Trap
CounterBending Destiny
Archetype:
Fortune Lady
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Activate only if all face-up monsters you control are "Fortune Lady" monsters. Negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card, or the Normal Summon of a monster, and remove that card from play. The card removed from play by this effect is returned to its owner's hand during the End Phase.
Bending Destiny — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 46 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 45 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Bending Destiny is a Fortune Lady-gated Counter Trap that negates one Spell/Trap activation or Normal Summon and removes that card from play until the End Phase. Its score rests on that negation, held down by the activation gate (every face-up monster you control must be a Fortune Lady), the lack of monster-effect or Special Summon coverage, and the return-to-owner clause, which means the opponent gets their card back. ATK, rarity and view count earn nothing, and the 4-deck sample confirms a real in-archetype slot without any combo or usage data to push it higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Set-and-hold trap that needs a Fortune Lady-only board to activate; 4 sampled decks run it with Fortune Lady partners, so access is real but gated (observed; activation gate is verified text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No combo boards supplied and the card makes no board or steps on its own; scored from text only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | One-for-one negation at best: the banished card returns to its owner's hand in the End Phase, so no net card advantage is gained (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Negates Spell/Trap activations and Normal Summons and removes the card from play, but not monster effects or Special Summons (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Trap card, so it cannot be used as material and provides no material value (verified card frame). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Single-purpose and gated by its activation condition, with little redundancy; the 4-deck sample shows no multi-zone or multi-turn value (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Average 1.25 copies per deck and no garnet or lock, but a dead card in any non-Fortune Lady board, which limits where it can be run (observed; gate is verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Negation/Interaction (Removal/Negation row); no secondary role blended. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 45, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking activation restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Negates a Spell/Trap activation or a Normal Summon and removes the card from play, covering common single-action interaction lines (verified text).
- Consistently run in the sampled Fortune Lady decks alongside Fortune Lady partners (observed).
- Clear, single-timing text with few rules interactions (verified text).
Weaknesses
- Activation gate limits it to Fortune Lady-only boards (verified text).
- Cannot negate monster effects or Special Summons (verified text).
- The banished card returns to the opponent's hand in the End Phase, so there is no card advantage (verified text).
- No combo, guide or usage-statistics evidence supplied to confirm its role beyond the 4-deck sample (verified gap).
Counters / choke points
- Not supplied in evidence. Inferred: the opponent can keep a non-Fortune Lady monster face-up to shut the activation down, or answer it with their own negations.
Best use
Negation/Interaction. Decks: Fortune Lady archetype builds (sampled decks, 3 of 4 with Fortune Lady partners). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trap card, Counter race, Fortune Lady archetype.; Activation requires all face-up monsters you control to be Fortune Lady monsters.; Negates a Spell/Trap activation or a Normal Summon and removes that card from play.; The removed card returns to its owner's hand in the End Phase.
- Observed: Present in 4 of 4 sampled decks (all main deck), copies average 1.25 with a maximum of 2.; Fortune Lady partners appear in 3 of the 4 sampled decks.
- Inferred: The Fortune Lady gate restricts practical use to Fortune Lady boards.; Primary role is Negation/Interaction, with no material or combo role.
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference. No guides supplied. No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available; inclusion is inferred from a 4-deck sample only. No banlist token; legal copies is empty, so 3 copies is assumed. Archetype entry 'Không có' (382) is unclear and was not used to score.