FIRE
4Rescue-ACE Monitor
Archetype:
Rescue-ACE
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1800
View:
4020
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Rescue-ACE" Trap from your Deck to your hand. When your opponent activates a monster effect on the field (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card from your hand or face-up field, then target 1 "Rescue-ACE" monster in your GY, except "Rescue-ACE Monitor"; Special Summon it. You can only use each effect of "Rescue-ACE Monitor" once per turn.
Rescue-ACE Monitor — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Hand trap, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Rescue-ACE Monitor reliably converts a Normal or Special Summon into one Rescue-ACE Trap added to hand, and its Quick effect Tributes itself from hand or field to revive one Rescue-ACE monster from the GY, so it gives card advantage and a body back. The 1800 ATK and Level 4 body earn nothing on their own. The score comes from the search and revival text plus its near-universal presence in Rescue-ACE decks (359 decks, 74.7% in the main gameplay), which confirms the role is real but does not inflate it. The absence of any combo evidence keeps combo conversion and the medium confidence band.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Level 4 Normal Summonable body that runs 1.4 copies on average across 359 decks, but no starter role or searched-for role data exists to show how often it is live in the opening hand (observed deck count plus inference). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The on-summon search and the GY revival are one card each, so conversion is one trap plus one body. No combo examples exist, so this is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The on-summon search gives +1 card; the self-Tribute from hand revives a GY monster, so the net is roughly even to slightly positive (verified card text, plus inference). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The Quick effect answers an opponent's monster effect activation by revival and does not negate it, so interaction is soft and situational (verified card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A generic Level 4 FIRE Warrior body is a clean material, but its effect is blanked as material and its Tribute cost is used up (verified card text, plus inference). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | It works from both hand and field and has two separate once-per-turn effects, but one negate on the Quick effect or a summon-trigger negate shuts down its value (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Multiple copies are fine (max 3 in sample), it has no garnet and no lock, but it commits a deck to the Rescue-ACE archetype (verified deck stats plus inference). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Hand trap (secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype commitment (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- On-summon search of a Rescue-ACE Trap from the Deck, which is a guaranteed card advantage after a summon
- Quick-effect GY revival of a Rescue-ACE monster in response to an opponent's monster effect
- Live in the main Rescue-ACE shell: 178 of 359 decks in the Rescue-ACE archetype, with 74.7% of decks in gameplay type 7 (observed)
- Works from hand or field, so the Tribute cost can be paid from either zone
Weaknesses
- Both effects are restricted to Rescue-ACE cards, so it is dead outside that archetype (verified card text)
- Both effects are once per turn each, which limits repeat use (verified card text)
- The Quick effect Tributes the card itself, so it cannot stay on the field as a body after use (verified card text)
- No combo data, so its real starter or material role in boards is unconfirmed (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Negating the monster effect activation that the Quick effect responds to (inferred from text)
- Negating the summon that triggers the on-summon search (inferred from text)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for a Rescue-ACE Trap, with hand-trap-style GY revival. Decks: Rescue-ACE. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: On-summon effect adds 1 Rescue-ACE Trap from Deck to hand; Quick effect Tributes itself from hand or field to Special Summon 1 Rescue-ACE monster from the GY, excluding itself; Each effect is once per turn; 359 decks in sample, 178 in the Rescue-ACE archetype, 74.7% in gameplay type 7
- Observed: Average 1.4 copies per deck, with 260 decks running 1 copy; Co-occurrence with Rescue-ACE Hydrant at 90.3% and Rescue-ACE Air Lifter at 89.7%; Two guides feature the card in a deck list
- Inferred: The search is a real card-advantage route because the Trap target is archetype-locked but present in the deck; The Quick effect works as a hand-trap-style response to monster effects; Archetype commitment is the main deckbuilding restriction
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No banlist token, so the card is assumed to be unlimited (3 copies) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only No rulings supplied for the Tribute-from-hand interaction or the once-per-turn wording