Spell
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Select 1 face-up "LV" on the field to activate this card. Return the selected card to its owner's Deck and Special Summon 1 monster from the owner's Graveyard to their side of the field with the same name but lower "LV" (ignoring the Summoning conditions).
Level Down!? — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 36 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 39 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
The card's text needs a face-up LV monster on the field and a same-name, lower-LV monster in the Graveyard, so its value depends on a narrow board state. When it does resolve, it swaps a field LV body for a lower-LV body from the GY and returns the higher one to the Deck. That is a one-card action with a net card cost, and it does not negate, remove, or build a board. High ATK or LV-theme popularity earns no points; the only observed support is one Malefic LV deck (3 copies, a single-deck sample), which confirms a real but thin home, not strength.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Needs a face-up LV monster plus a same-name lower-LV monster in the GY, which is a specific board state; one sampled deck runs it, 3 copies (verified text, observed deck stat). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Text-only: it converts a field LV body into a lower-LV GY body, with no recorded combo boards to confirm a starter or payoff role (inference, no combo evidence). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Spell is spent and the field body is returned to Deck, so it is roughly a net −1 card in hand for a Level change and a GY recovery (verified text, inference on the card count). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Has no negation, removal, or disruption on the opponent's side; it only changes the controller's own field (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 30 | Lowering a Level can make a monster fit a Level-based Synchro, Xyz, or Fusion requirement, but the spell is not material itself (inference from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A Quick-Play spell that can be answered by spell negation or by the LV requirement disappearing; it is usable in more than one timing window (verified text, inference). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Three copies are legal with no garnet or lock, but running it requires a dense LV-monster base, a self-restriction (verified text, deck stat from one deck, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 39, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: LV-monster board requirement (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recovers a lower-LV monster from the GY, a real recursion effect.
- Quick-Play timing lets it act in response to the opponent's turn.
- No garnet or banlist restriction; three copies are legal.
Weaknesses
- Needs two specific LV-monster conditions on the board and in the GY.
- Net card disadvantage: the spell is spent and the field body is returned to the Deck.
- Zero opponent interaction; it cannot negate, remove, or stop the opponent's plays.
Counters / choke points
- Spell negation (e.g. the usual Quick-Play negates), which cancels the spell and leaves the controller down a card.
- Removal or banishment of the face-up LV monster before activation.
Best use
Level-swap recursion in LV-heavy decks. Decks: Malefic (LV-monster deck, 1 sampled deck). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: needs a face-up LV on the field and a lower-LV same-name monster in the Graveyard; returns the selected card to Deck and Special Summons the GY monster.; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; 1 deck sampled, 3 copies, Malefic (archetype 964).
- Observed: Appears in 1 of 1 sampled decks (100%), always as a 3-copy main-deck card.; Zero recorded combo appearances.
- Inferred: Net card disadvantage follows from the spell being spent while the field monster is returned to the Deck.; Lowering a Level can enable a Level-based Synchro, Xyz, or Fusion material fit.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion measured only from one sampled deck single-deck sample; deck synergy and resilience scores rest on one deck no banlist token; 3 copies assumed legal