Trap
NormalButterflyoke
Archetype:
Butterfly
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When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Target the attacking monster; change that target to Defense Position, and if you do, equip this card to that monster. Once per turn, during either player's Main Phase or Battle Phase: You can change the equipped monster's Battle Position.
Butterflyoke — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Butterflyoke is a set-and-wait battle-phase trap that redirects one attacking monster into Defense Position and then equips to it, so its value is a soft, attack-only defence rather than destruction or negation. The card is live in 11 sampled decks across 9 archetypes with one copy per deck, which earns accessibility and deckbuilding cost, but there are no recorded combo boards, so combo conversion stays low. Its ATK/DEF and the wide archetype spread were not used as power drivers; the score reflects what the trap converts, which is a single defensive redirect with no card advantage.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set in the backrow and playable in 11 of 11 sampled decks across 9 archetypes with a 1.09 average copy count, but no searcher or summon route is in the evidence (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Zero combo appearances and no examples in combo data, so the only conversion is the text's single attack redirect (verified, speculation on any larger board). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | The text gives no card draw, search, or recursion; a trap spent on one attack redirect is roughly card-neutral to slightly negative (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Redirects an opponent's attacking monster to Defense Position, which blunts damage but does not destroy or negate, and only works in the battle phase (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Trap Card cannot be used as material, so the score rests on the equipped monster, which is not a material body from this card's text (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A single set copy with no redundancy in evidence, and the once-per-turn position change is a minor follow-up rather than a repeatable line (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | One copy in 10 of 11 decks with no garnet or lock text, so it is cheap and clean to run in most homes (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Removal / Negation profile; no secondary blend applied (single relevant role). Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts an opponent's attack into a non-damaging outcome without spending a monster
- Flexible across 9 sampled archetypes with a single copy and no garnet cost
- Equip step keeps the redirected monster on the field under the trap's control
Weaknesses
- No destruction or negation, so it only answers one attack per trap
- No combo or board-building evidence in the sample
- Battle-phase only and reactive; it does nothing on the opponent's Main Phase
Counters / choke points
- Trap-negating or backrow-destroying cards (inferred from card type; no counter data was supplied)
Best use
Battle-phase defensive trap in a backrow slot. Decks: Galaxy Photon, Gem-Knights, Destiny HERO, Swordsoul. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: a battle-phase attack redirect to Defense Position with a conditional equip, plus a once-per-turn battle-position change; Trap Card type with no ATK/DEF, so it cannot be material; 11 sampled decks, 9 distinct archetypes, 1.09 average copies per deck
- Observed: Galaxy Photon appears in 3 of 11 decks (27.3%); Gameplay types: 63.6% type 4, 27.3% type 7, 9.1% type 6; Frequent partners include Monster Reborn (81.8%) and Swallowtail Butterspy (63.6%); Zero combo appearances in the supplied combo evidence
- Inferred: Set-and-wait backrow play is the route to accessibility; Redirect value is mostly defensive, with no card advantage; Multi-archetype use reflects a generic defensive slot rather than a single engine
- 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 no ruling or timing-clarification data for the equip-after-redirect step guide mention is generic (Hieratics tech section); Butterflyoke is not named in the snippet