DARK
8Geistgrinder Golem
ATK:
3000
DEF:
300
View:
4127
You can only Special Summon "Geistgrinder Golem" once per turn. You can reveal 1 "Yubel" monster in your hand; Special Summon this card from your hand to your opponent's field, then you can Special Summon the revealed monster to your field. Once per turn, during damage calculation, if this card battles a "Yubel" monster: Your opponent gains 3000 LP. If you Special Summon "Yubel" while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card to your opponent's field.
Geistgrinder Golem — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Geistgrinder Golem converts a Yubel monster in hand into two bodies: the Golem goes to the opponent's field and the revealed Yubel comes to yours, and the Golem can also be recycled from the GY when Yubel is Special Summoned. It is almost entirely gated by Yubel, so its value depends on holding that partner, and the opponent receives a 3000-ATK body, which is a real cost. The 3000 ATK and Level 8 earn little on their own; the score rests on access and conversion, not stats.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Needs a Yubel monster in hand to reveal, but it is present in all 400 sampled decks with 100% co-occurrence with Yubel partners (observed); the hand-reveal route itself comes from the card text (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Turns one Yubel into two bodies from hand, one of which lands on the opponent's field, but no recorded boards exist to confirm the realistic conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The hand-to-field Special Summon costs no card and the GY effect provides a recursion route, but the opponent gains a 3000-ATK body, which offsets the gain (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | Its only interaction is a battle clause that gains LP for the opponent, which is not disruption against the opponent's plays (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 8 DARK Fiend with 3000 ATK is a usable material body, but no combo or material stats are recorded, so the value is inferred (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Usable from hand and GY and tied to Yubel's summon, though each effect is once-per-turn and the summon is restricted to Yubel (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Averages 1.3 copies per deck and 302 of 400 decks run one copy, so slot cost is low, but it adds a Yubel-only restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Recovery. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Yubel-gated access restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts one Yubel in hand into two bodies in one step (verified)
- Recursion from the GY when Yubel is Special Summoned, giving a second use (verified)
- Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks with 1.3 average copies, so it is consistently played in the Yubel shell (observed)
Weaknesses
- Dead without a Yubel monster in hand (verified)
- Gives the opponent a 3000-ATK body on summon (verified)
- No recorded combo boards, so conversion is text-only (inferred)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent negation or hand interaction on the reveal/summon effect (inferred from text; the pack contains no counter-specific evidence)
Best use
Starter / Combo enabler. Decks: Yubel (archetype 848), Unchained, Sacred Beast, Fiendsmith. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand reveal of a Yubel monster lets it Special Summon this card to the opponent's field and then the revealed monster to your field (card text); GY effect: Special Summons this card to the opponent's field when Yubel is Special Summoned (card text); Battle clause gives the opponent 3000 LP when this card battles a Yubel monster (card text); Level 8, DARK Fiend, 3000 ATK (card data)
- Observed: Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks, with 1.3 average copies and 302 decks at 1 copy (deck data); Top partners Spirit of Yubel, Yubel and Nightmare Pain each appear in 100% of decks (deck data); Spread across 42 archetypes, but the largest share is Yubel-named (deck data)
- Inferred: Yubel gating limits real access to Yubel-holding hands; Opponent body is a real cost to the controller; Conversion value is text-only because no combos are recorded
- 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