Trap
ContinuousThe Emperor's Holiday
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Negate all Equip Card effects on the field.
The Emperor's Holiday — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 28 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 29 · Deck: 28 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Removal, Utility
Why it scores here
The Emperor's Holiday is a Continuous Trap whose only function is to negate all Equip Card effects on the field, so its ceiling is capped by how few opposing strategies rely on Equip Cards at all. It cannot be searched by anything in the supplied evidence, must be set and survive a turn, and does nothing to advance a combo or generate advantage, making it a situational -1 in most matchups. Its ATK/DEF values are irrelevant here and contributed nothing to the score. The three deck appearances and zero combo appearances confirm it is a niche, non-central pick rather than a reliable win condition.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 20 | No searcher, starter, or searched appearance is shown (0/0 in combo data) and it must be drawn, set, and survive a turn to matter (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 5 | It builds no board and appears in 0 recorded combos, doing nothing on its own (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | It spends a card to negate a narrow subset of cards, roughly even only when an opponent actually plays Equip Cards (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | The text 'Negate all Equip Card effects on the field' is real disruption but confined to one card type, so it is dead in most matchups (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | As a Trap Card it cannot be used as material, name, or Level provider in any summon (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 15 | A Continuous Trap that persists once resolved but is blanked by any Spell/Trap removal and useless when the opponent runs no Equips (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 25 | A single slot that is a near-guaranteed brick against non-Equip decks, though it costs only one card when it does apply (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Floodgate/Control primary. Intrinsic ≈ 29, Deck ≈ 28, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Fully negates all Equip Card effects on the field once resolved, shutting down dedicated Equip strategies outright.
- As a Continuous Trap its effect persists without further investment once it successfully resolves.
- Costs only a single card slot.
Weaknesses
- Only ever affects Equip Card effects, so it is dead against the vast majority of opposing decks.
- Slow — it must be set and survive a full turn before it can be activated.
- Provides no advantage, no board presence, and no combo value of its own.
- Trades one-for-one with any Spell/Trap removal.
Counters / choke points
- Mystical Space Typhoon / Twin Twisters and other Spell/Trap removal
- Harpie's Feather Duster
- Any deck that does not rely on Equip Cards simply ignores it
Best use
Narrow continuous floodgate against Equip Card effects. Decks: Side deck tech against Equip-centric strategies. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: 'Negate all Equip Card effects on the field.'; Card type is Trap Card (Continuous).; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks.
- Observed: Appears in only 3 of the recent deck sample, averaging 2 copies, all main deck, all dated 2023-09-28.; Zero recorded combo appearances (share of combos = 0).; Split evenly across Harpie, Kashtira, and Red-Eyes archetypes (1 deck each).
- Inferred: Because it only touches Equip Card effects, it is a near-blank against decks without Equip Cards.; Being a Continuous Trap that must be set, it is a slow, reactive card with no proactive value.; No searcher or route to access it is shown, so it must be drawn naturally.
- 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 no searcher/route evidence to confirm accessibility