While you control this face-up card, during each battle between a Warrior-Type attacking monster you control and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of the attacking monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. Once per turn, when you inflict battle damage to your opponent with this effect, you can draw 1 card.
Drill Synchron has two effects. The first is a trample effect, and as usual, its a Continuous Effect. Note that it provides trampling for all your Warrior-type monsters, but Drill Synchron is a Machine-type monster (unlike Enraged Battle Ox). The second effect is an Optional Trigger Effect. Be careful that it almost looks as an Ignition Effect by its wording. This Trigger Effect is activated at the "After Damage Calculation" Sub-Step, and you can only activate it if a Warrior-Type monster tramples using Drill Synchron's effect. If there are multiple trampling effects, you can still activate it.
Drill Synchron gives you access to the infamous Drill Warrior:
"Drill Synchron" + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters.
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can halve this card's ATK (permanently). If you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can discard 1 card and remove this card from play. During your next Standby Phase, Special Summon this card, if removed by this effect. Then, add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your hand.
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can halve this card's ATK (permanently). If you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can discard 1 card and remove this card from play. During your next Standby Phase, Special Summon this card, if removed by this effect. Then, add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your hand.
Drill Warrior is probably the most popular of the "Warrior" Synchro Monsters right now. Of course, with great popularity comes great confusion about its rulings. Drill Warrior has three effects. The first effect is an Ignition Effect. It halves the current ATK of Drill Warrior when it resolves, and sets a Condition that allows it to attack directly. If Drill Warrior later has its effects negated, it's still allowed to attack directly for this turn, and its ATK returns to normal. The second effect is an Ignition Effect to Remove it from Play. Discarding a Card is not a cost. If Drill Warrior is flipped face-down in a chain to this effect, you will still Remove it from Play (face-up). If Drill Warrior is Removed from the Field in a chain, you will still discard a Card. If Imperial Iron Wall is chained to Drill Warrior's effect, you also discard. Discarding and Removing Drill Warrior from Play are considered to be simultaneous, so it doesn't cause timing issues. Neither effect targets Drill Warrior.
The most misunderstood effect is the last one. It's a single Mandatory Trigger Effect that you activate during your Standby Phase, while Drill Warrior is still Removed from Play. It Special Summons Drill Warrior, and then adds a Monster Card to your Hand. The Special Summon and the retrieval of the Card are not considered to be simultaneous, so neither player can respond to the Summon with Cards like Torrential Tribute. HOWEVER, the effect itself CAN be chained to, and once the retrieval is performed, either player CAN respond to this retrieval with a Spell Speed 2 or higher effect. The timing disruption that this effect causes on Cards like Torrential Tribute is often misunderstood as being completely unable to respond to this effect before or after it resolves, and that's not true. A player can negate this effect's activation (while Drill Warrior is Removed from Play) by activating Gladiator Beast War Chariot or Divine Wrath, and a player can also respond to the retrieval with Cards like Mind Crush or Drastic Drop Off. The retrieval does not target, which also is confusing, as players are often receive answers like "Crow doesn't work", which doesn't explain anything on why that happens. You can definately chain D.D. Crow to Drill Warrior's effect, but you don't know which monster it will add to the Hand, so the player can simply choose a different monster. Once the effect has resolved, the Card has already been added to the Hand.
Ugh >_>
Anyway, the last Synchron associated to a Synchro is Road Synchron:
If this card is used for the Synchro Summon of a monster other than "Road Warrior", its Level is decreased by 2. If this card attacks, at the end of the Damage Step, increase its Level by 1 until the End Phase.
The first effect is Continuous, which means it can be negated by Skill Drain, and let you use the actual Level of Road Warrior. The second effect is a Mandatory Trigger Effect that you activate at the End of the Damage Step. Nothing too amazing, only some Level gambling.
Its associated Synchro is Road Warrior:
"Road Synchron" + 2 or more non-Tuner Monsters.
Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Level 2 or lower Warrior or Machine-Type monster from your Deck.
Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Level 2 or lower Warrior or Machine-Type monster from your Deck.
A very simple Ignition Effect. The only thing that can be said is that it doesn't target.
There are a few more Synchron Monsters, but these no longer have a specific have a specific Synchro Monster associated to them, at least, so far. The first one is Hyper Synchron:
If this card is sent to the Graveyard for the Synchro Summon of a Dragon-Type Synchro Monster, that monster gains 800 ATK. Remove it from play during the End Phase.
Hyper Synchron has a Mandatory Trigger Effect. It is activated if the Synchro Summon is successful, and if the Synchro Monster is a Dragon-type monster at that time. The effect itself sets a Condition that gives the Synchro monster an ATK boost and dooms it at every End Phase. Removing the Synchro from Play doesn't use the chain. Flipping the monster face-down or Removing it from the Field will get rid of this Condition.
The next Synchron is Quickdraw Synchron:
You can send 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard and Special Summon this card from your hand. You can substitute this card for any 1 "Synchron" Tuner for a Synchro Summon. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a monster that lists a "Synchron" monster as a Tuner monster.
Quickdraw has a Summoning Condition, and two further Conditions. The Summoning Condition requires you to send a Monster Card to the Graveyard. If Macro Cosmos is active, you cannot perform it. The two Conditions cannot be negated, and are always active. If Quickdraw Synchron is having its effects negated, you can still treat it as any Synchron, and you are still restricted to Synchron-based Synchro Monsters.
And finally, the last Synchron is a new Card. It's Synchron Explorer:
When this card is Normal Summoned, you can select 1 "Synchron" monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it. Its effects are negated.
Explorer works exactly as Junk Synchron. It has an Optional Trigger Effect activated upon its Normal Summon, meaning you can negate it with Pulling the Rug. It targets a monster in the Graveyard, and the negation affects any effects that apply on the Field or are activated on the Field, regardless of the location of the monster.
That covers the Synchrons. Stay tuned for more Yusei Cards (ON MOTORCYCLES!). If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an e-mail at ness00[at]gmail[dot]com.
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