Trap
NormalGhoti Chain
Archetype:
Ghoti
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Banish 1 face-up Fish monster you control; Special Summon 1 of your "Ghoti" monsters that is banished, or in your hand, Deck, or GY, with a different original name from the monster banished to activate this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only activate 1 "Ghoti Chain" per turn.
Ghoti Chain — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46.7 · Deck: 51.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Ghoti Chain converts a banished, hand, Deck, or GY Ghoti monster into a board body for the cost of banishing one face-up Fish, and it is a once-per-turn trap. Its 191-deck footprint and 99%+ co-occurrence with core Ghoti partners confirm that it is a live, archetype-locked piece, but that is frequency, not strength, and it earns little credit for it. The card scores mid-table because the Fish-plus-Ghoti requirement, the set-and-negatable trap timing, and the absence of any combo data keep its conversion and resilience from scoring higher. High partner counts and archetype labels earned no points on their own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live in 191 decks at about 1.19 copies each and co-occurs with core Ghoti partners, but it is a trap that needs a Fish on field and a Ghoti target, with no searcher evidence (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Text shows one Ghoti body revived from banished, hand, Deck, or GY, but there are zero recorded boards, so the conversion size is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Costs one Fish banish, then returns a Ghoti from GY or banished, so it is roughly card-neutral and not a refuel or card-advantage engine (verified text, inferred net). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach; it only summons (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | A trap card is not a material body, and the summoned monster's material value belongs to that monster, not to this card (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Multi-zone sources (hand, Deck, GY, banished) add redundancy, but it is a set trap that a generic trap negation can stop (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | One slot at about 1.19 copies average, no garnets, and a mild restriction on Fish and Ghoti (observed decks, verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 46.7, Deck ≈ 51.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Revives a banished, hand, Deck, or GY Ghoti body for a single Fish banish, keeping Ghoti boards live
- Co-occurs with core Ghoti partners in almost every recorded deck (observed)
- Multi-zone target sourcing gives redundancy across hand, Deck, GY, and banished
Weaknesses
- Needs a face-up Fish you control plus a Ghoti target
- Trap timing: a set card that generic negation can stop
- No combo evidence, so the conversion size is unverified
- Once per turn limit caps repeated use
Counters / choke points
- Generic trap negation of its activation (inferred from card type; no counter data supplied)
Best use
Extender that turns a banished or GY Ghoti body into board presence. Decks: Ghoti (archetype 1568), Ghoti (archetype 1316), Icejade, White Aura. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: banish 1 face-up Fish you control, Special Summon 1 Ghoti monster from banished, hand, Deck, or GY, banish it when it leaves the field, once per turn; Card type: Trap, Normal race, formats TCG/OCG/MasterDuel
- Observed: Present in 191 decks, 1.19 copies average, 99%+ co-occurrence with core Ghoti partners; Only one usage_statistics row (Abyss-, 66.7% inclusion, 1 copy)
- Inferred: Extender primary role from text (not combo-backed); Conversion size and resilience inferred from text alone; Generic trap negation as a counter
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so unlimited is assumed usage_statistics covers one archetype row only deck percentages are within this card's own deck sample, not a total-population denominator guide evidence is one Vietnamese guide snippet