Spell
ContinuousSpringans Booty
Archetype:
Springans
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If a face-up Xyz Monster you control leaves the field by card effect: You can target 1 Effect Monster your opponent controls; neither player can activate that Effect Monster's effects on the field this turn. You can send this face-up card to the GY; activate 1 "Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda" directly from your Deck or GY. You can only use each effect of "Springans Booty" once per turn.
Springans Booty — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Springans Booty is a Continuous Spell whose value is conversion: it sends itself from the field to the GY to activate Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda from Deck or GY, and its other effect soft-locks one opposing Effect Monster for a turn once a face-up Xyz you control leaves the field by effect. The 400-deck sample shows it in 3 copies in 344 decks and as a near-universal Springans staple, which confirms it is live, but that frequency does not raise the score (guardrail 3). The single observed board (power index 100) supports a conversion role, but one sample is too thin to lift the conversion axis above the mid-range, and the Xyz-leave condition plus the once-per-turn limits keep the interaction and resilience axes modest. It has no material value at all, which the rubric scores as near zero.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | 3 copies in 344 of 400 decks and a 2.82 average copies per deck show it is routinely present, but the Xyz-leave condition and the lack of as_starter or as_searched evidence cap it (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | The one recorded board (power index 100) is a real Springans line that links it to Golgonda, but a single sample is not enough to score a full one-card-into-board conversion (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The GY send plus the Deck/GY activation of Golgonda is a recursion-style refuel, and the example board shows netCardAdvantage of 5 (observed, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Targeting one opposing Effect Monster and stopping its effects for the turn is a soft, conditional lock that depends on an Xyz leaving the field by effect (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Continuous Spell has no material, level, or attribute value, so the score is near zero (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Both effects are once per turn and gated on a field condition, so the card is easy to strand; the 3-copy redundancy only partly offsets this (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Three copies run in most Springans decks with no garnet or lock, but the card is tied to a single archetype home, so it is not splashable (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Negation/Interaction. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Routinely run at 3 copies across most Springans decks, so it is consistently accessible in its home
- Converts a field card into activation of Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda from Deck or GY (a recursion-style refuel)
- Can shut down one opposing Effect Monster's effects for a turn when an Xyz leaves the field by effect
Weaknesses
- Continuous Spell with no material or body value
- Both effects are once per turn and need a face-up Xyz to leave the field by effect
- Only one recorded board in the combo evidence, so conversion is weakly observed
- Archetype-locked home; no evidence of use outside Springans
Counters / choke points
- Opponent's effects that remove or negate face-up Xyz monsters stop the lock trigger
- Effect negation on the activation stops its send-to-GY activation
Best use
Combo enabler with a soft lock on the Xyz-leave trigger. Decks: Springans. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with an Xyz-leave condition, a target-and-lock effect, and a send-to-GY effect that activates Golgonda from Deck or GY; Both effects are once per turn (card text); 3 copies in 344 of 400 decks; avg 2.82 copies per deck
- Observed: Appears in 1 of 1 recorded combo, with power index 100 and netCardAdvantage 5; Golgonda is a top partner in 97.8% of decks; Springans Rockey and Springans Merrymaker are in 100% of decks
- Inferred: Primary role is Combo enabler: the GY send is a link into Golgonda rather than a standalone effect; Soft-lock value depends on an Xyz leaving the field, so interaction is conditional; distinct_archetypes of 34 is inflated by repeated archetype names (Springans x3, Therion/Therions, Branded x2), so GenericUtility is capped low
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combos_evidence has a single recorded board, so conversion and resource scores are thinly grounded no as_searched or as_starter observations for this card top_card_context shows no ranking, so the card is not confirmed at top-card scale distinct_archetypes counts duplicate archetype names as separate homes