Spell
NormalLevel Up!
View:
4978
Send 1 face-up "LV" monster you control to the GY; Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or Deck that is listed in the sent monster's text, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
Level Up! — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Level Up! is a Normal Spell that trades one face-up LV monster for a Special Summon of a partner named in that monster's text, ignoring summoning conditions. It is reliably live because it sits in hand and is run in 107 sampled decks at about 2.2 copies each, but it converts only into the specific partners that LV monsters list, so its reach is narrow and conditional. It has no interaction, no board presence of its own, and no recorded combo appearances, so the score rests on text and deck evidence alone. The deck evidence (92.5 percent in one gameplay, Horus partners at 57 percent) confirms it is a real, practical enabler, not a high-power card. Its popularity and cheap cost do not lift the score beyond the mid-range.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Normal Spell live from hand with 107 sampled decks and 2.21 average copies, but it needs a face-up LV monster first (verified text, observed deck stat). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Turns an LV monster into a named partner body with no board of its own, and no combo examples exist to confirm a multi-step line (verified text, inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | One card spent and one monster sent to the GY for one summon, roughly card-neutral with no refuel or repeated advantage (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or disruption on its own (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell Card, so it provides no material body (verified card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Single-target spell that a common negate stops, with reach limited to the LV-listed partners (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Cheap single copies with no garnet or lock, but tied to LV monsters and mostly to the Horus shell (observed deck stat, inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap Normal Spell that is live from hand with several copies in many decks
- Reliably converts an LV monster into a named partner Special Summon, ignoring summoning conditions
- Confirmed as a practical Horus-shell enabler across 107 sampled decks
Weaknesses
- Needs a face-up LV monster on the field before it does anything
- Output is limited to the partners listed in the sent monster's text
- No recorded combo appearances, so its real board conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Spell itself, which cancels the whole summon
- Floodgates or LV-monster removal that leaves no LV monster to send
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler that converts an LV monster into a partner summon. Decks: Horus. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: sends one face-up LV monster and summons a listed partner ignoring summoning conditions; Card type is Normal Spell Card; 107 sampled decks run it at an average of 2.21 copies
- Observed: Horus archetype accounts for 29.9 percent of decks; Horus LV6 and LV8 each appear in 57 percent of decks that run it; 92.5 percent of decks use one gameplay type
- Inferred: Card-neutral resource exchange with no refuel; Reach limited to LV-listed partners, mostly in the Horus shell; Negation of the Spell cancels the whole summon
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only one guide mention, with limited detail on the card's role