Spell
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If your opponent controls a card in their Field Zone and you do not: Activate 1 Field Spell Card from your Deck. You can only activate 1 "Pop-Up" per turn.
Pop-Up — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Pop-Up earns its score as a conditional but consistent Field Spell searcher in Mystic Mine stall and similar Field Zone–reliant strategies, where its Quick-Play status allows activation during the opponent's turn after they deploy their own Field Spell. Its activation condition—requiring the opponent to already control a Field Spell while you control none—sharply limits accessibility against decks that skip the Field Zone entirely, capping both resilience and ceiling. As a Spell card with no body, it contributes zero material or interaction value of its own, so its score rests entirely on the reliability of its search effect within the narrow niche it occupies. High ATK and DEF are irrelevant here, as expected for a Spell with no battle presence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Quick-Play Spell drawn normally from deck, but live only when the opponent controls a Field Spell; in DuelLinks (73.7% of sampled decks), opponents routinely run Field Spells, making the condition frequently met in its primary format. (observed/inferred) |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Searching and immediately activating Mystic Mine from deck shuts down the opponent's monster-heavy game plan, providing meaningful strategic impact within the Mystic Mine stall shell; no combo board data available to corroborate this directly. (inferred — 0 combo appearances recorded) |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Trades one hand card for one Field Spell placed directly on board—roughly card-neutral, with the Quick-Play flexibility providing a slight efficiency edge over a Normal Spell equivalent. (verified from card text) |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | The card provides no direct disruption; any interaction it enables derives entirely from the Field Spell it fetches, such as Mystic Mine's monster-lock. (verified from card text) |
| Material Utility | 10 | Spell card with no body—cannot serve as Extra Deck material, named material, or tribute fodder of any kind. (verified from card text) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Quick-Play timing is a meaningful upside allowing opponent-turn activation, but the card is a hard brick if the opponent controls no Field Spell, severely limiting coverage across Field-Zone-free matchups. (verified from card text; inferred gap risk) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Run at 1–2 copies (avg 1.47) across 9 distinct archetypes as a low-slot tech; functions alongside Metaverse (84.2% co-occurrence) and Demise of the Land (73.7%) as redundant Field Spell access. (observed from deck data) |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary: Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Conditional activation restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches and immediately activates any Field Spell directly from deck without paying additional costs
- Quick-Play speed allows activation during the opponent's Main Phase after they deploy their Field Spell
- Low slot cost (1–2 copies) makes it efficient redundancy in Field Spell strategies
- Serves as a third or fourth avenue of Mystic Mine access alongside Metaverse and Demise of the Land
- Appears across 9 distinct archetypes, confirming consistent adoption within Field-Spell-centric strategies
Weaknesses
- Completely dead if the opponent does not control a Field Spell — a significant matchup dependency
- Provides no intrinsic card advantage or body — purely a conditional search
- Once-per-turn restriction limits chaining multiple copies
- Power ceiling entirely determined by the Field Spell it fetches, not the card itself
Counters / choke points
- Decks that run no Field Spell make Pop-Up unplayable before it is drawn
- Spell negation (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Seven Tools of the Bandit) stops the search on activation
- Destroying the opponent's Field Spell before Pop-Up is activated removes the activation condition
Best use
Redundant Field Spell searcher (primarily for Mystic Mine) that exploits opponents who activate their own Field Spell. Decks: Mystic Mine Stall, Greed Control, Ojama, Solemn Brigade, Runick (Mysterune). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Quick-Play Spell; activates 1 Field Spell from deck when opponent controls a Field Spell and you do not; Once-per-turn activation restriction on Pop-Up; Found in 19 main-deck builds; 0 side-deck appearances; Appears across 9 distinct archetypes in the 19-deck sample
- Observed: 84.2% co-occurrence with Metaverse and Demise of the Land — all three act as Field Spell searchers for the same strategy; 73.7% co-occurrence with Mystic Mine — primary intended search target; 73.7% of usage concentrated in format 6 (consistent with DuelLinks), where Field Spells are common; Run at an average of 1.47 copies per deck with a 1-copy (10 decks) vs 2-copy (9 decks) split
- Inferred: Primary use case is as redundant Mystic Mine access in stall/control strategies; Quick-Play timing allows activation in opponent's Main Phase after they activate their Field Spell, enabling an asymmetric response; Card is effectively unplayable against decks with no Field Zone usage; In DuelLinks format specifically, Field Spells are common enough across the meta that the activation condition is frequently met
- Data gaps: No combo evidence — combo conversion scored by text inference only No guides evidence — role context entirely inferred from deck partner analysis No banlist entry found — assumed unlimited (3 copies legal) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion rates inferred from 19-deck sample only Gameplay type IDs not labeled in evidence — DuelLinks assumption derived from archetype context