ETD02-019 · Official card details

Hanging Trap

Hanging Trap is a Purple Structure from Trial Deck "Dawn of Palpagos Green・Purple".

Card type: Structure
Color: purple
Cost: 2
Durability: 900
Strike: —
Element: —
Work suitability: —
Card text: ACT Once per turn — [Assign 1 Pal] If there are no Pals exiled by this card in the exile zone, choose 1 Pal, and exile it. (You can rest your standing Pal to assign it)
AUTO When this card leaves the base, deploy the Pal exiled by this card into the owner's base in the rest state.
Rarity: TD
Card number: ETD02-019
Card set: Trial Deck "Dawn of Palpagos Green・Purple"

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Updated: August 7, 2026
Last checked: August 7, 2026
Sources: Official card text + editorial strategy

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Official card text plus an editorial strategy guide for Hanging Trap.

Hanging Trap strategy guide

Hanging Trap costs 2 Souls and is a purple Structure. In deck building, it functions as a setup card that rewards planning across several turns.

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Best deck

Purple decks that use night, disruption and graveyard pressure and can turn position changes into an attack or tempo advantage.

Use the card where its printed effect supports the deck's existing plan.

Copies to test

Start with 2 copies; add a third only when the deck can use this permanent reliably every game.

Adjust only after recording how often it is useful in real opening and midgame hands.

How to play Hanging Trap

Place Hanging Trap on the curve where its 2-Soul cost does not block the deck's next important play.
Keep the printed activation cost and any required card, resource or target available before using the ability.
Plan the next turn before assigning Pals or spending stored resources, so the Structure keeps supporting the deck's main engine.

Watch for: The effect is limited to once per turn. Track whether the card also needs Souls, discards, resources, a target or a specific board state.

Decks using this card

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