Trap
CounterExterio's Fang
Archetype:
Naturia
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Activate only if you control a face-up "Naturia" monster and have at least 1 card in your hand. Negate the activation of an opponent's Spell/Trap Card and destroy it. Then, send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard.
Exterio's Fang — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55.6 · Deck: 55.3 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Exterio's Fang is a set Trap that negates one opponent Spell/Trap activation and destroys it, which is a clean, reliable answer to backrow. Its value stops there: it converts into a single interaction, not a board, and it needs a face-up Naturia monster plus a card in hand to activate. Its 4-deck Naturia sample confirms it is a real, practical piece of that shell, but the high deck count is accessibility evidence, not extra power. Its ATK/DEF are zero and irrelevant, and it contributes nothing as material.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set Trap gated by a face-up Naturia monster and one card in hand, which the Naturia home meets readily; no starter or searched-route data exists in combos (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Converts only into a negate-and-destroy of one Spell/Trap, with no recorded combo boards to show further conversion (inferred from text; no combos supplied). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Negates and destroys one card, then sends one card from hand to the Graveyard, so the exchange is roughly even (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 70 | Strong, hard-to-play-around negation plus destruction of Spell/Trap activations, though limited to S/T and gated by the Naturia condition (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Trap cannot be used as material and provides no Level, Attribute or Name (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Confined to one trap zone with a Naturia-monster condition that opponent removal can break; no redundancy evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One or two copies fit cleanly, but the Naturia restriction limits it to one archetype home (observed: 4 decks, copies avg 1.75). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 55.6, Deck ≈ 55.3, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean negate-and-destroy against Spell/Trap activations
- Present in all 4 sampled Naturia decks, paired with the archetype's monsters at 100% co-occurrence for several of them
- Cheap to run at 1–2 copies within its home
Weaknesses
- Only answers Spell/Trap activations; no monster interaction
- Requires a face-up Naturia monster and a card in hand to activate
- Adds no board, material or recursion value
Counters / choke points
- Removing or banishing every face-up Naturia monster, which shuts off the activation condition (inferred from text)
- Activating the opponent's Spell/Trap in a way that does not depend on it still resolving (inferred from text)
Best use
Removal / Negation (Spell/Trap). Decks: Naturia. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Activation requires a face-up Naturia monster and at least 1 card in hand (card text); Negates one opponent Spell/Trap activation and destroys it, then sends 1 card from hand to the Graveyard (card text); Trap card with zero ATK/DEF, no material value (card type); Appears in 4 of 4 sampled decks, all Naturia-associated, copies avg 1.75 (deck data)
- Observed: Co-occurs in 100% of sampled decks with several Naturia monsters (top partners); Runs in both Naturia archetype IDs 963 and 1001 and in one Harpie deck (deck data)
- Inferred: Set-trap accessibility is good in the Naturia home but unmeasured without combo data; Converts into interaction only; no combo conversion beyond the negate; Deckbuilding cost is mild because of the Naturia restriction
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion and accessibility routes are text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from the 4-deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) two archetype ids (963 and 1001) are both named Naturia; treated as one family