Spell
ContinuousStar Pendulumgraph
Archetype:
Magician
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Your opponent cannot target Spellcaster-Type monsters you control with Spell Cards or effects. If a face-up "Magician" Pendulum Monster Card(s) leaves your Monster Zone or Pendulum Zone: Add 1 "Magician" Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Star Pendulumgraph" once per turn.
Star Pendulumgraph — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Star Pendulumgraph converts Pendulum Magician board events into card advantage: when a face-up Magician Pendulum monster leaves the field, it adds one Magician Pendulum from the Deck to hand, once per turn. Its targeting protection for Spellcaster monsters is soft interaction rather than negation. Its 400/400 deck presence and 1-copy slot confirm that it is practical and cheap to run, but that frequency does not by itself earn points. Its high-profile partners and the single recorded combo do not show it driving board conversion, so combo_conversion stays low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | It is in all 400 sampled decks at about one copy each, but it is a Continuous Spell reached through the ordinary draw and search of other cards, with no searcher listed in the evidence (observed; 400 decks). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The only recorded combo (id 964) includes it with a power index of 35, and it is never recorded as a starter, searched, material or payoff piece (observed; 1 combo). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Its leave-the-field trigger adds one Magician Pendulum from the Deck to hand, once per turn, which is a repeatable conditional +1 card (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | It stops opponent Spells and effects from targeting Spellcaster monsters, which is protective rather than negating and only matters against those specific interactions (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 0 | As a Spell it cannot be used as material, so it contributes nothing to the Extra Deck or Level-based lines (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It is a face-up Continuous Spell that can be destroyed like any backrow, and its search only works after a Pendulum monster leaves the field (inferred from card text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It is a single-copy, non-garnet staple that costs one slot and has no locking restriction (observed; avg copies 1.03, no garnet clause in text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Utility (secondary role blend). Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Conditional once-per-turn search of a Magician Pendulum monster when a Pendulum monster leaves the field
- Protects Spellcaster monsters from opponent Spell and effect targeting
- Near-universal 1-copy inclusion in the sampled Magician Pendulum decks with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- Cannot be used as material and has no board or body presence of its own
- Search depends on a Pendulum monster leaving the field first
- Protection is limited to Spellcaster monsters against Spell and effect targeting
Counters / choke points
- Opponent backrow removal or destruction of the Continuous Spell
- Interactions that do not target Spellcaster monsters with Spells or effects, which the protection does not cover
Best use
Support Continuous Spell providing conditional search and Spellcaster protection in Magician Pendulum lines. Decks: Pendulum Magician, Supreme King, Dark Magician, Odd-Eyes, Performapal, Magician Girls. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with Magician archetype text; Targeting protection for Spellcaster monsters against opponent Spells and effects; Once-per-turn add of one Magician Pendulum monster from Deck when a face-up Magician Pendulum monster leaves the field; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 1.03 average copies
- Observed: Appears in 1 of 1 recorded combos with power index 35 and no starter, searched, material or payoff role; Inclusion across 13 distinct archetypes, dominated by Pendulum-based archetypes
- Inferred: Cannot be material, so its body value is zero; Its practical search route depends on Pendulum monsters leaving the field, which the combo evidence does not measure; Its deck presence is driven largely by the Pendulum core rather than its standalone effect
- Data gaps: no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) only one recorded combo, so combo_conversion rests on a single board no searcher or material tables in evidence, so the search route is unmeasured no rulings available in the evidence