Zextra Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 An introduction to Pendulum Summons and the use of Pendulum Monsters. This is a powerful Summon method using the Pendulum Scale that Pendulum Monsters have to summon several monsters in one strike! Basically, they are monsters, however they can be placed in the Pendulum Zones and be activated as Spell Cards! They have the Pendulum Scale necessary for Pendulum Summons! These are the Pendulum Zones! By placing Pendulum Monsters in each Pendulum Zone on the left and right, you are ready to go! Once you have Pendulum Monsters on each Pendulum Zone, you are ready to go! The ability to Special Summon a large number of monsters whose Level is between the Pendulum Scales is the appeal of Pendulum Summons! Depending on the Pendulum Scales of the Pendulum Monsters that are activated, it becomes very easy to Summon monsters of higher level! ~ Point 1 ~ Placing a Pendulum Monster in a Pendulum Zone is treated as activating a Spell Card! Also, they must be placed face-up! (It is not possible to set them face-down) => Since they are treated as Spell Cards, they can be destroyed by cards like Mystical Space Typhoon ~ Point 2 ~ A Pendulum Monster activated in the Pendulum Zone is treated as a Spell Card, and not as a monster. => They are not destroyed by cards like Dark Hole. ~ Point 3 ~ Pendulum Summons are Special Summons that happen on a single timing (simultaneously)! => Pendulum Summons can be negated by Solemn Judgment, and the monsters that would have appeared at that time are all sent to the Graveyard. Source: http://www.ygorganization.com/ocg-master-rules-3-summary/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maeriberii Haan Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 This is confusing.... So there's a maindeck and Extra deck Pendulum monsters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 This is confusing.... So there's a maindeck and Extra deck Pendulum monsters? Apparently when a pendulum monster dies it can be sent to the ED face-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Noel- Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 so Pendulum Monsters are the first cards with 2 colors? also, no limit for summoning monsters between 2 scales!? I saw some spammy things there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Dr Professor Spaz Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 DN is gonna have fun coding this On a more serious note, this is too confusing. I think I'll probably go a few ban lists before trying to figure this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildflame Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Well, if anything, it's innovative. It will take a while for me to fully understand it though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maeriberii Haan Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 It might take a really long time before this is implemented in the cardmaker..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingdom Xathers Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 It might take a really long time before this is implemented in the cardmaker..... Oh, geez, it'll be the "WHEN ARE WE GETTING DARK SYNCHRO/XYZ?" song all over again... @__@; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 The reason this is confusing is because they are not fully detailed. First, does that mean you start the game with the scales in place? or that you have to draw into them and place them? If you draw into them (which is more likely to be the case), then does that count as free fall from the hand or does it need Tributes or something like a monster would? When it's face-up in the Extra Deck, does that mean your Extra Deck is sealed off or that your pendulum just becomes instantly available through some sort of Extra Deck Summon mechanic? and how would that be the case if they were initially Main Deck cards? If you have 2 Pendulum scales on the sides already, why is the third one so special for the Monster Card Zone? Well, this last one I think I do get it, but what bothers me is that it sounds like you can't exactly be in top-deck mode and pull out a Pendulum. Also, will it be just Pendulum Spell/Monster variants? What excites me though, is that we might see Synchros and Xyzs in the same anime if the last question I asked were to have more future options.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee. Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Personally, I just want to see these in action, as to get a better understanding of this mechanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet MS Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 What interests me is that there are scale numbers on both sides of the Pendulum Monster cards. Perhaps eventually there will be Pendulum Monsters with 2 scale numbers, and where you place them will matter since (theorized) the number which matches the colour of the Zone is applied for Pendulum Summons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maeriberii Haan Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 This'll be a pain to make a template of for the cardmaker imo. But I'm not the designer, so yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildflame Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 It will be even more of a pain to implement in DN/YGO Pro. So I don't think we'll be testing these guys anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Also, poor YGOPro. They'll have a ton of work to do here. EDIT: Ninja'd by seconds.... *shrugs* A-anyway..... now that I know the matching color is the case, I have a much MUCH better understanding of what the ranges are. Though, I still think giving them "X or lower" as the range is stupidly broad. Personally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zextra Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 This'll be a pain to make a template of for the cardmaker imo. But I'm not the designer, so yeah. Yeah, that's my job; I'm sure it's going to be lots of fun -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Noel- Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 what about playmats? do the currently playmats can't be used in the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I would probably assume you can, since it's just the addition of two zones opposite of the Monster Card ones. (If you play w/out a mat though, then just have to set aside some more space on each side to accomodate for it) As for the summoning concept, Sleepy already noted my concerns over it. Not enough confirmed data to explain how it works (a demo of how it works should help) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 what about playmats? do the currently playmats can't be used in the future? I'm sure from now on they'll be updated, and people will allow the old ones to be used. It's not such a big field change, just prepare your sides. Many playmats aren't even marked, and it's not like old Fusions became illegal when the Zone started being called Extra Deck. I'm sure it'll be something along those lines. Besides, Pendulum Monsters that go in those zones are very specific (the half-looking cards) so it's not like there'll be a lot of mixing up in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ok ok, from what I gather on the details: 1] It matters which zone is used. Red Pendulum Zone uses Red Arrow scale. Blue Pendulum Zone uses Blue Arrow scale. The relevant arrows will mark the range of the potential Pendulum Summon Level. 2] Pendulum Summon and Pendulum Monster is not the same. Pendulum Summoned monsters can be anything. Pendulum Monsters are these dual-colored cards, so when the explanation talks about destroyed Pendulum Monsters going to the Extra Deck face-up, it only talks about these dual-color cards. Which are basically new age Tuners, which you need to draw into and play from your hand. 3] From hand/Extra Deck. It's evident Pendulum Cards are NOT Extra Deck cards on their own. They can only get there through being sent from the field to the Graveyard. It implies that THAT is not an optional choice. Dead Pendulum Monsters go there, and since it's face-up, I'll guess that face-up part of the Extra Deck is public knowledge. I'll also assume that THAT development doesn't care about the Extra Deck limit at all. 4]You have a choice on how to playing Pendulum Cards. You can either place them on either Pendulum Zone, or treat them like any Effect Monsters (with the exception that they won't get to the Graveyard from the field). After dying, rather than being part of the Graveyard, they are safely stored in the Extra Deck so that you can bring them out pretty much for free whenever you can. They won't get any fancy effects (at least the 2 Magicians won't) that they wouldn't get from being Summoned the normal way, but they are still more availability thanks to the Pendulum Mechanic. They'll be very VERY recurrent in the anime, getting wiped out and coming back fairly constantly without need of revival. 5] You can now safely make a Shapesnatch Deck that won't worry about Tributing for it because no Tributes are worthy of Shapesnatch. This will open up the doors for more high-Level Summons, and will make it so that the "Tribute Summon" mechanic will pretty much die out unless a card's absolutely revolve around it (like Monarchs, Tefnuit, etc). EDIT: 6] Also, this is purely speculation but, Blue Arrow scale most likely marks the "minimum", while the Red Arrow a "maximum". So the range wouldn't actually be as wide for a beginning set. It basically means that the time guy needs to go to your right, while astrology guy to the left in order to make 1 - 8 possible. Having the pendulum be 8 to 1 doesn't make sense and you'd screw yourself. Though there must be a meaning behind they synchronizing their efforts into a closed Level 4 range.... maybe I'm wrong, or maybe it'll be a plot device out of Yuya making a huge mistake at the start of the series. If he does though, I'm calling it now. Which brings me to the question: Can one just take them out like we do with Field Spell Cards if we want to put another one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~British Soul~ Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 what about playmats? does that mean the current playmats can't be used in the future? Some of the playmats (like the YCS, judge, WCQ mats) don't even have card zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althemia Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 4. You can special summon from hand or from your extra deck Pendulum monsters with the scale numbers in between!I don't think this is correct. I just think you can Special Summon any monster, except only Pendulum monsters from your Extra Deck chances are. Makes sense, but this rule conflicts with a card we already have that isn't a Pendulum. (That one bad Dragon thing.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog King Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 ITT im confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azuh Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Due to Xyz having Ranks instead of Levels, maybe when the scales are the same, you can Xyz Summon with them from what number their scale is For example, when you have both of those Magicians in the Pendulum Zones, their number becomes 4, so then they might be able to Xyz Summon with those two monsters together for a Rank 4 summon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 4. In this turn with this pendulum summon you can summon any number of monsters from your hand and face-up pendulum monsters from your extra deck that are of levels 2-7and you can only do this one time, so you can’t summon something now, draw some, and then summon some more laterin the same turn Org's rule four. Which makes this a really degenerate mechanic if that's correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinky Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 IM SO CONFUSED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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