Spell of Mask
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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717
Activate the following Skill(s). ● If a Ritual Summoned "The Masked Beast" you control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect, you can Special Summon "Masked Beast Des Gardius" from your hand, Deck or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions. ● You can Tribute 1 "Masked Beast Des Gardius", then add 1 "The Masked Beast" and 1 "Curse of the Masked Beast" from your Deck and/or GY to your hand. Each of these Skills can only be used once per Duel.
Spell of Mask — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 21 ± 6 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 24 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Spell of Mask is a Skill Card that only functions inside a Masked Beast Ritual shell, so nearly all of its value is contingent rather than generic. Its first clause needs a Ritual Summoned "The Masked Beast" to already be on board AND be destroyed by an opponent's card effect before it does anything, and its second clause needs a "Masked Beast Des Gardius" to be Tributed, so its ceiling is gated behind a multi-piece, opponent-dependent setup. When it does fire, the payoff is real but modest: a free Special Summon of Des Gardius ignoring its conditions plus a two-card refuel of The Masked Beast and Curse of the Masked Beast. High stats and the lore-heavy body earn no points here — no decks, combos, guides, or usage statistics were supplied, so the score rests almost entirely on the card text.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 15 | The Skill is always 'available' in its format, but its trigger requires a Ritual Summoned "The Masked Beast" you control to be destroyed by an opponent's card effect, which is conditional and opponent-driven (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 22 | It converts a multi-piece Masked Beast board into a free "Masked Beast Des Gardius" plus a two-card hand refill, but only after the required setup and destruction condition are met (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The second clause Tributes one "Masked Beast Des Gardius" to add "The Masked Beast" and "Curse of the Masked Beast" from Deck and/or GY, a genuine but setup-gated +2 refuel that restarts the Ritual loop (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 8 | No clause removes, negates, or disrupts anything on the opponent's side; both Skills are purely self-referential value (verified). |
| Material Utility | 12 | The Skill itself provides no body or material, only conditionally Special Summons "Masked Beast Des Gardius" as a large Level-8 body usable as material if the trigger is met (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 15 | Each Skill is once per Duel, the summon trigger is opponent-dependent, and if "The Masked Beast" is never destroyed by an opponent's effect the summon clause is dead all game (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 25 | Using it forces a committed Masked Beast package (The Masked Beast, Curse of the Masked Beast, Masked Beast Des Gardius) with no observed slot efficiency data to offset the cost (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 24, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Narrow locked theme package (-3). Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (no decks AND no combos supplied; Deck = null, provisional)
Strengths
- Special Summons "Masked Beast Des Gardius" from hand, Deck or GY ignoring its Summoning conditions once the trigger is met (verified).
- Second clause is a real two-card refuel, adding "The Masked Beast" plus "Curse of the Masked Beast" from Deck and/or GY to restart the Ritual play (verified).
- Recursion from both Deck and GY means the loop can be rebuilt even after prior plays (verified).
Weaknesses
- Every effect is conditional: the summon needs a Ritual Summoned "The Masked Beast" destroyed specifically by an opponent's card effect (verified).
- The refuel clause requires Tributing the summoned "Masked Beast Des Gardius", giving up the body it just produced (verified).
- Both Skills are once per Duel, so there is no repeatable engine value (verified).
- Provides zero interaction with the opponent; it is pure self-referential advantage (verified).
- No deck, combo, guide, or usage evidence exists to show the line is practical at scale (observed).
Counters / choke points
- Non-destruction removal (banish/return/Tribute) on "The Masked Beast" never triggers the summon clause (inferred).
- Destroying "The Masked Beast" with a monster-effect or battle instead of a card effect misses the trigger (inferred).
- Effect negation or D.D. Crow-style GY disruption answers the recursion before it resolves (inferred).
Best use
Recursion engine and Des Gardius enabler for the Masked Beast Ritual line. Decks: Masked Beast Ritual (Skill format). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: First Skill: if a Ritual Summoned "The Masked Beast" you control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect, Special Summon "Masked Beast Des Gardius" from hand, Deck or GY ignoring its Summoning conditions.; Second Skill: Tribute 1 "Masked Beast Des Gardius", then add 1 "The Masked Beast" and 1 "Curse of the Masked Beast" from Deck and/or GY to hand.; Each Skill can only be used once per Duel.; Card is a Skill Card with ATK/DEF 0 and no archetype tag.
- Observed: 0 appearances across 0 recorded decks and 0 recorded combo boards (no practical usage sample).; No guides and no usage statistics rows exist for this card.
- Inferred: Primary function is recursion/refuel of the Masked Beast Ritual pieces, with a secondary end-board role via the free Des Gardius summon.; The line is exposed to non-destruction removal, battle destruction, and effect negation on the trigger.; Running it implies a committed Masked Beast package in the deck.
- Data gaps: no decks supplied — deck/synergy signals unavailable no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited); Skill Cards are not part of the Main Deck, so legal copies is empty no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no metagame sample supplied — meta power left null/provisional