EARTH
2Gokipon
ATK:
800
DEF:
800
View:
2496
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the GY: You can add 1 Insect monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck to your hand.
Gokipon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 45 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Gokipon is a Level 2 EARTH Insect whose only effect is a battle-destruction GY trigger that adds one Insect of 1500 ATK or less from the Deck to hand. Its score comes from converting a battle loss into one card of search, which is a modest +1 that depends on the battle happening. The 800 ATK earns nothing, and the card is not a combo piece in the recorded evidence, since the combos sample is empty. Its low effect and interaction scores reflect that it has no disruption of its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | The Level 2 body is easy to summon, but the search requires it to be destroyed by battle and sent to the GY, so the route is conditional (text-verified, with 2 supporting decks). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The search adds an Insect of 1500 ATK or less, but no recorded board shows what it converts into, so the conversion is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Battle destruction is a one-card loss that returns one card from the Deck, which gives a net +1 under the trigger condition (text-verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it provides no opponent interaction (text-verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 2 Insect with 800 ATK is a generic material body for Level 2 Insect and Earth-fit plays, though no material usage was recorded (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The GY trigger survives banishment-free contexts, but the body is fragile in battle and the effect works only once per battle loss, so it is limited (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | A generic Level 2 with no garnet or lock restriction; it is cheap to run in 2 of the sampled decks, with a splash-friendly Insect search (observed, 2 decks). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Searcher/Tutor only; no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 45, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, easy-to-summon Level 2 Insect body
- GY trigger searches a Deck Insect of 1500 ATK or less for +1 card
- Runs in 2 sampled decks across two gameplay types
Weaknesses
- Search requires battle destruction, so it is not a reliable starter
- No interaction or disruption from its own effect
- No combo evidence showing what it converts into
Counters / choke points
- Effect-negation of the GY trigger, which prevents the search
- Removal that destroys it without battle does not trigger the search
Best use
Searcher/Tutor (battle-trigger Insect search, a niche support piece). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 2 EARTH Insect Effect Monster, 800/800 (card text); Battle-destruction GY trigger that adds one Insect of 1500 ATK or less from the Deck to hand (card text); Appears in 2 decks, both main deck, averaging 2.5 copies (deck evidence)
- Observed: Zero recorded combo appearances, so no starter, searched, material, or payoff role is measured; Two archetype homes, one 'C' and one with no archetype (deck evidence)
- Inferred: The search is a conditional +1 card, and the trigger is a clean battle-destruction route; Insect-search fit makes it a niche support Searcher rather than a generic staple; Generic Level 2 material and deckbuilding cost are low
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available, so inclusion is inferred from 2 decks only no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed no rulings or Rush-only data needed here