DARK
1Singularity Fiend
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When your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) (except during the Damage Step): You can discard this card and 1 Spell; destroy that monster(s). You can only use this effect of "Singularity Fiend" once per turn.
Singularity Fiend — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59.6 · Deck: 58.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Hand trap · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Singularity Fiend converts a hand (discard itself plus one Spell) into the destruction of the monster or monsters the opponent Special Summons, outside the Damage Step, once per turn. That is a real, flexible answer to summons, and it is the reason the card scores in the 50s. Its high deck count (47 of 47 sampled decks, 21 archetypes) confirms it is live and portable, but that presence is not what earns the points. Its 2-for-1 discard cost, lack of any combo or material value, and dependence on a Spell in hand are what hold the score down.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Hand-activated and present in every sampled deck at about 2 copies on average, but it needs a second Spell in hand to pay its cost (verified text, observed deck stats). |
| Combo & Conversion | 18 | No recorded combo boards; the card only removes monsters and builds no board of its own (verified text, no combo evidence, inference). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Costs two cards (itself and a Spell) to destroy one or more monsters, a net card disadvantage on the trade (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 70 | Destroys summoned monsters outside the Damage Step, reaching multi-monster summons, but it is not a negation and can be answered by stopping the summon itself (verified text, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 15 | Level 1 DARK Fiend with no material or GY value, and it is discarded from hand, so it never reaches the material pool (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Lives only in hand and is limited to one use per turn per card name, so one answer or hand disruption can remove it (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | No garnet, no ban, and about two copies per deck, but the Spell-in-hand requirement adds a mild restriction (observed deck stats, verified text, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Hand trap + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 59.6, Deck ≈ 58.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Answers Special Summons outright, and can destroy several monsters from one summon event
- Live in 47 of 47 sampled decks across 21 archetypes, so it is portable across homes
- No garnet or ban restriction; cheap to run at about two copies
Weaknesses
- Two-card cost (itself plus a Spell) for one monster destroyed, a net card disadvantage
- Needs a Spell in hand to activate, which weakens hands without one
- Cannot be used during the Damage Step
- Zero combo or material value; the card only exists as an answer
Counters / choke points
- Responses that negate the summon or the effect before it resolves (inferred, generic interaction)
- Opponent making the summon during the Damage Step, where the effect cannot be used (verified text)
Best use
Hand trap against Special Summon lines. Decks: Yubel, Phantom Beast (Chimera), Sky Striker, Branded.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand activation: discard this card and 1 Spell as cost; Effect: destroy the monster or monsters the opponent Special Summons, except during the Damage Step; Once per turn per card name; Present in 47 of 47 sampled decks, average 2.09 copies, 21 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Top partners include Forbidden Droplet (48.9%) and Super Polymerization (42.6%); No recorded combos, so combo centrality cannot be measured
- Inferred: Hand trap role, with board breaker as the secondary role; Net card disadvantage from the two-card cost; Level 1 body has negligible material value once discarded
- 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