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I saw you say this in the tags of valkyrie’s explanation of structure decks lol

5Ds is synchro, ZEXAL is XYZs and ARC V is pendulum (+some others but mainly pendulum)

SYNCHRO SUMMONING:

For synchro summoning, you have to have tuners. You can only use one tuner to make a Synchro Monster.

How to summon a synchro is that your monsters levels must add up to the level of the Synchro Monster you’re trying to summon (sometimes synchro monsters will need you to have a specific tuner)

In DL PVP I legit just play the ruddy rose structure deck so I’ll give you an example for that (sorry if I screw any of the names up, I haven’t played pvp in awhile lol)

Black Rose Dragon is a level 7 Synchro monster

To summon it, I need a tuner and non-tuners

Naturia Rosewhip is a level 3 tuner so by combining it with White Rose Dragon (level 4) 3+4=7

easy lol, synchro decks are easy to play :3

XYZ SUMMONING:

Also a relatively easy summoning method (granted, I usually only play rank 4s—)

You need cards of the same level to summon out a XYZs monster

Take Number 39: Utopia

It’s a rank 4, the text states you need 2 level 4 monsters to summon it

so you get those two monsters, and stack them

Those monsters are called “overlay units” they’re used for the XYZs monster’s effects (those some can activate an effect without using an overlay unit, it just depends)

There are also cards called “rank-up magic” in which you can take a monster, such as Number 39: Utopia and transform it into a card of a higher rank

Like “Rank Up Magic Numeron Force”

the main part of text we’re looking at is this:

Target 1 face-up Xyz Monster you control; Special Summon from your Extra Deck, 1 "Number C" monster with the same Type as that monster you control, but 1 Rank higher, by using it as the Xyz Material.

You can use that to rank Number 39: Utopia to Number C39: Utopia Ray Victory (Rank 5) or some other card you’d like to use.

Also, on some card texts (such as Number C39: Utopia Ray) you can use a XYZs monster on your field to summon it

Here’s the part of the effect where it states that: “You can also Xyz Summon this card by using a "Number 39: Utopia" you control as material.”

XYZs, for me, is fairly easy. It probably gets harder when you use higher ranks though.

PENDULUM SUMMONING:

It looks veryyyyy complicated when you first see it because the cards are half-spell and half-monsters (trust me, I was so damn confused til I watched ARC V)

Basically, you can set a pendulum scale, and summon monsters in between the two numbers you set up

Confused? Here’s something more in-depth:

Pendulum cards have pendulum scales:

It’s the blue and red diamonds

You need two monsters with different pendulum scales to activate a pendulum summon

some cards will state you can only summon specific types (like in the DD archetype, most pendulum monsters, or all, I don’t play DD, state that you can only summon DD monsters and the effect cannot be negated)

Others, like Timegazer magician, state that you have to have a specific type of card in the other pendulum zone or the pendulum scale will change (in timegazer’s text, if you don’t have an odd-eyes, or magician, in the other zone, it’s scale will drop down to 4)

The two effects of Pendulum cards are separate (one can be activated when in the pendulum zone, the other is a monster effect)

SO, HOW TO ACTUALLY PENDULUM SUMMON:

First, you set the scales (it doesn’t matter which number is on which side)

Let’s say, Scale 1 Stargazer Magician and Scale 8 Timegazer Magician

You can summon monsters from levels 2 through 7 at the same time

so basically it’s just that inner part of the numbers lol

When your pendulum monsters are destroyed, they go to the extra deck (unless you specifically send them to the graveyard, I’m not too sure on this because I don’t run pendulums often just because in DL, if you don’t have a skill that adds pendulum zones to your field, it just takes up space in your back row)

Also most video games will have it so that you can only summon 1 pendulum monster from the extra deck (I think it’s cause pendulum is the only summoning method with the Master Rule 4 restriction)

LINK SUMMONING:

I dislike link summoning lol despite the fact VRAINS was the first spin off I watched lol, I’m just not that strategic to know which zone to put my monsters in lmaooo

it isn’t too hard, you just need monsters (sometimes of a specific type, the requirements are always the first thing in the text :3) and when you have those specific monsters, you can Link Summon by sending those cards to the graveyard

Another thing about link summoning is that you can use another link monster as material (it counts as it’s link rating)

Decode Talker is a Link-3 monster, meaning I need to use 3 (effect) monsters to link summon it

I could also just use Elphase (Link-2) and another effect monster to summon out Decode talker

(decode talker’s summon conditions: 2+ Effect Monsters)

Anything you don’t understand or need me to explain more clearly?

first off, the examples you used are very easy to visualise and this is so beautifully wriiten i might start crying. i wish research papers were written with this level of explanation. it would have made my life so much easier.

i think i got the gist of what each summoning method is about but i should watch the methods in action to get a better idea of them. but then that would be spoilers :< so i'll have to wait. but not to worry i'll get to it in the next (checks notes) 7 to 10 years! :D

i have a few questions:

what is a tuner and what is special about them?

why does the XYZ summoning method get harder with higher ranks?

what happens to the pendulum monsters after they go to the extra deck? can they be summoned again?

can you bring back monsters that go into the graveyard in link summoning back to play? because if you keep on sending monsters to the graveyeard, wouldn't you run out of monsters at one point?

#i mean it when i said this is so beautiful #i have read this like 15 times by now #its stunning #thank you so much for explaining it #i've taken a screenshot just so i can read it every now and then #cide watches yugioh #cide watches yugioh gx #cide answers asks #kooriphantom #also i'm alive guys #relatives have been pouring in these past few days so i was busy #i'll try to grab as much free time as i can