Spell
ContinuousWailing of the Unchained Souls
Archetype:
Unchained
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If you Link Summon an "Unchained" Link Monster: You can target 1 card on the field; destroy it. If this Set card is destroyed by card effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Unchained" monster from your Deck. You can only use each effect of "Wailing of the Unchained Souls" once per turn.
Wailing of the Unchained Souls — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
The card's value is a conditional, once-per-turn destroy on Unchained Link Summon, plus a second effect that Special Summons an Unchained monster from the Deck when the set card is destroyed by a card effect. That gives it flexible removal that is hard to answer with a single card and a second, card-neutral payoff if the card is hit. Its 400/400 presence in the sample confirms it is a real staple in Unchained lines, but that frequency does not raise the score; the lack of combo evidence keeps combo conversion and the band wide.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set Spell that is main-deck in all 400 sampled decks (avg 1.09 copies), but it is not searchable and needs an Unchained Link monster to fire (verified; access route itself is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards recorded and the text only gives a removal trigger and a Deck-to-field summon, so conversion is inferred from text alone (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 65 | Destroying a card on Link Summon is a one-for-zero without spending the card itself, and the destruction-to-summon effect returns a Deck monster when it dies to card effects (verified text; net value inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 70 | Targets any one card on the field with no restriction when the Link Summon condition is met, a flexible destroy effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card with no material, level, or attribute value (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Set-zone exposure is partly offset because destruction by card effect triggers its second effect; each effect is limited to once per turn (verified text; resilience weighting inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | A single copy in one backrow slot with no garnet or lock, but it needs an Unchained Link line to function (verified text; slot cost inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Flexible once-per-turn destroy on any field card when an Unchained Link is Link Summoned
- Second effect converts destruction by card effect into a Deck-to-field Unchained monster, so the card is not dead when hit
- Single-copy, low-cost slot in the sampled decks (avg 1.09 copies)
Weaknesses
- Requires an Unchained Link Summon to use the destroy effect
- Each effect is once per turn
- Sits face-down in the Spell/Trap zone where backrow removal can reach it
Counters / choke points
- Spell/Trap destruction effects that remove the set card before it can be used (inferred)
- Negation of its trigger on activation (inferred)
Best use
Removal and Deck-to-field recovery in Unchained Link lines. Decks: Unchained. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Destroy-1-card effect on Unchained Link Summon, once per turn; Deck Special Summon of an Unchained monster when destroyed by card effect, once per turn; Present in 400/400 sampled decks, avg 1.09 copies; Top partners are Unchained support cards at 89-100% co-occurrence
- Observed: Unchained archetype accounts for 40.2% of decks; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 74.8% of decks; Spread across 45 archetypes in the sample
- Inferred: Removal and recursion together make the card hard to play around in Unchained lines; The 45-archetype spread is not explained by the card text, which requires Unchained monsters, so it does not raise the score
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only 45-archetype spread conflicts with the Unchained-only text and is unexplained by the evidence