Single Purchase

Single Purchase — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 24 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 26 · Deck: 28 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Searcher / Tutor · Secondary: Utility

Why it scores here

Single Purchase is a narrow Deck tutor whose value is gutted by how rarely it is actually live: it only activates when you hold 3+ other cards and none of them are monsters, so in most opening hands it is simply dead. Even when it resolves it trades your entire hand (banished face-up) for a single monster and then locks you out of Normal or Special Summoning anything except monsters with that exact name for the rest of the turn, so the payoff is a one-name play rather than a real board. It brings no body, no interaction, and no follow-up, so its lack of ATK/DEF is irrelevant here — the card earns its low score on reliability and deck cost, not on stats. Only 8 sampled decks run it, at ~1.12 copies, with no combo placements recorded.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Single role: Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 26, Deck ≈ 28, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Generic Normal Spell that can be run in any deck without archetype requirements
• Tutors any monster from the Deck to hand when its condition is met
• Only costs about one deck slot (~1.12 copies average in the sample)

Weaknesses

• Activation requires 3+ other cards in hand with none of them monsters, making it dead in most opening hands
• Banishes your entire hand face-up as part of the effect, a heavy card-advantage loss
• Locks all further Normal and Special Summons to monsters with the fetched name for the rest of the turn
• Provides no interaction, removal, or body on its own
• Not archetype-searchable from within the Deck

Counters / choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring negates the Deck-to-hand search
• Hand disruption or monster-heavy hands make the activation condition impossible
• Any effect that empties or pressures the hand before resolution turns the condition off

Best use

Niche one-name tutor in decks built to hold non-monster hands. Decks: Runick, Greed-style all-Spell builds, Book of engine decks. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Text: activates only if you have 3+ cards in hand other than this card and none of them are monsters; Text: banishes your entire hand face-up, then adds 1 monster from Deck to hand; Text: after resolving you cannot Normal or Special Summon except monsters with that name for the rest of the turn; Card is a Normal Spell with 0 ATK/DEF and no archetype
• Observed: 8 sampled decks run it, all in the main deck, at an average of 1.12 copies (max 2); 5 distinct archetypes appear in the deck sample, most commonly Runick, Greed, and Book of; Recurring partners include A/D Changer, Morphing Jar, Card Destruction, Upstart Goblin, and Foolish Burial (75% co-deck rate)
• Inferred: The all-non-monster hand condition makes the card dead in most normal openings; Banishing the whole hand for one search is a net loss of two or more cards; The summon lock to the fetched name means the card enables only a single-name follow-up, not a full board; Because it is a Spell with no body it offers no material value of its own
• 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