DARK
3Ghostrick Stein
Archetype:
Ghostrick
ATK:
1600
DEF:
0
View:
3062
Cannot be Normal Summoned, unless you control a "Ghostrick" monster. Once per turn: You can change this card to face-down Defense Position. When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can add 1 "Ghostrick" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Ghostrick Stein" once per turn.
Ghostrick Stein — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Ghostrick Stein is a Level 3 DARK Zombie whose main value is a conditional search: after it deals battle damage, it adds one Ghostrick Spell/Trap from the Deck to the hand, once per turn. Its Normal Summon restriction requires a Ghostrick monster already on the field, so it is only reliably live inside the Ghostrick ecosystem. Its ATK of 1600 earns no points by itself. The score comes from the search being live in a 27-deck, 9-archetype sample, while the battle-damage condition, the absence of combo evidence and the lack of effect interaction keep it well below a high-end searcher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live in the opening hand only when a Ghostrick monster is already out; the 27 attached decks confirm a real route, but no starter role or searched-for role combo stats are supplied (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The text converts one battle-damage event into one Ghostrick Spell/Trap, with no combo boards to confirm a larger payoff (inferred from text; combo data is empty). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | A one-for-one search that depends on connecting for battle damage, with no refuel or extra card advantage in the text (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect; the only effects are a face-down position change and a search (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 3 DARK Zombie body is a generic material, but the summon condition limits where it can be used and no material data is supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The once-per-turn face-down DEF change gives some flexibility, but the search depends on surviving to battle and on the Ghostrick board being live (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Runs at 1.15 copies on average with no garnet or banlist restriction, but the Ghostrick-only summon condition adds mild deck-building restriction (observed from deck data; verified from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking summon restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a battle-damage event into a Ghostrick Spell/Trap search, once per turn.
- Live in 27 recent decks across 9 archetype homes, with a consistent Ghostrick partner suite.
- Level 3 DARK Zombie body is a generic material for the Ghostrick ecosystem.
- Plays cheaply at 1 copy on average with no garnet restriction.
Weaknesses
- Search requires battle damage, so it is not guaranteed on a given turn.
- Summon condition requires a Ghostrick monster already on the field.
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect.
- No combo evidence supplied, so its conversion value is text-only.
Counters / choke points
- Battle-based interaction that stops it dealing battle damage.
- Monster removal or negation that leaves the board without a Ghostrick monster for its summon condition.
Best use
Searcher/Tutor, secondary Material body. Decks: Ghostrick. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Cannot be Normal Summoned unless you control a Ghostrick monster.; Text: once per turn, may change to face-down Defense Position.; Text: on battle damage, may add one Ghostrick Spell/Trap from Deck to hand; once per turn.; Stats: Level 3, DARK, Zombie, 1600 ATK.
- Observed: 27 attached decks; 25 Ghostrick-archetype decks, with 11 in archetype 870 and 7 in archetype 1017.; Copies per deck average 1.15, with 24 of 27 decks at 1 copy.; Top partner Ghostrick Jiangshi appears in 25 of 27 decks.
- Inferred: Conditional searcher whose effect depends on battle damage connecting.; Summon condition makes it effectively dependent on the Ghostrick ecosystem.; Level 3 body is a generic material within Ghostrick.
- 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