Trap
NormalHallowed Life Barrier
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Discard 1 card from your hand. This turn, any damage you take from your opponent's cards and effects becomes 0.
Hallowed Life Barrier — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 47 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation
Why it scores here
Hallowed Life Barrier converts a discarded card into a full turn of immunity to damage from opponent's cards and effects, which is a real LP-race stop but nothing more: it does not negate effects, stop board development, or return value. Its score comes from the damage-prevention window and from being cheap to run at one copy. Its ATK-free, body-less text earns nothing on material or combo axes, and the 400/400 deck inclusion was not allowed to inflate the score because it looks like a matching artifact.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Set trap that needs a card in hand to discard; the sample shows it in all 400 decks, but that uniformity is implausible and unverified (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 10 | No recorded combo boards (total_combos 0), and the text builds no board on its own (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | Costs one card from hand to prevent damage for one turn with no return or refuel (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Blanks all damage from opponent's cards and effects this turn, which is strong and flexible for an LP race but does not negate effects (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A trap card, so it cannot be used as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Single-zone, single-turn window; resistance to negations is not evidenced (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically one copy per deck (avg 1.6 across the sample), no garnets, and easy to splash (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role only (Removal / Negation); no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 47, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Stops all damage from opponent's cards and effects for the turn, which is a complete LP-race block (verified)
- Cheap to run at one copy with no garnet or lock cost (observed)
- Appears in a broad spread of 55 archetypes in the sample (observed)
Weaknesses
- Costs a card from hand to activate (verified)
- Damage-only: it does not negate effects, stop board development, or stop non-damage plays (verified)
- No recorded combo or starter evidence, so its board role is text-only (verified)
Counters / choke points
- Trap negation or destruction of the set card (inferred, no specific counter in evidence)
- Non-damage plays such as mill, banish, or board-building that the barrier does not stop (inferred)
Best use
Damage-blocking defensive trap for LP races. Decks: Salamangreat, Heros, Shinobird. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: discard 1 card from hand; damage from opponent's cards and effects becomes 0 this turn; Trap card type, so it cannot be material; Legal copies listed for DuelLinks only (1); Zero recorded combo appearances
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sample decks, 1.6 copies on average; Spread across 55 archetypes, led by Salamangreat at 36.2%; Top partners are the Salamangreat line and Knightmare Phoenix / Forbidden Droplet / Effect Veiler
- Inferred: Primary role is damage negation, so Removal / Negation weights apply; Deck inclusion is probably a matching artifact, so it is not used to raise the score; Resilience and counter notes are inferred from text
- Data gaps: Deck inclusion is 400/400 (100%) with every partner sharing Salamangreat's 145 count, which looks like a matching artifact rather than real inclusion; verify CardId matching before trusting decks_evidence No guide co_card_ids match passcode 88789641, so the guide links are unverified No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only formats lists TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks, but legal_copies only covers duellink