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NormalZombie Reborn
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Target 1 Zombie monster in either GY; banish 1 monster with the same name from your Deck or Extra Deck, and if you do, Special Summon the targeted monster to your field. If this card is in your GY: You can shuffle 1 of your banished Zombie monsters into the Deck, and if you do, Set this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use 1 "Zombie Reborn" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Zombie Reborn — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53.4 · Deck: 55.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Starter / Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Zombie Reborn converts a Zombie in either graveyard into a field body for the cost of banishing a same-name card from the Deck or Extra Deck, and it recycles itself from the GY. Its value is repeatable recursion rather than card advantage. The spread across 255 decks and 45 archetypes, with 89% co-occurrence with Mezuki, confirms a live and portable role, but that is frequency, not strength, and no combo boards were supplied, so combo conversion is scored conservatively. Its ATK and body stats contribute nothing to the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 58 | Live in hand across 255 decks at about 1.5 copies each, but it needs a Zombie in a graveyard and a same-name monster in the Deck, with no searcher in the evidence (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 52 | Summons one Zombie from either GY, with no combo boards supplied to show a larger board from a realistic start (verified, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Costs a deck card by banish and returns a body from the GY, which is roughly even on cards, and the GY set-and-banish clause adds recycling value (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | It is a non-negating spell with no opponent interaction in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 15 | A spell with no material body of its own; the Zombie it revives is the material, which the text does not establish (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Works from hand and GY across two turns' worth of uses, but it is a spell that a common hand trap or spell negation can stop (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 62 | Single-copy-friendly and broadly portable, with a mild cost requirement of a same-name monster in the Deck (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 53.4, Deck ≈ 55.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Same-name cost restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable revival from either graveyard for a deck-side banish cost
- Recurs itself from the GY through the set-and-banish clause
- Broadly portable: 255 decks across 45 archetypes
- Cheap to run: low copy count and no garnet lock
Weaknesses
- No effect on the opponent and no negation
- Needs a Zombie in a graveyard and a same-name monster in the Deck
- Combo value unverified: no combo boards supplied
Counters / choke points
- Generic hand traps and spell negation (inferred, not from evidence)
Best use
Zombie revival with GY recursion. Decks: Zombies, Shiranui, Mayakashi, Red-Eyes.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: banish a same-name monster from Deck or Extra Deck to Special Summon a targeted Zombie from either GY; Card text: GY effect shuffles a banished Zombie to Set itself, banished when it leaves the field; Card text: once per turn for its effects; Formats: TCG, OCG, DuelLinks
- Observed: In 255 recent decks, averaging 1.51 copies per deck; Present in 45 distinct archetypes; Mezuki co-occurs in 89% of decks that run it
- Inferred: Recursion through the GY gives real resilience across turns; Combo conversion is limited to a single revived body without combo evidence
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion inferred from deck sample only legal copies is empty for all formats Only one guide mentions the card