Pendulum Monsters Explained Very Quickly & Easily 

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.

if you play yugioh Master Duel or Duel Links, try the Metalfoe pendulum cards. The archetype is semi easy to understand & quick to learn

He spends half the video giving examples of good pendulum cards. First 6 minutes gets it down fairly quickly

​​@@wrought-ironheroEMIYA Doesn't detract from the fact that every other summoning method is a short on RU-vid 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

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

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.

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)

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

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

I'm glad you were able to find this video since you would be a difficult audience to target 😂

based

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Try 'Dawn of a New Era'. And ask for Help

I meanwhile wanna know how they interact with Egyptian Gods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The text on the cards states how that works

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.

Usually it'll say if it will go into the pendulum zone upon destruction on the card. Odd-Eyes Rebellion dragon is an example that comes to mind.

He's explaining it a bit weird, but yes, Pendulum Monster Cards in the Pendulum Zone are treated as unclassified Spell Cards.

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

Extra deck pendulum (fusion pend,xyz pend, synchro pend) needs to be summoned using their appropriate summon first ie synchro,xyz,fusion. those monsters has effect that let them to be placed as pendulum scale if they were destroyed.

True, it must be fusion summoned, and not *first* fusion summoned

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.

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?

​pendulums are such a treat to Yu-Gi-Oh. Konami is testing their limits and creativity with cards design with the new pend decks. Nemleria, vaylantz, nouvellez, valmonica all utilities pends in different ways and every deck has an identity instead of the usual pendulum way of turboing 4 generic boss monsters

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).

Gotta summon them via their 'Non Pendulum DNA' (so to speak) and then they get destroyed.

Basically, a lot of pendulum extra deck monsters have the common effect of something like "if this card in the monster zone is destroyed, you can place it in the pendulum zone" (sometimes with additional effects or some kind of cost), aka giving them the option to either go back to the extra deck (face up, *usually* now pend summonable), or become a scale instead. Less commonly, you also have some effects that can shift a monster out of the monster zone into a spell zone, which if it happens to be a pendulum zone scales it. (Vaylantz being an example of "why do all these cards keep moving in and out of the monster / pendulum zone")

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

Skill issue.... Think harder next time

i dont understand the question? you mean the scales?

@@akmalfakhruddin7285 Must the higher Pengelum Scale be on the right hand side of your field? Or can it be on the left hand side as well?

@@KimFareseed ah nope it doesnt matter. konami has yet to release a pend card with different scale so you can relax