Red Arrows

Red Arrows — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 49 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Utility

Why it scores here

Red Arrows is a one-copy-cost spell that temporarily banishes up to two face-up monsters in the Extra Monster Zone until the End Phase, so its value is tempo and zone clearing, not card advantage or a board of its own. The deck data places it mainly in Sky Striker lists (18 of 24 decks, with 1.42 copies on average), which confirms it is a live, cheap, splashable tool in that home, but the sample is concentrated and no combo boards were supplied to show what it converts into. ATK and the card's rarity earn nothing here; the score is driven by its narrow EMZ-only reach, its lack of a body, and the absence of any recorded combo conversion.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Primary role Board breaker weights, no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Cheap single-slot tool that is easy to run in a home deck
• Clears EMZ space for Sky Striker lines (inferred from the deck sample)
• Targets are restricted to face-up monsters in the EMZ, so the effect is precise when it is needed

Weaknesses

• Temporary banish that ends at End Phase, so there is no lasting board impact
• Limited to EMZ monsters only, so most of the field is out of reach
• Needs a monster in the EMZ to be useful, and it can be blanked by a negate
• No combo boards in the evidence to show what it converts into

Counters / choke points

• No counter data in the evidence pack
• Generic answer would be a spell negate, which is inferred from the text and not from recorded play

Best use

Board breaker (temporary EMZ clearing). Decks: Sky Striker.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Text: once per turn, targets up to 2 face-up monsters in the EMZ and banishes them until End Phase; Card type is a Spell (race Normal), with no ATK/DEF; Present in 24 of the attached decks, average 1.42 copies
• Observed: 18 of 24 decks are Sky Striker (75%); Top partners are all Sky Striker cards at 83-92% co-occurrence (co-occurrence, not causal); Combo evidence is empty: 0 appearances
• Inferred: Primary role is Board breaker because the effect removes monsters, though only temporarily and in the EMZ; Generic utility is moderate because the deck sample is concentrated in one archetype
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion % is from the deck sample only card archetype field says Rose, while 18 of 24 decks are Sky Striker; the archetype label was not used to score format ids (7, 6, 4) are not mapped to names, so gameplay-specific use is not assessed no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed top-card data has no rankings