Evenly Matched

Trap Normal

At the end of the Battle Phase, if your opponent controls more cards than you do: You can make your opponent banish cards from their field face-down so they control the same number of cards as you do. If you control no cards, you can activate this card from your hand.

Opponent banish card from field so both field have same number of card (1 if you don't have anycard than Evenly Matched).

Tips:

• Make sure you can survive OTK deck (like HERO) if you plan to leave an open field to gain most of this card's effect

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	Deck	Chokepoint	Explanation	Impact	Link
	Branded Despia	Branded Endboard	Evenly Matched is one of the most powerful board breakers in the game. For the price of giving up your Battle Phase, you remove the entire Branded board in a way that leaves those cards unable to be recovered (Banished Face-down), allowing you to remove powerful 1-of Boss monsters like Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon without worrying about the counter-board wipe when it leaves field.	Great	View Edit
	D/D/D	Need to bait D/D/D Cursed King Siegfried first	D/D/D lack of S/T negate. It's hard to recover with their full board is banised of Evenly Match	Great	View Edit
	Enneacraft	Where applicable	Enneacraft has no way to prevent Evenly Matched from clearing their field in-engine and cuts off most of their game plan.	Great	View Edit
	Fire King		Surely the banish is always a strong counter to Fire King but they'll try to save as many monsters as possible. A nice mind game could be attempting to go BP if they have Jurrac Astero effect ready in GY: if they don't respect the Evenly you get some free banishes, if they wipe you removed an interaction without playing cards.	Usable	View Edit
	P.U.N.K	After baiting out Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu	Not Yet	Great	View Edit
	Pendulum Magician		You might have already been FTK'd. Non-FTK builds end on multiple omni-negates.	Bad	View Edit
	Runick		Very effective in trap decks.	Usable	View Edit
	Ryzeal		Pure Ryzeal don't use S/T negates, but will probably leave a single Ryzeal Detonator with overlay unit materials.	Usable	View Edit
	Sky Striker		Sky Striker typically has no trap negation so this can clear a full backrow if they allow you to end the Battle Phase. They may be able to use the backrow and return to hand from GY using Sky Striker Ace - Zero and/or Sky Striker Ace - Kagari before passing priority back in the Battle Phase. Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! can also be used to bounce their own spells back to hand for the follow up turn.	Usable	View Edit
	Tenyi	When the Token is on the board	By game mechanic, they are forced to keep the token, banishing the rest of the board face down	Great	View Edit
	Umi		They can chain Sea Stealth Attack to banish the Ocean Dragon Lord - Kairyu-Shin, so it can come back and establish the lock at the end phase, forcing you to send cards to the graveyard.	Weak	View Edit
	Unchained	Stablished Field	Unchained as an archetype lacks any negation, it can be suplemented by Fiendsmith, but it is often used to access an early D/D/D High King Wave Caesar. Thus, a non-destruction Board Wipe cleans most of their board, they may still have some grind potencial with Sharvara as a Caesar Material and Shyama in GY, but they will have issues against a stablished board from that point.	Great	View Edit
	Vanquish Soul K9	Go directly to end of your MP	Evenly Matched is an actual trap card, so cannot be negated by Ripper. Banish the whole field stop their grind game. Normally, the only card they keep is the trap Snow Devil, and you have to deal with it, another VS monster it summon, and high possibility of Hollie Sue summon Razen pop, Caesar Vallius pop.	Great	View Edit
	White Forest Azamina		Trade 1 to 1 for an omni negate.	Weak	View Edit
	Yummy	End of your BP	Need to bait Herald of the Arch Light first	Great	View Edit

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