EARTH
3Gokipole
ATK:
1000
DEF:
1200
View:
1449
If this card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 Level 4 Insect monster from your Deck to your hand, then, if you added a Normal Monster, you can Special Summon it, then you can destroy 1 monster on the field with ATK greater than or equal to that Special Summoned monster's. You can only use this effect of "Gokipole" once per turn.
Gokipole — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 64 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Gokipole's value is a graveyard-triggered engine: it converts itself into a Level 4 Insect search, optionally a Normal Monster Special Summon, and an ATK-gated destroy, all once per turn. It is in all 400 sampled decks at about 1.14 copies, which confirms it is a live, cheap, low-garnet support, but that inclusion is not evidence of raw strength. The combo evidence (6 of 6 boards, power index 99.2) cannot be credited to Gokipole because no board tags it with a role (no starter, searched, material or payoff hits), so the high board scores are treated as Beetrooper context rather than proof of conversion. ATK and DEF (1000/1200) earned nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live only once it reaches the graveyard, and it is a generic Level 3 body with no searcher of its own; reach is inferred from its presence in 400/400 decks, with 0 starter role or searched-for role combo hits (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | The search, conditional Normal Monster summon and destroy give one card a multi-step payoff from the GY, but the 6 combo boards show no role attribution for this card (observed plus inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Sending itself to the GY and adding a Level 4 Insect nets about +1 card, with an optional extra body from the summon (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | One-per-turn, ATK-gated destroy that only fires when a Normal Monster is added and summoned, so the interaction is soft and conditional (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A generic Level 3 Insect body with no recorded material role appearances, so its value as material is inferred and modest (observed plus inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its GY trigger is hard to stop with hand traps, but it is single-spot and once per turn, so redundancy is limited (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Runs at 1 copy in most decks, is a non-garnet generic Insect with no lock, and fits 28 archetype homes (observed plus verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Removal/Negation. Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 64, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Graveyard-triggered search of a Level 4 Insect, plus an optional Normal Monster summon, gives card advantage from a single card
- Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks at about 1 copy each, so it is cheap to run and widely fits
- Conditional ATK-gated destroy adds removal without a separate card
Weaknesses
- Needs to reach the graveyard before it does anything, and has no self-search of its own
- Once-per-turn limit and an ATK-gated destroy keep the removal situational
- Scores nothing for combo conversion beyond the Beetrooper boards it sits in, because it is never tagged as starter, searched, material or payoff
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard-effect responses or banish-in-GY effects, which are inferred to stop the trigger (inferred)
Best use
Graveyard-triggered Insect searcher with conditional removal. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Ragnaraika, Inzektor. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: GY trigger: add a Level 4 Insect from Deck to hand; Special Summon if the added card is a Normal Monster; destroy a monster with ATK at or above the summoned monster's; once per turn (card text); Runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks, average 1.14 copies (deck data); Appears in 6 of 6 combos, average power index 99.2 (combo data)
- Observed: Appears in 28 distinct archetypes and 4 gameplay types (deck data); Beetrooper partners appear in 68-88% of decks (top partners); No role tags in combo examples (combo role empty) and 0 starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role hits (combo data)
- Inferred: Graveyard reach comes from Beetrooper discard or cost lines, not evidenced in tables; Removal is situational because the destroy needs a Normal Monster added and an ATK-equal-or-higher target; Negation or banish in the graveyard would stop the trigger
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no searched-for role or material role hits, so the GY-trigger role is inferred from text no per-card rulings on GY-trigger timing combo boards do not attribute a role to Gokipole, so combo conversion rests on text plus context