Spell
NormalStamping Destruction
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If you control a Dragon monster: Target 1 Spell/Trap on the field; destroy that target, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to its controller.
Stamping Destruction — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49.3 · Deck: 47.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal
Why it scores here
Stamping Destruction is a one-card answer to one face-up or set Spell/Trap, which is a single 1-for-1 with no card advantage. It is live in every attached deck (130/130 main, 1.74 average copies), but its text gates it on controlling a Dragon monster, so it is dead on non-Dragon boards. High deck counts and the view count earned no points; the score reflects the limited, Dragon-gated removal role and the absence of combo data.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Normal Spell that is main-deck in 130/130 sampled decks, but the Dragon-control condition limits when it is live (verified, observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Destroys one Spell/Trap and makes no board; there are no combo boards, so this is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | One card for one card with no refuel or draw; the 500 damage is incidental (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 50 | Hits any Spell/Trap, including set backrow, but not monsters, and it is not a negation (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 0 | Spell card, so it is never material and scores 0 on this axis (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Single-target spell with no recursion or multi-zone use, and it is exposed to Spell Speed 2 responses (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One slot with no garnet cost, but dead without Dragon monsters, a mild restriction (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Removal / Negation profile, single role, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 49.3, Deck ≈ 47.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Dragon-gated restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- One-card answer to a set or face-up Spell/Trap
- Cheap, one slot, main-deck in every sampled deck
- Hits set backrow, which monster-only effects cannot
Weaknesses
- Requires a Dragon monster under your control
- Cannot target monsters
- Normal Spell timing is open to Spell Speed 2 responses (inferred)
- No card advantage
Counters / choke points
- Spell Speed 2 responses that negate or chain (inferred)
- Boards with no Dragon monster on the field
Best use
Removal: Spell/Trap answer in Dragon-control decks. Decks: Blue-Eyes (archetype 582), Blue-Eyes (archetype 164), Red-Eyes (archetype 618).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: destroys one targeted Spell/Trap if you control a Dragon monster; 500 damage to its controller if it destroys; Main-deck in 130/130 sampled decks, average 1.74 copies
- Observed: Appears in 42 distinct archetypes; Blue-Eyes is the largest home; Blue-Eyes White Dragon co-occurs in 56.2% of decks; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 64.6% of decks
- Inferred: Dragon-control condition limits practical access; Normal Spell timing is open to Spell Speed 2 responses
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token; assumed 3 copies No usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from the deck sample only Race field reads 'Normal' on a Spell card; treated as a Normal Spell Dragon-control condition is not a structured field; read from text