Trap
NormalBlackback
Archetype:
Blackwing
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During your turn: Target 1 "Blackwing" monster with 2000 or less ATK in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target. You cannot Normal Summon/Set during the turn you activate this card.
Blackback — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43.6 · Deck: 49.4 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Blackback is a set-and-activate trap that Special Summons one Blackwing monster with 2000 or less ATK from the Graveyard, so it converts a spent trap into one revived body. That is a card-neutral recursion with some tempo, not a board-builder: it cannot be searched, it does nothing on the opponent's turn, and it cannot be used as material. Its 12-of-12 presence in the sampled decks, and the Blackwing partner co-occurrence, confirm a real and practical role inside Blackwings, but that frequency does not raise the score. The one-copy, no-garnet build keeps deckbuilding cost low, and the Normal Summon/Set lock is a small self-restriction.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs the trap set in the backrow and your own turn to activate, with a Blackwing monster in the Graveyard; decks show it in 12 of 12 sampled lists, but no combo starter or searched data exists (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | One targeted revival of a Blackwing with 2000 or less ATK from the GY is a single-body conversion; no combo boards are recorded to confirm a larger line (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The trap is spent and a monster is recovered, so the exchange is roughly card-neutral with a small tempo gain; no netCardAdvantage data exists (verified from text, inferred for the net). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | Opponent interaction is absent; the effect only Special Summons for you and does not negate, destroy, or stop anything (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A trap card cannot be material, and the summoned monster's value is set by its own card, not this one (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Single-use trap in the backrow, exposed to backrow removal and only live on your own turn; redundancy comes from the wider Blackwing shell, not the card (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Single copy per deck, no garnet and no lock beyond the self-restriction, and 12 of 12 sampled decks run it at one copy (observed from deck evidence). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 43.6, Deck ≈ 49.4, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Revives a Blackwing monster with 2000 or less ATK from the Graveyard as a targeted recursion
- Card-neutral exchange with a small tempo gain
- Appears in 12 of 12 sampled Blackwing-leaning decks at one copy
- Cheap to run: single copy, no garnet
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction; it only Special Summons for you
- Requires a set trap, your own turn, and a Blackwing with 2000 or less ATK in the Graveyard
- Self-locks Normal Summon and Set on the turn it is used
- Archetype-locked text limits its reach outside Blackwings
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or trap-destruction effects on the set trap
- Opponent turn-ending interaction that stops the summon before it resolves
Best use
Graveyard recursion trap for a Blackwing engine. Decks: Blackwings. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Trap, your turn only, targets a Blackwing monster with 2000 or less ATK in your Graveyard and Special Summons it, and bars Normal Summon/Set that turn; Decks: 12 of 12 sampled lists run it at 1 copy, 7 of them Blackwings
- Observed: Deck co-occurrence: Blackwing partners appear in 12 of 12 decks (100%)
- Inferred: Card-neutral recursion with a small tempo gain; Single-body conversion, no combo evidence to show more
- 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