Trap
NormalTerrors of the Overroot
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Target 1 card your opponent controls and 1 card in their GY; send that card on the field to the GY, and if you do, Set the other card from the GY to your opponent's field. You can only activate 1 "Terrors of the Overroot" per turn.
Terrors of the Overroot — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Terrors of the Overroot is a once-per-turn Normal Trap that sends one of the opponent's field cards to the GY and then sets a card from their GY onto their field. It converts into a one-for-one removal with a tempo swing, not a board builder, so combo conversion stays low. The card is cheap to run and the decks evidence shows wide archetype spread, but there is no combo data to confirm starter or payoff use. High deck counts and the 100% Mimighoul inclusion figure confirm the card is played, not that it is powerful, so they did not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Set-and-activate Normal Trap with wide deck presence across 90 distinct archetype names, but no searcher or starter data to confirm reliable access (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The text yields a single removal-and-set exchange with no board-building step, and combo data has zero boards (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | One opponent card leaves the field and one GY card is placed on their side, a roughly even exchange with no refuel or draw (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Removes an opponent field card and places their GY card back on their field, hitting two targets; conditional on the opponent having both a field card and a GY card (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Trap card has no material role and cannot be used as Link, Xyz, or Synchro material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Needs a face-down trap that survives until a window, is once per turn, and no negation evidence is supplied (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Average 1.43 copies per deck across the sample, with a single-copy distribution skew and no garnet or lock restriction in the text (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Recovery / Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Removes an opponent field card and reuses one of their GY cards as a set card on their field, a two-target effect for one trap
- Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks across 90 archetype names, so it is not a niche pick
- Single-copy, cheap-to-run trap with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Zero combo boards recorded, so there is no observed evidence of conversion beyond the removal text
- Conditional on the opponent controlling a field card and holding a GY card
- Once per turn and needs a set trap to survive until activation
- Setting an opponent-side card can hand them a usable backrow card
Counters / choke points
- Opponent negation or in-chain response to the trap, which the evidence pack does not enumerate (inferred)
Best use
Single-slot trap removal with GY recursion for opponent's cards; one copy in most lists. Decks: Labrynth-family trap control lists (top archetype by deck count). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once per turn: 'You can only activate 1 Terrors of the Overroot per turn.'; Effect: target 1 opponent field card and 1 opponent GY card; send the field card to GY and, if done, set the GY card onto the opponent's field; Trap card type with no material role; Formats: TCG, OCG, DuelLinks
- Observed: Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks (decks running it in the Main Deck equals total decks in the pack); Copies per deck average 1.43, max 3; Top archetype bucket: Labrynth (id 790) at 21% of decks; Mimighoul usage stat: 100% inclusion, 1 copy (single archetype row, small sample)
- Inferred: Primary role is Removal/Negation with a recursion secondary, since the effect removes a field card and reuses a GY card; Combo conversion is low because the text has no board-building step and no combos are recorded
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) decks running it in the Main Deck equals total decks (400 of 400), which is implausible for a single trap and may be a matching artifact; deck-presence weight is discounted accordingly archetype list repeats 'Labrynth' under three IDs, so distinct archetypes (90) overstates archetype diversity no counter or negation evidence supplied; counters list is inferred only usage statistics has a single Mimighoul row, too thin to calibrate inclusion across homes