Spell
ContinuousMateriactor Meltdown
Archetype:
Materiactor
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During your Main Phase: You can excavate the top 6 cards of your Deck, and if you do, you can add 1 excavated "Materiactor" card to your hand, also place the rest on top of the Deck in any order, then you can add 1 card attached to a Rank 3 Xyz Monster you control to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Materiactor Meltdown" once per turn. If your Xyz Monster activates its effect: You can attach the top card of your Deck to 1 "Materiactor" Xyz Monster you control.
Materiactor Meltdown — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 59 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Materiactor Meltdown is a repeatable, once-per-turn Continuous Spell that converts a Main Phase excavate of 6 cards into one Materiactor search and one recovered Xyz material card, with the rest returned to the top of the Deck, so it is a net +1 card per use with no graveyard refuel. Its value is almost entirely its Materiactor-only search and its Rank 3 Xyz support, which 400 of 400 sampled decks run in a dominant home archetype; that frequency confirms the card is live, not that it is intrinsically powerful. Its high accessibility and card flow carry the score, while it has no interaction, no monster body, and no recorded combo stats, so the score is held in the mid-50s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Live in hand and on the field as a Continuous Spell, with the first half usable without a second card, and 400/400 decks running it (observed; text) |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Converts an excavate into a Materiactor search plus a recovered material, but no combo boards were supplied so conversion is text-only (inferred) |
| Resource Economy | 72 | Searches one Materiactor and recovers one Xyz material each use, returning the other excavated cards to the Deck top, for a net +1 card (verified; text) |
| Effect & Interaction | 8 | No negation, removal or hand-trap reach; the second effect only attaches the top Deck card as material (verified; text) |
| Material Utility | 15 | Not a monster and cannot be material itself; its second effect moves a Deck card to an Xyz as material but adds no body (verified; text) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Persists on the field and is OPT-limited, but its effects are exposed to generic Spell negation and removal (inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | Typically 3 copies in Materiactor (observed; 2.32 average copies per deck), with no garnet or lock but a narrow archetype-locked search (inferred) |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 59, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable OPT net +1 card advantage with no graveyard cost
- Searches Materiactor cards and recovers an Xyz material from the Deck
- Runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks, with 46 distinct archetypes as Rank 3 Xyz homes
- Continuous Spell persists on the field across turns
Weaknesses
- Search is restricted to Materiactor cards, so it is dead outside that archetype
- No monster body and no direct interaction
- No recorded combo boards, so conversion and power-index claims are unsupported
- Guide describes the deck as weak against the current meta, which cannot be scored without a dated metagame sample
Counters / choke points
- Generic Spell negation or continuous-spell removal (inferred; no counter evidence supplied)
- Opponent disruption of the Rank 3 Xyz that supplies the second effect (inferred from text)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor with recovery of an Xyz material, running as a 3-copy staple in Rank 3 Xyz decks. Decks: Materiactor (archetype 912), Goblin Biker, Tenpai Dragon, Speedroid. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with an OPT Main Phase excavate of 6 that searches one Materiactor and recovers one card attached to a Rank 3 Xyz; 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, average 2.32 copies, 3 copies in the Materiactor usage statistic; Second effect attaches the top Deck card to a Materiactor Xyz when that Xyz activates its effect
- Observed: Materiactor home archetype inclusion is 100% at a typical 3 copies (StatisticsCard); Gameplay type 7 accounts for 84.8% of decks
- Inferred: Accessibility is high because the first half works standalone in the Main Phase; Deck-level value is a home-archetype staple, not intrinsic strength
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) guide evidence is a single mention with no current-meta sample