Spell
ContinuousInfernity Launcher
Archetype:
Infernity
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Once per turn: You can send 1 "Infernity" monster from your hand to the Graveyard. You can send this card to the Graveyard, then target up to 2 "Infernity" monsters in your Graveyard; Special Summon them. You must have no cards in your hand to activate and to resolve this effect.
Infernity Launcher — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Infernity Launcher is a hand-empty engine: its text lets you send one Infernity monster from hand to the Graveyard, and send itself to the Graveyard to Special Summon up to two Infernity monsters from the Graveyard. That converts a restricted hand state into recursive bodies, which is why the card scores on recovery and extension rather than on ATK or on a single strong effect. It is in all 400 sampled decks at a 2.02 average copy count, but that frequency only confirms accessibility, not strength. The restriction that no cards may be in hand to activate or resolve is a real self-locking cost, so the deck-level score takes a modifier for it.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Live in 400/400 sampled decks at 2.02 copies on average, but the hand-empty requirement gates every activation (verified, observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 74 | Appears in 17/17 recorded boards with power index 100 and about 2 to 3 boss monsters, but the combo data does not tag this card's role, so attribution is partial (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The self-send plus two Graveyard summons is a net body gain for one card, and boards show netCardAdvantage 7, but that figure is not attributed to this card alone (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 8 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap text, so opponent interaction is essentially absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | It is a Spell Card and cannot be used as material; the Infernity monsters it summons carry the material value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two or three copies give redundancy, but a single opposing Continuous Spell answer or a hand that is not empty shuts it off (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Running 2 to 3 copies in an archetype-locked deck costs slots and forces a hand-empty game plan, which is a meaningful restriction (verified, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- In 400/400 sampled decks, so it is a reliable part of the Infernity line
- Turns an empty hand into two Graveyard summons, giving a recursive body count
- Works as a Continuous Spell with a repeatable once-per-turn hand send
Weaknesses
- Activation and resolution require zero cards in hand, which restricts use
- Gives no interaction, negation or removal on its own
- Has no material value because it is a Spell Card
Counters / choke points
- Opponent answers that remove or disable Continuous Spells (inferred, not named in evidence)
- Opponent answers that punish a Graveyard-based plan (inferred, not named in evidence)
Best use
Recovery / Recursion engine in hand-empty Infernity lines. Decks: Infernity (archetype 813), Infernity (archetype 42), Fiendsmith (archetype 1770) as a partner line. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: hand-to-GY send, self-send to Graveyard, and two Graveyard Special Summons with a no-cards-in-hand condition; Runs in 400/400 sampled decks at a 2.02 average copy count; Continuous Spell with no negation or removal text
- Observed: Appears in 17/17 recorded boards with average power index 100; Shows up in top partner lists alongside Infernity Archfiend and Infernity Necromancer
- Inferred: Recovery and extension role is inferred from the text and the Graveyard summon route, since combos do not tag roles; Hand-empty requirement reduces practical accessibility in non-Infernity decks
- Data gaps: Combo role tags (starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role) are all zero or empty, so the role split cannot be confirmed No counter or interaction data for this card Usage statistics cover only three Infernity archetype entries