DARK
2Infernity Sage
Archetype:
Infernity
ATK:
400
DEF:
800
View:
5003
During your Main Phase: You can discard your entire hand. If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 "Infernity" monster from your Deck to the GY. You must have no cards in your hand to activate and to resolve this effect. You can only use each effect of "Infernity Sage" once per turn.
Infernity Sage — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Infernity Sage is a Level 2 DARK Tuner whose value is as the enabler of the Infernity handless engine: its Main Phase effect empties the hand, which lets its GY effect send another Infernity monster to the GY. It is in all 400 sampled decks and in every recorded board, which confirms it is a live, central piece of the line. The score is held down because it provides almost no interaction, its effects carry a self-locking empty-hand requirement, and the combo data records no starter, searched or payoff role for it, so its conversion is inferred rather than shown. Its 400 ATK and 800 DEF earn nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Present in 400 of 400 decks at an average of 1.5 copies, with Infernity Archfiend and Launcher as near-universal partners, but no searcher or starter role is recorded in combos (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | Appears in 16 of 16 recorded combos at a power index of 100, with boards of 3 bosses and 4 end monsters, yet role_in_combo is empty, so its exact conversion step is inferred (observed/inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Board netCardAdvantage is +6 to +7 across the examples, but the card's own GY effect is a deck-to-GY send with no card gain and its hand discard is a cost, so the value is largely the engine's (observed/inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in its text; the only opponent-facing value is the disruption subscore of 2 to 12 in examples (verified/observed). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 2 DARK Fiend Tuner is a clean Synchro tuner, but no as_material count is recorded in the combo evidence, so this is inferred from text (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Two once-per-turn effects with an empty-hand requirement, and the GY trigger needs the card to reach the GY, so it is fragile to hand-based timing (verified/inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | No garnet or banlist token and 1.5 copies on average, but the empty-hand requirement restricts the whole deck to a handless style (verified/inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in all 400 sampled decks, with stable partners
- Empty-hand Main Phase effect enables the Infernity handless engine
- Sends another Infernity monster to the GY from the Deck, feeding GY-based combo lines
- Level 2 DARK Tuner, usable as Synchro material
Weaknesses
- Requires an empty hand to activate and resolve, which is fragile to hand-based interruption
- Each effect is once per turn
- Provides almost no opponent interaction
- No recorded starter, searcher or payoff role in combos despite high appearance
Counters / choke points
- Hand-based disruption that breaks the empty-hand requirement
- Negation of the GY trigger after the card reaches the GY
Best use
Combo enabler for the Infernity handless engine; Level 2 Tuner. Decks: Infernity (archetype 813, 42, 1270), Fiendsmith, Horus, Unchained.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: empty-hand Main Phase discard, GY send of an Infernity monster from Deck, once-per-turn on each effect; Level 2 DARK Fiend Tuner, ATK 400, DEF 800; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks
- Observed: Appears in 16 of 16 recorded combos at power index 100; Inclusion 100% in Infernity usage statistics for two archetypes; Top-card rank 99 in duel-links
- Inferred: Combo enabler role, given the hand-empty engine and GY send effect; Empty-hand restriction makes the card fragile to hand disruption; Material value from Tuner status alone
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) role_in_combo is empty in all examples, so starter, searched and material roles are not confirmed by combo data No rulings or dated metagame sample supplied No as_material or as_searched count in combos_evidence