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Remember all the times that your heart was ripped from your chest?

Disney movies (and others like it) taught us how to love, how to cherish life and how powerful death can be. At a young age, these were very important lessons.

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YOU MOTHERFUCKER TOY STORY THREE CAME OUT WHEN I WAS 18 AND I BALWED LIKE A BABY YOUNG AGE MY FOOT

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follow your dreams

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Holy shite

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No he didn’t

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A god among men

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jesus christ it’s jason bourne

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The screenwriter even admitted this, by the way.

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Link Summon is here!

Yesterday we were talking about the new Yu-Gi-Oh! series’ premiere and how there were little information about the new show. We still don’t have new information about the anime series, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything big either, because the thing we all wanted to know about the new series has finally been revealed: The new summoning mechanic is here!

May I introduce you to link monsters and link summon!

This is a new monster and a new summoning mechanic that makes the game do a 360-degree turn, because it brings a whole new era to the Yu-Gi-Oh! game. The game field has been modified again and new rules are here to stay, and this has been something that’s got players talking since the news leaked on YGOrganization.com this morning.

Before explaining this newly-made changes to the game field, I want to start with something: What are link monsters and what it is link summon? Link monsters are the blue card with a pretty pattern design that you can see in the image above. Much like xyz monsters, link monsters don’t have levels but links instead, also they have no defense and cannot be changed to defense position by any means (this includes putting them face-down with cards such as Book Of Moon). Summoning this new monsters is easy, it is like synchro summoning without giving a single F about the levels of the monsters you’re sending to the Graveyard.

See the card in the image above:

Decode Talker DARK | Cybers/Link/Effect | ATK/2300 LINK 3 2 or more Effect Monsters This card gains 500 ATK for each monster linked to it. When an opponent’s card effect that targets a card you control is activated: You can Tribute 1 of your monsters Linked to this card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it.

(Yeah, there’s a new monster type, the first new one since the psychic and wyrm-type monsters were first introduced to the game)

Decode Talker just needs you to send 2 or more effect monsters to the graveyard in order to link summon him, that’s a way of bringing him into the field and the most basic one. Link monsters are treated as the same number of materials as its link number, however to use them, you must match the requirements written on the card; this means that if you, for example, need to send 3 effect monsters to the graveyard to link summon a link monster, you can send 1 link 2 link effect monster and 1 effect monster to the graveyard instead since that link 2 link monster is worth 2 out of the 3 materials for the summon.

To link summon Decode Talker (a link 3 link monster), for example, you can send 1 link 2 link effect monster and 1 effect monster or just a link 3 link monster because Decode Talker is a link 3 link monster. To make it short: You can link summon a link monster by fulfilling the requirement they list or by the alternative method stated above.

Now we move on the thing that’s got everyone talking and it is the new game field and the new rules:

The first major change to field was the removal of the pendulum zones as standalone zones in the field, they’ve been incorporated in the row of the spell & trap zones. They work as both pendulum and spell/trap card zones, so if you occupy those zones with pendulum cards you cannot activate or set spell/trap cards.

Now the next major change, and I think this is the most important one, is that special summons from the extra deck are restricted. Look at Decode Talker’s artwork, see those arrows around it? Those indicate the linked monster zones, sorry, the linked main monster zones… yeah, because there two new zones that have been denominated the “extra monster zone”. In these zones is where you can special summon a monster from the extra deck, and you can only use one of them (it doesn’t matter which one you use, because once you use one the other becomes your opponent’s instantly); monsters cannot be special summoned from the extra deck to the main monster zones unless you have a link monster in the extra monster zone, whose arrows in the card’s artwork will indicate the main monster zones you can use to special summon monsters from the extra deck, but if you, for example, special summon Lunalight Cat Dancer from the Graveyard with Luna Light Perfume, it can be special summoned to the main monster zone since she didn’t come from the extra deck. Also, if you have a link monster in your extra monster zone and then you summon another link monster to one of the main monster zones you can use to special summon monsters from the extra deck, that said link monster will indicate you with its red arrows where you can keep special summoning monsters from the extra deck.

That’s basically everything you need to know about the new rules, further information about this new format will come in April when the new master rules are revealed by Konami on March 24th. For now, we just have to enjoy the final days of the actual format as we know it.