Spell
FieldThe Weather Forecast
Archetype:
The Weather
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When this card is activated: You can place 1 "The Weather" Spell/Trap from your Deck face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone. You can only use each of the following effects of "The Weather Forecast" once per turn. If you Link Summon a "The Weather" Link Monster, you can also use face-up "The Weather" cards in your Spell & Trap Zone as "The Weather" monsters for its Link Summon. During your Main Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "The Weather" monster from your hand. You can only activate 1 "The Weather Forecast" per turn.
The Weather Forecast — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
The Weather Forecast is a theme engine piece: its main value is placing a face-up The Weather Spell/Trap from the Deck into the Spell & Trap Zone, which makes it a reliable route into the archetype's field cards. It also enables a once-per-turn Link Summon and a Normal Summon from hand, but the combo evidence is empty, so its conversion into a board is inferred from text alone. The 3-copy presence in 396 of 400 decks and the 100% partner rate confirm it is a live, required piece of The Weather, not a power signal; those frequencies earn accessibility and deck fit only, and the score stays moderate because the card has no interaction and its use is confined to one archetype.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 85 | Played 3 copies in 396 of 400 decks, all in The Weather archetype at 89.2% of decks, and the Deck-to-field placement route is text-stated (observed + verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No recorded combo boards, so conversion into a full board is inferred only from the placement and Link Summon text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Spell is consumed while placing one card from Deck to field, roughly even exchange plus a Normal Summon from hand, with no recorded netCardAdvantage data (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Text grants no negation, removal or hand-trap effect against the opponent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 20 | Once activated it leaves the field to the GY, so its own body contributes little as material; the Weather S/T link-material clause refers to other cards (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A single Spell with a once-per-turn activation limit and no protection from negation; redundancy comes only from 3 copies (verified + inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Theme-locked to The Weather with no garnet or lock restriction, and a 3-copy staple that fits every archetype home (verified + observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Places a The Weather Spell/Trap from Deck face-up, a reliable route into the theme's field cards
- Live in 396 of 400 recent decks at 3 copies, with 100% partner presence for the Weather Painter line
- Low deckbuilding cost: no garnet or lock, redundant copies are fine
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction of any kind
- Archetype-locked: about 89% of its decks are The Weather, so it has little value outside that home
- Single-use per turn activation; a negate ends the line
- Own body has little material value once activated
Counters / choke points
- Generic negation (e.g. Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring style) on activation
- Hand traps that stop the Deck placement before resolution
Best use
Searcher/Tutor (places from Deck to Spell & Trap Zone) with an extender clause. Decks: The Weather. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Activation places 1 The Weather Spell/Trap from Deck face-up in the Spell & Trap Zone (card text); Once-per-turn limit on each effect and 1 activation per turn (card text); Field-as-monster Link Summon clause and Normal Summon from hand clause (card text); 3 copies in 396 of 400 decks; 100% partner rate for Weather Painter line (deck data)
- Observed: The Weather archetype inclusion 100% at typical copies 3 (usage statistics); Guide describes The Weather as a slow control deck relying on Weather Painter and Link monsters (guide data)
- Inferred: Placement route makes the card highly accessible in The Weather; Deck-to-field placement makes the card roughly even on resources; Negation-based interaction would stop the line
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) card text is garbled in the Main Phase clause ('Immediately after this effect resolves' has no clear trigger), so timing is partly inferred no ruling or starter-count data to measure deck resilience