Spell
NormalKnight's Title
Archetype:
Dark Magician
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Tribute 1 face-up "Dark Magician"; Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician Knight" from your hand, Deck or Graveyard.
Knight's Title — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Knight's Title is a Normal Spell that tributes one face-up 'Dark Magician' to Special Summon 'Dark Magician Knight' from hand, Deck or Graveyard. Its value is access and a one-for-one body swap across three zones, not board generation, so the score rests on accessibility and resilience rather than on any stat line. The requirement to already control a face-up Dark Magician, the lack of net board growth, and the absence of combo evidence keep the score in the middle of the range. The Dark Magician deck presence (52 of 52 decks, 92% co-occurrence with Dark Magician) confirms the role is real in practice but does not raise the intrinsic score on its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Live from hand, Deck or Graveyard once a face-up Dark Magician is present, and 52 of 52 sampled decks run it (verified text; observed deck count). The Dark Magician requirement is the main limit (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The text converts one Dark Magician into one Dark Magician Knight with no added body, and no combo boards were supplied to confirm a larger line (verified text; inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | One card and one tribute are spent for one summon, so there is no net card or board gain, with Graveyard access giving partial recursion value (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect of its own (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | The summoned Dark Magician Knight's stats and material properties are not in the evidence, so the body value is inferred only (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Three summon zones give redundancy, but the card is a Normal Spell that can be stopped by a single response and depends on a face-up Dark Magician (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Observed copies are mostly 1 (35 decks) with 10 decks at 3, so the card is cheap to run but is tied to one archetype core (observed; inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Summons Dark Magician Knight from hand, Deck or Graveyard, so access is spread across three zones
- Present in 52 of 52 sampled decks, with 92% co-occurrence with Dark Magician and 81% with Dark Magician Knight
- Cheap to run at 1 copy in most decks
Weaknesses
- Needs a face-up Dark Magician to tribute, so it is dead without one
- Net body count is unchanged (one out, one in), so it does not build a board on its own
- No combo evidence supplied, so its conversion value rests on text alone
Counters / choke points
- Generic spell negation in response to the activation (inferred)
- Removal or effects that take the face-up Dark Magician off the field before resolution (inferred)
Best use
Extender: tribute-to-summon swap for Dark Magician Knight from hand, Deck or Graveyard. Decks: Dark Magician, Gaia, Magician Girls.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: tribute 1 face-up Dark Magician, then Special Summon 1 Dark Magician Knight from hand, Deck or Graveyard; 52 of 52 sampled decks run it, average 1.52 copies per deck; 92.3% of decks also run Dark Magician and 80.8% run Dark Magician Knight
- Observed: Dark Magician archetype holds 15 of 52 decks, Gaia 7 and Magician Girls 6; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 35 of 52 decks
- Inferred: Net board body count is unchanged, so the card is a swap rather than a board generator; Summoned monster stats and material value are not in evidence, so body value is an estimate
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied summoned Dark Magician Knight stats not supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available