Spell
ContinuousGiant Ballgame
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During your Main Phase, if this card was activated this turn: You can Special Summon 1 Level 6 or lower Insect monster from your GY. You can reveal 1 Insect monster in your hand, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls, and 1 Insect monster you control with less ATK than the revealed monster; switch control of those monsters, and if you do, the monster you took control of becomes an Insect monster. You can only use 1 "Giant Ballgame" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Giant Ballgame — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Giant Ballgame converts a hand Insect and a lower-ATK Insect you control into a control swap on the opponent's face-up monster, plus a free Level 6-or-lower Insect Special Summon from the GY. It is a real but conditional interaction: it only works on the turn it is activated and needs an Insect with less ATK than the target, so it does not earn points for high ATK or for being a popular card. Deck evidence (128 decks, 88% in Beetrooper gameplay) confirms it is consistently played in the Insect shell, but that frequency is treated as accessibility, not as proof of raw strength.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Live from hand as a spell, but it needs an Insect in hand to reveal and is only usable on the turn it is activated; 128 decks confirm the access route (verified deck count; no combo starter data).(observed) |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The GY Special Summon plus the control swap turn one Insect into a board swing, but no combo boards were supplied, so the conversion rate is text-based.(inferred) |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The swap is one-for-one (a lower-ATK Insect goes to the opponent) and the GY Special Summon is a free body, so net advantage is roughly even.(inferred) |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Steals a face-up opponent monster, which is strong interaction when the target is large, but it is conditional on an Insect with lower ATK and a same-turn activation.(verified) |
| Material Utility | 15 | As a spell it provides no material value; the Insect bodies it summons or swaps are the only material-relevant output.(inferred) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Once-per-turn, same-turn-only activation with no recovery; a single negate or a targeted response removes the whole line.(verified) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically runs one copy (100 of 128 decks) in a single spell slot with no garnet or lock restriction.(observed) |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Removal / Negation weights; no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Steals a face-up opponent monster when a lower-ATK Insect is available
- Gives a free Level 6-or-lower Insect Special Summon from the GY on the activation turn
- Single-copy slot with no garnet or lock restrictions
Weaknesses
- Only usable on the turn it is activated; no reuse later in the game
- Needs an Insect in hand and an Insect on the field with less ATK than the target
- One negate or response ends the entire line
Counters / choke points
- Negation or a response to the activation
- Opponent monsters with ATK high enough that no Insect you control is below them
Best use
Control swap / removal in Insect shells. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Ragnaraika, Traptrix, Kaiju. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with a same-turn activation condition and a once-per-turn limit (card text); Steals a face-up opponent monster with an Insect lower-ATK condition (card text); Appears in 128 of the attached decks, 100 of them at one copy (deck stat)
- Observed: 88.3% of decks in gameplay type 7 (deck stat); Partner co-occurrence up to 89.1% with Resonance Insect (deck stat)
- Inferred: Conversion value is roughly one-for-one with a free GY body; Interaction is strong only against large monsters
- Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) - archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token - assumed 3 copies (unlimited)