Spell
NormalSimorgh Onslaught
Archetype:
Simorgh
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Discard 1 Winged Beast monster; add 2 "Simorgh" monsters with different Attributes from your Deck to your hand. You can banish this card from your GY; reveal 1 Winged Beast monster in your hand, and if you do, reduce the Levels of monsters in your hand with that name by 1 for the rest of this turn (even after they are Summoned). You can only activate 1 "Simorgh Onslaught" per turn.
Simorgh Onslaught — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Simorgh Onslaught is a pure archetype engine spell: it trades one Winged Beast discard for two differently-Attributed Simorgh monsters, a net +1 that builds the hand, and its graveyard banish offers a second use plus Level reduction for Tribute Summons. Deck evidence confirms it is a real 3-of engine in Simorgh and several other Winged Beast strategies (134 decks run it, 91 at three copies). It earns nothing from stats — it has no ATK, no body, and no disruption of its own — so its score rests on card economy, accessibility, and deck fit, tempered by its archetype lock and the absence of any combo records.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 63 | A Normal Spell with no listed in-archetype searcher, hard-drawn as a 3-of in 91 of 134 decks and live once a Winged Beast is in hand to discard (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Adds two differently-Attributed Simorgh monsters in a single activation, but no combo records exist to confirm the resulting board output (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Discarding 1 to add 2 is a net +1 in card advantage, and the GY banish grants a second, further-reaching use (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Provides no disruption, negation, or removal itself; interaction comes only from the Simorgh bosses it fetches (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | It is a Spell with no body, Level, or Attribute, so it contributes nothing as material even in a blanked state (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Usable from hand and later from the GY via banish, but as an add-to-hand effect it is a single Ash Blossom target with a hard once-per-turn cap (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | A clean 3-of engine piece needing only Winged Beast fodder and Simorgh targets in Deck, carrying a mild archetype lock (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a single Winged Beast discard into two differently-Attributed Simorgh monsters, a net +1 in card advantage.
- GY banish effect gives a second use and reduces hand Levels for easier Tribute Summons of Winged Beast bosses.
- Heavily and consistently played at three copies across Simorgh and other Winged Beast decks (91 of 134 decks at 3).
- 92-93% co-deck rate with Simorgh, Bird of Bringing and Simorgh, Bird of Perfection shows it is a core engine piece.
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked: it only retrieves 'Simorgh' monsters and requires a Winged Beast discard as cost.
- No disruption, negation, or removal on its own — it only sets up.
- Adding to hand makes it a clean Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring target, and it is hard once-per-turn.
- No combo or guide evidence exists to verify actual end-board output.
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring negating the search effect.
- Hand disruption removing the Winged Beast discard fodder before activation.
- Graveyard hate (e.g. Called by the Grave interactions) cutting off the banish effect.
Best use
Archetype consistency engine / searcher. Decks: Simorgh, Floowandereeze (Winged Beast builds), Tri-Brigade (Winged Beast builds), Harpie, RaidRaptor. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Discard 1 Winged Beast monster; add 2 'Simorgh' monsters with different Attributes from Deck to hand.; Banishing this card from the GY reveals 1 Winged Beast in hand and reduces hand Levels of that name by 1 for the turn.; You can only activate 1 'Simorgh Onslaught' per turn (hard once-per-turn).; It is a Normal Spell, archetype 'Simorgh', legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, and DuelLinks.
- Observed: 134 decks run it, averaging 2.51 copies, with 91 decks running 3 (deck data).; 48.5% of decks are Simorgh; it also appears in Floowandereeze (9.7%), Tri-Brigade (6.7%), Horus, Harpie, and RaidRaptor (deck data).; 93.3% co-deck rate with Simorgh, Bird of Bringing and Simorgh, Bird of Perfection (deck data).; 0 combo appearances and no guide mentions (combo data, guide data).
- Inferred: Net +1 card advantage from discarding 1 to add 2.; No evidence of an in-archetype searcher, so it is hard-drawn as a 3-of.; The GY banish provides a second use and Level reduction that supports Tribute Summoning Simorgh bosses.
- 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