Just watch whenever Yuya first sets the pendulum scale at any time. He explains it perfectly

"This is a Pendulum Monster. It might look scary, but in actual fact, it's just like any other card" except it's almost totally different and plays with different rules.

Sam forgot to mention that if you have 2 scales have a difference of 1 (example: scales 2&3), you can't pendulum summon with that combination either

Sam is the perfect gamer role model for Yu-Gi-Oh. He’s helped me understand all the recent additions to the game since I stopped playing years ago.

About 11 minutes ago, I was an idiot when it came to pendulum monsters. Now I am still an idiot, but less than an idiot I was 11 minutes ago. Excellent video! I learned so much, thank you

When pendulums first came out the fact that both scales on them were the same number had me thinking eventually some were to be released that changed their scale depending on what side you put them on.

Yuya generating a new summoning mechanic on the spot has to be one of the biggest ass-pulls in all of Yugioh, up there with Yami Yugi assembling Exodia.

Yuya: I’ll use stargazer magician and timegazer magician to set the pendulum scale - I’m taking control of this duel starting now Now I’m allowed to summon as many monsters from levels 2 - 7 all at the same time - swing far pendulum, carve the arc of victory - my monsters are ready to swing into action!!!

Minor correction on the Pendulum Xyz thing: They'll have an effect that specifies that they can be Pendulum Summoned if the scales are appropriate. Otherwise, they can't be Pendulum Summoned at all.

As someone who stopped playing Yugioh during the synchro era you have no idea how much I appreciated this video since I finally understood how this mechanic works

I stopped playing YuGiOh when Pendulum monsters were introduced because I felt like they were over complicated and changed the game too much, but this video made me finally understand them and realize how amazing they are.

5:15 TGS: "Pendulum monsters come in a few different flavors..." Me: "Okay..." TGS: "Normal and Effect..." Me: "Sounds good so far..." TGS: "... as well as Fusion, Synchro and XYZ Pendulums." Me: "Oh, what fresh hell is this?!"

That was the most comprehensible guide here on KZfaq. Updated, clear, it's not rushed with a slow commentary that actually allow you to understand and some good editing. Truly a fine work!

Just coming back to the game, this is exactly what I needed! Fell off shortly after synchro and got a handle on the xyz and link types, but this was always a headache. Thanks man

I'm glad they didn't forgot about this summon mechanic in the Battle of Chaos. Sure I'd prefer a DDD Synchro, but I'm still glad about what I can add to my deck nonetheless

Well done as always. While Pendulums look daunting, they're really not too bad to pick up, it just takes some practice. Also, I'll be down to see videos for each extra deck type, as having them is beneficial to those looking to learn, or get back into the game, and those that could use a quick refresher

Just a little thing that's worth mentioning, since the exemples that people tend to use to describe a pendulum summon can cause some confusion: you CAN pendulum summon multiple monsters with the same level, some exemples makes it look like they need to be all different levels but that's not the case.

i coulda sworn ive watched this some time ago cause i already learnt how to pendulum summon cause you taught me

I've got to say I'm very glad people like you exist. I just got back into the hobby after years away from it. When I stopped playing there wasn't any such thing as Pendulum Monsters, Synchro, Link and so on. So it's a lot to re learn all at once.

Please do the D/D/D archetype. I love hearing your voice explain yugioh stuff especially when it comes to lore

Fun fact you may not know, but cards with Macro Cosmos like effects *do* affect Pendulum Monsters and will be banished instead of going to the Extra Deck face up Found this out the other day by playing Dark Law against a pend deck only to see all the monster used for a link summon be banished instead of going to the extra deck

Pendulums are one of my favorite mechanics in recent yugioh. with Synchro and Xyz being in second place. its just fun to use.

Wow I needed this so bad. I haven't really watched yugioh since 5ds and I was super lost with pendulum summoning. Thanks for that!

Holy shit I needed this, trying to figure out how to implement them into some custom deck concepts since I heard they were fun to use

Great job, TGS. Thanks. Now that Duel Links recently brought in Pendulum Summoning, this guide definitely will come in handy. Though, I think it’s going to be tougher to use since there’s only 3 spell and trap card zones.

Swing Pendulum of my soul, draw an arc of light across the aether, Pedulum Summon! come forth my monster servants!.

I really really want those pendulum cards, id love to make a start on a supreme king zarc deck 😄

Pendulum monsters(PM) have their own mechanics, in TCG following master rule these are: 1) can't go FROM FIELD to GY, instead they're placed face-up in the extra deck, 2) can be used as spell cards (they aren't treated as any spell card type) by placing them in an specific zone (just like fields spells) to the most left or right spell/trap zones, that zone becomes a pendulum zone when occupied by a PM used as a spell, also they can't be set as spell cards, 3) can used exactly as monster of it's CARD TYPE would. 4) PM are cards used to perform a special summon mecanic (like polymerization, or ritual spell cards, etc) that summon is called PENDULUM SUMMON (this summon can be performed once per turn), in order to do it, you must control 2 PMs used as spells in your pendulum zones, 5) PS allow you to special summon monsters(that can be special summoned) from your hand or PMs face-up in your extra deck(they can only be summoned to a monster zone that is treated as an extra monster zone that you are allowed to use) as you want, whose levels are an integer number between the SCALE NUMBERS(see number "7)") of the PMs used to perform the PS. 6) PMs have 2 text boxes, the first one is applied when they are treated as spells, the second is their monster effect or flavor text and it is applied whenever they are used as monsters, 7) they have a number next to diamond shape, that is called a scale number. BETWEEN means whichever the margins or borders are, they're excluded from the available options. These sums all, for eveything else use logic and/or apply the appropiate rules.

Pendulum monsters can also be banished and bounced/spun to the hand/deck. Extra Deck monster (Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz) are returned faces down to the Extra Deck if bounced/spun.

PEND BEST DECK BABY LETS GOOOO!!, “Yo! I got banned from events, and here's how it went down. I did nothing wrong, man! I did nothing wrong whatsoever! I got banned! I didn't even KNOW I got banned!”

Man... I'm 31 years old, and I'm really lost on Pendulum and Links... XYZ was where it was at for me... I'm over here watching this to understand the rules of it and I'm still lost like man... it's hard to memorize them all... I guess I'll watch this over and over to understand it lol since I still collect to this day...

Progression of what game actually was to current is just insane.

Can you do a performapal or deskbot archetype. I love your videos

Who thought this was a good idea? 🤣 makes pot of greed look like a Saint compared to all this extra unlimited summoning

Thank you so much for explaining this as simple as possible despite it still being a very convoluted summoning system. Its easy enough to learn its just the extensive related mechanics begin to start causing a headache.

I'm so glad I found your channel. My brother and I were practically OG Yu-Gi-Oh! players. We got our first cards in, like, 2002. Back in those days, no one knew what "removed from play" even meant. The first cards I got were from that Joey Wheeler collecter's tin, the one with Black Skull Dragon (I lost it a long time ago). As the years went by, I lost interest and, before I knew it, there was Synchro, and Xyz summoning, and I wanted to find out what I'd been missing all those years. Plus, I've been a fan of YGOTAS for years.

I wish there was a Continuous Spell that lifted the Master Rule 4 restriction on Pendulum Summoning from the Extra Deck. I think it’s a fair trade, you only get 2 free S/T Zones, but you increase your Pendulum Summoning capabilities.

Would be interesting to see a Ritual pendulum and a Link pemdulum in the future.

Yeah I used your videos as teaching tool so continue making them honest your videos have been a massive help to teaching me and my friends so thank you

wow this video made me realize how much I miss old Yu Gi Oh

The invention of pendulum, as a mechanic in the anime, is exactly like that obnoxious kid no one wants to play with because they invent new powers so they can't lose. It just feels exactly like that. "Nyeeeh~ you can't win because I am invulnerable to fire!" -But... you were invulnerable to ice five minutes ago... "But now I am to fire, nyeeeh~ I win!"

5:37 will you be able to fusion summon it after going back face up to the extra deck or it can only be pendulum summoned

This is a much better explanation than my friend gave thank you dude

Dude this video is amazing! Thanks for explaining it they way you did. I am a old-school yugioh player trying to understand all this new stuff and this helped out a ton!

yeah, this is why i stopped playing after XYZ era, the new mechanics with Pendulum and Link monsters just stray too far from what yugioh originally was IMO. And it hurts my brain trying to remember all the newer mechanics. But to each there own! :)

Man, I miss the days when you could summon more than 1 of them from the extra deck without link monsters😤🙁😓

1 Comes back to duel links after 3 years 2 sees pendulum summon 3 is very confused then is recommended this video Thank you for the vid!

You did this for Duel link. Thanks you

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Wow THANK YOU! I know nothing about Yu-Gi-Oh and atarted Mester Duel and this is SO helpful!

I love pendulum cards. I even use a pendulum magician deck so I enjoy using the different ways I can mess with my opinion

I may alreafy know how the mechanic works, but this vid was a fun watch regardless, good job!

Helps me understand them abit better, I haven't played since GX so I was very confused as to what they did

I feel like I have to come back to this video every week to remember how things work but I also feel that I’m ever so slowly learning how to play properly XD thanks so much for the video

Came back to the game after about 10 years and found this super helpful. Ty 👌

Sheeesh, between pendulum, Synchro, XYZ and link summoning this stuff is getting a little crazy lol I missed the simplicity of the original Yu-Gi-Oh

Gotta love to see Triff Summon PEND BEST DECK LET'S GOOOO

Thnx for this TGS Anime, I wondering about pendulum monsters and the extra deck. You explained everything very clearly and I finally understand the mechanics of pendulum summoning!

oh wow, look at that wall of text in some of those monsters... how exciting

Years ago I thought I could just run away from pendulums and links, and anything after xyz. But here I am, it all came back to you

Omg this is so crazy now. Im kinda getting into Yu-gi-oh again after not playing for a bout 10 years and there is so much crazy shit you can do now lol. Pendulum summoning monsters must've been revolutionary and frustrating when it came out

As a new yugioh player this series helped so much , especially this video as I’m only on 5ds in the anime so far

Thank you! Trying to get back to Yugioh with your videos. ❤

Well this was a nice explaination, gonna try some pendulum decks now

Great guide, congrats and thanks! Such a clunky, cluttered mechanism

thank you so much! I really appreciate the simple and easy to understand intro! just trying to get back into this game 🙏🏼

I started playing Master Duel last summer and completely avoided pendulum monsters because I didn't understand them. Recently put together a Predap deck and it's fun, but I didn't really understand what the scales did until I watched this, so thanks lol

Pendulum summoning is a very useful ability deserves recognition maybe exceed something should give second look and studied more on

Note: if a card such as Dimensional Fissure or Macro Cosmos is in effect, they overwrite the built in pendulum monster effect of being sent to the extra deck. This makes them especially vulnerable to graveyard hate. Dimensional Shifter, Kyubi Shenshen, and Masked HERO Dark Law are all capable of doing the same. Pendulum Monsters are sent to the GY as monsters, hence why Dimensional Fissure still works, even when the card was sent to the GY from the pendulum zone.

I know some people don't like pendulum summoning but I do it's cool

I just got the yugioh ps4 game for Christmas forgot the name but it has pendulum monsters and i stopped playing back when synchros first came out so i’m very confused but this video is helping me A lot!

"Did you just summon bunch of mosnters in one turn?" "Yeah so?" "That's against the rules isn't it?" "Actually no it's called Pendulum summon" "The what?"

subscribed, this was the only way to UNDERSTAND

Seeing unsleeved cards hurts my soul... :o

This such a well made guide!! I've been looking it up multiple time ever since the new master rule was implemented to understand what's different now from the Anime show

Ok this just made me interested in learning pendulum mechanics. Since coming back to YGO from Gx era, I couldn't find a deck that I am interested in. That is until now.

I like your funny words magic man

For a while I was confused about pendulums being used as overlay units for Xyz's monsters. For a long time I thought that being attached to a Xyz monster counted as being on the field thus going to the extra deck when detached. Now I know all the conditions for pendulums going to the GY. discarded from hand. detached from an Xyz monster. summon negated. sent to the GY from deck.

Thanks as a duel links player I don't play pendulum decks and didn't knew how this works

3:45 “Pendulums are immortal!” -Zarc

great video just got into Master Duel loving it!!

This is so convenient ! I woke up today wanting to play pendulum magicians but I had to learn pendulum summoning first 😅

Thank you so much for this. For the longest time I've avoided Pendulum monsters cuz I just could not bring myself to learn them.

Thanks for the video, answers so many questions/issues I had!

I finally understood what's the deal with these thanks to this video lol, everywhere else I looked I couldn't understand

I’m just glad I can use my pendulum deck again.

Thank you, been kinda clueless since it came out lol may try

You saved me. I've been playing duel links and while having no problems with other summons like Synchro or Numbers thanks to watching the anime, Pendulum summoning destroyed my pea brain lol

Thank you, i just got back into duel links and was trying to figure out the deck and how to get it to work

Oh my god you made an updated video! New players like myself needed this so bad!!

I actually love them

As someone just coming back into the game this was very helpful. A video on some of the other mechanics would be great since when I left fusions and rituals where pretty much the only ones. 😂

Amazing video how to pendulum summoning in yugioh. I love all things yugioh

Thanks for the excellent explanation I appreciate it

Using Cardcar D as an example when it Cannot Be Special Summoned. Rad lad.

You forgot the main tip... If a macro is on the field pendulums or banished instead of going to the extra deck

I got top Plat in Master Duels without barely any knowledge on Pendulum monsters. I had to read every one sadly but after running a Lunalight deck that had the 2 easiest pendulum monsters, here I am watching to this video to make a full pendulum deck.

Update regarding pendulum monsters in the extra deck and extra monster zones: as of Master Rule 5, this no longer applies. You can summon Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum monsters from your extra deck to any monster zone again, PLUS the extra monster zones. The restriction only applies to link monsters now, and the extra monster zones only now exist to facilitate link monsters. Do note that if you summon anything to an extra monster zone, you cannot summon to the other extra monster zone unless you have a chain of link monsters that point to that zone. Honestly, I kinda wish that they kept that restriction _specifically_ for pendulum monsters. The thing with pendulum monsters is that they can basically just come back every turn as long as the pendulum scale is intact. Forcing them to rely on links heavily restricts the amount of monsters that can be brought back each turn.

I played yugioh back when LoB and followed from the sidelines for years after quitting. This... still makes me want to scream... as I try desperately... to get back into YGO.

Thank You Bcu They Put This On Duel Links And I don’t know how to do that at all