Trap
ContinuousInvincibility Barrier
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Once per turn: You can banish 1 face-up Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, or Link Monster you control; this turn, the effects of monsters with the same card type as that banished monster (Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, or Link) are negated.
Invincibility Barrier — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 45 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Invincibility Barrier converts its once-per-turn banish cost (one face-up Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum or Link monster you control) into a type-wide negation of monsters of the matching card type for the turn. The score comes from that interaction: a single trap that can shut down one Extra Deck monster type at a time. It has no combo, material or card-advantage output in the evidence, so those axes stay low. Its observed deck presence is thin (two SPYRAL lists, one archetype), so that presence confirms a real role but does not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Set trap that needs to be drawn and needs a matching Extra Deck monster on the field; no searcher or combo-route evidence (inferred, from card text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No recorded combo boards, so no observed conversion into a board; the card only interacts (verified: combo data total combos 0). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | Costs a monster by banish and returns no card advantage or refuel (verified, from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 70 | Once-per-turn negation of every monster of a chosen Extra Deck type for the turn is strong, flexible interaction, limited by needing a matching monster on the field (verified, from card text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | Trap card with no body and no material value; the banished monster is a cost, not material use (verified, from card type and text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Continuous trap on the field, exposed to backrow removal; once-per-turn use limits repeat value across turns (inferred, from card text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single copy, no garnet or brick restriction in the evidence; the Extra Deck-monster requirement is a board condition, not a deck lock (inferred, from card text and deck data copies per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Floodgate/Control; no secondary blend applied to weights. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 45, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn type-wide negation covers Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum and Link monsters
- Single copy with no garnet or lock cost
- Real deck presence: 2 of 2 sampled decks, all SPYRAL, same gameplay type
Weaknesses
- Needs a matching Extra Deck monster on your field to pay the banish cost
- Negates only one monster type per turn
- No combo, searcher or material output in the evidence
- Deck evidence is thin: two lists from one archetype
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or trap destruction before activation
- Opponent summons a monster type you did not target
Best use
Floodgate/Control trap answering one Extra Deck monster type per turn. Decks: SPYRAL. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once per turn: banish 1 face-up Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum or Link monster you control as cost; Effects of monsters with the same card type as the banished monster are negated this turn; Card type is Trap Card, race Continuous, single copy in 2 of 2 decks
- Observed: Appears in 2 of 2 sampled decks, all SPYRAL, format 4; Zero recorded combo boards (total combos 0)
- Inferred: Acts as a Floodgate/Control trap rather than a starter or searched piece; Negation scope is limited to one card type per turn, so it is a soft floodgate rather than a hard lock
- 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 format 4 is not labelled in the evidence, so format context beyond legality is unknown no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)