Spell
ContinuousGingerbread House
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During your opponent's Standby Phase: You can have as many monsters they control as possible gain 600 ATK, then destroy as many monsters they control as possible with 2500 or more ATK, and if you do, gain LP equal to the number of monsters destroyed x 500. (The ATK gain remains even if this card leaves the field.) You can only use this effect of "Gingerbread House" once per turn.
Gingerbread House — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal/Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Gingerbread House converts a single Continuous Spell into repeated removal on the opponent's turn: it can give all their monsters +600 ATK and then destroy every monster at 2500 ATK or more, gaining 500 LP per destroyed monster. Its value comes from the effect and the once-per-turn cadence, not from any stat on the card, which is a Spell and has no ATK. The card sits in 57 recent decks across 32 archetypes at roughly 1.8 copies, which confirms it is a reliable staple, but that frequency does not by itself earn power points. The main limits are the lack of combo or guide evidence, the dependence on the opponent having 2500+ ATK monsters, and exposure to spell removal while it stays on the field.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Spell card with 57 recent decks across 32 archetypes at about 1.8 copies each, but no searcher or combo-route evidence was supplied (deck-observed, partly inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text describes a board-clearing removal sweep, but no recorded boards exist to confirm how far it converts in practice (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Each destroyed monster is a card gained and each one also gives 500 LP, repeated every opponent turn while the card remains (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destroys opponent monsters at 2500+ ATK once per turn, but depends on their board having such monsters and can be answered by spell removal (inferred from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell card, so it has no material or level value and cannot be used as material (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Its ATK gain persists after it leaves the field, but the card itself is a field Continuous Spell open to removal (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | A single-copy-friendly Spell with no garnet, lock or brick restriction, and it appears in 57 decks at a low average copy count (observed from decks). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Sweeps opponent monsters at 2500+ ATK once per turn, and the +600 ATK step can push borderline monsters over the threshold
- Gains 500 LP per monster destroyed, so it converts removal into recovery
- Cheap to run: a single Spell with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Only works while it sits on the field, so it needs to be set up before the opponent's Standby Phase
- Does nothing against boards without 2500+ ATK monsters
- Destroyed by spell removal, which ends the repeated effect (the ATK gain remains)
Counters / choke points
- Spell destruction or spell-targeting removal on the field card
- Opponent boards built around low-ATK monsters that avoid the 2500 threshold
Best use
Removal / board breaker for opponent boards with 2500+ ATK monsters. Decks: Vernusylph/Vernalizer Fairy, Madolche, Kashtira, Hole.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: +600 ATK to opponent monsters, destroy monsters at 2500+ ATK, 500 LP per destroyed monster, once per turn, during opponent's Standby Phase; Card type is Spell Card, so it has no material value
- Observed: Included in 57 recent decks across 32 archetypes, average 1.82 copies per deck; Top partners include Rivalry of Warlords (45.6%) and Skill Drain (43.9%)
- Inferred: Removal/board-breaker role is inferred from the destroy-by-ATK text; no combo evidence confirms it; Its value depends on the opponent's board containing 2500+ ATK monsters
- 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