Spell
QuickRoyal Straight
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Send 1 "Queen's Knight", "King's Knight", and "Jack's Knight" from your hand and/or face-up Monster Zone to the GY, then Special Summon 1 monster from your hand, Deck, Extra Deck, or GY that mentions all of "Queen's Knight", "King's Knight", and "Jack's Knight".
Royal Straight — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Royal Straight is a Quick-Play that converts three specific Knights (Queen's, King's, Jack's) from hand or field into one monster that mentions all three, pulled from hand, Deck, Extra Deck or GY. Its value is access to the Knight-based payoff line, not raw board power, so it scores mid-table: the card is reliable only when all three Knights are already live. High deck counts reflect the Knight/Joker shell that the sample is built from, not extra power, and the sample contains no combo boards to confirm starter or payoff behaviour. It has no interaction and is not a material body, so those axes earn little.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Needs three specific Knights in hand or on field, with 75–78% partner co-occurrence in the deck sample (observed); no combo starter data to confirm live-hand rate (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 62 | Summons any monster mentioning all three Knights from hand, Deck, Extra Deck or GY, reaching the Royal Straight/Joker's Straight payoff set (verified from text; payoff reach observed via partners). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Sends three cards from hand/field and summons one from Deck/GY, a roughly even exchange once the Deck-sourced body is counted (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No opponent interaction; it is a non-negating Quick-Play summon (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell card, so it is never a material body; the Knights it sends are costs, not material (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Quick-Play Spell that is negatable; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring appears in 48% of sampled decks, implying common interruption (observed partner stat). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Typically 1–2 copies (avg 1.52), no garnet or lock cost, and the required Knights already sit in these decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts the three Knights already in the deck into a Deck- or GY-sourced summon of a payoff monster
- Quick-Play timing gives flexible use on either turn
- Low deckbuilding cost; typically one or two copies
Weaknesses
- Requires three specific Knights on board or in hand, so it is dead without that kit
- Sends three cards as cost, leaving a net card deficit before the summon
- Negatable and offers no interaction of its own
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and similar in-hand or on-activation negates
- Hand traps that stop the Knight setup before activation
Best use
Starter that turns the Knight trio into a payoff summon. Decks: Joker's Straight / Knight-based Royal Straight shells. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Quick-Play Spell; cost is sending three named Knights from hand/field to GY; Summons one monster mentioning all three Knights from hand, Deck, Extra Deck or GY
- Observed: Present in 60 of 60 sampled decks, with 1.52 average copies; Knight and Joker partners at 46–78% co-occurrence; Ash Blossom at 48%
- Inferred: Live-hand rate depends on the Knight kit, with no combo data to confirm; Net resource effect roughly even after the Deck-sourced summon
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only deck sample is filtered to decks running this card, so the 100% main-deck rate is not a population frequency