Royal Surrender is a Counter-Trap card, meaning it is Spell Speed 3.  This is probably the cards strongest point: it can’t be countered except by other Spell Speed 3 cards.  I believe that would only be Solemn Judgment, Seven Tools of the Bandit, and Trap Jammer.  The thing is, when you see the effect, you wonder why?  You see, Royal Surrender can only be activated in response to the activation of a Continuous Trap, which it then negates and destroys.  The thing is, you could also activate a Dust Tornado in that situation (a Normal Trap) and just nuke the Continuous Trap that way.  Since said Continuous Trap’s effect won’t kick in until the chain resolves, and it is destroyed by then, it does nothing.  More over, all those other Counter-Traps that work on Royal Surrender also work against Dust Tornado, but Dust Tornado works against more things than Royal Surrender (namely destroying any Spells or Traps on your opponent’s side of the field).

 

So this card is only useful when you can activate it in chain to a Continuous Trap (Call of the Haunted and Royal Decree do see a lot of play).  Thing is, unless your opponent had a Spell Speed 2 option that would render Dust Tornado useless, Dust Tornado does it better.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1/5-This may be a tad low, as it does do something, but it’s so obscure it’d be such a small fraction, I might as well round down.

 

Advanced        : 1.25/5-We lose the joy of Harpie’s Feather Duster in this format, so it gets a tiny boost to a reasonable percentage.

 

Limited            : 1.05/5-It can negate Lone Wolf.

 

Summary

Apparently a card that is more important for telling a story than for playing the game, you’ll find it more valuable to look for shared characters in this art and that of other cards than you will for actual play.