Spell
ContinuousHysteric Sign
Archetype:
Harpie
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When this card is activated: Add 1 "Elegant Egotist" from your Deck or GY to your hand. During the End Phase, if this card is in the GY because it was sent there from the hand or field this turn: Add up to 3 "Harpie" cards with different names from each other from your Deck to your hand. You can only use 1 "Hysteric Sign" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Hysteric Sign — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 64 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 66 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter/Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Hysteric Sign scores as a Harpie-support searcher: its activation adds Elegant Egotist from Deck or GY, and its conditional End Phase effect can add up to three different Harpie cards, so it converts one card into several live pieces. It is present in all 400 sampled decks at a typical 3 copies, which confirms accessibility, but that frequency is not what earns the points. High ATK and rarity earn nothing here, and the score stays in the mid-60s because it has no interaction, no material value, and its value depends on Harpie being the deck's home. Combo evidence is absent, so combo conversion rests on the card text alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 88 | Present in 400/400 decks at an average of 2.75 copies, and the activation search reaches Elegant Egotist from Deck or GY (decks evidence, verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | No recorded boards exist, so the conversion of Egotist plus up to three Harpie searches is credited from text and the Harpie partner data only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 85 | One card yields an Egotist search on activation and up to three additional Harpie searches in the End Phase when its GY condition is met, which is clear card advantage (verified text, inferred magnitude). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so opponent interaction is essentially nil (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | It is a Continuous Spell with no material or level role, so it cannot contribute as material (verified card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY-conditional second effect and the shared once-per-turn limit leave it vulnerable to backrow destruction and to turns where the sent-from-hand condition is not met (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It is a 3-copy staple that mainly fits Harpie-type homes, with no garnet or lock cost but a real archetype dependence (observed partner and archetype data, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler (blended). Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 66, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two search effects from a single card, with the second reaching up to three Harpie cards
- Elegant Egotist is a fixed search target, making the search route reliable
- Present in 400/400 sampled decks, typically at 3 copies
- Clear, legible text with a single shared once-per-turn limit
Weaknesses
- Zero interaction or material value
- Continuous Spell is exposed to backrow removal
- The End Phase search is conditional on being sent to the GY from hand or field this turn
- Its strength is tied to Harpie-type homes
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or spell destruction, inferred from the card type (inferred)
- Opponent turns that keep the card from being sent to the GY from hand or field, which blanks the End Phase search (inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for Elegant Egotist and Harpie support, with a conditional End Phase bonus search. Decks: Harpie, Radiant Typhoon, Tri-Brigade, Simorgh, Traptrix. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: activation adds Elegant Egotist from Deck or GY to hand; End Phase conditional search of up to 3 different Harpie cards; one Hysteric Sign effect per turn; Card type is Continuous Spell, so it has no material role; Present in 400/400 decks, 335 of them at 3 copies
- Observed: Elegant Egotist co-occurs in 96.8% of sampled decks; Harpie archetype accounts for 56.8% of decks and 33 distinct archetypes appear overall; Usage statistics show 100% inclusion at 2 copies in Simorgh gameplay type 4
- Inferred: Search route reliability is high because the Egotist target is fixed; The End Phase bonus is conditional and therefore less reliable than the activation search; Deck resilience is moderate given the broad archetype spread but a Harpie-dependent text
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings supplied for the GY-conditional End Phase effect no Rush Duel max_atk (not applicable to this non-Rush card)