Sage's Stone

Sage's Stone — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 51 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler

Why it scores here

Sage's Stone tutors Dark Magician from hand or deck when Dark Magician Girl is on field, making it a reliable enabler within the Dark Magician archetype but dependent on that condition. The card generates one extra body and resources cleanly—it is run in 184 recent decks (21.7% Dark Magician, 15.2% Magician Girls) and appears consistently across 21 archetype homes. However, it has no opponent interaction, no material utility as a spell, and becomes dead if Dark Magician Girl is removed, limiting its resilience. The score reflects strong archetype fit and efficient tutoring offset by conditional access and the absence of recorded combo validation.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Conditional effect (Dark Magician Girl requirement) (-2). Final formula: 0.40·Intrinsic + 0.60·Deck (decks present, combos absent)

Strengths

• Reliable tutor within Dark Magician and Magician Girl decks (92.9% co-deck with Dark Magician Girl)
• Clean resource cost: activates from hand or Deck without material consumption
• Summons extra body that enables further combos, particularly into Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon fusions (70.7% co-deck)
• Consistent across 21 distinct archetype homes, suggesting portability beyond pure Dark Magician builds
• Low deck cost: run at 1–1.1 copies average with no brick or lock-in risk

Weaknesses

• Requires Dark Magician Girl on field; becomes dead in hand if that condition is unmet or if DMG is removed
• No disruption or opponent interaction; purely generative
• Spell card cannot serve as material for advanced summons; limited utility if board is negated
• Single-use per activation; does not generate card advantage in hand, only board advantage
• No recorded combo data; actual power in constructed combo lines is unvalidated

Counters / choke points

• Removing Dark Magician Girl (e.g., Raigeki, Lightning Storm, hand traps that destroy on-field monsters)
• Negating spell activation (e.g., Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Crossout Designator, Drytron effects)
• Negating Dark Magician's summon after Sage's Stone resolves (e.g., Infinite Impermanence on the summoned DM)

Best use

Tutor and combo enabler within Dark Magician archetype lines. Decks: Dark Magician, Magician Girls, Shining Sarcophagus, Red-Eyes. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'If you control a face-up Dark Magician Girl: Special Summon 1 Dark Magician from your hand or Deck.'; Type: Spell Card (Normal); Archetype: Dark Magician; 184 recent decks run this card; 92.9% co-deck with Dark Magician Girl (171/184 decks); 91.8% co-deck with Dark Magician (169/184 decks)
• Observed: Run in 21 distinct archetypes (deck evidence); Average 1.1 copies per deck; predominantly single-copy inclusion (171/184 = 92.9% run 1x); Present in Dark Magician (40 decks), Magician Girls (28), Shining Sarcophagus (24), Red-Eyes (19) as primary homes; Top synergies with Dark Magical Circle (81.5%), Eternal Soul (81%), Bond Between Teacher and Student (79.3%), Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (70.7%); Recency: latest deck entry 2026-09-29, showing current viability across multiple formats
• Inferred: Summoning an extra Dark Magician body enables further combo development within the archetype (from card text and partner synergy); Dark Magician Girl's high searchability via Dark Magical Circle (81.5% co-deck) improves accessibility of Sage's Stone's condition; Conditional nature (requires DMG on field) makes the card somewhat brittle but not a pure garnet in dedicated Dark Magician decks; Role as tutor/enabler positions it as a support card rather than a primary power engine; Multi-archetype presence (21 homes) suggests the card is recognized as broadly useful within Dark Magician-related strategies
• Data gaps: No combo evidence recorded (0 combos)—combo conversion cannot be measured from actual boards, only text-inferred No guide evidence—no expert guidance on optimal usage or secondary role confirmation from human analysis No usage statistics (StatisticsCard)—archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample of 184 only; may not reflect true meta inclusion across all TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, and DuelLinks formats No banlist data—assumed 3 copies (unlimited) across all formats; confirm ban status if legal copies data becomes available No ranked top-card data—card does not appear in Top-Card rankings; competitive play accessibility is secondary format-dependent No view/engagement metrics beyond raw page count (5174)—cannot distinguish niche interest from mainstream play