on a Machine Xyz on board; Generic spell removal is the main on-field exposure
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combo sample is only 5 boards, so combo scores are thin Zero as_searched entries despite an on-activation search effect, so the search route is not corroborated by combo tagging No rulings, top-card ranking or metagame sample in the pack