Ride

"Ride" ( Tōjō, literally "Boarding") is a keyword, currently unique to Hero World and Generic. It allows, after paying a cost, equip a monster in hand or monster space and be treated as an item. Using Transform is considered as equipping a item. Even so, 1 life may be gained by buddy gift if the card is a buddy. In effect, Ride and Transform are exactly the same. The only difference between each is their support cards.

It offers the advantage of monsters having defense to protect the player against direct attacks while keeping their properties and abilities, and because they become items they don't count toward's the player's size limit and are immune to monster destruction effects.

Ride is commonly given to 《Brave Machine》 monsters, though there are a few exceptions.

It is marked by the text: 

Size 1

 * Card Burn
 * Heavy Trooper, Metal Prisoner
 * Martian UFO, Takosuke

Size 2

 * Fire Armored Mech, Dynamizer
 * Lightspeed Express X-Blazer
 * Type-36 Armored Convoy, Raigo
 * Unmovable Steel Mech, Ganzallar

Size 3

 * Drum Bunker Robo
 * Great Sword Deity, Kaizerion
 * Ultimate Card Burn

Size 3

 * Battle Deity Robo, GIZAI Emperor

List of Support Cards

 * Prepped and OK to Launch!
 * Leave Me Here and Move On!