Trap
ContinuousMorphtronic Bind
Archetype:
Morphtronic
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While you control a face-up "Morphtronic" monster, all Level 4 or higher monsters your opponent controls cannot attack or change their battle positions.
Morphtronic Bind — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 39 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 41 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Morphtronic Bind is a Continuous Trap that only becomes live while you control a face-up "Morphtronic" monster, and in exchange it stops the opponent's Level 4 or higher monsters from attacking or changing battle position. It converts into a soft, continuous lock rather than card advantage or a combo, so its value is capped by the low speed of a Trap, the archetype-locked activation condition, and the ease with which Spell/Trap removal answers it. Its 47 recorded decks and 2.62 average copies confirm it is a real, consistently played pick inside Morphtronic, but zero combo appearances mean its practical ceiling is inferred from text alone. ATK/DEF are irrelevant here (it is a Trap with no body) and earned no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 42 | Continuous Trap with no generic searcher, and it only functions while you control a face-up "Morphtronic" monster, though it is played at 2.62 copies across 47 decks (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Does nothing on its own and appears in 0 recorded combos, providing a passive lock rather than building a board (verified/observed). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | Its text grants no draw, search, or recursion — it is a flat one-for-one Trap with no refuel (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 50 | While a "Morphtronic" is face-up, all opponent Level 4+ monsters cannot attack or change battle position, a real but soft lock that ignores lower-Level monsters and effects (verified). |
| Material Utility | 2 | As a Trap it has no ATK/DEF, Level, or body and can never be used as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | A single Mystical Space Typhoon-style removal ends it, and the lock switches off if you lose your face-up "Morphtronic" monster (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Cheap slot-wise at ~2.62 copies, but it is dead without a "Morphtronic" body, adding a mild archetype-locked condition (observed/inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 1.0 Floodgate/Control. Intrinsic ≈ 41, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked condition (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Continuously prevents all opponent Level 4 or higher monsters from attacking while a "Morphtronic" is face-up
- Also freezes battle positions, cutting off position-change-based plays for those monsters
- Consistently played in Morphtronic builds at 2.62 copies on average
Weaknesses
- Requires a face-up "Morphtronic" monster to function at all
- Only affects Level 4 or higher monsters, so low-Level bodies and all monster effects ignore it
- As a Trap it is slow, and a single Spell/Trap removal ends the lock
- Provides no card advantage, search, or recursion
Counters / choke points
- Mystical Space Typhoon and other Spell/Trap removal
- Monster effects and low-Level (1-3) attackers that are unaffected
- Removing or negating the face-up "Morphtronic" monster to switch the lock off
Best use
Continuous lock backed by a surviving Morphtronic body. Decks: Morphtronic. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: continuous effect locks opponent Level 4+ monsters out of attacking and changing battle position while you control a face-up "Morphtronic" monster; Card is a Continuous Trap in the Morphtronic archetype with no ATK/DEF
- Observed: 47 decks run it, all main deck, average 2.62 copies (38 decks at 3, 9 at 1); Appears across 8 distinct archetypes but is concentrated in Morphtronic (31.9%) with Cyber Dragon (25.5%) and Synchron (21.3%); Top partners are Morphtronic Celfon and Power Tool Dragon at 100% co-deck rate
- Inferred: Because it needs a face-up Morphtronic body, it is effectively dead in opening hands without that setup; A single backrow removal or loss of the Morphtronic body turns the lock off
- 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) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only