LIGHTWind-Up Zenmaintenance
Archetype:
Wind-Up
ATK:
1800
LINK-2
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2 "Wind-Up" monsters If this card is destroyed and sent to the GY: You can target 1 "Wind-Up" Xyz Monster you control; attach this card to it as material. You can only use each of the following effects of "Wind-Up Zenmaintenance" once per turn. ● If this card is Link Summoned: You can add 1 "Wind-Up" card from your Deck to your hand. ● You can banish 1 face-up "Wind-Up" monster you control, face-down; Special Summon 1 monster from your Deck with the same name that card had on the field.
Wind-Up Zenmaintenance — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Wind-Up Zenmaintenance converts a Link Summon into one Wind-Up card added from the Deck, plus a banish-and-revive of a same-name Deck monster and a GY-to-Wind-Up-Xyz material attach. Its score comes from being reliably live: it is in all 100 sampled decks, usually as a single copy, alongside Wind-Up Shark and Magician at 97%. Its 1800 ATK earns nothing, and it has no opponent interaction, so the effect_interaction axis is near zero. Combo conversion is text-only because no board evidence was supplied, which holds the combo axis at a middling level.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Link-2 is summoned from the Extra Deck and is live in 100 of 100 sampled decks, with Wind-Up Shark and Magician co-present in 97% of them (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text converts one Link Summon into a searched Wind-Up card and a Deck-monster revive, but no combo boards were supplied, so the conversion rate is unmeasured (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The Link Summon search is a +1 card gain, and the banish-revive is roughly board-neutral; the GY effect is not a refuel (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | As a Link-2 LIGHT Machine it is a Link material body, and its GY trigger converts the body into a Wind-Up Xyz material even after it is destroyed (verified text, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | It has three distinct effect spots (field trigger, field banish, GY attach) that can each act on different turns, but a single negate ends the search and revive (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | It is archetype-locked to Wind-Up targets and is run at 1 copy in 88% of decks, which keeps the restriction mild but real (observed deck stats, inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches a Wind-Up card on Link Summon, giving card advantage (verified text)
- GY trigger attaches the card to a Wind-Up Xyz as material after destruction (verified text)
- Present in every sampled deck, with Wind-Up Shark and Magician as frequent partners (observed)
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction of its own (verified text)
- Search and revive are shared once-per-turn effects and can be blanked by a single negate (verified text, inferred)
- Restricted to Wind-Up targets for its search and revive (verified text)
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation of the Link Summon trigger (inferred from text; no counter statistics supplied)
Best use
Searcher and Extender in the Wind-Up Link line. Decks: Wind-Up (archetype 914), Wind-Up (archetype 1128). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link Summon trigger: add 1 Wind-Up card from the Deck to hand, once per turn (card text); Field effect: banish a face-up Wind-Up monster and Special Summon a same-name Deck monster, once per turn (card text); GY effect: attach to a Wind-Up Xyz Monster as material when destroyed (card text); Link-2, ATK 1800, LIGHT Machine, legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel (card data)
- Observed: Runs in 100 of 100 sampled decks, averaging 1.15 copies (decks evidence); 88% of decks run one copy (decks evidence); Wind-Up Shark and Wind-Up Magician co-appear in 97% of decks (top partners)
- Inferred: The Link Summon search delivers net +1 card advantage (text); The banish-revive is roughly board-neutral (text); A single negate on the trigger would blank the search and revive (text)
- 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): archetype inclusion inferred from the deck sample only average starter count when present unavailable: resilience from deck spread only format ids 7, 4 and 6 are not labelled in the evidence