Trap
NormalArmageddon Designator
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Banish 1 card from your hand; neither player can activate cards, or the effects of cards, with that name for the rest of this Duel.
Armageddon Designator — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 12 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 44.4 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
The card's power comes from one conversion: a hand card banished as cost becomes a lock on a declared card name for the rest of the Duel, which is its only real value. No deck, combo, or guide evidence exists, so the score is provisional and Final equals Intrinsic. The 2,919 view count and the absence of Top-Card status were not used, and nothing about the card's stats or rarity moved the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | It needs a card in hand to pay the banish cost, and no deck or combo evidence shows a searcher or live route; its activation timing is not in the text (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | The text describes no board or follow-up, and combo data records zero appearances, so there is no observed conversion (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 10 | It banishes one hand card as its cost with no return or refuel in the text, a net -1 card for the user (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | It declares a card name and stops activations of that name for the rest of the Duel, a durable lock that is hard to play around once the name is chosen (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | It is a Trap card with no material or level body, so it converts to nothing as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The lock persists across turns for the whole Duel, but whether the card itself can be responded to is not in the evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | It is a single-copy trap with no garnet or lock beyond its hand cost; no copy-limit token was supplied, so a limit of 3 is assumed (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Floodgate/Control only; no secondary role blended. Intrinsic ≈ 44.4, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (no decks and no combos; provisional, Deck = null)
Strengths
- Permanent by-name lock on any card for the rest of the Duel (verified)
- Legal in all four listed formats (verified)
Weaknesses
- Costs a card from hand with no return, a net -1 card (verified)
- No deck, combo, or guide evidence to confirm practical use (data gap)
- Activation timing and response window are not stated in the text (data gap)
Best use
Floodgate/Control: by-name lock. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Costs one card banished from hand; Declares a card name whose activations are stopped for the rest of the Duel; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks
- Observed: Zero combo appearances and zero decks in the supplied evidence
- Inferred: Primary role is Floodgate/Control rather than Negation; Live only once set, since the text states no timing; Copy limit assumed at 3 because no banlist token was supplied
- Data gaps: no decks supplied, so deck and synergy signals are unavailable no combos supplied, so conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is unknown activation timing and cost conditions not stated in the description