Spell
ContinuousOverlay Network
Archetype:
Overlay
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You can activate 1 of these effects. ● Target 1 face-up monster you control that has a Level; Special Summon 1 monster with the same Level from your hand or GY in Defense Position, but its effects are negated. You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck the turn you activate this effect, except Xyz Monsters. ● Target 1 Xyz Monster you control; add 1 card attached to it to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Overlay Network" once per turn.
Overlay Network — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Overlay Network is a Continuous Spell whose two once-per-turn effects give a level-matched Special Summon from hand or GY (negated) and a recovery of one attached Xyz material. It scores on being live in many decks (91.5% in gameplay 7 across 75 archetypes, ~1.4 copies) and on its near-free-roll deckbuilding cost, with modest credit for the extender and recursion value. The 93.3 average board power index does not transfer to the card: it has no recorded starter, searched, material, or payoff role, so the high board score earns no points here. Its effect-negation is applied to a monster you summon, not the opponent, so it earns almost nothing for interaction, and as a spell it contributes nothing as material.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Run in 400 of 400 sampled decks at about 1.37 copies, with strong partner overlap, but no searcher or starter routing is recorded (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Only 3 recorded boards, none tagging it as a starter, searched, or payoff piece; it reaches a body but does not build the board itself (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Effect 2 returns one attached Xyz material to hand and effect 1 is a free Special Summon, roughly card-neutral with some GY recursion (verified text, inferred magnitude). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The negation targets the monster it summons, not the opponent's cards, so there is no disruption (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Continuous Spell cannot be used as material; its only material link is the recovery of an Xyz material (verified text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | It sits face-up on the field across turns, but its once-per-turn clauses limit redundancy and it is exposed to activation-level interaction (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Typically one copy in a deck, no garnet or brick behaviour, and only a minor Extra Deck summon restriction on the activation turn (observed deck stat, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck, then modifiers
Strengths
- Live in a wide spread of decks (400 sampled, 75 archetypes)
- Near-free-roll to run with low copy cost
- Recovers an Xyz material and gives a level-matched body from hand or GY
Weaknesses
- Negation only hits a monster you summon, so no opponent interaction
- Cannot be used as material itself
- Once-per-turn limits on both effects restrict repeated use
Counters / choke points
- Generic activation-level negation of the spell (inferred from card type; no matchup data supplied)
Best use
Extender / Xyz material recovery. Decks: Exosister, Utopia, Gunkan, Goblin Biker, Horus. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: level-matched Special Summon in Defense with negation, Extra Deck restriction, Xyz material recovery, once per turn; Continuous Spell type, four formats legal
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 91.5% in gameplay 7, avg 1.37 copies; Top partners Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (76.5%) and Called by the Grave (73.2%); 3 combo boards, 0 with a recorded starter, searched, material, or payoff role
- Inferred: Recursion and extender value from effect text; Score of 54 after the −2 self-locking modifier
- Data gaps: No guides supplied No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No StatisticsCard usage data; inclusion inferred from the 400-deck sample only Combo evidence has no role_in_combo labels and only 3 boards, so combo conversion is weakly grounded No counter or matchup data