EARTH
3Gilasaurus
ATK:
1400
DEF:
400
View:
4078
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand). If Summoned this way: Activate this effect; your opponent can Special Summon 1 monster from their GY.
Gilasaurus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52.7 · Deck: 53.1 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Gilasaurus is a Level 3 EARTH Dinosaur body that can be Special Summoned from the hand with no cost in the printed text, so it is almost always live. Its effect gives the opponent a Special Summon from their Graveyard, which is a drawback to the controller rather than a source of advantage, so it earns no resource or interaction points. Its 1400 ATK and 210-deck presence do not add points by themselves; the score rests on hand access, a clean generic Level 3 material body, and cheap deck slots, while the missing combo data keeps confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 82 | Hand-only Special Summon with no printed cost (verified); 210 recent decks with 1.83 average copies and top-10 archetype spread (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards, so it builds only a body and gives the opponent a Graveyard revive; no own follow-up is in the text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | One body for one card with no draw, search, or Graveyard refuel; the opponent Graveyard summon is a cost to the controller (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 3 non-Tuner EARTH Dinosaur is a clean generic Level 3 material, and the body still exists if its effect is negated (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Single-zone body with no recovery and no protection from the usual negate-on-summon interaction (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Three-copy staple with no garnet, lock, or self-restriction in the text, so it is cheap to run in a Dino shell (observed plus verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility default (no clear role; combo evidence absent so no Starter blend). Intrinsic ≈ 52.7, Deck ≈ 53.1, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Special Summonable from hand with no printed cost
- Clean generic Level 3 non-Tuner material body
- Widely run in 210 recent decks across 40 archetypes
Weaknesses
- Effect gives the opponent a Graveyard Special Summon (drawback)
- No card advantage, search, or interaction
- No recorded combo boards to confirm a real starter role
Counters / choke points
- Hand-based or Special Summon negation (inferred from text)
Best use
Utility body and Level 3 material. Decks: Scrap, Orcust, Transcendosaurus. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Special Summon from hand with no printed cost; Opponent Graveyard Special Summon effect is a drawback to the controller; Level 3 EARTH Dinosaur, 1400 ATK
- Observed: 210 recent decks, average 1.83 copies, 40 distinct archetypes; Top partners Called by the Grave (80.5%), Fossil Dig (72.4%), Nibiru (70.5%)
- Inferred: Clean generic Level 3 material that still works when its effect is negated; Low interaction value and single-zone resilience
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only no rulings supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies