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Destroy the 1 face-up monster your opponent controls that has the lowest ATK (your choice, if tied).
Fissure — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation
Why it scores here
Fissure is a free, zero-cost Spell that destroys one face-up opponent monster with the lowest ATK, so its power is clean one-for-one removal rather than board creation. It is a staple across 381 recent decks in 86 archetypes, which supports its accessibility and cheap deck cost, but no combo boards were recorded, so its conversion and synergy scores rest on text and deck co-occurrence alone. Its ATK-based selection limits it against decks that hold no low-ATK monsters, and the score does not rise from its ubiquity; the deck-count evidence confirms it is consistently played, not that it is intrinsically stronger than other removal.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Appears in all 381 sampled decks at an average of 2.26 copies, with 200 decks running 3 copies, so it is reliably drawn (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combo boards are recorded, and the card text only removes one monster, so it converts nothing beyond a single removal (verified text; no combo observations). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | A one-for-one removal with no cost and no recursion; it trades a card for a card and is roughly even on advantage (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destroys one face-up opponent monster chosen by lowest ATK, with the controller choosing among ties; it is strong but selects by ATK and only hits face-up monsters (verified text, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card with no material or summoning-body value (verified text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | No redundancy or recovery is recorded, and its single-use spell form is exposed to spell negation the evidence does not quantify (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Generic and low-cost with no garnet or lock restriction, and it is splashable and redundant across 86 archetypes (observed deck spread, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Removal / Negation only; no secondary role blend. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, meta unknown)
Strengths
- Free, zero-cost removal that needs no tribute or setup
- Widely adopted across 86 archetypes, so it is easy to slot into most decks
- Fully flexible on which opponent monster it hits when the ATK order favors it
Weaknesses
- Only hits the lowest-ATK face-up monster, so it is blunted by high-ATK-heavy boards
- Not a board-creating card, so it converts no value beyond a single removal
- Spell form is exposed to negation and does not survive interaction on its own
Counters / choke points
- Opponents who keep no low-ATK monsters or who hold a spell negate can blank it
- Opponent set cards and face-down monsters are outside its face-up targeting
Best use
Removal. Decks: Hole, Greed, Blackwings, Dragunity. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: destroys 1 face-up opponent monster with the lowest ATK, controller's choice on ties; Appears in 381 decks, 3 copies in 200 of them; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Deck share of 86 distinct archetypes, led by Hole (14.7%) and Greed (13.6%); Frequent co-occurrence with Monster Reborn (63.3%), Dark Hole (61.4%) and Raigeki (54.3%)
- Inferred: Removal role because the text is a single targeted destruction with no body; Lowest-ATK selection makes it weaker against boards with no low-ATK monsters
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings or negation interaction data