There are plenty of ways to cheat it out onto the field, and plenty of Fusion Monsters to Contact Fuse into
I can understand where that complain comes from: in the past, Expanded has had some degenerate combos, and its not fun to play when, on your first turn of the game, your opponent has already set up a Vileplume (Ancient Origins) preventing you from playing Item cards, or used some combination of cards to make you discard all your hand
The popular characters from the Whitebeard Pirates, Animal Kingdom Pirates, and Big Mom Pirates will make their debut as brand new Leader cards
So while it's expensive, and there's no collector booster with a golden chocobo, the Chocobo bundle is worth it if you find it around $200
a lot like your recommended deck for this club
And by detaching 2 XYZ materials from this card, you can attach any of your opponents special summoned monsters to this card as XYZ materials