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Neither player can destroy Set Spell and Trap Cards on the field until your opponent's next End Phase.
Timidity — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: 42 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Timidity is a non-searchable Spell whose only effect is a turn-limited block on destroying Set Spell and Trap Cards, and it protects both players' backrows. It converts into a soft floodgate against S/T-destruction plans rather than into board, cards, or material, so the score sits in the low 40s. Its 3-copy presence across 5 decks and 4 archetypes is a real but niche utility role, and the high deck-level co-occurrence with Dragon Ruler and Kashtira staples does not by itself make the card strong. No combo, guide, or usage-statistics evidence exists, so the score rests on card text and a small deck sample.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Plain Spell with no search or draw effect, live only when drawn and seen in 5 of the sampled decks at an average of 2.2 copies (observed deck evidence; no combo starter data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Text-only: it builds nothing and generates no board, so conversion is essentially zero on its own (inferred from card text; no combo boards recorded). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Costs a card and returns no card advantage, refuel, or recovery (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Blocks destruction of Set S/T for both players until the opponent's next End Phase, a soft and situational floodgate rather than removal (verified from card text; deck usage observed). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell cannot be used as material, so this axis scores zero (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Can be negated or destroyed as a Spell and leaves no lasting presence, though it is spread across several archetypes (inferred from card text; observed in 4 archetypes). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Cheap to run with no garnet or lock risk, 1 to 3 copies in a slot, and a flexible utility role (observed deck copy counts; inferred from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Floodgate/Control profile (primary role), no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ 42, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, meta unknown; Deck = 0.60*Intrinsic + 0.25*DeckSynergy + 0.15*DeckResilience, with DeckSynergy 35 and DeckResilience 50)
Strengths
- Protects Set S/T from destruction for both players, a soft floodgate against backrow-destruction plans
- Cheap and splashable with no garnet cost, run at 1 to 3 copies
- Spread across 4 archetypes, so it has more than one home
Weaknesses
- Does nothing for board, card advantage, or material; scores only through its niche effect
- Turn-limited and narrow, relevant only when S/T destruction is actually in play
- Zero material utility and no searchability, so accessibility depends on drawing it
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Spell itself
- Plays that do not rely on destroying Set S/T, which makes the effect irrelevant
Best use
Situational backrow-protection utility. Decks: Kashtira, Dragon Ruler, Broken World, Greed.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: neither player can destroy Set Spell and Trap Cards until the opponent's next End Phase; Card type is Spell, so it cannot be material; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Appears in 5 of the sampled decks with 1 to 3 copies (average 2.2); Spread across 4 archetypes and 2 gameplay types; Co-occurs with Dragon Ruler and Kashtira staples in 3 of 5 decks
- Inferred: Acts as a soft floodgate against S/T-destruction plans; Accessible only when drawn, since it has no search route; Cheap, low-risk deck slot
- 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 the 5-deck sample only no meta sample, so meta power is null