Trap
ContinuousFive Brothers Explosion
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When this card is activated: Gain 500 LP for each Continuous Spell/Trap Card you control. If this face-up card you control is sent to your Graveyard by your opponent's card effect: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each Continuous Spell/Trap Card in your Graveyard.
Five Brothers Explosion — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 35 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 35 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Five Brothers Explosion is a Continuous Trap whose text only gains LP per Continuous Spell/Trap you control and deals 500 damage per Continuous Spell/Trap in your Graveyard when it is sent to the GY by an opponent's card effect. It does not draw, search, negate, remove, or convert into a board, so it scores low on combo conversion, resource economy, and interaction. Its main strength is that it is a cheap, low-cost slot with 1–2 copies in 3 sampled decks. High ATK or popularity earned no points, and the 3-deck sample and absence of combo data keep confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | A set Trap that is live only after it is set and can be hit by backrow removal; it appears in 3 sampled decks, but no searcher or starter data exists (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 10 | Card text provides LP gain and a damage trigger only, with no board-building or card-producing step; combo data is empty (verified, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | No draw, search, or card-advantage text; LP gain is not card advantage, and the damage trigger only fires on opponent-effect GY sends (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap reach; the only interaction is a punish trigger that requires an opponent effect to send a face-up card to the GY (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Continuous Trap is not a monster and cannot serve as Xyz, Link, Synchro, or Fusion material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Trap-zone presence is exposed to backrow removal and is one-zone, one-function; no redundancy in the evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Standard 1–2 copy staple with no garnet, brick, or self-lock restriction; the sample shows 1 to 2 copies per deck (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default), no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 35, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, low-risk slot with no garnet or restriction
- Legal across TCG, OCG, and MasterDuel
- Appears in three distinct archetype homes (Dark Magician, Egyptian God, Aroma)
Weaknesses
- Converts no board, cards, or disruption into winning value from text alone
- Damage and LP gain are small relative to the card's trap-slot cost
- Set trap is exposed to backrow removal
- Its punish trigger depends on the opponent's card effect, not a reliable self-controlled route
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal (set trap destroyed before use)
- Opponent's card effects that do not send your face-up card to GY
Best use
Utility / LP-gain side slot in Continuous Spell/Trap-based decks. Decks: Aroma (with Aromage cluster and Aroma Jar), Dark Magician, Egyptian God. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: LP gain per Continuous Spell/Trap controlled on activation; Card text: 500 damage per Continuous Spell/Trap in GY when face-up card is sent to GY by opponent's card effect; Card type is Trap Card, Continuous; no monster-material use; Legal in TCG, OCG, and MasterDuel
- Observed: Runs in 3 of 3 sampled decks at 1–2 copies (avg 1.67); Partners most often with Aromage cluster cards (2 of 3 decks)
- Inferred: Accessibility limited to set-trap timing with no searcher evidence; Resilience reduced by exposure to backrow removal
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only