Trap
NormalLibromancer Displaced
Archetype:
Libromancer
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Target 1 "Libromancer" monster you control and 1 monster your opponent controls; return your monster to the hand, and if you do, take control of that opponent's monster. If your "Libromancer" monster you targeted was not a Ritual Monster, the monster you took control of returns to the hand during the End Phase. You can only activate 1 "Libromancer Displaced" per turn.
Libromancer Displaced — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Libromancer Displaced is a once-per-turn Trap that swaps one of your Libromancer monsters for an opposing monster, so its value is the steal, not a body or a board from nothing. Its effect interaction carries the score: it removes a blocker or threat and turns it into your material or attacker, and a Ritual Libromancer target makes the steal permanent. The score is held back by its dependence on an on-field Libromancer monster, the lack of combo evidence, and the End Phase return on non-Ritual targets. High deck counts and Top-Card presence confirm that the card is live in its shell, but they did not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Needs a Libromancer monster already on the field to activate; the top partners co-occur in the shell, but no combo data confirms how often it is live from hand (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Converts one monster for one monster plus a bounce, with no body of its own and no combo boards recorded to show a larger payoff (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Returns your own Libromancer to hand, so it is roughly even on cards, with recursion only through re-summoning; the steal is a tempo gain (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 65 | A single-target steal of an opposing monster is strong removal-plus-gain, and it is a Trap that can be negated, which tempers the score (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | The card is not a body, and the stolen monster is usable as material only if it survives until your turn (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | A Trap that is vulnerable to negation and needs a specific Libromancer target, with no recorded combos showing redundancy (inferred, data gap). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | One copy in the sampled decks (avg 1.12), but it restricts the build to Libromancer monsters, giving mild restriction (observed from decks and text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Board breaker blend. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Steals an opposing monster while removing your own targeted monster from the field, a double-sided tempo swing
- Ritual Libromancer targets make the steal permanent instead of ending in the End Phase
- Live across a large share of the sampled Libromancer decks at a consistent single copy
Weaknesses
- Needs a Libromancer monster on the field to activate, and it is not a body on its own
- Non-Ritual targets return the stolen monster to hand in the End Phase, so the gain is temporary
- Once per turn, and vulnerable to negation as a Trap
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Trap before resolution (general, not evidenced in the pack)
- Removal or a bounce of your targeted Libromancer in response (inferred)
Best use
Single-copy Removal / Negation trap that swaps a blocker, with the Ritual target as the permanent-steal option. Decks: Libromancer shells (Libromancer archetype ids 855, 1131, 2271, 1183). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trap text: once per turn, targets your Libromancer and an opposing monster, returns yours to hand, takes control of theirs, End Phase return unless the target is a Ritual Monster; Deck evidence: 275 sampled decks, avg 1.12 copies, 31 distinct archetypes, top partners co-occur with the Libromancer shell
- Observed: Usage statistics show 100% inclusion at typical 1 copy across 4 archetypes (inclusion is a popularity signal, not power); Two guides mention the card in the Libromancer shell
- Inferred: Needs an on-field Libromancer monster to be live; Board conversion is limited to a one-for-one swap with tempo gain; Vulnerable to negation and to removal of the targeted monster
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter/searched shares are text-only inference no banlist token, so 3-copy legality is assumed the 275-deck sample only contains decks that run the card, so its 100% inclusion is not a true inclusion rate no average starter count, so DeckResilience is estimated from archetype spread