Unified Front

Unified Front — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 22 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 26 · Deck: 23 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Removal/Negation

Why it scores here

Unified Front converts almost nothing: it is a Normal Trap that discards a monster as cost to copy that monster's ATK/DEF onto one face-up monster until the end of the turn, a purely temporary, single-target combat-math change. It appears in 0 recorded combo boards and 0 end-board states, so its stat manipulation earns no combo-conversion, interaction, or material credit. Its accessibility is draw-only (no search route shown) and its resource economy is negative (discard a monster for a one-turn change), which together cap its power far below competitive traps. The high ATK/DEF values it can copy are irrelevant to the score — temporariness, the discard cost, and the no-direct-attack lock dominate.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Utility (default) + 0.3 Removal/Negation blend; using default Utility weights. Intrinsic ≈ 26, Deck ≈ 23, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Generic Normal Trap usable in any deck without an archetype commitment
• Flexible discard: any monster in hand can be used to set the copied ATK/DEF
• Can target an opponent's face-up monster to reduce its ATK/DEF temporarily as a battle trick

Weaknesses

• Discarding a monster plus the trap is net card disadvantage for a temporary, one-turn change
• Provides no removal, negation, or disruption of the opponent
• Self-locks direct attacks for the turn it is activated
• Effect expires at the end of the turn with no lasting board value
• Draw-only: no search route shown, and just 5 decks in the recent sample run it

Counters / choke points

• Effect negation (trap/Spell Speed 2 negation) blanks the effect after the discard cost is already paid
• Removing the targeted monster before the battle the trick is meant to win
• Simply not committing to battle the turn it is set, since the change is temporary
• Playing around it by attacking with monsters whose stats already beat the copied value

Best use

Utility combat trick. Decks: Warrior-toolbox casual builds, Low-tier battle-focused strategies. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'Discard 1 monster, then target 1 face-up monster on the field; its ATK and DEF becomes the discarded monster's ATK and DEF, until the end of this turn.'; Card text: 'Monsters you control cannot attack directly during the turn you activate this card.'; Card is a Normal Trap Card (type 'Trap Card', race 'Normal', card frame 'trap'); Decks evidence: 5 decks run it, all in main deck, average 1 copy, max 1 copy
• Observed: 5 decks across 5 distinct archetype labels (D/D/D, Elemental HERO, Toon, and two unlabeled); 0 combo appearances and 0 end-board appearances in combo data; Top co-deck partners are Waboku (80%) and a Warrior/E-HERO battle package (Gearfried, Gilford, Marauding Captain, Command Knight at 60%); No StatisticsCard usage rows available for this card
• Inferred: No search route appears in evidence, so the card is draw-dependent for accessibility; Because the effect ends at the end of the turn and locks direct attacks, it functions as a one-shot combat trick rather than sustained interaction; Discard cost represents a real deckbuilding constraint requiring spare monsters in hand
• 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 two deck archetype labels reported as 'Không có' (unlabeled)