Spell
NormalHidden Armory
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Send the top card of your Deck to the GY; add 1 Equip Spell from your Deck or GY to your hand. You cannot Normal Summon/Set the turn you activate this card.
Hidden Armory — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Hidden Armory is a Normal Spell that mills the top card of the Deck and searches one Equip Spell from Deck or GY, so it converts a card in hand into another card of the same category with no board presence of its own. Its score comes from reliable access (3 copies in 247 of 400 sampled decks, 52 distinct archetypes) and an even card-count exchange, not from any board impact. The Normal Summon/Set lock on its activation turn is a real but small cost, and the lack of combo, material or interaction evidence keeps the combo, material and effect axes low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Spell with 2.46 average copies across 400 sampled decks, present in every sampled deck, so it is consistently live in hand (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards recorded (0 appearances); the text only fetches an Equip Spell, which does not build a board by itself (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 58 | Spends itself to search one card, so the hand count is even, but it also mills one card from the Deck, which is a small deck-size cost (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | Spells cannot be used as Xyz, Synchro, Fusion or Link material, so the body contributes nothing (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Usable only on a turn with no Normal Summon/Set restriction and it has no recursion; it is dead in turns where it cannot be activated (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Three-copy spell with no garnet or lock, but the Normal Summon/Set restriction on its activation turn is a mild self-restriction (verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Searcher / Tutor primary, no secondary role; 0.7/0.3 blend not applied. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-restriction on Normal Summon/Set (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Consistently included in the sampled Mikanko-heavy deck pool, with 52 distinct archetypes in the sample
- Even card-count exchange: one card in, one Equip Spell out, with a small Deck mill cost
- Searches from Deck or GY, so the equip target can be recovered from the GY
Weaknesses
- No combo or board evidence, so its contribution to a winning line is unverified
- Equip Spell target only: its value depends entirely on which Equip Spells the deck runs
- No material, interaction or recursion value
- Activation-turn Normal Summon/Set lock limits its use in some turns
Counters / choke points
- No specific counter data in the evidence; disruption of the searched Equip Spell or the Deck itself would reduce its value (inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for Equip Spells. Decks: Mikanko (sampled decks, highest archetype counts), Double-Edged Sword shell (Equip Spell partner co-occurs in 233 sampled decks). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Searches one Equip Spell from Deck or GY to hand (card text); Mills the top card of the Deck (card text); Cannot Normal Summon/Set the turn it is activated (card text); Spell card, so it cannot be Extra Deck material (card type); Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 2.46 average copies (deck data)
- Observed: Double-Edged Sword co-occurs in 233 of 400 sampled decks (deck data top partners); Distinct archetypes in the sample: 52 (deck data)
- Inferred: Its practical value depends on which Equip Spells the deck runs; Limited turn-to-turn use due to the Normal Summon/Set lock
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, which may reflect the Mikanko-heavy sample rather than general inclusion no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no per-deck Equip Spell list, so the strength of the search target cannot be measured