Trap
CounterCrystal Miracle
Archetype:
Crystal
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When a Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect, is activated: Destroy 1 "Crystal Beast" card you control, and if you do, negate that activation, and if you do that, destroy that card. If a "Crystal Beast" card(s) is placed in your Spell & Trap Zone while this card is in your GY, even during the Damage Step: You can banish this card; place 1 "Crystal Beast" monster from your hand, Deck, or GY, face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell. You can only use this effect of "Crystal Miracle" once per turn.
Crystal Miracle — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal/Negation · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Crystal Miracle's power is its negation: it stops any Spell/Trap or monster effect activation, but only by destroying a Crystal Beast you control, so it trades a body for the negate and then destroys the negated card. Its GY effect converts a banished copy into a face-up Crystal Beast monster placed as a Continuous Spell, which adds some recursion, but it is once per turn and conditional on a Crystal Beast entering your S/T Zone. The very high deck inclusion (268 of 400 decks, 99% partner overlap) confirms the card is a fixed part of the Crystal Beast theme, not that it is intrinsically strong, so it lifts the score only through Deck synergy. Its 1.28 average copies and the lack of any recorded board data keep the score in the middle band.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Trap card that needs a Crystal Beast on the field to be usable and has no searcher in the evidence, but it runs in 400 of 400 decks (verified deck stats; the on-field requirement is verified from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Negates and then destroys the activation, and places a Crystal Beast monster as a Continuous Spell from the GY, but no combo boards were supplied, so the conversion is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Each negate costs one Crystal Beast destroyed, and the GY effect banishes this card to place one monster, so the card roughly trades evenly rather than generating advantage (verified from text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 65 | Negates any Spell/Trap or monster effect activation and destroys the source, a strong and flexible response, though it costs a Crystal Beast and is once per turn on the GY side (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Trap card is never Material and cannot be used as a Level/Attribute body (verified from frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Works from the S/T Zone and, through its GY effect, from the graveyard, and the GY effect can also be used during the Damage Step, but it is destroyed easily and depends on Crystal Beast bodies being present (verified from text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 40 | Effectively a theme-locked slot: it is dead without Crystal Beast monsters and runs as a 1-of in most decks (1.28 average copies, verified from deck stats), so it costs flexibility outside the archetype (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Negates any Spell/Trap or monster effect activation and destroys the source, a flexible response that is hard to answer from the opponent's side
- Recovers a Crystal Beast from hand, Deck or GY as a Continuous Spell from the graveyard, adding some recursion
- Fixed in the Crystal Beast core, present in 268 of 400 sampled decks with near-universal partner overlap
Weaknesses
- Each activation costs a Crystal Beast you control, so it is a card-for-card trade and dead without Crystal Beast bodies
- Once-per-turn limit on the GY effect and a need for a Crystal Beast to enter the S/T Zone
- Limited value outside the Crystal Beast archetype (about 67% of decks are a single archetype)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent-side interaction that destroys the Crystal Beast bodies it needs (inferred)
- Negate-proof or effect-free plays that do not activate the negation (inferred)
Best use
Interaction slot: protect Crystal Beast boards from opposing negates and removal, with recursion from the GY. Decks: Crystal Beast, Advanced Crystal Beast, Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon shells. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trap card that negates Spell/Trap or monster effect activations by destroying a Crystal Beast you control, then destroys the negated card; GY effect: banish to place a Crystal Beast monster from hand, Deck or GY as a face-up Continuous Spell, once per turn; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1.28 average copies, 67% in Crystal Beast
- Observed: Partner overlap of 95-99% with Crystal Beast core cards (Crystal Bond, Rainbow Dragon, Rainbow Bridge); Gameplay type 7 in 88.5% of decks
- Inferred: Negation is the primary role, with GY recursion as secondary; Net card advantage is roughly even because each negate costs a Crystal Beast and the GY effect recovers one; Outside Crystal Beast the card has little value
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and power index are text-only inference no banlist token, so copy limit assumed to be 3 (unlimited) legal_copies is empty for all formats, so legality is unverified guide evidence is a single section with an empty snippet no top_card_context ranking, so accessibility is not corroborated by ranking