Trap
CounterChef's Special Recipe
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When a Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect, is activated while you control a "Nouvelles" Ritual Monster: Negate the activation, then you can destroy that card if you control a monster that was Special Summoned by the effect of a "Nouvelles" monster. If you Special Summon "Hungry Burger": You can banish this card from your GY; Tribute as many monsters your opponent controls as possible. You can only use each effect of "Chef's Special Recipe" once per turn.
Chef's Special Recipe — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Chef's Special Recipe is a conditional trap: it negates a Spell/Trap or monster effect activation only while you control a "Nouvelles" Ritual monster, and can then destroy the negated card if you control a monster Special Summoned by a Nouvelles effect. Its real value is that negation, which is why effect_interaction carries the score. Its second effect (banish from GY on a Hungry Burger summon, then tribute as many opposing monsters as possible) adds board-breaking reach, but the combo evidence records no starter, searched, or payoff role, and it is effectively dead outside Nouvelles. High deck inclusion (400/400 decks, near-100% with the Nouvelles partners) confirms the card is consistently played in its home, not that it is intrinsically strong, so it earns no extra points for that.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set-and-hold Trap that needs a live Nouvelles Ritual monster to activate; 400/400 sampled decks run it, but there is no searcher or starter route in the evidence (observed, plus inferred from the activation condition). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Only one recorded board (power index 65) contains it, with no starter, searched, or payoff role; it converts a negation into at most a destroy (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | One-for-one negation with an optional destroy and a GY banish cost for the second effect; the example board's net card advantage of +3 is not attributable to this card alone (observed, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 68 | Negates any Spell/Trap or monster effect activation while a Nouvelles Ritual is controlled, which is broad, but it is limited to once per turn per effect and to that board condition (verified from text, inferred for reach). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Trap card; it is never used as material and the effect text grants no material value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Gated by one Nouvelles Ritual on the field and by once-per-turn limits on each effect, so one board disruption can shut it off (verified from text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Typically 1 copy with no garnet, but it is dead in any deck without Nouvelles monsters, which narrows where it can be run (verified from copies data, inferred for flexibility). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked activation (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Broad negation scope: any Spell/Trap or monster effect activation while a Nouvelles Ritual is controlled (verified from text).
- Optional destroy after negation gives a card-removal follow-up when a Nouvelles-effect monster is on the field (verified from text).
- Consistently included across its Nouvelles homes: 400/400 sampled decks, with inclusion 100% in two archetype rows (observed).
Weaknesses
- Requires a live Nouvelles Ritual monster to function, so it is dead in most non-Nouvelles boards (verified from text).
- Once per turn per effect (verified from text).
- Only one recorded combo board, with no starter or payoff role, so the combo-level claims are thin (observed).
Counters / choke points
- Opponent effects that remove or disable the Nouvelles Ritual monster before activation (inferred from the activation condition).
- Set-backs and hand traps that interrupt the set trap, since it can only act from the set zone (inferred).
Best use
Negation and conditional removal that protects a Nouvelles board and can trade with the opponent's effect or card. Decks: Nouvelles (Ritual archetype, multiple variants). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Negates Spell/Trap or monster effect activations while you control a "Nouvelles" Ritual monster; optional destroy if you control a Nouvelles-effect Special Summoned monster.; Second effect: banish from GY and tribute opposing monsters on a Hungry Burger Special Summon.; Each effect is once per turn; the card is a Trap with no material text.; 400/400 sampled decks run it (1.12 average copies), 17 distinct archetype IDs, almost all Nouvelles variants.
- Observed: Appears in 1 of 1 recorded combo boards (power index 65) with no starter, searched, material, or payoff role.; Inclusion_pct 100 in two Nouvelles usage rows; 66.7% in the third.; Near-100% co-occurrence with Nouvelles Ritual partners in decks.
- Inferred: Accessibility is conditional on a Nouvelles board, not on a search route.; Dead outside Nouvelles-based decks.; Resilience is limited by the board condition and the once-per-turn limits.
- Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Only one combo board records this card, so combo-level conversion is thinly evidenced. No Ritual-monster interaction data beyond deck archetype names, so the negation-trigger frequency in real games is unknown. Guide snippets are generic and do not describe this card's play pattern in detail.