FIRE
4Springans Brothers
Archetype:
Springans
ATK:
300
DEF:
1800
View:
4421
If this card is sent from the hand or Deck to the GY: You can target 1 "Springans" monster in your GY, except "Springans Brothers"; Special Summon it in Defense Position. If this card is in your hand, field, or GY: You can target 1 "Springans" Xyz Monster you control; attach this card to it as material. You can only use each effect of "Springans Brothers" once per turn.
Springans Brothers — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Recovery / Recursion
Why it scores here
Springans Brothers scores on what it converts into: a Level 4 Fire Machine body that is a material for Springans Xyz monsters and can return a Springans from the GY to the field in Defense Position. Its effects work from hand, deck, field and GY, which gives it multi-zone resilience and cheap, clean deckbuilding, but it has no interaction and its combo sample is a single board, so the score stays moderate. Its 300 ATK and 1800 DEF earn no points, and its 400-deck presence reflects Springans consistency rather than intrinsic strength (guardrail 3).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live from hand or deck via its send-to-GY trigger and present in all 400 sampled decks at 1.78 copies average, but it has no searcher and needs a Springans partner to be useful (observed; send-trigger access is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The only recorded board uses it as material with a power index of 100 and a starter count of 0, but the Special Summon from GY adds just one extra body, so conversion is fair rather than explosive (observed; the single sample is thin). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The GY-to-field Special Summon recovers one Springans body from the graveyard, and the net advantage of its one board is +5, so it is a modest recursion rather than a repeated refuel (observed). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card text has no negate, removal or hand-trap effect, so it gives no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 65 | Combo evidence places it as material in 100% of its one appearance, and its Level 4 Fire Machine body still works as material when its effects are negated (verified text; observed combo role). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 70 | Both effects work from multiple zones (hand, deck, field, GY) and are once per turn each, which gives multi-zone, multi-turn reach against common interruption (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It has no garnet or lock and is run at 1 to 3 copies, but its targets are restricted to Springans cards, which limits it to that build (verified text; observed copy counts). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body / Normal + 0.3 Recovery / Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean material body that still converts when its effects are negated
- Effects usable from hand, deck, field and GY, giving multi-zone reach
- Recovers a Springans monster from the GY to the field
- Near free-roll, cheap to run at 1 to 3 copies
Weaknesses
- No interaction or negation of any kind
- Targets are restricted to Springans, so its value is tied to that archetype
- Adds only one body per use, so board conversion is modest
- Thin combo evidence (one recorded board)
Counters / choke points
- Generic hand traps or negates that stop its once-per-turn effects
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (appears in 69% of sampled decks alongside it) and similar hand-based interruption
Best use
Xyz material enabler with GY-to-field recursion. Decks: Springans. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect 1: sent from hand or deck to GY, target 1 other Springans monster in GY and Special Summon it in Defense Position; Effect 2: from hand, field or GY, target 1 Springans Xyz monster you control and attach this card as material; Each effect is once per turn; No negate, removal or hand-trap text
- Observed: Present in all 400 sampled decks, average 1.78 copies (mostly 2); Main deck in 400 decks, 84.5% in gameplay type 7; Appears as material in 1 of 1 recorded boards with power index 100; Top partners include Springans Merrymaker (99.5%) and Gigantic "Champion" Sargas (95%)
- Inferred: Reliable access depends on a send-to-GY event or a Springans partner, since there is no searcher; Material-body role is the primary purpose, with recursion as a secondary effect
- Data gaps: No banlist token, so the card is assumed to be unlimited (3 copies) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available, so inclusion is inferred from the 400-deck sample only Combo evidence is a single board, so combo conversion and synergy are low-confidence Springans appears under three archetype IDs (823, 2092, 1276), which may be a duplicate name in the data Guide evidence is one snippet and does not describe this card's role in detail