Spell
ContinuousSummon Cloud
Archetype:
Cloudian
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Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you don't control any monsters, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Cloudian" monster from your hand or from either player's Graveyard. If you Special Summon a monster from the Graveyard with this effect, destroy this card.
Summon Cloud — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 42 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Summon Cloud scores in the low 40s because it turns an empty monster zone into one Level 4 or lower Cloudian body from hand, or from either Graveyard at the cost of destroying itself. Its 13-deck footprint is almost entirely Cloudian builds (7 Cloudian-named decks, and Cloudian partners in 10 of 13), so the score reflects archetype-locked fit rather than generic power. Its stats are 0 and it has no interaction, so neither earned points, and the absence of any combo evidence keeps the combo axis at text-based inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Playable from hand and live only in your Main Phase, once per turn, while you control no monsters, which is a real but narrow board state (verified text; 13 decks run it, observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Converts a clean board into one Level 4 or lower Cloudian body, with no evidence of a further board or payoff chain (inferred; no combo examples supplied). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Hand summons are card-neutral and the Graveyard route is a recursion of one monster that costs this card, so there is no net advantage (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | It summons a body but is not itself material, and the summoned Cloudian's material value is outside this card's text (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | It sits face-up as a Continuous Spell that is exposed to backrow removal and cannot run while you control monsters (inferred from text and race). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | It is a single-slot card with no garnet cost, but it is archetype-locked to Cloudian monsters and averages 2.23 copies per deck (observed; inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Recovery / Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 42, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Summons a Level 4 or lower Cloudian from hand with no extra cost beyond the empty-field condition (verified text)
- Graveyard route recovers a monster from either Graveyard (verified text)
- Strong archetype fit: Cloudian partners such as Smoke Ball, Altus and Cirrostratus appear in 10 of 13 decks (observed)
Weaknesses
- Requires controlling no monsters and is once per turn (verified text)
- Graveyard summon destroys itself (verified text)
- No combo evidence, so board conversion is not measured (data gap)
- Heavily archetype-locked: 7 of 13 decks are Cloudian-named builds (observed)
Counters / choke points
- Monsters on your field shut off the effect (verified text)
- Backrow removal of a face-up Continuous Spell (inferred)
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler (Cloudian). Decks: Cloudian. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell, Main Phase, once per turn, requires controlling no monsters; Summons a Level 4 or lower Cloudian from hand or either Graveyard; Graveyard route destroys this card
- Observed: Run in 13 decks, 7 of them Cloudian-named, averaging 2.23 copies; Cloudian partners co-occur in 10 of 13 decks
- Inferred: Graveyard route is a recursion line with no net card advantage; No further board escalation is evidenced, so combo conversion is text-only; Face-up Continuous Spell is exposed to backrow removal
- 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 legal_copies empty for all formats