DARK
4Goblin Zombie
ATK:
1100
DEF:
1050
View:
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If this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: Send the top card of their Deck to the GY. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: Add 1 Zombie monster with 1200 or less DEF from your Deck to your hand.
Goblin Zombie — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58.7 · Deck: 59.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Goblin Zombie is a generic Level 4 DARK Zombie whose value is its on-field-to-GY trigger: it adds a Zombie with 1200 or less DEF from the Deck to hand, a card-neutral conversion of a body into a search. It scores as a Zombie-compatible searcher and clean material, not for its 1100 ATK or its battle-damage mill, which is a minor opponent effect. Its high deck count (186 decks, 50 archetypes) confirms it is a practical and portable staple, but no combo boards were supplied, so combo conversion is text-only and scored low. The score is held back by the GY trigger being lost if the effect is negated.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Live in 186 recent decks across 50 archetypes, with observed partners Zombie World and Foolish Burial suggesting search routes; per-hand reach is not measured because no combo starts were supplied (observed, with inference on the routes). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo boards are recorded (0 appearances), so conversion rests on text alone: a single body that trades itself for one Zombie search, with no board-building step (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Sent-to-GY trigger returns one card for the body, so it is roughly card-neutral while converting a dead body into a search; no refuel or repeated advantage is evidenced (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No hand trap or negation; the only opponent-facing effect is milling the top card of the opponent's Deck on battle damage, which is minor (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 4 DARK Zombie body is a clean generic material for Zombie-type summons and still provides its body if its effects are negated (verified from text and the Zombie race and DARK attribute on the card). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Both effects are triggered by battle damage or leaving the field, and negation removes the GY search; redundancy comes from being a common generic body (inferred from text and deck spread). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Average 1.65 copies per deck with no garnet, lock or banlist restriction, so it is cheap to run and splashable across Zombie builds (observed from the deck distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 58.7, Deck ≈ 59.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 DARK Zombie body that fits Zombie-type engines and material routes
- Card-neutral GY trigger that converts a dead body into a Zombie search
- Very portable: 186 recent decks across 50 archetypes at 1 to 3 copies each
- No garnet or restriction; cheap and redundant to run
Weaknesses
- Search trigger requires being sent from the field to the GY, so it does not work as a hand-start searcher
- Negation removes the search; battle-damage mill is minor
- No recorded combo boards, so combo conversion is unproven
- Frequency reflects generic staple use, not intrinsic power
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the on-field effect removes the GY search
- Board-wipe or removal that avoids sending it to the GY leaves no trigger
Best use
Searcher/Tutor (on-field to GY), Material body. Decks: Zombie-type builds with Mezuki, Foolish Burial, Zombie World, Plaguespreader Zombie, Uni-Zombie, Generic Level 4 Zombie material slot in Zombie and Armed Dragon-style lines.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: On battle damage to the opponent: send the top card of their Deck to the GY (card text); If sent from the field to the GY: add a Zombie with 1200 or less DEF from the Deck to hand (card text); Level 4, DARK, Zombie, 1100 ATK / 1050 DEF; no banlist restriction in evidence (card data)
- Observed: Appears in 186 recent decks across 50 archetypes, with 1.65 average copies (deck evidence); Partner frequency: Mezuki 80.6%, Foolish Burial 57.5%, Zombie World 54.3% (deck evidence); Gameplay mostly type 7 (71.5% of decks) (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Acts as a searcher only when it is destroyed or sent from the field, so it is not a hand-start searcher; Card-neutral conversion of a body into a Zombie search; Clean generic material for Zombie summons, still usable when blanked
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion % inferred from the deck sample only no ruling data for interaction timing on the GY trigger