Spacegate

Spacegate — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 23 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 24 · Deck: 23 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion

Why it scores here

Spacegate is a slow, battle-dependent Continuous Trap whose only payoff is Special Summoning a monster from hand once it has accumulated Gate Counters. It converts nothing on its own: it must be drawn, set, survive a turn, and then watch opposing monsters attack or be attacked before its Main Phase send-to-Graveyard effect can summon a hand monster whose Level is under the counter count. No combo or guide evidence exists, and the summon is limited to hand and to a single use, so it reliably produces at most one extra body and never disrupts the opponent. The card's ATK/DEF are 0 and grant no points; its score is driven entirely by its poor accessibility, negligible interaction, and heavy setup cost.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default) weights. Intrinsic ≈ 24, Deck ≈ 23, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Can Special Summon a monster from hand without using the Normal Summon or paying a cost, once enough Gate Counters exist.
• No archetype or attribute lock, so the summoned body is unrestricted.
• Level ceiling scales with counters, in principle allowing a large hand monster if the duel drags on.

Weaknesses

• Requires a set turn and repeated battle involving opposing monsters to gain any counters at all.
• Summons only from hand at a net card loss, and only once, since it sends itself to the Graveyard.
• Provides no disruption, removal, or negation whatsoever.
• Completely dead if the opponent refuses to attack or removes it before the Main Phase.

Counters / choke points

• Backrow removal such as Mystical Space Typhoon or Cosmic Cyclone before counters accumulate.
• Negating the Trap's activation or effect (e.g. Solemn Judgment or a Trap negator).
• Simply not attacking, denying the Gate Counter accumulation entirely.
• Removing the set card during the End Phase before it can be used.

Best use

Slow conditional hand-summon outlet. Decks: Utility / tech Trap shells (unverified in sample). Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: places 1 Gate Counter each time an opponent's monster attacks or is attacked, at the end of the Damage Step.; Card text: during your Main Phase you can send this card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 monster from hand with Level ≤ the number of Gate Counters.; It is a Continuous Trap with 0 ATK and 0 DEF and no archetype.
• Observed: decks_evidence: runs in 1 deck at exactly 1 copy, main deck.; combos_evidence: 0 appearances across recorded combos, 0 as_starter, 0 as_material, 0 as_payoff.; 0 guides mention the card.
• Inferred: Because it is a Trap, it needs a set turn before it can be used, and its effect requires an intervening battle, making it inherently slow.; Sending itself to the Graveyard to summon one hand monster is roughly card-neutral but requires prior setup, so its realistic output is one body at most.
• 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 a single generic list, so synergy signals are not meaningful