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QuickIn Papa's Footsteps
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If a card(s) is sent to the GY, except "In Papa's Footsteps": Banish up to 5 cards from your GY, face-down, then if 7 or more of your cards are currently banished face-down, your opponent banishes as many cards as possible from their GY (max. 5) face-down.
In Papa's Footsteps — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 46 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
The card's power is modest. Its effect only fires when another card is sent to the GY, it has no material value, and the opponent-GY half needs 7 or more of your own cards banished face-down first. The score rests on being a cheap, one-copy staple in the Nemleria shell (16 of 23 sampled decks), not on ATK, rarity, or view count. The high partner rates reflect the archetype around it rather than the card's own strength, so they were not used to raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Runs in 23 of 23 sampled decks at about 1.09 copies, mostly in Nemleria (16 decks), but no combo starter or searched data is supplied (observed, plus inference on the route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No recorded boards, so the card's conversion is text-only: it turns GY cards into banished resources but builds no board of its own (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Banishing up to 5 of your own GY cards is not card advantage, and the opponent-GY banish is a conditional disruption rather than gain (verified from text, inferred for value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The opponent-GY banish is conditional on 7 or more of your cards banished face-down, so it is soft graveyard interaction at best (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Quick-Play Spell with no material role and no body to convert when its effect is negated (verified from frame and text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | A one-copy spell whose effect depends on a card being sent to the GY, so it has little redundancy or multi-zone reach (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Single-copy spell with no garnet or lock; it costs one slot and nothing else (observed from copy distribution, inferred for cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Floodgate/Control. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap one-copy slot that is played in 23 of 23 sampled decks, mostly in Nemleria
- Clear, self-contained trigger text with a bounded banish count (max 5 each side)
- Fits the Nemleria shell without needing a specific searcher or extra material
Weaknesses
- Conditional trigger: nothing happens unless another card is sent to the GY
- Opponent-GY banish needs 7 or more of your own cards banished face-down first
- No material value and no board presence of its own
- No combo evidence, so combo conversion rests on text alone
Counters / choke points
- No counter cards are documented in the evidence; a negate on the triggering effect would stop it (inferred from effect structure)
Best use
Utility GY-trigger / refuel support. Decks: Nemleria (archetype 1571). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: GY-send trigger, banish up to 5 of your GY face-down, conditional opponent banish up to 5 at 7+ banished; 23 sampled decks, 1.09 average copies, 21 decks at 1 copy; Nemleria (1571) in 16 of 23 decks (69.6%)
- Observed: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Pot of Extravagance each co-occur in 21 of 23 decks (91.3%); Recorded gameplay split: 19 decks in gameplay 7, 3 in 6, 1 in 4
- Inferred: Utility primary role with Floodgate/Control secondary, from text and frame; Score held below mid-range by the conditional trigger and the absence of combo data
- 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) activation zone and timing are not stated in the supplied description