Speedroid Terrortop

Speedroid Terrortop — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 81 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 77.1 · Deck: 81 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Starter · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor, Material body

Why it scores here

Speedroid Terrortop scores as a compact one-card starter: an unclassified free Special Summon from hand whenever you control no monsters, followed by an on-summon search for any other "Speedroid" monster, so a single card becomes a body plus a card and a second body the same turn. Its 1200 ATK and 600 DEF earn nothing here; the points come from accessibility and conversion, corroborated by 400 decks at 2.88 copies, 14 of 14 recorded combo appearances, an 89.4 average power index when present, and 78 distinct archetypes. The ceiling is capped because the card itself offers zero disruption, the search is an activated effect that an opposing Ash Blossom can blank, and the free summon requires an empty board.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 77.1, Deck ≈ 81, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Exceptional splashability (2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Free Special Summon from hand whenever you control no monsters — no cost, no lock, live from the opening hand.
• On-summon search for any other "Speedroid" monster converts one card into a body plus a follow-up body (99% co-play with Speedroid Taketomborg).
• Level 3 WIND Machine stat line is clean material for Rank 3 Xyz, WIND Synchro and Link plays even if the search is negated.
• Extremely portable: 78 distinct archetypes across 400 decks, average 2.88 copies, 370 decks at the full 3.
• Very compact engine — a single card does the work with no second-card dependency to start.

Weaknesses

• Provides zero interaction on its own: no negation, removal, disruption or floodgate effect.
• The search is an activated trigger effect and is blanked by Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring or Called by the Grave.
• The free Special Summon requires an empty board, so it is blank if you already control a monster.
• No graveyard or banish recursion — it is a one-shot resource with no late-game reach.
• Its payoff depends on having good "Speedroid" targets left in deck to search.

Counters / choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (negates the on-summon search)
• Called by the Grave (removes the searched target / negates in GY)
• Infinite Impermanence (blanking the on-summon trigger)
• Droll & Lock Bird (shuts off the add-to-hand line)
• Maxx "C" (punishes the extra summons the engine requires)
• Any quick removal on the 1200/600 body right after it lands

Best use

One-card starter that fields a Level 3 WIND body and searches a second "Speedroid" body. Decks: Speedroid, Radiant Typhoon, Materiactor, Salamangreat, Synchron, Rank 3 / WIND engine shells. Suggested copies: 3.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: if you control no monsters, you can Special Summon this card from your hand.; Card text: when Normal or Special Summoned, you can add 1 "Speedroid" monster from your Deck to hand, except "Speedroid Terrortop", once per turn.; Stat line: Level 3, WIND, Machine, 1200 ATK / 600 DEF; no lock or restriction is written on the card.; Card text contains no negation, removal or disruption effect.
• Observed: 400 sampled decks run it, 400 in the main deck, average 2.88 copies, with 370 decks running 3.; 78 distinct archetypes use it, led by Speedroid (23%), Radiant Typhoon (8.2%), Salamangreat (5.8%), Synchron (5%) and Mecha Phantom Beast (4.2%).; Speedroid Taketomborg co-occurs in 99% of those decks.; It appears in 14 of 14 recorded combos with an average power index of 89.4 and average starter count of 1.86.; Historical inclusion statistics: 100% inclusion at 3 copies in Speedroid, Materiactor, Six Samurai, Genex and Elementsaber lists.
• Inferred: Because the self-Special-Summon is a summoning condition and not an activated effect, the body survives an opposing Ash Blossom aimed at the search trigger.; Level 3 WIND Machine makes it usable as generic material for Rank 3 Xyz, WIND Synchro and Link summons even when its effect is negated.; The search plus a second "Speedroid" body yields roughly a net +1 in card advantage on the turn it is used.; The card is functionally blank when you already control a monster, since the free summon condition then fails.
• Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combo data records 100% appearance but all role attributions (starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role, end-board appearances) are empty, so combo centrality is inferred from the deck data and power index rather than labelled roles legal copies is empty for every format, so per-format legality could not be verified no rulings data supplied no dated metagame sample (meta power is null)