Speedroid Dupligate

Speedroid Dupligate — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 54.8 · Deck: 55.6 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Removal, Recovery/Recursion, Material body

Why it scores here

Speedroid Dupligate converts modest resources into a repeatable bounce plus a free Level-1 Machine/WIND Tuner body from the Graveyard, which is exactly the kind of extension the Speedroid Synchro engine wants. Its value comes from multi-zone flexibility and cheap deckbuilding cost (a typical 1-of in ~56% of Speedroid lists), not from stats — it is a 0/0 Trap with no ATK relevance. It is held back by the once-per-Duel recursion clause, the need to already control a Level 2+ Speedroid to revive it, and no confirmed search route, so it is a solid role-player rather than a game-winning card on its own.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Removal/Negation. Intrinsic ≈ 54.8, Deck ≈ 55.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Once-per-Duel recursion + Speedroid target lock (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Provides a free Level-1 Machine/WIND Tuner body from the Graveyard, enabling Synchro extensions in Speedroid and other WIND decks.
• First effect returns an opponent's card to hand with no once-per-turn clause, giving repeatable soft removal when WIND monsters sit in the GY.
• Multi-zone utility: it acts as a Trap on the field and as a monster body from the GY.
• Very low deckbuilding cost — typically a single copy with no garnet and no lockout.
• Fits multiple WIND homes (Speedroid, Gusto, Windwitch, Mecha Phantom Beast).

Weaknesses

• The GY recursion is once per Duel and requires you to already control a Level 2 or higher Speedroid monster.
• As a Trap it is slow and must be drawn, set, or sent to the GY before it does anything.
• No search route is confirmed in the evidence, so it must be drawn or milled.
• The bounce costs a WIND monster in the GY and is a soft bounce, not a negation or hard removal.

Counters / choke points

• Backrow removal (e.g. Mystical Space Typhoon-style) before the Trap resolves.
• Graveyard hate that banishes WIND monsters, denying both the bounce cost and the recursion.
• Negation of the activation (e.g. Solemn-style) to stop the bounce.
• Removing the Level 2+ Speedroid target so the GY summon condition cannot be paid.

Best use

Extender / Recursion Tuner with soft removal. Decks: Speedroid, Gusto, Windwitch, Mecha Phantom Beast, Radiant Typhoon. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Text: banish 1 WIND monster from your GY, then return 1 card your opponent controls to the hand.; Text: GY effect reduces a Level 2+ Speedroid you control by 1 Level and Special Summons this card as a Level-1 Machine/WIND Tuner Normal Monster, once per Duel.; Text: while Special Summoned as a monster, this card is NOT treated as a Trap.; Legal in TCG, OCG, and Master Duel.
• Observed: 400 recent decks run it, all in the main deck, at avg 1.23 copies (311 at 1, 86 at 2, 3 at 3).; Speedroid usage statistics: 55.6% inclusion at 1 typical copy.; Top partners co-deck at 94-97%: Clear Wing / Crystal Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, Terrortop, Taketomborg, Cork Shooter.; Only 1 combo record exists and it tags 0% as starter/material/payoff.
• Inferred: It supplies a Synchro extension body in Speedroid and other WIND decks.; The bounce is roughly 1-for-1 removal while the GY recursion replaces the spent Trap with a monster.; No searchable route is confirmed, so it must be drawn or milled.
• Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combos evidence is a single Gusto sample with no role tags, so no Speedroid combo confirmation exists. No explicit searcher or access route to the card is provided.