Trap
NormalMagical Cylinders
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Set 1 "Magic Cylinder" directly from your Deck or GY. If Set from the Deck, it can be activated this turn. When you activate "Magic Cylinder": You can banish this card from your GY; double that damage inflicted to your opponent. You can only use this effect of "Magical Cylinders" once per turn.
Magical Cylinders — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Magical Cylinders is a support trap whose main value is putting a Magic Cylinder onto the field from the Deck (and it can be activated the same turn) and doubling the damage Magic Cylinder inflicts. It converts into interaction only alongside Magic Cylinder, which 99.4% of its 312 sample decks run, so its score comes from reliable access to a damage trap and from low deckbuilding cost. The 1,000+ ATK-style stats are irrelevant here, and the high deck count confirms it is a real, practical support card rather than raising its power by itself. No combo evidence was supplied, so its board-building output is scored only from text, which keeps the combo axis low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Set-from-Deck gives reliable access to a Magic Cylinder and the card itself is a single Trap in 312 decks (verified text; 99.4% partner co-occurrence with Magic Cylinder, observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards; it adds no bodies or board and only amplifies one trap's damage (verified text; no combo data, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | No card advantage; the GY banish is a cost, and the Deck-to-field set is roughly a tempo swap rather than a gain (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Doubles the damage from Magic Cylinder, a flexible but damage-only trap; it does not negate and depends on the opponent attacking (verified text, observed partner stats). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A Trap card with no material or level/attribute role (verified text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Usable from Deck or GY and redundant across 106 archetypes, but its effect dies if Magic Cylinder is negated or removed (verified text, observed archetype spread). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | One-copy average (1.82 per deck), no garnet or lock restrictions, and it is legal in all listed formats (observed decks; legal copies not supplied, inferred unlimited). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Negation/Interaction primary role; no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: compactness (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Sets Magic Cylinder from the Deck and can be activated the same turn
- Doubles Magic Cylinder's damage, making the opponent's attack costlier
- Cheap to run, with no garnet or lock restrictions
- Used across 106 archetypes, so it is portable
Weaknesses
- Damage-only interaction: no negation, no removal, no board presence
- Fully dependent on Magic Cylinder being live
- Adds no card advantage and no combo conversion beyond the Cylinder pairing
Counters / choke points
- Negating or removing the trap before it resolves
- Opponent avoiding attacks or direct damage, so the doubled damage never matters
Best use
Support trap for Magic Cylinder, usually run alongside Harpie's Feather Duster, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and similar interaction. Decks: Sacred Beast, Dark Magician, Salamangreat, Secret Six Samurai, Tistina, Amazoness. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Set from Deck or GY with same-turn activation when set from Deck; Banish from GY to double Magic Cylinder's damage; Once-per-turn restriction on this card's effect
- Observed: 312 decks; 99.4% co-occur with Magic Cylinder; Average 1.82 copies per deck; Present across 106 archetypes; top gameplay is type 7 (77.9%)
- Inferred: Deck-to-field set is roughly tempo-neutral; Legal copies assumed unlimited because legal copies is not supplied
- 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) for archetype inclusion