Spell
NormalRing Announcer
Archetype:
Battlin' Boxing
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(This card is always treated as a "Battlin' Boxing" card.) Special Summon 1 "Battlin' Boxer" monster from your hand, then you can destroy Spells/Traps on the field, up to the number of Xyz Monsters you control. You can only activate 1 "Ring Announcer" per turn.
Ring Announcer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50.3 · Deck: 49.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Ring Announcer converts a Battlin' Boxer monster from hand into board presence, and its once-per-turn Spell/Trap destruction scales with the number of Xyz monsters you control, so its value depends on the Xyz count. It is card-neutral on its own, since the Spell is spent to summon a body, and it has no material value. The 154-deck sample shows it is a standard single-copy slot in the Battlin' Boxer lists, but the absence of combo evidence means the starter and conversion scores rest on card text and deck co-occurrence rather than observed boards. The score is held to the middle of the range because the effect is archetype-locked and easy to negate, not because of its stats or popularity.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | Needs a Battlin' Boxer monster in hand and is a single-copy Spell with no searcher evidence in the pack; the deck sample shows near-universal Boxer co-occurrence, so access is good but not self-sufficient (observed deck co-occurrence; text-based inference for the hand requirement). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The card text converts one Spell into a monster from hand plus up to Xyz-count backrow removal, but total combos is 0 so no board confirms it (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The Spell is spent to summon a body, so it is card-neutral, with tempo gained from the backrow destruction (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Destroys opposing or own Spells/Traps up to the Xyz count, once per turn; strength scales with Xyz count and it is limited to backrow (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell card, so it provides no Level, Attribute, or material value (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Once-per-turn and single-copy with no redundancy; a single negation shuts it off, and no resilience data exists in the pack (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Usually one copy per deck (129 of 154 decks), but it is archetype-locked to Battlin' Boxing, a mild restriction (observed deck sample plus text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Removal / Negation. Intrinsic ≈ 50.3, Deck ≈ 49.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Special Summons a Battlin' Boxer monster from hand, so it converts one Spell into a body.
- Destroys Spells/Traps up to the Xyz monster count, which scales with a board of Xyz monsters.
- Present in 154 recorded decks with strong partner co-occurrence (Battlin' Boxer King Dempsey 98.7%, Battlin' Boxer Chief Second 97.4%).
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked: it is always treated as Battlin' Boxing, so it is dead outside that family.
- Once per turn and single-copy, with no redundancy.
- Destruction is capped by the Xyz monster count; with no Xyz monsters, the backrow effect does nothing.
- Card-neutral, so it generates no card advantage on its own.
Counters / choke points
- Spell-negation or Spell-targeting effects that stop the single Spell activation (inferred; not in the evidence pack).
- Opponent Spell/Trap-based interaction and backrow removal that reduces the Xyz-count-dependent value (inferred from text).
Best use
Starter (Battlin' Boxer summon from hand) with conditional backrow removal scaled to Xyz count. Decks: Battlin' Boxer. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Special Summon 1 Battlin' Boxer monster from hand, then destroy Spells/Traps up to the number of Xyz monsters you control; once per turn.; Deck sample: 154 decks; 129 run 1 copy; avg 1.22 copies; 0 side-deck copies.; Partner co-occurrence: Battlin' Boxer King Dempsey 98.7%; Battlin' Boxer Chief Second 97.4%.
- Observed: Deck inclusion is near-universal across Battlin' Boxer lists (13 archetype labels, mostly Battlin' Boxer name variants).; Recorded decks run 1 copy in most lists (copies distribution 1:129, 2:16, 3:9).
- Inferred: The card is card-neutral (Spell spent for a body) with tempo from backrow removal.; The Battlin' Boxer monster-in-hand requirement makes it dependent on the archetype's hand.; Negation and Spell-targeting effects are the main practical counters.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no metagame sample; meta power is null archetype labels are fragmented across Battlin' Boxer name variants; distinct archetypes overstates portability