EARTH
3Ambulanceroid
Archetype:
Roid
ATK:
300
DEF:
1200
View:
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When a "roid" monster is added from your Graveyard to your hand, you can Special Summon that monster.
Ambulanceroid — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Ambulanceroid's score comes from one text-verified effect: when a 'roid' monster is added from the Graveyard to the hand, it can be Special Summoned, which turns a dead Roid back into a body. That is real but narrow recursion with no interaction and no combo data behind it. Its 300 ATK and 1200 DEF earn nothing, and the 38-deck presence is treated as access evidence only, not as proof of strength (guardrail 3).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Access depends on a Roid already being in the Graveyard and on a route that adds it to hand; the evidence shows no searcher or recorded starter role (inferred from text, with no combo corroboration). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text describes one extra Special Summon of a Roid, a fair board at best; combos_evidence has 0 boards, so the conversion is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Recovers a Roid from the Graveyard to the field at no card cost, which is a real but single-use gain; no netCardAdvantage data (observed from text, scored modestly). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap reach in the text or the role tags (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | Level 3 Earth Machine Roid body; the evidence has no material-usage stats, so fit is inferred from attributes only (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Works from Graveyard state, so it survives hand disruption, but a 300-ATK body dies to any sweep and has one trigger condition (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Runs 1 copy in 36 of 38 decks (avg 1.08, max 3) with no garnet or lock noted, so it is cheap to include (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Recovery/Recursion primary, no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recovers a Roid from the Graveyard to the field, a repeatable +1 body from otherwise dead cards (verified from text)
- Single-copy deck footprint across 38 decks with no garnet cost (observed)
- Present in 5 archetypes, so it is not tied to one home (observed)
Weaknesses
- No interaction, negation, or removal in the text (verified from text)
- Trigger needs a Roid in the Graveyard and a route that adds it to hand (inferred from text)
- Zero recorded combo boards, so conversion power is unmeasured (observed)
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard hate or banish effects remove the trigger source (inferred)
- Board-wide sweepers remove the 300-ATK body after it lands (inferred)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion. Decks: Speedroid, Roid-support decks (sample: Therions, Kashtira, Cyberdark, Cyber Dragon). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: when a 'roid' monster is added from the Graveyard to hand, it can be Special Summoned; Level 3 Earth Machine Effect Monster, 300 ATK / 1200 DEF, archetype Roid; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; no ban status token supplied
- Observed: Runs in 38 of 38 supplied decks (1.08 avg copies), across 5 archetypes; Partners at 100%: Submarineroid, Expressroid, Mixeroid, Megaroid City and other Roid support; Zero recorded combo boards, so no starter, searched, material, or payoff stats
- Inferred: Primary role is Recovery/Recursion from the GY-to-hand trigger; Recursion is a single +1 body, not repeated advantage; Material fit is generic from Level 3 and Machine/Earth attributes
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion and starter/material roles are text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): inclusion % inferred from the 38-deck sample only no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) evidence does not state whether the effect works from the field, hand, or Graveyard, so timing reliability is unverified no rulings or top-card ranking rows supplied