Principug

Principug — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium

Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional

• Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion

Why it scores here

Principug's value is its graveyard-activated search: it banishes itself from the Mộ to add 1 Guardian monster, or another card named on that monster, to hand, so it converts 1 dead card into 1 live one-for-one recovery. Its first effect (a second attack for 1 Guardian monster) adds modest board value but does not change the score much. The Cấp độ 1 body and absence of interaction keep material and interaction scores low, and the lack of combo data limits the conversion score. Its 26-deck presence (about half in Gate Guardian) confirms it is 1 practical, reliably run piece, but that frequency is not used to inflate the score.

Axis scores

| Axis | Score | Evidence |

|---|--:|--: |

| | Accessibility | 55 | Live only once it is in the Mộ and 1 Guardian monster is also there; decks show it is run in 26 of 26 sampled decks (observed), but it has no starter or searched appearances in combo data (observed) so routes are inferred from text. |

| | Combo & Conversion | 40 | Converts 1 single card into 1 Guardian monster or 1 lá bài named on it, với no recorded boards to show 1 fuller end result (inferred from text; combo evidence absent). |

| | Resource Economy | 70 | Banishing itself to add one card gives roughly +1 hand card for -1 Mộ card, 1 clean Mộ-refuel recovery (verified from card text). |

| | Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified from card text). |

| | Material Utility | 35 | A Cấp độ 1 non-Tuner EARTH Beast với 0 ATK/DEF; usable as 1 Cấp độ 1 material but not 1 clean generic fit, and it is not 1 Tuner (verified from card text and attributes). |

| | Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Its search works from the Mộ, so it survives field-based interaction, but each effect is một lần mỗi lượt and needs 1 Guardian monster in the Mộ (verified from card text). |

| | Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Runs as one copy in 21 of 26 decks and is never 1 garnet or lock piece, với 1 3-copy legal limit (observed from decks; legality verified from evidence). |

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40Intrinsic + 0.60Deck

Strengths

• Converts 1 dead Mộ card into 1 hand card, 1 clean recovery

• Live in 26 of 26 sampled decks, với 50% of them in Gate Guardian

• Cheap to run: one copy in most decks, no garnet or lock

Weaknesses

• Needs its own Mộ banish plus 1 Guardian monster in the Mộ, so it is not live in the opening hand

• Narrow support: its search targets Guardian-named monsters, which limits portability (9 archetypes, but all Guardian-linked)

• No interaction, and no combo evidence to show 1 fuller conversion

Counters / choke points

• Hand-trap or Mộ-based negation for the Guardian monster it targets

• mộ hate that removes Guardian monsters or the card itself before activation

Best use

Searcher/Tutor from the Mộ, adding 1 Guardian monster or 1 lá bài named on it. Decks: Gate Guardian, Voiceless Voice, Snake-Eyes, Skull Servant, Despia, Branded. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Searcher effect: banish from Mộ to add 1 Guardian monster or 1 lá bài named on it to hand, một lần mỗi lượt per effect (card text); Cấp độ 1 non-Tuner EARTH Beast với 0 ATK/DEF (card text); Legal in TCG, OCG, and MasterDuel (formats)

• Observed: Present in 26 of 26 sampled decks, 13 of them in Gate Guardian (50%); Usually one copy per deck (21 of 26 decks); Co-occurs với Called by the Grave and Cosmic Cyclone in 21 of 26 decks

• Inferred: Mộ-based searcher that gives 1 modest +1 hand card per use; Its value depends on Guardian monsters being in the Mộ

• 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 deck sample only