Trap
NormalHope for Escape
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If your opponent's LP is at least 1000 higher than yours: Pay 1000 LP; draw 1 card for every 2000 points difference between your LP and your opponent's.
Hope for Escape — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 41 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility
Why it scores here
Hope for Escape is a set trap that converts a deficit in life points into cards, but only when the opponent leads by at least 1000 LP, and it costs 1000 LP to activate. It is in all 226 sampled decks across 42 archetypes at about 2.35 copies per deck, and that presence confirms it is a real, practical card in these homes, but it does not raise the score (guardrail 3). Its ATK-free, material-free body and lack of any interaction keep the score low, and the exact draw count at gaps under 2000 is ambiguous in the text, which lowers rules reliability.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Set trap, live in 226 of 226 sampled decks, but the activation condition (opponent LP at least 1000 higher) limits when it is usable (verified deck count; condition from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | No combo boards are recorded, so conversion is text-only: LP into cards, with no board or follow-up beyond the draw itself (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Pays 1000 LP to draw cards scaled to the LP gap, so it is roughly even at best and only gains when the gap is large (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 0 | Trap card with no monster body, so it cannot serve as material (verified frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Set trap that depends on a single LP condition with no redundancy inside the card; it can be stopped by keeping LP close to the opponent's (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Unlimited-copy trap with no garnet or lock; the 1000 LP cost is a play-pattern cost, not a deck-building one (verified legal copies, inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default); no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 41, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Unlimited-copy trap with no garnet cost
- Present in all 226 sampled decks across 42 archetypes
- Scales with the LP gap, so it can turn a losing position into cards
Weaknesses
- Dead unless the opponent leads by at least 1000 LP
- Costs 1000 LP per activation
- No combo, material, or opponent-interaction role
Counters / choke points
- Keeping LP within 1000 of the opponent so the condition never triggers
- Negating or destroying the set trap (inference; no evidence supplied)
Best use
Conditional card-draw trap. Decks: Exodia, Paleozoic. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: opponent LP at least 1000 higher, pay 1000 LP, draw 1 card per 2000 point difference; Trap card with no ATK, DEF, or material body; 226 of 226 sampled decks run it, average 2.35 copies, 42 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Gameplay mix: 54.4% type 7 decks, 37.2% type 4, 8.4% type 6; Top partners are Exodia pieces and Upstart Goblin, with 53–57% co-occurrence
- Inferred: Its real role is a conditional card-draw trap in Exodia and Paleozoic homes; The draw count for LP gaps under 2000 is ambiguous from the text
- 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 draw count when the LP gap is between 1000 and 1999 is not defined by the text