LIGHT
3S-Force Signify
Archetype:
S-Force
ATK:
1600
DEF:
0
View:
704
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "S-Force" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "S-Force Signify", then if your opponent controls a monster in this card's column, you can draw 1 card. If your opponent activates a monster effect in the same column as a monster you control (except during the Damage Step): You can make all "S-Force" monsters you control gain 1000 ATK. You can only use each effect of "S-Force Signify" once per turn.
S-Force Signify — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 59 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter
Why it scores here
S-Force Signify's power comes from converting a single Normal or Special Summon into a searched S-Force monster and, when the column condition holds, an extra draw, which is real card advantage on a Level 3 body. Its 1600 ATK earns nothing, and its 1000-ATK column pump is a stat boost rather than interaction, so it adds little. Appearing in 51 of the attached decks at 3 copies confirms that it is reliably accessible and archetype-fit, but that inclusion is not evidence of intrinsic strength, and with no combo boards recorded, combo conversion rests on text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Summoned from hand and live in 51 of 51 attached decks at 3 copies, though it needs to be drawn or summoned before its search fires (observed, inferred for the hand-start route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 48 | No recorded boards, so the one-search-plus-conditional-draw line is judged as a fair board with help, not a full disruptive chain (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The on-summon search plus the conditional draw gives up to two cards for one summon, and the search is once per turn (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The only interaction-adjacent effect is a 1000-ATK pump in a column, with no negation or removal (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 3 LIGHT Warrior is a usable material for S-Force-adjacent lines, but it is not a clean generic body (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The search and draw both depend on the summon trigger resolving, so one negation of that trigger ends the value, and it has no recursion (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 62 | Three copies with no garnet or lock, but it is tied to the S-Force package, which costs slots when run outside those homes (verified deck counts, inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 59, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches an S-Force monster on Normal or Special Summon, which is one-for-one card access on a cheap body
- Conditional draw adds a second card when an opponent monster occupies the column
- Accessible at 3 copies in every attached S-Force-family deck
Weaknesses
- No negation or removal; the pump does not affect the opponent's board
- Its value depends on the summon trigger resolving and is lost to a single negation
- Archetype-bound: little value outside S-Force-family decks
Counters / choke points
- Negating the summon-triggered effect stops both the search and the draw (inferred from text)
Best use
Searcher with conditional draw. Decks: S-Force (archetype 857), S-Force (archetype 506), Fiendsmith, Dark Magician. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: On Normal or Special Summon: search one S-Force monster from Deck to hand, excluding itself, then a conditional draw; Column pump of 1000 ATK to S-Force monsters when an opponent's monster effect is activated in its column, excluding the Damage Step; Each effect is once per turn; Present in 51 of 51 attached decks at 3 copies (avg 2.96); Inclusion 100% (S-Force 506) and 75% (S-Force 857) in usage statistics
- Observed: Gameplay split of 58.8% (type 7) and 41.2% (type 6) across attached decks; Co-occurs with S-Force Gravitino, Pla-Tina, Lapcewell, Retroactive, Bridgehead at 100% in attached decks
- Inferred: Searcher-class primary role from the on-summon search; Hand-start route requires drawing or summoning it before the search fires; Net card advantage depends on the column condition
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) avg_starter_count_when_present is null, so DeckResilience is judged from archetype spread only No rulings supplied for the column and summon-trigger timing