Spell
ContinuousTri-Brigade Stand-Off
Archetype:
Tri-Brigade
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You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck, except Beast, Beast-Warrior, or Winged Beast monsters. You can send 1 monster from your hand or field to the GY; add 1 "Tri-Brigade" monster from your Deck to your hand with a different original Type than that monster sent to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Tri-Brigade Stand-Off" once per turn. If this card in its owner's Spell & Trap Zone is destroyed by an opponent's card effect: You can activate this effect; your opponent cannot declare an attack this turn.
Tri-Brigade Stand-Off — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Tri-Brigade Stand-Off is a continuous Spell whose main value is a discard-to-search engine: it sends 1 monster from hand or field to the GY and adds a different-Type Tri-Brigade monster from the Deck, once per turn. That converts a dead card into a live Tri-Brigade body but nets roughly even card count, so resource_economy stays near 50. The Extra Deck summon restriction is a real self-cost outside the Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast types, and it is the main reason deckbuilding_efficiency is below 50. Its high deck attachment (118 of 118 sampled decks, 37 archetype IDs, co-listed with the Tri-Brigade core) confirms it is a reliably played engine, but that frequency is not counted as power. The score is held down by the absence of combo evidence and by its weak material and interaction output.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Sampled in 118 of 118 decks at 1.52 average copies, so it is a live hand card whenever a Tri-Brigade monster is available to discard (deck-observed, with the engine condition inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Converts one Tri-Brigade monster into a different-Type Tri-Brigade search, but no recorded boards exist to measure its conversion (text-inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 52 | Discard-to-search is a one-for-one exchange that improves card quality without net card advantage (text-verified, with no board stat). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The GY-activated can't-attack effect only triggers after the card is destroyed by an opponent's card effect, so opponent interaction is soft and situational (text-verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell gives no material body, so this axis is near zero (text-verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | A continuous Spell is safe from monster-targeted removal and gains a GY effect after destruction, but it is exposed to Spell/Trap removal (text-inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | The Extra Deck summon restriction is a mild self-lock for non-Beast-type Extra Deck monsters, and the card is splashable at no garnet cost (text-verified, with the restriction's effect on decks inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking Extra Deck restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Discard-to-search engine that turns a weak hand card into a live Tri-Brigade monster
- Deck attachment is near-universal across the sample (118 of 118 decks), confirming a reliable role in the archetype
- Cheap to run at 1.5 copies on average, with no garnet cost
- Continuous Spell is resistant to monster-targeted removal
Weaknesses
- No recorded combo boards, so conversion and starter/payoff roles are text-inferred only
- Net card advantage is zero, so the search does not add resources
- The Extra Deck summon restriction penalises non-Beast Extra Deck monsters
- The can't-attack effect is conditional on the card being destroyed by an opponent's card effect
Counters / choke points
- Opponent Spell/Trap removal, which destroys the card before its engine is used (inference)
- Negation of the search effect, which stops the discard-to-search conversion (inference)
- Opponent monster-body interaction that leaves the Tri-Brigade body without a discard target (inference)
Best use
Searcher engine for Tri-Brigade, with a discard-to-search function. Decks: Tri-Brigade. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with a once-per-turn discard-to-search effect and a GY-activated can't-attack effect, per card text; Extra Deck summon restriction exempts Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast types, per card text; Sampled in 118 of 118 decks at 1.52 average copies
- Observed: Co-listed with Tri-Brigade Fraktall in 100% of sampled decks; Distribution of 76 single-copy, 23 two-copy and 19 three-copy decks
- Inferred: The discard-to-search engine is the card's main practical role; The Extra Deck restriction is a meaningful self-lock for non-Beast Extra Deck monsters; The can't-attack effect is a rare, situational protective line
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only no average starter count when present, so DeckResilience is inferred from copies and archetype spread