Trap
NormalFire Lake of the Burning Abyss
Archetype:
Burning Abyss
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Send 2 face-up "Burning Abyss" monsters you control to the Graveyard, then target up to 3 cards on the field; destroy those targets.
Fire Lake of the Burning Abyss — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50.5 · Deck: 53.55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Fire Lake is a Normal Trap that converts two face-up Burning Abyss monsters into up to three destroyed field cards, so its value is board-breaking removal that is gated by a Burning Abyss board. Its score comes from effect_interaction, which is the strongest axis, plus a reasonable deck-usage signal (31 sampled decks, almost always with Malebranche partners). It scores modestly because the self-cost is steep and there are no combo records to show what it converts into. Its trap-card body earns nothing as material, and the card's high view count and Top-Card rank were not used to raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Set as a backrow trap, but activation needs two face-up Burning Abyss monsters already on the field; deck sample shows it is consistently run in that archetype (inferred from text and deck data, 58% and 19% in the two Burning Abyss archetype IDs). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo data is supplied, so conversion is text-only: it removes up to three field cards but builds no board of its own (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Trades two monsters sent to the GY for up to three destroyed cards, which is roughly even, with some GY value for Burning Abyss recursion (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destroys up to three targets on either field, a flexible removal effect that can break a full board in one activation (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A trap card, so it cannot be used as material (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Trap-speed activation can be answered in response by hand traps or counter-trap responses; no counter evidence was supplied, so this is inferred from trap timing. |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | One copy per deck on average (avg 2 across 31 decks) with no garnet, but the card needs a live Burning Abyss board to be usable outside that archetype (observed from deck data, inferred for the restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 50.5, Deck ≈ 53.55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Destroys up to three field cards in one activation, across either field (verified)
- Sits in the Burning Abyss core with 96.8% co-occurrence alongside the Malebranche partners (observed)
- Used across 7 archetype homes, though the text is tied to Burning Abyss (observed)
Weaknesses
- Requires sending two face-up Burning Abyss monsters to the GY as cost, which is steep and archetype-locked (verified)
- No combo evidence, so the card's conversion into a winning board is not measured (data gap)
- Only a trap card, so it has no material value (verified)
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps or counter-trap responses in the chain (inferred from trap timing)
Best use
Removal / Negation. Decks: Burning Abyss decks (Malebranche shells). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trap Card, Normal trap; destroys up to 3 field targets after sending 2 face-up Burning Abyss monsters to the GY (card text); Used in 31 sampled decks, 96.8% co-occurrence with the main Malebranche partners (deck data)
- Observed: Average 2 copies per deck, distribution 1:7 / 2:17 / 3:7 (deck data); Burning Abyss archetype concentration 58.1% and 19.4% (deck data)
- Inferred: Removal role and board-breaker secondary role, from text; Counters are trap-speed hand-trap responses, from trap timing
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no counter or hand-trap data supplied for the trap's resilience no banlist token supplied; assumed 3 copies no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion % comes from the deck sample only deck sample is 31 decks, small for a per-archetype read