Spell
NormalTenacity of the Monarchs
Archetype:
Monarch
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Reveal 1 monster in your hand with 2400 ATK & 1000 DEF, or 2800 ATK & 1000 DEF; add 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand, except "Tenacity of the Monarchs". You can only activate 1 "Tenacity of the Monarchs" per turn.
Tenacity of the Monarchs — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler, Starter
Why it scores here
Tenacity of the Monarchs is a pure consistency engine: it converts a revealable 2400/1000 or 2800/1000 monster in hand into a searched 'Monarch' Spell/Trap such as Domain, Stormforth or Pantheism. Its 400/400 main-deck appearance at 2.79 average copies confirms it is the backbone of the Monarch archetype, but that reliability is deck-specific — the text is archetype-locked and provides no board presence, no disruption and no material. Because it is a Normal Spell with 0 ATK/DEF, high stats earn nothing here; the score is driven almost entirely by accessibility and clean deck-building cost, not by any standalone effect.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Requires revealing a 2400/1000 or 2800/1000 monster in hand to resolve, but is run at 3 copies in 332/400 decks (avg 2.79), so it is reliably drawn though condition-gated (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | With no combo data supplied this is text-only: it fetches a Monarch Spell/Trap target (Domain/Stormforth/Pantheism), enabling lines but doing nothing on its own (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 56 | It trades itself for one deck card (a search), roughly card-neutral with thinning/quality upside, gated by a once-per-turn activation (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The card itself provides no disruption or removal; any interaction is only accessed indirectly through the Spell/Trap it searches (verified). |
| Material Utility | 8 | As a Normal Spell it cannot be used as material and contributes no body, level, or attribute (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 48 | It is vulnerable to any search-negation and is dead without a matching Monarch in hand, though it can be reused on later turns subject to its once-per-turn clause (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 72 | Near-free-roll 3-of in Monarch (332/400 run the maximum), with no extra garnet beyond the Monarch bodies the deck already plays, but it is archetype-locked (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked text (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- High-impact consistency card that turns a revealable Monarch body into the deck's key Spell/Trap (Domain, Stormforth, Prime Monarch, Pantheism).
- Near-mandatory 3-of in Monarch lists: 332/400 decks run the maximum and average 2.79 copies.
- Requires no extra garnet beyond Monarch monsters the deck already plays, making the slot cost clean.
- Targets multiple strong payoffs, so the search rarely bricks when the condition is met.
Weaknesses
- Dead without a 2400/1000 or 2800/1000 monster in hand — the reveal condition gates every use.
- Restricted to searching only 'Monarch' Spell/Traps, so it has no value in non-Monarch decks.
- No board presence, no disruption and no material value of its own.
- Once-per-turn activation limits reuse within a turn.
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring negates the deck search.
- Droll & Lock Bird punishes the search-heavy turn.
- Mistake and similar search-locking floodgates.
- Any effect that strips the Monarch monster from hand makes it unplayable.
Best use
Consistency searcher for Monarch Spell/Traps. Decks: Monarch, True Draco (Monarch hybrid). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: reveal a monster in hand with 2400 ATK & 1000 DEF or 2800 ATK & 1000 DEF, add 1 'Monarch' Spell/Trap from Deck except 'Tenacity of the Monarchs'.; Card text: only 1 'Tenacity of the Monarchs' can be activated per turn.; Legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel.; Runs in 400/400 analyzed decks, all in the main deck.
- Observed: 332 of 400 decks run 3 copies; average copies per deck is 2.79.; 74.2% of decks are Monarch archetype; 28 distinct archetypes touch it.; Co-deck rates: Pantheism 98.5%, The Prime Monarch 95.8%, Erebus 94.5%, Stormforth 92%.; Usage statistics: ~55.6-57.1% inclusion at 3 typical copies across Monarch variants.
- Inferred: Functions as a consistency searcher that fetches Domain, Stormforth or Pantheism.; Provides no standalone board, disruption or material value.; Dead as a card when no qualifying Monarch-statline monster is in hand.; Roughly card-neutral in advantage (self for one deck card) with quality upside.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combo data empty (appearances 0, no examples), so appearance rate and power index are unavailable