Do note that Pendulum Summoning counts as exactly one Summon according to game mechanics. Therefore, a single Solemn Strike will negate the summon of all monsters that were Pendulum Summoned, since it counts as ONE summon of MULTIPLE monsters.
You can also do some really spicy stuff like pendulum summoning 5 when winda is on the field because of the same ruling lol. Tried to make a metalfoes shaddol deck way back when. It wasn't very good but summoning 5 with winda up caused many a funny scoop
@@bigbone_99 Magikey Fiend - Transfurlmine has the effect to destroy ALL summoned monster with the same attributes, it's pretty much punish Pendulum one summon mechanic.
I had a break during late Pendulum pre link era, so I never actually understood how hybrid extra deck pendulum monster works. Even though other than dedicated Supreme King Z-Arc strategies, most of those monsters aren’t competitively used anymore, it’s still great to finally understand them
7:45 Thank you for saying this. So many people inherently misunderstand the Pendulum summon and call it a free soul charge. It actively costs a lot of resources and having the wrong ones get negated is basically an instant scoop. There's a reason why there's only been one good pendulum archetype since MR4 started.
Part of the reason why there's only been one good one is due to the fact that at it's apex, the good one was really good. Konami knew how volatile they could get if they became consistent, hence why they're left in the state they're in. In duel links, the game is far more consistent, which makes this issue worse.
@@ndt7379well pepe deck was the only truely busted deck they had and I think pendulums are a little over hated because of that. the deck was only good cause you had performapal monkeyboards at 3 which was a 1 card scale with no restrictions on what you can search and plushfires at 3 which is an easily abusable card you can kill, resummon, and search over and over and it's not once once per turn and it's 4star card so you can use it for a lot of xyz plays. Like, a lot of the other cards were like that too. You would basically blow your cards up over and over and have all the cards you wanted to win. Like you also had zodiac and spryrals during that era and neither of those really used the mechanic at all and I honestly think pendulums are overly hated cause they had one insanely busted deck. The only other one during that era that came close was maybe full power pendulum magicians with zarc with lyralusc. Honestly thought pendulums were fine as they were and it irks me you need link cards to make them work cause no other card is forced to have that restriction.
Great to see some respect for Pendulum cards. I am the pendulum player in my friend group, and I always get roasted for using them. I love Pendulum cards because they are awesome and fun to play with and Ark V was a great anime I thought. Thanks for this.
I think pendulum cards have no place in yugioh. This game is already a glorified game of solitaire as it is where the objective is to stop your opponent from playing the game at all. Yu Gi Oh was at it's best in the GX maybe 5Ds era, where you had a chance to play the game and had to use strategy to win.
@@HerrenGamingNewsOf course a yugiboomer would decry modern yugioh as solitaire while also praising the era of Yatalock, Goat control, and tele-DAD. Of all the summoning mechanics, pendulums are the most balanced. You get ONE pendulum summon a turn. That's all that needs to be negated. Meanwhile synchros and links are so easy to go plus and ladder they regularly win the Maxx C challenge. Fusions and XYZ are entirely built around ignoring the limitations of their own mechanics. XYZ summoning off of XYZ monsters, fusion summoning by shuffling monsters from the GY to the deck. Where's the balance in that? Not to mention the cards that promote control are mostly synchros (baron, demise) or fusions (dragoon). Pendulums, rituals, and tribute decks are the only ones that deserve any respect.
Coming back to YuGiOh properly after a long while and I was never able to find the specific rulings for summoning Pendulum Monsters from the Extra Deck. It's much more simple than I expected. Big thanks.
Wish they had pushed the scale values on each arrow to be a different number when they first teased them. Would have been interesting to see what cards would be useful depending on their mixed numbers.
I love Pendulums. They are my favorite type of monster cards in the modern era. Admittedly, they are very complex to play, what with the massive amounts of text and the special rulings, but I just find them extremely fun and rewarding. Playing them effectively and defeating a strong opponent with them almost feels like cracking a puzzle. It's a shame they're in a bad spot in terms of the competitive play right now. Having an inherent three card combo mechanic just puts them at disadvantage against current top decks capable of using one card and two card combos. I really wish Konami would give them more support.
Metalfoes are my fave deck. It's really hard being pend player right now when all the modern meta deck has one card combo that can turn the tide of the game. While pend is somewhat still 2-3 card combo and have a really bad follow up. In the future I think creating pendulum deck that’s like ddd and abyss actor is important. You don't want pendulum is used just because it can provide a lot of bodies in the field.
@@okita_souji_alter Doesn't detract from the fact that every other summoning method is a short on TH-cam instead of a full video... To be fair, though, there are a few full videos explaining a particular ENGINE that's just as long or worse... Looking at you, Bystials...
More than half of the video doesn't even talk about pendulums specifically and more about reminding how specific game mechanics apply to pendulum monsters and how other non pendulum cards interact with pendulum cards.
To not be overwhelmed by the long texts of Pendulums, you can just ignore one part of its text depending on where it is. If it's on the Pendulum zone, you can ignore its monster effect entirely. If it's anywhere outside the Pendulum Zone, you can ignore its Pendulum Effect. With this, you can ignore half of the card text of cards like Nirvana High Paladin. There are exceptions to this, particularly if you attempt to remove Pendulum cards from the pendulum zone (by destroying, banishing, etc.) because once they're destroyed, pendulum cards in the PZ will activate their Monster effects instead.
This is notable for stuff like double iris magician that when they are a pendulum scale, they can activate their pendulum effect, which destroys itself in exchange for something else as a part of the effect, but then they trigger their destruction effect that's on the monster side of the card.
Honestly, I like the Pendulum mechanic, but all of them are combo decks which I don't play that much, outside of Endymion and I don't heavily play it that much. It's cool that they're expanding on how to use the pendulum cards in archetypes like Nemurelia or the Earth Plunder Ship, but I think a pure midrange/control Pend deck is possible, and I would love to see that happen one day... Big copium
2:08 I recently discovered that, if you negate a Pendulum Monster's "floating effect" (like say, Lunalight Tiger's floating effect being negate by Crystal Wing's Omni-Negate & Destroy), and you destroy the monster, it goes from the extra deck face-up to the GY
Falls into the classification of being sent from anywhere other than the field to the GY, so yeah. Side note, Black Fang Magician is really fun to bait this with since it's not once per turn.
I know even if someone Pendulum Summons multiple monsters in a turn it still counts as one special summon, so a Maxx C will only draw you one card, but I can't remember if they'll still count toward Nibiru. Pretty sure they still do.
Easiest way to remember Maxx C and Nibiru is Maxx C counts each special summon not each monster, whilst nibiru counts each monster summoned and not each special summon. Despite a lot of the time the 2 do go hand in hand in cases like pendulum summoning it doesn.
For formats that allow heavymetalfoes electrumite, why isn't astrograph sorcerer mentioned? As it allows you to go into beyond with more options in the extra deck while also having good effects which isn't hard once per turn?
Astrograph in starting hand + Electrumite gives Pendulum Magicians the best boards, precisely because you can go into Beyond and THEN pend summon, it's ridiculous
@@origamitraveler7425 you actually never want astro in your hand unless you can pop a scale, as you generally throw him in the extra deck with electrumite. Chronograph summons himself and another monster
@@merkyofaycemfx2944You can use it to search any pendulum monster in your deck via Electrum instead of Astro, if you don't have a pendulum monster to pop, then yes Chrono is better. In conclusion: bring both if you can Edit : oh yeah, try to bring one of the graph magicians if you're playing a deck that pops your own cards often but doesn't lock you out, unfortunately Unchained has a Fiend lock so you can't use Astrograph
Konami has already long since made a rule stating that the left scale applies when in the left zone and the right scale applies while in the right zone. They made this ruling very early in the Pendulum lifespan and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it.
I am THE pendulum player at my locals. A few others know strats using them, but don't constantly play them like I do. As such, I am a threat to even some meta decks people have used. Everyone was shocked when I placed 2nd in a box tourney we held Needless to say, I near instantly clicked this video because I'm on break
Same, I spent 3-4 months after Tear's ban labbing Performapal Vaylantz and I've been taking games off of meta/topping locals consistently -the Script Writer
I’m glad you broke down why Pendulum decks aren’t meta anymore. The amount of the community that still loves to come down hard on Pendulums when they aren’t even relevant is wild.
@@steinlone5454 The current meta isn't really easily defined by a specific summoning mechanic. It's a mix of Kashtira since it banishes everything, Purrely because it makes an absurdly strong unaffected monster, and a few other decks (i.e. Runick Fur Hire Spright, Dragon Link, and Sworsoul of all things)
@@raisp6073 how though? The complaint was that it’s “too much resources and painful negate boards”. Every meta deck and some rouge can turn out a strong board with any number of one or one and a half combos, and they do it better and with more consistency than any pendulum deck. Link and Syncro decks are far more asinine than Pendulums.
Another thing to point out is that pendulum cards in the pend zone still count as a monster *card* . I found out through the interactions between Deviser King Deus Machinex and Pend monsters. Setting your scales is an activation of a card (like activating a continuous spell). Deus Machinex can activate upon setting the scales. I was confused as well 🤷♂️
This situation only happens when a card says "monster card", because, in its essence, Pendulum monsters are still monsters. That is why Machinex activated its effect. But cards like Divine Wrath or Skill Drain cannot affect Pendulum monsters on the Pendulum Zone, because they are talking about "monsters" and not the specific nomenclature "monster card"; so, they will just check cards that are counting as monsters on the field and not their "original form", as it were. It is almost the same issue with Crystal Beasts counting as Continous Spells on the field, for instance. It can be pretty confusing, I know :v
can you do a video about the battle phase and its parts? I sometimes have difficulty knowing what demands a replay and what forces your opponent to continue the attack. Also I have heard that there are certain things that can't be done during the battle phase
IRRC a replay occurs if a monster declares an attack and during attack declaration the number of legal attack targets changes. Only on attack declaration and not during the damage step
@@dannyboers4704 so lets say I have a monster that increases ATk by the number of cards in the field. My opponents declares attack but I special summon a monster and the ATK raises making it stronger. My opponent then decides to not continue. But if in the same situation just instead of special summoning I instead activate an effect that lets me set a new card, thus increasing the ATK of my monster then the attack must continue right?
I'll add hidden mechanic with Pend. You cannot send Pendulum monsters to GY, thus it is not possible to say, contact fuse Chimeratech using opponent's Machine Pendulum, or Special Summon cards like Arcana Force EX that require you to send cards or use them as Forbidden Droplet cost.
Your incorrect actually pen monsters go to the grave first be or redirected to the extra deck that's why like he said in the video macro cosmos banishes them. But if they were sent from the hand they stay in grave as they were not on the field when sent but on field they would go to the ed
Bro, some Yugiboomers would probably hate the mechanic even more due to the length of the video, lol On top of that, it's the only summoning/card mechanic that can't have it's rules explained in a few sentences at most
If they can't appreciate a 12 minutes video made specifically for people who do not know how to pend or how it works then it's on them, such a kind hearted person made a video for beginners and people who don't get it and they say "nah it's too long", then it's a lost cause, since they aren't willing to think or even try to understand, it wouldn't be worth to keep arguing with them
@@GiafyViewsthe fact that its too long thats thw problem. Its the worst one to explain to new players, and even after explaining they wont get it. As a friend of mine once said when trying to play yugioh, he would rather just let the opponent do whatever pendulums do than to try and understand it.
Yea tell them to watch a 12min fucking video about how to play a childrens card game which no children actually play because its too complicated and boring😂😂 stfu
@@GiafyViewsit shouldn't take 12min to explain a game mechanic, and people like you who think that it's okay is the reason why Konami never does anything the fans want cuz people like you just accept whatever
Ok, let me try something then: _Pendulum Pandemonium_ Field Spell _You can add this card to your hand (from your field or GY) if you conduct and resolve a Pendulum Summon. This card cannot be destroyed by card effects while you control a monster in your pendulum zone. If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales. If a card or effect would be activated or applied in response to your pendulum summon of a monster: You can tribute 2 cards from your hand or field to negate the activation. The following effects are applied depending on the scales of any pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones:_ 0-4: If a Pendulum Monster from your hand or field would be sent to the GY or banished face-up: it is placed face-up in your extra deck instead. If a pendulum monster from your hand or field is banished facedown: You can add 1 “Pendulum” card from your field, deck or GY to your hand. 5-8: You can normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute, and change their battle positions after their summon/set. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 normal summoned/set monster you control: Place 1 pendulum monster from your GY or Extra deck into your pendulum zone. 9+: You can tribute 1 monster from your hand or field: Add 1 Pendulum monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) with a scale that matches that tribute’s level/rank/Link-rating. Pendulum monsters in your pendulum zone are unaffected by the effects of opponents monsters who’s level/rank/link-rating match their pendulum scales.
This seems pretty well designed and it’s written quite well, I would love to actually see a card like this be printed. Btw this is a pendulum custom card that I made some time ago myself. Pendulum World Normal Spell Target 2 monsters in your hand or GY, place them in your pendulum zones. Monsters that are not pendulum cards placed by this effect will be treated as pendulum monsters with a scale equal to 10 minus the level of the respective monster. If you have 2 or less cards in your hand, you can banish this card from your GY; add monsters from your GY to your hand up to the number of cards your opponent controls, then if you have no cards in your pendulum zones, you can also add this card to your hand. You can only activate each effect of "Pendulum World" once per turn.
I see a potential issue with this: "If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales." Assuming Okay-ish Pendulum Scale of 2 and 7 .... and that's a 2500 ATK boost to ALL monsters you control. And as pointed out, those aren't exactly the best scales to be using... and it's good enough to double Dark Magician's atk..... so you might want to turn that down to maybe 200 or 300 instead of 500 so it's not giving quite a massive boost to every monster you control.
@@13KuriMaster Or 6000 ATK/DEF if the scales are 13-0… I see your point: _Pendulum Pandemonium_ Field Spell _You can add this card to your hand (from your field or GY) if you conduct and resolve a Pendulum Summon. This card cannot be destroyed by card effects while you control a monster in your pendulum zone. If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 250 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales. If a card or effect would be activated or applied in response to your pendulum summon of a monster: You can tribute 2 cards from your hand or field to negate the activation. The following effects are applied depending on the scales of any pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones:_ 0-4: If a Pendulum Monster from your hand or field would be sent to the GY or banished face-up: it is placed face-up in your extra deck instead. If a pendulum monster from your hand or field is banished facedown: You can add 1 “Pendulum” card from your field, deck or GY to your hand. 5-8: You can normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute, and change their battle positions after their summon/set. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 normal summoned/set monster you control: Place 1 pendulum monster from your GY or Extra deck into your pendulum zone. 9+: You can tribute 1 monster from your hand or field: Add 1 Pendulum monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) with a scale that matches that tribute’s level/rank/Link-rating. Pendulum monsters in your pendulum zone are unaffected by the effects of opponents monsters who’s level/rank/link-rating match their pendulum scales. THERE, _now_ under normal circumstances, the ATK/DEF boost should be at most 3000. Still potent, just not “My mushroom man is going to fold your obelisk the tormentor like a pretzel” potent.
Jesus, no wonder people don't play with this mechanic. I've been playing Abyss Actors in Master Duel for months now, but I never ran into much trouble with negates (probably due to the 1 duel nature of the game) outside of the usual big boss monsters. I always assumed Solemns would only be able to negate 1 of the monsters pendulum summoned to the field. Being able to just shut down the whole summon is a massive weakness, and don't even get me started on Eradicator Epidemic Virus.
Konami basically nerfed the mechanic I to the ground due to the general disdain a large majority of the player base had to them at release and overtime, regardless of how strong or not the decks that focused on then were
Funnily enough Superstar has an effect when summoned that prevents the opponent from activating spells or traps. So if you pendulum summon and superstar is the last one summoned your opponent cannot activate any solemn cards to negate the pendulum summon.
@@AdonanS No, all monsters that hit the field in a pend summon are considered to be summoned simultaneously so Superstar will prevent a response no matter the order. However, it CANNOT prevent a summon negation by the likes of Solemn, because it says the summon never happened for it to protect anything in the first place.
@@Gantann Yeah, I just read the wiki on Superstar. That sucks, considering I always try to search Superstar to make my summon go smoothly. I guess I've just been lucky this whole time.
Despite being only 26 years old, apparently I'm a Yugiboomer now because I hated everything about Pendulum cards, Xyz and Synchro weren't that complicated to understand but holy shit, the Mucho Texto Curse in Pendulums is REAL. Yesterday I found out you can roughly gauge when a YGO card came out by the amount of text in them, it doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's still very accurate.
5:54 what professor moon spider means here is you can summon monsters with levels FROM 2 THROUGH 7. Just in case that threw anyone else off like it did me
I was always surprised by this type of thinking, I always saw it as exaggerations from people who didn't play and just wanted to hate the game. This can even be compared to how in the pendulum era there were records for sales and attendance at events
I really appreciate this video since i left yugi a long time ago and im came back to play with some friends because i loved the gimmick of the nemleria cards but i realised that i dont even know how a pendulum works lol. I just know that i have to remove the mattresses and wake the girl up
@@AcroxShadowperhaps it would have been better to say that they function as if they are Continuous Spells, and are considered Spells while scaled. This can be demonstrated by removing a Pendulum Monster in a scale from the field in response to that Pendulum Monster activating it's Pendulum Effect (i.e. Chain 1 Performapal Monkeyboard, Chain 2 MST target Monkeyboard). After the Pendulum Monster leaves the field (CL2) and it attempts to resolve its effect (CL1), it will resolve without effect just like any other Continuous Spell/Trap (i.e. Monkeyboard will not search a Performapal monster). - the Script Writer
Now, they don't count as Continuous Spell Cards in the sense that if you wanted to tribute them for the summon of a True Draco monster, you couldn't do that. Pendulums cause so many edge-cases that it's really confusing, hence this video 😅
@@luckytrap897They’re continuous spells in the sense that they stay on the field and you can destroy them to completely stop their effects. But they aren’t actually classified as continuous spells
Small correction: At 4:06 and 11:03, you say that Pendulum Monsters are considered Continuous Spells while scaled. While they do act like Continuous Spells, they are *not* actually considered Continuous Spells. The difference doesn't come up very often, but it means that you can't destroy them with Spell Purification or use them to summon Hamon, for example.
@@gamerofthetime No, they're not Normal Spells either. Though there are hardly any cards that interact specifically with Normal Spells on the field, so it comes up even less. They're essentially "typeless" Spell cards.
So to be clear if being sent to the graveyard they go face up in the extra deck but if “returned” to the hand/deck an extra deck pendulum monster like say Dark Anthelion Dragon gets reset and goes face down in the extra deck and needs to be summoned again through XYZ summoning is that correct?
@@bergkatze3186 naturally the cards are hidden facedown like other extra deck monsters till they’re summoned to the field and there are extra deck native pendulum cards like Dark Anthelion Dragon, Odd Eyes Venom/Rebellion/Wing dragon as a few examples that are faced down till properly summoned
Pendulum monster in Master rule 3 is the strongest since you can pen summon as many as possible as long your fullfill the requirements. Now master rule 4, it nerf by loosing 2 extra space at backrow and your can only pendulum summon pendulum monster extra deck to link monster point to, where this is does not occur before link monster introduce. Currently we don't have a very competitive pendulum deck. in OCG currently have a lot a new card support pendulum and some new card do double pendulum summon.
I appreciate that someone would genuinely try to explain a seemingly complex mechanic in as short a time as possible, but man, looking at the title and then looking at the length is a whiplash. Watching it with minimal understanding of the modern game (i think the last time i played it was a game on the GBA) is really hard to follow. I have no problem playing complex games like GMT games or simulationist stuff but I think I'm just missing the thread. I don't understand how this game onboards new players!
@@ironblazer4565yeah, Link and Pendulum ruined the board with additional card slots and complicated mechanics. Now Yugioh is hard to move-on with "link" because they can't come up with a newer gimmick without ruining the board again, unless they remove both link and pendulum and just add new extra deck gimicks than overcomplicating the game mechanics.
@@waveringeyes8277 Imagine a series of flip monsters that are retrained as Trap “Pendulum”’s? Aside from Exodia, Flip monsters were the first effect monsters in the game, so seeing a man-eater bug pendu-trap retrain would be cool.
@4:07 and 11:01 - A Pendulum Monster in a Pendulum Zone is NOT treated as a Continuous Spell (or any other category of Spell Cards, ie. Field, Equip, Normal, Ritual, Quick-Play).
@@bergkatze3186 Pendulum Monster Cards in the Pendulum Zones are still considered Spell Cards in general, they are just not part of any existing category of Spell Cards.
TL;DR They are Spell Cards that function like Continuous Spells. I only learned this particular distinction earlier tonight when attempting to summon Master Peace by tributing a Pendulum Monster, it doesn't work since scaled Pendulums are not treated as Continuous Spell Cards. - The Script Writer
@@0mn0m15 No, not from scratch, although I DID go slotted overboard when Genex monsters were brought up that one time and… Made a retrain for almost every single genex monster in existence at the time.
@@luckytrap897 Same, but starting with a new archetype is pretty rough. You have to know what you want to do with the archetype or you end up with a mess.
Ooh, that makes it way simple to understand, I used to be scared of those by those double text boxes. Although I have two silly doubt left. Pendulum Summoning (And to an extent, placing both Pendulums) uses up your Normal Summon? Or is everything treated as a special summon? You can place both Pendulum monsters on the field in the same turn to start Pendulum summoning right away?
I take this vid opportunity just to remind me of my phobia of pends (the texts!). Yet i ended up playing them because i love their artworks and in MD, i got them from secret packs. I started using Qliphort, and now Abyss Actor, reachjng my highest stage of diamond 4. Pend is great, and every1 should give it a chance
0:00 Idea for an pendulum equip spell: _Pendulum Blade_ Equip Spell _Can only be equipped to a pendulum monster. If you conduct a pendulum summon: You can equip this card from your hand, Deck or GY to a monster you control. The equipped monster can attack all of your opponents monster’s once each if you conduct a pendulum summon this turn. The equipped monster gains the following effects depending on it’s pendulum scales:_ 0-3: Cannot be destroyed by trap cards or effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would activate a trap card or effect: You can Set 1 normal or continuous Trap from your hand or deck. 4-7: Cannot be destroyed by Spell cards or effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would activate a spell card or effect: You can Set 1 normal or continuous spell from your hand or deck. 8+: Cannot be destroyed by battle or monster effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would declare an attack or activate a Monster effect: You can normal Set 1 non-effect or flip monster from your hand or deck.
4:07 Pendulum Monster Cards are NOT treated as Continuous Spells while in the Pendulum Zone. They function similarly to Continuous Spells, yes, but they are just a Spell, and not any specific type of Spell.
Bro, pendulums are almost 10 years old, if you don't understand them after 10 years you have a bigger problem to worry about. And why is it that the only game that gets hate when it introduces a new mechanic is Yu-Gi-Oh
@@yuseifudo6075 Wow, you are clueless and apparently do not have the ability to see eye to eye iwth people. He didnt even say he doesnt undertstrantd them a d you insinuating he lacks Intlelegence just shows how mch you lack it.
I thought Pendulum cards were treated just as spells while in the Pendulum zone... not specifically continuous spells.... meaning cards that only work on continuous spells won't work on them there. Am I misremembering? Was there a ruling change? or did Duel Logs just misspeak when giving that info.
Idea for a normal summon support pendulum monster: _Inversion Summoner_ (DARK) Level 1 Pendulum Scales: 13⬅️➡️0 _Cannot be destroyed/negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster. During turns you control this face-up card: You can normal summon/set monsters without limit, but can only special summon once. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 monster from your hand/field: Apply 1 of the following effects based off it’s ATK/DEF (your choice) until your next draw phase: Less then 2500: You can normal summon/set monster with 1 less tribute. Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can shuffle 1 monster you own that is banished or from the field/GY into the deck. 2500 or more: Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can either set 1 spell/trap card directly from your hand/deck OR You can add 1 monster that cannot be Normal Summoned and/or set to your hand from your field/deck/GY._ Spellcaster/Tuner/Pendulum/Effect _Cannot be destroyed/negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster. During turns you control this face-up card: You can normal summon/set monsters without limit, but can only special summon once. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 monster from your hand/field: Apply 1 of the following effects based off it’s ATK/DEF (your choice) until your next draw phase: Less then 2500: Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can place 1 Pendulum Monster from your hand/field/GY into your pendulum zones, OR You can add 1 spell/trap you own to your hand that is banished or from the field/GY. 2500 or more: Each time you normal or Flip summon a monster; Increase this card’s ATK/DEF by the total ATK/DEF of the summoned monster, and also, You can add 1 monster that cannot be special summoned to your hand from your field/deck/GY._ ATK/0 DEF/0
@@stone3706 _Right,_ I keep forgetting the stereotype/meme that Yu-Gi-Oh players are illiterate, so I’ll break down the card bit by bit: ⚪️The card, either in the monster or pendulum zones, has a shared effect that prevents it from being destroyed or negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster. ⚪️Also shared between it’s monster/pendulum effects is an effect where, during turns you control the card, you can normal summon/set as many monsters as you want (and can get away with) in a single turn, BUT you can only special summon _once_ during those turns (meaning if the card leaves the field, you still can’t special summon more than once that turn.) ⚪️The monster and pendulum effects have a shared effect where, from your hand or field, you can tribute 1 monster that is either below 2500 ATK or DEF, or _equal to or above_ 2500 ATK or DEF, to apply a set of effects until your next draw phase. ⚪️The -2500 pendulum effect let’s you normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute. Meaning you can normal summon/set level 6 or lower monsters without tributing, and level 7 or higher ones with 1 tribute. Also, every time you normal summon/set a monster, you can shuffle 1 card you own that is banished or from the field or GY into your deck. ⚪️The 2500 or more pendulum effect let’s you either set single spell/trap cards from your hand or deck each time you normal summon/set a monster, OR add a monster to your hand from your field, deck or GY that cannot be normal summoned and/or set (like “Alpha, the Master of Beasts” as a random example). ⚪️The -2500 monster effect let’s you either place pendulum monsters into your pendulum zone (from your hand, GY or field, usually from your monster zones, or other spell/trap zones if they end up THERE somehow), OR adds a spell/trap you own to your hand that is banished or from the field/GY ⚪️And the 2500 or more monster effect simply increases the card’s ATK/DEF by the total ATK/DEF of that of any monster you normal or flip summon (So if you normal summon an Obelisk, that’s 8000 ATK/DEF for this card), AND I can add 1 monster to my hand from my field, deck or GY that cannot be special summoned (Like most Spirit Monsters.) ⚪️Beyond that, is has a decent type/attribute combo, the single best possible pendulum scalings to min-max the one special summon you can get out of this card, and is a pendulum/tuner to help it fit into synchro decks. It’s VERY strong, but so radically different from about anything else in the game you’d need to revolve your entire deck around it to make it worthwhile.
It was really bizarre when I stopped playing after high school around the synchro era and when I came back there were these weird monster zones in the middle and pendulum zones. And all the rules about pendulum monsters and the extra deck were difficult to wrap my head around. I tried to get used to it when pendulum became a thing in Duel Links but it was ultimately the thing that made me lose interest, when so many effects would happen at once and I'd have to use up a lot of time trying to parse what and how things happened in the previous turn.
For most of them, though there are exceptions. D/D/D, for instance, has their link monster, who places the scales from the deck. Since "Place" isn't the same thing as "Activate", he doesn't care about Anti-spell (or ash, for that matter).
I still don't get how people found pendulum complicated. The whole mechanic is easy. And I am a yugi boomer. My first yugioh booster box was metal raiders.
Which is why it requires 12 whole minutes compared to "generally requires 1 tuner and additional monsters on the field to be tributed to special summon a synchro monster whoms level is the sum total of all tributed monsters. This is treated as a "synchro summon""
Because this is a depth guide to pendulum, he already explained the mechanic in the first minute of the video, everything after that is explaining things like negated pendulum summon, or extra deck pendulum monsters.
I don't think it was addressed however.. how does the pendulum mechanic work with monsters that are originally from the extra deck such as xyz, fusion, etc? Are they summoned as normal since they are extra deck monsters? How do you go about using their spell effects if you can't play them from the hand?
If difi (dimension fissure) is online. Is xyz material consist of pend monster send to GY, or banished? AFAIK, Difi do NOT banish those material. In MD.
I raged quitted Yugioh when Pendulums first came out. I first thought this was a broken as hell concept and would ruin the game. Thanks to Duel Links and Master Duel though i came to love Pendulum Summoning. You can then go into XYZ or Synchro Summoning through this method. I cant see myself not use Pendulum as a base method for any style I try. I also loved to use Pendulum Impenetrable for protection and Pendulum Switch for trolling and quick Summoning a beat stick monster, like Odd Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon.
what happens if i locked a pendulum zone using kashtira shangri-Ira can they still pendulum or are they locked from doing that until they outed my monster?
Abridged version: Bottom Effect = Monster Top Effect = Spell Field -> Extra Deck (no graves) Scale 1/8 = Summon Level 4/5/6/7 Extra Deck Summon goes into Extra Zone.
Do note that Pendulum Summoning counts as exactly one Summon according to game mechanics. Therefore, a single Solemn Strike will negate the summon of all monsters that were Pendulum Summoned, since it counts as ONE summon of MULTIPLE monsters.
You can also do some really spicy stuff like pendulum summoning 5 when winda is on the field because of the same ruling lol. Tried to make a metalfoes shaddol deck way back when. It wasn't very good but summoning 5 with winda up caused many a funny scoop
didn't he say that in the video?
Progression Series viewers will remember the Royal Oppression vs Pendulum Summon incident
@@bigbone_99 Magikey Fiend - Transfurlmine has the effect to destroy ALL summoned monster with the same attributes, it's pretty much punish Pendulum one summon mechanic.
Also plays around Maxx C
I had a break during late Pendulum pre link era, so I never actually understood how hybrid extra deck pendulum monster works. Even though other than dedicated Supreme King Z-Arc strategies, most of those monsters aren’t competitively used anymore, it’s still great to finally understand them
if you play yugioh Master Duel or Duel Links, try the Metalfoe pendulum cards. The archetype is semi easy to understand & quick to learn
7:45 Thank you for saying this. So many people inherently misunderstand the Pendulum summon and call it a free soul charge. It actively costs a lot of resources and having the wrong ones get negated is basically an instant scoop. There's a reason why there's only been one good pendulum archetype since MR4 started.
Part of the reason why there's only been one good one is due to the fact that at it's apex, the good one was really good. Konami knew how volatile they could get if they became consistent, hence why they're left in the state they're in. In duel links, the game is far more consistent, which makes this issue worse.
Which archetype?
@@ndt7379well pepe deck was the only truely busted deck they had and I think pendulums are a little over hated because of that. the deck was only good cause you had performapal monkeyboards at 3 which was a 1 card scale with no restrictions on what you can search and plushfires at 3 which is an easily abusable card you can kill, resummon, and search over and over and it's not once once per turn and it's 4star card so you can use it for a lot of xyz plays. Like, a lot of the other cards were like that too. You would basically blow your cards up over and over and have all the cards you wanted to win. Like you also had zodiac and spryrals during that era and neither of those really used the mechanic at all and I honestly think pendulums are overly hated cause they had one insanely busted deck. The only other one during that era that came close was maybe full power pendulum magicians with zarc with lyralusc. Honestly thought pendulums were fine as they were and it irks me you need link cards to make them work cause no other card is forced to have that restriction.
@@17-MASYprobably Supreme King Arc-Z if I had to guess
Great to see some respect for Pendulum cards. I am the pendulum player in my friend group, and I always get roasted for using them. I love Pendulum cards because they are awesome and fun to play with and Ark V was a great anime I thought. Thanks for this.
Fellow pendulum player
I think pendulum cards have no place in yugioh. This game is already a glorified game of solitaire as it is where the objective is to stop your opponent from playing the game at all.
Yu Gi Oh was at it's best in the GX maybe 5Ds era, where you had a chance to play the game and had to use strategy to win.
@@HerrenGamingNewsOf course a yugiboomer would decry modern yugioh as solitaire while also praising the era of Yatalock, Goat control, and tele-DAD.
Of all the summoning mechanics, pendulums are the most balanced. You get ONE pendulum summon a turn. That's all that needs to be negated.
Meanwhile synchros and links are so easy to go plus and ladder they regularly win the Maxx C challenge. Fusions and XYZ are entirely built around ignoring the limitations of their own mechanics. XYZ summoning off of XYZ monsters, fusion summoning by shuffling monsters from the GY to the deck. Where's the balance in that? Not to mention the cards that promote control are mostly synchros (baron, demise) or fusions (dragoon).
Pendulums, rituals, and tribute decks are the only ones that deserve any respect.
@@ImaTroperRitual is the embodiement of cheesing their summoning limitations.
Coming back to YuGiOh properly after a long while and I was never able to find the specific rulings for summoning Pendulum Monsters from the Extra Deck.
It's much more simple than I expected. Big thanks.
I was searching for in depth explanation of pendulum monsters right as you uploaded this video! Thanks, it's very informative and I learned a lot
Wish they had pushed the scale values on each arrow to be a different number when they first teased them. Would have been interesting to see what cards would be useful depending on their mixed numbers.
Ive been watching yugioh videos for 5+ years not knowing the actual rules to the game, so this video is much Appreciated
I love Pendulums. They are my favorite type of monster cards in the modern era. Admittedly, they are very complex to play, what with the massive amounts of text and the special rulings, but I just find them extremely fun and rewarding.
Playing them effectively and defeating a strong opponent with them almost feels like cracking a puzzle.
It's a shame they're in a bad spot in terms of the competitive play right now. Having an inherent three card combo mechanic just puts them at disadvantage against current top decks capable of using one card and two card combos.
I really wish Konami would give them more support.
As a Majespecter player myself, I'm glad to see Bunbuku be used as one of the representing cards for Pendulums.
I'm glad you were able to find this video since you would be a difficult audience to target 😂
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Pend best deck!!! And it's not even for the joke, I genuinely love pendulum decks, it's my favorite summon mechanic by far
Metalfoes are my fave deck.
It's really hard being pend player right now when all the modern meta deck has one card combo that can turn the tide of the game. While pend is somewhat still 2-3 card combo and have a really bad follow up.
In the future I think creating pendulum deck that’s like ddd and abyss actor is important. You don't want pendulum is used just because it can provide a lot of bodies in the field.
Love how “quick and easy” for pendulums is still a 12 minute video
He spends half the video giving examples of good pendulum cards. First 6 minutes gets it down fairly quickly
@@okita_souji_alter
Doesn't detract from the fact that every other summoning method is a short on TH-cam instead of a full video...
To be fair, though, there are a few full videos explaining a particular ENGINE that's just as long or worse... Looking at you, Bystials...
More than half of the video doesn't even talk about pendulums specifically and more about reminding how specific game mechanics apply to pendulum monsters and how other non pendulum cards interact with pendulum cards.
Still not as long as my opponent's turn
To not be overwhelmed by the long texts of Pendulums, you can just ignore one part of its text depending on where it is.
If it's on the Pendulum zone, you can ignore its monster effect entirely.
If it's anywhere outside the Pendulum Zone, you can ignore its Pendulum Effect.
With this, you can ignore half of the card text of cards like Nirvana High Paladin.
There are exceptions to this, particularly if you attempt to remove Pendulum cards from the pendulum zone (by destroying, banishing, etc.) because once they're destroyed, pendulum cards in the PZ will activate their Monster effects instead.
This is notable for stuff like double iris magician that when they are a pendulum scale, they can activate their pendulum effect, which destroys itself in exchange for something else as a part of the effect, but then they trigger their destruction effect that's on the monster side of the card.
Honestly, I like the Pendulum mechanic, but all of them are combo decks which I don't play that much, outside of Endymion and I don't heavily play it that much.
It's cool that they're expanding on how to use the pendulum cards in archetypes like Nemurelia or the Earth Plunder Ship, but I think a pure midrange/control Pend deck is possible, and I would love to see that happen one day... Big copium
Pick up Qliphorts, my man. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it's the closest that pendulum has to offer.
Zefra is considered a mid-range deck if I remember correctly, they don’t combo too much and end on mainly counter traps and zefra path iirc.
@@tratufo921 Zefra sound cool, and Zefraath is one of my favorite YGO artwork
@@tratufo921qliporth is a midrange pendulum, using qliporth down etc to summon skybase and killer.
@@XmortoxX1990 zefraath is sick (and a rock for some reason, but that just makes him cooler)
ty for explaining
i stopped playing after synchros, so this is much needed
2:08 I recently discovered that, if you negate a Pendulum Monster's "floating effect" (like say, Lunalight Tiger's floating effect being negate by Crystal Wing's Omni-Negate & Destroy), and you destroy the monster, it goes from the extra deck face-up to the GY
Falls into the classification of being sent from anywhere other than the field to the GY, so yeah. Side note, Black Fang Magician is really fun to bait this with since it's not once per turn.
I know even if someone Pendulum Summons multiple monsters in a turn it still counts as one special summon, so a Maxx C will only draw you one card, but I can't remember if they'll still count toward Nibiru. Pretty sure they still do.
Nibiru counts number of monsters so Nibiru will go through
Pen summon 5
Maxx c gives 1
Nib goes burr
Easiest way to remember Maxx C and Nibiru is Maxx C counts each special summon not each monster, whilst nibiru counts each monster summoned and not each special summon. Despite a lot of the time the 2 do go hand in hand in cases like pendulum summoning it doesn.
Pendulum monsters are summoned all at once, so it only counts once. It's why solemn cards hurt. The pend loses ALL of the monsters they summoned.
@@mymetallicarulezSame thing goes for when monsters are summoned at the same time (like rescue rabbit)
For formats that allow heavymetalfoes electrumite, why isn't astrograph sorcerer mentioned? As it allows you to go into beyond with more options in the extra deck while also having good effects which isn't hard once per turn?
Astrograph in starting hand + Electrumite gives Pendulum Magicians the best boards, precisely because you can go into Beyond and THEN pend summon, it's ridiculous
@@origamitraveler7425 you actually never want astro in your hand unless you can pop a scale, as you generally throw him in the extra deck with electrumite. Chronograph summons himself and another monster
@@merkyofaycemfx2944You can use it to search any pendulum monster in your deck via Electrum instead of Astro, if you don't have a pendulum monster to pop, then yes Chrono is better.
In conclusion: bring both if you can
Edit : oh yeah, try to bring one of the graph magicians if you're playing a deck that pops your own cards often but doesn't lock you out, unfortunately Unchained has a Fiend lock so you can't use Astrograph
While you're not wrong, I didn't want to try explaining Electrumite combos in a video aimed at beginners 😅 - the Script Writer
I am still waiting for a Pendulum having different scale numbers on each side. Might become a ruling nightmare
Konami has already long since made a rule stating that the left scale applies when in the left zone and the right scale applies while in the right zone. They made this ruling very early in the Pendulum lifespan and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it.
@@Zetact_good, pls don't remind them.
@@Zetact_ oh you mean like with "name interesting looking archetype that was dead on arrival"?
@@Zetact_remind them, I want more unique pendulum decks.
They need those and link pendulum monsters
Side note about xyz materials is they automatically go-to the grave regardless of whether a card says otherwise such as macro cosmos
Every other summoning method: 1 minute short. Pendulum summons: A full 12 minute video. All you need to know
I am THE pendulum player at my locals. A few others know strats using them, but don't constantly play them like I do. As such, I am a threat to even some meta decks people have used. Everyone was shocked when I placed 2nd in a box tourney we held
Needless to say, I near instantly clicked this video because I'm on break
Let's go
Pen deck best deck baby
Same, I spent 3-4 months after Tear's ban labbing Performapal Vaylantz and I've been taking games off of meta/topping locals consistently -the Script Writer
I like how are the other summoning mechanic explanation video is 30 seconds long and the pendulum one has to be several minutes. Feels accurate
I’m glad you broke down why Pendulum decks aren’t meta anymore. The amount of the community that still loves to come down hard on Pendulums when they aren’t even relevant is wild.
It’s actually asinine
So what is the current meta? Is it still link or fusion?
@@steinlone5454 XYZ's though before that it was fusion
@@steinlone5454 The current meta isn't really easily defined by a specific summoning mechanic. It's a mix of Kashtira since it banishes everything, Purrely because it makes an absurdly strong unaffected monster, and a few other decks (i.e. Runick Fur Hire Spright, Dragon Link, and Sworsoul of all things)
@@raisp6073 how though? The complaint was that it’s “too much resources and painful negate boards”. Every meta deck and some rouge can turn out a strong board with any number of one or one and a half combos, and they do it better and with more consistency than any pendulum deck. Link and Syncro decks are far more asinine than Pendulums.
Another thing to point out is that pendulum cards in the pend zone still count as a monster *card* . I found out through the interactions between Deviser King Deus Machinex and Pend monsters. Setting your scales is an activation of a card (like activating a continuous spell). Deus Machinex can activate upon setting the scales. I was confused as well 🤷♂️
This situation only happens when a card says "monster card", because, in its essence, Pendulum monsters are still monsters. That is why Machinex activated its effect. But cards like Divine Wrath or Skill Drain cannot affect Pendulum monsters on the Pendulum Zone, because they are talking about "monsters" and not the specific nomenclature "monster card"; so, they will just check cards that are counting as monsters on the field and not their "original form", as it were. It is almost the same issue with Crystal Beasts counting as Continous Spells on the field, for instance. It can be pretty confusing, I know :v
can you do a video about the battle phase and its parts? I sometimes have difficulty knowing what demands a replay and what forces your opponent to continue the attack. Also I have heard that there are certain things that can't be done during the battle phase
IRRC a replay occurs if a monster declares an attack and during attack declaration the number of legal attack targets changes. Only on attack declaration and not during the damage step
@@dannyboers4704 so lets say I have a monster that increases ATk by the number of cards in the field. My opponents declares attack but I special summon a monster and the ATK raises making it stronger. My opponent then decides to not continue.
But if in the same situation just instead of special summoning I instead activate an effect that lets me set a new card, thus increasing the ATK of my monster then the attack must continue right?
@@ruyman90 yes
I'll add hidden mechanic with Pend.
You cannot send Pendulum monsters to GY, thus it is not possible to say, contact fuse Chimeratech using opponent's Machine Pendulum, or Special Summon cards like Arcana Force EX that require you to send cards or use them as Forbidden Droplet cost.
Your incorrect actually pen monsters go to the grave first be or redirected to the extra deck that's why like he said in the video macro cosmos banishes them. But if they were sent from the hand they stay in grave as they were not on the field when sent but on field they would go to the ed
Whenever a yugiboomer complains about pendulums, just link this video
Bro, some Yugiboomers would probably hate the mechanic even more due to the length of the video, lol
On top of that, it's the only summoning/card mechanic that can't have it's rules explained in a few sentences at most
If they can't appreciate a 12 minutes video made specifically for people who do not know how to pend or how it works then it's on them, such a kind hearted person made a video for beginners and people who don't get it and they say "nah it's too long", then it's a lost cause, since they aren't willing to think or even try to understand, it wouldn't be worth to keep arguing with them
@@GiafyViewsthe fact that its too long thats thw problem.
Its the worst one to explain to new players, and even after explaining they wont get it.
As a friend of mine once said when trying to play yugioh, he would rather just let the opponent do whatever pendulums do than to try and understand it.
Yea tell them to watch a 12min fucking video about how to play a childrens card game which no children actually play because its too complicated and boring😂😂 stfu
@@GiafyViewsit shouldn't take 12min to explain a game mechanic, and people like you who think that it's okay is the reason why Konami never does anything the fans want cuz people like you just accept whatever
Ok, let me try something then:
_Pendulum Pandemonium_
Field Spell
_You can add this card to your hand (from your field or GY) if you conduct and resolve a Pendulum Summon. This card cannot be destroyed by card effects while you control a monster in your pendulum zone. If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales. If a card or effect would be activated or applied in response to your pendulum summon of a monster: You can tribute 2 cards from your hand or field to negate the activation. The following effects are applied depending on the scales of any pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones:_
0-4: If a Pendulum Monster from your hand or field would be sent to the GY or banished face-up: it is placed face-up in your extra deck instead. If a pendulum monster from your hand or field is banished facedown: You can add 1 “Pendulum” card from your field, deck or GY to your hand.
5-8: You can normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute, and change their battle positions after their summon/set. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 normal summoned/set monster you control: Place 1 pendulum monster from your GY or Extra deck into your pendulum zone.
9+: You can tribute 1 monster from your hand or field: Add 1 Pendulum monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) with a scale that matches that tribute’s level/rank/Link-rating. Pendulum monsters in your pendulum zone are unaffected by the effects of opponents monsters who’s level/rank/link-rating match their pendulum scales.
This seems pretty well designed and it’s written quite well, I would love to actually see a card like this be printed.
Btw this is a pendulum custom card that I made some time ago myself.
Pendulum World
Normal Spell
Target 2 monsters in your hand or GY, place them in your pendulum zones. Monsters that are not pendulum cards placed by this effect will be treated as pendulum monsters with a scale equal to 10 minus the level of the respective monster. If you have 2 or less cards in your hand, you can banish this card from your GY; add monsters from your GY to your hand up to the number of cards your opponent controls, then if you have no cards in your pendulum zones, you can also add this card to your hand. You can only activate each effect of "Pendulum World" once per turn.
I see a potential issue with this:
"If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales."
Assuming Okay-ish Pendulum Scale of 2 and 7 .... and that's a 2500 ATK boost to ALL monsters you control. And as pointed out, those aren't exactly the best scales to be using... and it's good enough to double Dark Magician's atk..... so you might want to turn that down to maybe 200 or 300 instead of 500 so it's not giving quite a massive boost to every monster you control.
@@13KuriMaster
Or 6000 ATK/DEF if the scales are 13-0…
I see your point:
_Pendulum Pandemonium_
Field Spell
_You can add this card to your hand (from your field or GY) if you conduct and resolve a Pendulum Summon. This card cannot be destroyed by card effects while you control a monster in your pendulum zone. If you have 2 pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones, Monsters you control gain 250 ATK/DEF X the difference in their pendulum scales. If a card or effect would be activated or applied in response to your pendulum summon of a monster: You can tribute 2 cards from your hand or field to negate the activation. The following effects are applied depending on the scales of any pendulum monsters in your pendulum zones:_
0-4: If a Pendulum Monster from your hand or field would be sent to the GY or banished face-up: it is placed face-up in your extra deck instead. If a pendulum monster from your hand or field is banished facedown: You can add 1 “Pendulum” card from your field, deck or GY to your hand.
5-8: You can normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute, and change their battle positions after their summon/set. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 normal summoned/set monster you control: Place 1 pendulum monster from your GY or Extra deck into your pendulum zone.
9+: You can tribute 1 monster from your hand or field: Add 1 Pendulum monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) with a scale that matches that tribute’s level/rank/Link-rating. Pendulum monsters in your pendulum zone are unaffected by the effects of opponents monsters who’s level/rank/link-rating match their pendulum scales.
THERE, _now_ under normal circumstances, the ATK/DEF boost should be at most 3000. Still potent, just not “My mushroom man is going to fold your obelisk the tormentor like a pretzel” potent.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire Yeah.
Jesus, no wonder people don't play with this mechanic. I've been playing Abyss Actors in Master Duel for months now, but I never ran into much trouble with negates (probably due to the 1 duel nature of the game) outside of the usual big boss monsters. I always assumed Solemns would only be able to negate 1 of the monsters pendulum summoned to the field. Being able to just shut down the whole summon is a massive weakness, and don't even get me started on Eradicator Epidemic Virus.
Konami basically nerfed the mechanic I to the ground due to the general disdain a large majority of the player base had to them at release and overtime, regardless of how strong or not the decks that focused on then were
Funnily enough Superstar has an effect when summoned that prevents the opponent from activating spells or traps. So if you pendulum summon and superstar is the last one summoned your opponent cannot activate any solemn cards to negate the pendulum summon.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Wait, Superstar has to be the last one summoned to prevent the negation?
@@AdonanS No, all monsters that hit the field in a pend summon are considered to be summoned simultaneously so Superstar will prevent a response no matter the order. However, it CANNOT prevent a summon negation by the likes of Solemn, because it says the summon never happened for it to protect anything in the first place.
@@Gantann Yeah, I just read the wiki on Superstar. That sucks, considering I always try to search Superstar to make my summon go smoothly. I guess I've just been lucky this whole time.
Pendulum is such a sick aesthetic. But I’m too small brain to use it effectively😮💨 (Master Duel)
Try 'Dawn of a New Era'. And ask for Help
Video Title: Pendulum Monsters Explained Quick & Easy
*Video length of 12min*
Well that checks out.
Despite being only 26 years old, apparently I'm a Yugiboomer now because I hated everything about Pendulum cards, Xyz and Synchro weren't that complicated to understand but holy shit, the Mucho Texto Curse in Pendulums is REAL.
Yesterday I found out you can roughly gauge when a YGO card came out by the amount of text in them, it doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's still very accurate.
And here I finally am.. learning Pendulum after how many years of playing..
>Watch whole video
>Still don't understand this mechanic
I'm just chill here with my Elemental Hero Neo Spacian deck in the corner.
Thank you. Working on my first pendulum deck.
Going for majespector on master duel, just cause I love the artwork
5:54 what professor moon spider means here is you can summon monsters with levels FROM 2 THROUGH 7. Just in case that threw anyone else off like it did me
I meanwhile wanna know how they interact with Egyptian Gods.
just wanna say , thanks for doing videos like this, i stopped play before syncro so dont know any of these summons
I still pendulums aren't thst crazy to understand. Also, if you don't want to use it, most decks don't even have it so it's g
I play this game for like 17 years now, and i think i have never Pendel summoned.
Something my father surely is proud about.
This is the summoning mechanic that made a ton of people drop the game, though in retrospect it wasn't that bad.
I was always surprised by this type of thinking, I always saw it as exaggerations from people who didn't play and just wanted to hate the game. This can even be compared to how in the pendulum era there were records for sales and attendance at events
I really appreciate this video since i left yugi a long time ago and im came back to play with some friends because i loved the gimmick of the nemleria cards but i realised that i dont even know how a pendulum works lol. I just know that i have to remove the mattresses and wake the girl up
Wait, i thought pendulum monsters were treated as just spells, not continous spells, thats good to know
They're wrong. It's just a spell, not a continuous spell. It does behave similarly to continuous and field spells, but it's not that type of card.
@@AcroxShadowperhaps it would have been better to say that they function as if they are Continuous Spells, and are considered Spells while scaled. This can be demonstrated by removing a Pendulum Monster in a scale from the field in response to that Pendulum Monster activating it's Pendulum Effect (i.e. Chain 1 Performapal Monkeyboard, Chain 2 MST target Monkeyboard). After the Pendulum Monster leaves the field (CL2) and it attempts to resolve its effect (CL1), it will resolve without effect just like any other Continuous Spell/Trap (i.e. Monkeyboard will not search a Performapal monster). - the Script Writer
Now, they don't count as Continuous Spell Cards in the sense that if you wanted to tribute them for the summon of a True Draco monster, you couldn't do that. Pendulums cause so many edge-cases that it's really confusing, hence this video 😅
@@Tsubatt So.. they arent continuous spells?
@@luckytrap897They’re continuous spells in the sense that they stay on the field and you can destroy them to completely stop their effects. But they aren’t actually classified as continuous spells
Small correction: At 4:06 and 11:03, you say that Pendulum Monsters are considered Continuous Spells while scaled. While they do act like Continuous Spells, they are *not* actually considered Continuous Spells. The difference doesn't come up very often, but it means that you can't destroy them with Spell Purification or use them to summon Hamon, for example.
If I remember correctly, the game treats them as normal spells.
If I remember correctly, the game treats them as normal spells.
@@gamerofthetime No, they're not Normal Spells either. Though there are hardly any cards that interact specifically with Normal Spells on the field, so it comes up even less. They're essentially "typeless" Spell cards.
You never saw this coming,
_I SUMMON POT OF GREED!!!_
my boy pendulumgraph... i'll never dismantle you ever
So to be clear if being sent to the graveyard they go face up in the extra deck but if “returned” to the hand/deck an extra deck pendulum monster like say Dark Anthelion Dragon gets reset and goes face down in the extra deck and needs to be summoned again through XYZ summoning is that correct?
If it was propperly summoned once you can pendulum summon it again, but if not then yes you need to XYZ summon it
I've never seen a facedown pendulum in thr extra deck lol what
@@bergkatze3186 naturally the cards are hidden facedown like other extra deck monsters till they’re summoned to the field and there are extra deck native pendulum cards like Dark Anthelion Dragon, Odd Eyes Venom/Rebellion/Wing dragon as a few examples that are faced down till properly summoned
@@dayvonlouis5187 i was thinking a main deck pend not extra deck pend hybrid being facedown
Pendulum monster in Master rule 3 is the strongest since you can pen summon as many as possible as long your fullfill the requirements. Now master rule 4, it nerf by loosing 2 extra space at backrow and your can only pendulum summon pendulum monster extra deck to link monster point to, where this is does not occur before link monster introduce. Currently we don't have a very competitive pendulum deck. in OCG currently have a lot a new card support pendulum and some new card do double pendulum summon.
I appreciate that someone would genuinely try to explain a seemingly complex mechanic in as short a time as possible, but man, looking at the title and then looking at the length is a whiplash. Watching it with minimal understanding of the modern game (i think the last time i played it was a game on the GBA) is really hard to follow.
I have no problem playing complex games like GMT games or simulationist stuff but I think I'm just missing the thread.
I don't understand how this game onboards new players!
I remember when I i first dueled against an opponent using Pendulums. I was just like "wait.. what? Why are you still summoning?"
Modern yugioh in a nutshell
@@ironblazer4565yeah, Link and Pendulum ruined the board with additional card slots and complicated mechanics.
Now Yugioh is hard to move-on with "link" because they can't come up with a newer gimmick without ruining the board again, unless they remove both link and pendulum and just add new extra deck gimicks than overcomplicating the game mechanics.
@@Fleghm88 imo the only problem with links are link-1. link-1s are broken
I want trap Pendulum. Imagine unholy counter trap who can be activated from hand
No. Bad. Put it away.
@@shinydino Yes. Good. Make into reality.
@@shinydinonah, let em cook
Pendulum trap traptrix
@@waveringeyes8277
Imagine a series of flip monsters that are retrained as Trap “Pendulum”’s?
Aside from Exodia, Flip monsters were the first effect monsters in the game, so seeing a man-eater bug pendu-trap retrain would be cool.
@4:07 and 11:01 - A Pendulum Monster in a Pendulum Zone is NOT treated as a Continuous Spell (or any other category of Spell Cards, ie. Field, Equip, Normal, Ritual, Quick-Play).
So what is it then?
Cuz pend in the spell/trap zone is still treated as spell/trap and activating spell/trap destroy cards can destroy them......
@@bergkatze3186 Pendulum Monster Cards in the Pendulum Zones are still considered Spell Cards in general, they are just not part of any existing category of Spell Cards.
@@NoelTinDragon ohh i see that make sense
TL;DR They are Spell Cards that function like Continuous Spells. I only learned this particular distinction earlier tonight when attempting to summon Master Peace by tributing a Pendulum Monster, it doesn't work since scaled Pendulums are not treated as Continuous Spell Cards. - The Script Writer
Ok, this’ll be good since a lot of my custom cards are pendulums.
Made a fanmade archetype yet??
@@0mn0m15
No, not from scratch, although I DID go slotted overboard when Genex monsters were brought up that one time and… Made a retrain for almost every single genex monster in existence at the time.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFireReally? One if the first thing I did when making customs was make a new archetype
@@luckytrap897 Same, but starting with a new archetype is pretty rough. You have to know what you want to do with the archetype or you end up with a mess.
@@dudono1744 In the process of making the archetype I came with like, three more ideas, is that what you mean?
Ooh, that makes it way simple to understand, I used to be scared of those by those double text boxes.
Although I have two silly doubt left.
Pendulum Summoning (And to an extent, placing both Pendulums) uses up your Normal Summon? Or is everything treated as a special summon?
You can place both Pendulum monsters on the field in the same turn to start Pendulum summoning right away?
Pend Summon are special summons and dont take up your normal
And yes you can pend summon the same turn they are activated or put in the pend zone
When there was no pendulum summoning in Vrains I was so sad
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" -Yugiboomer
Yugiboomer here. My brain hurts.
Ice barriers have their own antispell fragance in the form of spellpbreaker and warlock, so if they go first they could easily win
“Quickly” see a 12 min video hoooo boy
I do believe you can't summon Z-Arc from your extra deck face up as a pendulum summon even if you properly fusion summoned it before.
True, it must be fusion summoned, and not *first* fusion summoned
Sooooooo are we getting a top 10 best pendulum cards by chance?
Thanks for explaining pendulum summoning
I take this vid opportunity just to remind me of my phobia of pends (the texts!). Yet i ended up playing them because i love their artworks and in MD, i got them from secret packs. I started using Qliphort, and now Abyss Actor, reachjng my highest stage of diamond 4. Pend is great, and every1 should give it a chance
0:00 Idea for an pendulum equip spell:
_Pendulum Blade_
Equip Spell
_Can only be equipped to a pendulum monster. If you conduct a pendulum summon: You can equip this card from your hand, Deck or GY to a monster you control. The equipped monster can attack all of your opponents monster’s once each if you conduct a pendulum summon this turn. The equipped monster gains the following effects depending on it’s pendulum scales:_
0-3: Cannot be destroyed by trap cards or effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would activate a trap card or effect: You can Set 1 normal or continuous Trap from your hand or deck.
4-7: Cannot be destroyed by Spell cards or effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would activate a spell card or effect: You can Set 1 normal or continuous spell from your hand or deck.
8+: Cannot be destroyed by battle or monster effects. (Quick Effect) If your opponent would declare an attack or activate a Monster effect: You can normal Set 1 non-effect or flip monster from your hand or deck.
2:06 Actually i had duel in this sanario and the head juge said that penjulums do hit the grave for a split second so it would be banished
….Shoot this makes Pendulums sound *real interesting.*
4:07 Pendulum Monster Cards are NOT treated as Continuous Spells while in the Pendulum Zone. They function similarly to Continuous Spells, yes, but they are just a Spell, and not any specific type of Spell.
Thank you for the video. This video helped a lot
so The Anti Spell Fragrance is so OP of pendulum deck . Bring back the OG card Anti Spell Fragrance
Last time I played yugioh...XYZ was the newest kind of monster. Doesn't look like I'll be diving back into yugioh
Bro, pendulums are almost 10 years old, if you don't understand them after 10 years you have a bigger problem to worry about.
And why is it that the only game that gets hate when it introduces a new mechanic is Yu-Gi-Oh
@@yuseifudo6075 Wow, you are clueless and apparently do not have the ability to see eye to eye iwth people.
He didnt even say he doesnt undertstrantd them a d you insinuating he lacks Intlelegence just shows how mch you lack it.
That's why I stopped after zexal
@@slevinchannel7589
Learn how to spell properly
Greetings from Puerto Rico Will you make ritual engines videos? Also love your content
Gosh, I miss my Qliphort deck. It used to be unstoppable.
I thought Pendulum cards were treated just as spells while in the Pendulum zone... not specifically continuous spells.... meaning cards that only work on continuous spells won't work on them there.
Am I misremembering? Was there a ruling change? or did Duel Logs just misspeak when giving that info.
He's explaining it a bit weird, but yes, Pendulum Monster Cards in the Pendulum Zone are treated as unclassified Spell Cards.
Idea for a normal summon support pendulum monster:
_Inversion Summoner_ (DARK)
Level 1
Pendulum Scales: 13⬅️➡️0
_Cannot be destroyed/negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster. During turns you control this face-up card: You can normal summon/set monsters without limit, but can only special summon once. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 monster from your hand/field: Apply 1 of the following effects based off it’s ATK/DEF (your choice) until your next draw phase: Less then 2500: You can normal summon/set monster with 1 less tribute. Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can shuffle 1 monster you own that is banished or from the field/GY into the deck. 2500 or more: Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can either set 1 spell/trap card directly from your hand/deck OR You can add 1 monster that cannot be Normal Summoned and/or set to your hand from your field/deck/GY._
Spellcaster/Tuner/Pendulum/Effect
_Cannot be destroyed/negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster. During turns you control this face-up card: You can normal summon/set monsters without limit, but can only special summon once. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 monster from your hand/field: Apply 1 of the following effects based off it’s ATK/DEF (your choice) until your next draw phase: Less then 2500: Each time you normal summon/set a monster; You can place 1 Pendulum Monster from your hand/field/GY into your pendulum zones, OR You can add 1 spell/trap you own to your hand that is banished or from the field/GY. 2500 or more: Each time you normal or Flip summon a monster; Increase this card’s ATK/DEF by the total ATK/DEF of the summoned monster, and also, You can add 1 monster that cannot be special summoned to your hand from your field/deck/GY._
ATK/0 DEF/0
Just like actual pendulum cards I glanced at it for key words and then ultimately gave up reading it. Lol
@@stone3706part of the problem with modern day cards
Finally broke it all down and read it.... you made Monarch support without even realizing it.
@@stone3706 _Right,_ I keep forgetting the stereotype/meme that Yu-Gi-Oh players are illiterate, so I’ll break down the card bit by bit:
⚪️The card, either in the monster or pendulum zones, has a shared effect that prevents it from being destroyed or negated by card effects while you control a normal summoned/set monster.
⚪️Also shared between it’s monster/pendulum effects is an effect where, during turns you control the card, you can normal summon/set as many monsters as you want (and can get away with) in a single turn, BUT you can only special summon _once_ during those turns (meaning if the card leaves the field, you still can’t special summon more than once that turn.)
⚪️The monster and pendulum effects have a shared effect where, from your hand or field, you can tribute 1 monster that is either below 2500 ATK or DEF, or _equal to or above_ 2500 ATK or DEF, to apply a set of effects until your next draw phase.
⚪️The -2500 pendulum effect let’s you normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute. Meaning you can normal summon/set level 6 or lower monsters without tributing, and level 7 or higher ones with 1 tribute. Also, every time you normal summon/set a monster, you can shuffle 1 card you own that is banished or from the field or GY into your deck.
⚪️The 2500 or more pendulum effect let’s you either set single spell/trap cards from your hand or deck each time you normal summon/set a monster, OR add a monster to your hand from your field, deck or GY that cannot be normal summoned and/or set (like “Alpha, the Master of Beasts” as a random example).
⚪️The -2500 monster effect let’s you either place pendulum monsters into your pendulum zone (from your hand, GY or field, usually from your monster zones, or other spell/trap zones if they end up THERE somehow), OR adds a spell/trap you own to your hand that is banished or from the field/GY
⚪️And the 2500 or more monster effect simply increases the card’s ATK/DEF by the total ATK/DEF of that of any monster you normal or flip summon (So if you normal summon an Obelisk, that’s 8000 ATK/DEF for this card), AND I can add 1 monster to my hand from my field, deck or GY that cannot be special summoned (Like most Spirit Monsters.)
⚪️Beyond that, is has a decent type/attribute combo, the single best possible pendulum scalings to min-max the one special summon you can get out of this card, and is a pendulum/tuner to help it fit into synchro decks. It’s VERY strong, but so radically different from about anything else in the game you’d need to revolve your entire deck around it to make it worthwhile.
@@stone3706
Oh, you replied first.
This reminds me of the video I watch every few months on cricket, after watching I think I get it but then a half hour later it falls out of my brain
"Very quickly and easily"
12 minute video
t-thanks for making Pends Konami
you forgot that PEND BEST DECK LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
It was really bizarre when I stopped playing after high school around the synchro era and when I came back there were these weird monster zones in the middle and pendulum zones. And all the rules about pendulum monsters and the extra deck were difficult to wrap my head around. I tried to get used to it when pendulum became a thing in Duel Links but it was ultimately the thing that made me lose interest, when so many effects would happen at once and I'd have to use up a lot of time trying to parse what and how things happened in the previous turn.
Skill issue....
Think harder next time
So the Anti-Spell Fragrance Trap is the Ultimate Counter of Pendulum right?
Yes, also naturia beast and unending nightmare
For most of them, though there are exceptions.
D/D/D, for instance, has their link monster, who places the scales from the deck. Since "Place" isn't the same thing as "Activate", he doesn't care about Anti-spell (or ash, for that matter).
Hey for your next topic, could you talk bout the new illusion type monsters?
Teacher: "The listening comprehension is not difficult."
The listening comprehension: 0:00 - 12:07
Thanks for explaining tho 😅
actually more complicated than i thought it was 😅
bouta get back into swingin into action
I still don't get how people found pendulum complicated. The whole mechanic is easy. And I am a yugi boomer. My first yugioh booster box was metal raiders.
My brain hurts
Free the pendulum. Let me pend summon 6 from the extra deck, Konami
Pendulum summon and it's mechanics have been a disaster for the duel monster race
It is not boomer
@@yuseifudo6075 the left 4 dead or bubbleum crisis one
Instructions unclear. Ended up Digivolving
Which is why it requires 12 whole minutes compared to "generally requires 1 tuner and additional monsters on the field to be tributed to special summon a synchro monster whoms level is the sum total of all tributed monsters. This is treated as a "synchro summon""
Because this is a depth guide to pendulum, he already explained the mechanic in the first minute of the video, everything after that is explaining things like negated pendulum summon, or extra deck pendulum monsters.
I don't think it was addressed however.. how does the pendulum mechanic work with monsters that are originally from the extra deck such as xyz, fusion, etc? Are they summoned as normal since they are extra deck monsters? How do you go about using their spell effects if you can't play them from the hand?
The text on the cards states how that works
As a D/D/D main
Pendulums we’re a mistake is a core contributor to the sheer amount of power creep
If difi (dimension fissure) is online. Is xyz material consist of pend monster send to GY, or banished?
AFAIK, Difi do NOT banish those material. In MD.
Top 10 Extra Deck Pendulum Monsters
Top 10 Pendulum Scale Effects
I raged quitted Yugioh when Pendulums first came out. I first thought this was a broken as hell concept and would ruin the game. Thanks to Duel Links and Master Duel though i came to love Pendulum Summoning. You can then go into XYZ or Synchro Summoning through this method.
I cant see myself not use Pendulum as a base method for any style I try.
I also loved to use Pendulum Impenetrable for protection and Pendulum Switch for trolling and quick Summoning a beat stick monster, like Odd Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon.
To this day I still have not played a single Pendulum deck. Not even in Master Duel.
Valmonica, let's gooo!!
what happens if i locked a pendulum zone using kashtira shangri-Ira can they still pendulum or are they locked from doing that until they outed my monster?
Abridged version:
Bottom Effect = Monster
Top Effect = Spell
Field -> Extra Deck (no graves)
Scale 1/8 = Summon Level 4/5/6/7
Extra Deck Summon goes into Extra Zone.
Please do "Why yugioh has so much text explained" video