Card of the Week #14: Expressroid

When you Summon this card, you can add 2 "roid" monsters from your Graveyard to your hand, except "Expressroid".

Yeah, yeah, what about this clean +2? Rulings here:
1.If there were only 2 roid monsters in the grave at the moment of this card's summon, and the opponent chains D.D. Crow, you'd still be able to add the remaining one to the hand.

Well, that's all, no explanation to this.

Close look, then we'll go for the true review:
"Roid" monster, quite some supports, expecially the ones we'll see during the review;
EARTH, if you insert a tele-engine (just to be original, LOL), you'd be able to go into Naturia synchros;
LV4, good level for XYZs, 3 would have been overall better, but you'd have lost the support that gear gigant x gives you. What's more, monk summonable;
Machine, again, mainly for XYZ reasons;
Stats, 400 ATK (and machine), machine duplicable, 1600 DEF, not that this other stat does really matter, lol.

Yeah, yeah, again, what about this clean +2?
Summon this, add 2 cards, +2. Machine duplicate this? -1 from machine duplication, +2 from the summon of the other two, and their effects for an overall +7. And you'd have a field of 3 machine lv4, could easily mean gear gigant that searches something good.
In terms of cards advantage, this card should never had existed, but it has some real problems.
The card itself is really huge, in the past you'd have used future fusion to fill the grave, maybe searching future with fusionist+junk synchron, but actually we've lost Future Fusion in the September 1st banlist.
If you want to use and abuse this card, the best way to fill the grave is, probably, using some random mill engine, or a merchant engine, then call of the haunted, monster reborn, limit reverse, Grandsoil [citation needed] and likes.
Think of a deck with a good mill engine, this card along with roids, cyber dragon and Power Bond, Chimeratech would easily reach 800x4x2=6400, but I suppose you have other cards, just another one and it would be 8000.
But this card gives its best in some comboes. Just see Ambulanceroid and you should get everything.
Summon this with ambulanceroid on the field, add 2 and SS them. Possibily XYZ them in something, leaving ambulance on the field, and use Express with another monster to go into Gear Gigant, use its effect detaching expressroid, add it back from the grave, SS it via Ambulanceroid, use its effect, add two more and SS 'em. Theorically speaking it's a loop, but, yeah, we've got something like 5 monster zones, they're not enough.
Still, it would make you end the turn with 2 gear gigant x, 1 R4 XYZ, 1 R3 XYZ, if the opponent is still alive, of course.
I know that could look like a little field, but don't forget the main point, "this isn't a combo deck, but a deck that goes into wild +1s, and sometimes comboes to go into field advantage, too".

Going into big card advantage is one of my dreams since I started playing madolches, so this card really does fit me.
Once you have a giant hand, and possibily a giant field, the already named Power Bond should make a giant beast ready to follow you.
Ambulanceroid on the field, in hand Cyber Dragon, power bond and expressroid, in the grave double expressroid and some targets.
Virtually summoning Expressroid should do:

Add double expressroid, SS them via ambulance,

eff expressroids, add 4 targets and SS 1 lv4 (3 monsters in hand added via them),

express+express into gear gigant x, express+lv4 into gear gigant x#2,

eff first gear gigant, detach and add express, SS it via Ambulance, add 2 monsters and SS one LV4 (4 monsters),

Express+LV4 into Gear gigant#3/another R4 monster, I'd suggest another machine monster,

Eff geargiganto#2, detach and retrieve express, SS it via ambulance and add 2 cards (6 monsters).

You now have Ambulance+2 gear gigant+1 machine XYZ+1 Express, power bond and cyber dragon in hand and 6 other machine monsters in hand, using power bond on everything (if you want to, maybe you have some other card to combo and then you'll keep something) would mean having a overdragon with 12x800x2 ATK, 19200 ATK, then. Virtually.

Still, this card is a clear +2, that can be used and abused, just think that with ambulance on the field and monster reincarnation you'd be able to pull off this combo if you have got some grave set-up.

Monk into this is a +2 that can XYZ into a R4.

This then Teleport is a Barkion/Landoise/random synchro.

Good and versatile card, I'm actually building something, if it's successfull I'll post it here.

Stay Tuned, I'll post something tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, probably.