Spell
NormalThe Warrior Returning Alive
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Target 1 Warrior-Type monster in your Graveyard; add that target to your hand.
The Warrior Returning Alive — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
The card converts a Warrior-Type monster already in the Graveyard back into a hand card, so it reliably turns a spent Warrior into a fresh resource but never creates a board by itself. Its score comes from being a clean, one-copy-friendly spell that 171 sampled decks run, mostly alongside Warrior-support staples such as Reinforcement of the Army. The high-quality text and wide deck presence do not raise the score beyond a 1-for-1 recursion; no combo evidence was supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Needs a Warrior-Type monster in the Graveyard before it is live, which Warrior decks usually supply; 171 decks run it, but it is not a hand-start card (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Text is a single target-and-add with no board creation; no combo data appearances exist to confirm any conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Spends one card to return one card, so the net advantage is roughly even, with no extra draw or repeated gain (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card, so it cannot serve as a material body and offers no level, attribute, or name value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A Spell in hand that can be negated with no fallback, and it has only one live zone for its effect (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Single-copy-friendly (119 of 171 decks run one copy) with no garnet or lock restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Turns a Graveyard Warrior back into a hand card, a clean recovery route for Warrior-based decks
- Runs in 171 sampled decks across 65 archetypes, so it is accessible in practice
- Low deckbuilding cost: most decks run one copy and there are no garnet restrictions
Weaknesses
- Does nothing without a Warrior-Type monster already in the Graveyard
- Card-for-card return with no added advantage or board presence
- No opponent interaction, and a spell that can be negated with no backup
Counters / choke points
- Generic spell negation (no specific counter named in the evidence)
Best use
Graveyard recovery of a Warrior-Type monster in Warrior-support decks. Decks: Heroic, Synchron, Junk, Battlin' Boxer, Black Luster Soldier. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: target 1 Warrior-Type monster in your Graveyard and add it to your hand; Spell Card with no negation, removal, or material text; 171 sampled decks, 119 of which run one copy (copies avg 1.45, max 3)
- Observed: Reinforcement of the Army co-appears in 66.7% of decks running this card; Runs across 65 distinct archetypes, led by Heroic at 15.2%
- Inferred: Live only when a Warrior is in the Graveyard, which Warrior-based decks usually provide; Negatable spell with no fallback, so resilience is modest
- 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); inclusion inferred from the 171-deck sample only