Tuner's Scheme

Tuner's Scheme — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Utility

Why it scores here

Tuner's Scheme converts one Set Continuous Trap plus a live condition — the opponent Special Summoning a Synchro Monster — into control of that monster, a real removal-plus-board-swing effect rather than any stat-based value. The 17-deck sample (2.29 average copies, spread over 9 archetypes) shows the condition is reachable in its homes, but with zero combo appearances its contribution is purely reactive and it never builds a board of its own. It lands in the low 50s because the payoff is powerful when the trigger exists, yet the card is blank against non-Synchro decks and provides no negation. Its ATK/DEF (0/0 as a Trap) and its page view count earned it nothing.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Single primary role: Removal / Negation. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Generic splashability (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Takes permanent control of an opponent's Synchro Monster at no additional cost once the trigger occurs
• Creates a double board swing (opponent loses a body, you gain that body) from a single card
• Fully generic — no archetype, Type, Attribute or Level restriction, so it can be main-decked anywhere
• Extra copies are not dead weight; the sample runs 2.29 copies on average with 7 decks at the maximum of 3
• The stolen monster is banished when destroyed, denying the opponent Graveyard recursion of their own Synchro

Weaknesses

• Requires the opponent to Special Summon a Synchro Monster; it is a blank card against Xyz, Link, Fusion and non-Extra-Deck strategies
• Normal Trap speed: it must be Set and survive a turn before it can respond, so it is unusable the turn it is drawn
• It does not negate the summon, so on-summon trigger effects of the stolen monster still resolve
• The Trap destroys itself the moment the controlled monster leaves the field, ending the investment
• No protection whatsoever from backrow removal or trap negation

Counters / choke points

• Generic backrow removal (Mystical Space Typhoon, Twin Twisters, Cosmic Cyclone) before the trigger turn
• Trap negation such as Solemn Judgment or Wiretap
• Decks that never Synchro Summon (Xyz/Link/Fusion engines, Ritual, pure control builds)
• Summoning the Synchro Monster in Defense Position or in a chain that lets its on-summon effect resolve first
• Removing the controlled monster with a card effect to force the Trap to destroy itself

Best use

Reactive removal / control — steal the opponent's Synchro Monster. Decks: Blackwings, Graydle, Timelord, Synchro-heavy metas. Suggested copies: 2.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'Activate only when a Synchro Monster is Special Summoned to your opponent's side of the field. Take control of that Synchro Monster.'; Card text: the stolen monster is removed from play when destroyed, and this card is destroyed when that monster is removed from the field.; Card identity: Continuous Trap, no archetype, not a hand trap and not a floodgate (role_hint_tags).; Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links; no banlist token supplied, so it is treated as unlimited at 3 copies.
• Observed: 17 recent decks run the card, all in the main deck, at 2.29 copies on average (distribution 1:2, 2:8, 3:7).; Spread across 9 distinct archetypes, with Blackwings the largest home at 6 decks (35.3%).; Top co-deck partners at 52.9%: Brain Control, Starlight Road, Stardust Dragon, Brionac, Goyo Guardian, Black Rose Dragon and Solemn Judgment.; combos_evidence records 0 appearances with no starter, searched, material, payoff or end-board counts and no worked examples.
• Inferred: As a Normal Trap it is unusable the turn it is drawn; it needs to be Set and survive to the opponent's turn.; It is functionally blank against any deck that does not Special Summon a Synchro Monster to its own field.; Because it only responds to the summon, on-summon trigger effects of the stolen Synchro Monster will already have resolved before control changes.; Any backrow removal or trap negation converts it into a pure -1 with no compensation.
• 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 metagame sample, so meta_power is null and the final score is provisional