Spell
ContinuousInsect Neglect
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When your opponent's monster declares an attack: You can banish 1 Insect monster from your GY; negate the attack.
Insect Neglect — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation
Why it scores here
Insect Neglect is a Continuous Spell that negates one opponent attack for the cost of banishing an Insect monster from the GY. Its score comes from that reliable attack negation, which is available repeatedly while the card stays on the field and an Insect is in the GY. It converts nothing into board presence or card advantage: it costs a card and returns no draw, search or body, and it has no observed combo role. Its only restriction is the Insect GY cost, which makes it dead in hands and boards without a GY Insect; that restriction is the main reason it does not score higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Spell in 4 of the 400-deck sample and no combo or searcher data, so access is inferred from deck inclusion with Insect partners (inferred, observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Text describes only a negation with no board-building effect and combo data has 0 appearances (verified, observed). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Costs one Insect from the GY and draws or recovers nothing, so it is card disadvantage per use (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Negates an opponent's attack declaration; the text supplies no once-per-turn clause and does not cover monster effects, which limits it to attacks (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Spell with no material or level role, so it contributes no body (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A Continuous Spell on the field is exposed to backrow removal, but it can negate repeatedly while an Insect remains in the GY (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Single-copy-friendly, no garnet or brick restriction, and deck copies average 1.5 (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Removal / Negation; no secondary role, so no blend. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Insect-GY cost restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable attack negation while it stays on the field
- Cheap to run, one copy is enough, with no garnet or brick restriction
- Strong Insect synergy with Battlewasp partners in the sample
Weaknesses
- Negates attacks only, not monster effects or other actions
- Costs a GY Insect with no draw, search or body in return
- Dead without an Insect in the GY
- Continuous Spell placement exposes it to backrow removal
Counters / choke points
- Backrow or Continuous Spell removal
- Attacks that the opponent can make without an attack declaration trigger, such as direct effects
Best use
Attack negation backup in Insect-based decks. Decks: Insect and Battlewasp builds (observed partners: Shinobi Insect Hagakuremino, Battlewasp cards, Greatfly, Inzektor Picofalena).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Negates an opponent's monster attack declaration, costing banishing 1 Insect monster from the GY; No once-per-turn clause appears in the supplied text; Continuous Spell, no material or level role
- Observed: Appears in 4 of the 400-deck sample, 1.5 copies per deck on average; Co-occurs with Insect and Battlewasp partners; No combo appearances recorded
- Inferred: Repeatable negation while it remains on the field and an Insect stays in the GY; Exposed to backrow removal as a Continuous Spell
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only