Spell
FieldMementomictlan
Archetype:
Memento
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If your "Memento" monster battles, your opponent cannot activate any Spell/Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. If a monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 of those monsters; Special Summon 1 "Memento" monster with a lower Level from your hand or GY. You can only use this effect of "Mementomictlan" once per turn. Once per turn, during your End Phase: You can target 1 "Memento" Spell/Trap in your GY; Set it.
Mementomictlan — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 46 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Mementomictlan is a Memento-locked Field Spell whose value is recursion: it can Special Summon a lower-Level Memento monster when a monster you control is destroyed, and once per turn it sets a Memento Spell/Trap from the GY. The combo evidence shows it on all 7 recorded boards (100% appearance) but with no starter, searched, material or payoff role, and the average board index is only 34.9, so the card reads as a supporting piece rather than a converter. Its battle-step lock on opposing Spell/Trap activations is soft interaction, not negation. High deck inclusion (400 of 400, always one copy, 100% with the Memento partners) confirms it is a staple of the Memento engine, not a strong card on its own, so that inclusion did not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Runs one copy in all 400 sampled decks and is live from hand as a Field Spell, but no searcher or starter route is recorded (starter role 0%, searched-for role 0%) (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Recorded boards show board 0 and disruption 0 with only 1.14 average starters, and the average power index is 34.9 across 7 boards (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The GY-to-set effect is a reuse of Memento Spell/Trap rather than card advantage, and the summon effect gives a body without drawing or refueling (verified from text, observed in resource sub-scores of 7 to 8). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The Damage Step lock on opposing Spell/Trap activations only applies after a Memento monster battles and is not a negation or removal effect (verified). |
| Material Utility | 15 | The card is not a monster and provides no material, level or attribute value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Both recursion effects are once per turn, and the field-zone position and the archetype lock limit how often it can be used across turns (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | One copy in a single Field Zone slot with no garnet or brick cost, but it restricts the deck to Memento monsters for its effects to work (inferred, with a 100%-consistent deck signal). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked effects (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recursion: summons a lower-Level Memento monster on destruction and sets a Memento Spell/Trap from the GY once per turn
- Present on every recorded board in the sample (7 of 7) and in all 400 sampled decks
- Single copy with no garnet or brick cost
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked: no effect outside Memento monsters
- No starter, searched, material or payoff role recorded in the combo sample
- Battle lock is soft and only applies after a Memento monster battles
Best use
Recovery / Recursion staple. Decks: Memento (Memento-engine decks). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap cards after a Memento monster battles until the end of the Damage Step; Text: Special Summon a lower-Level Memento monster on destruction, once per turn; Text: once per turn End Phase, set a Memento Spell/Trap from the GY; Single copy in all 400 sampled decks
- Observed: Appears on 7 of 7 recorded boards with 0% starter, searched, material or payoff roles; Average power index 34.9 with board and disruption sub-scores at 0; Co-appears with Memento partners in 100% of decks
- Inferred: Recursion is the primary role because the role is driven by summon and set effects, not interaction; Accessibility is moderate: a Field Spell that is in every deck but has no recorded searcher; Archetype lock limits generic portability to about 45
- Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no recorded searcher or starter route for this card in combo data no counter or hand trap data for this card in the evidence pack only 7 combos recorded, which is a thin sample