A Pendulum Summon in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V
Ｐ （ ペンデュラム ） 召 （ しょう ） 喚 （ かん ）
Pendyuramu Shōkan
A Pendulum Summon (Japanese ペンデュラム 召 （ しょう ） 喚 （ かん ） Pendyuramu Shōkan, abbreviated Ｐ （ ペンデュラム ） 召 （ しょう ） 喚 （ かん ） in card text) is a form of Special Summon introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. [1] Pendulum Summoning allows the player to Summon multiple monsters simultaneously. [2] [3]
Once per turn, during the Main Phase, if the turn player has a card with a Pendulum Scale in each of their two Pendulum Zones (for a total of 2 cards), that player can Pendulum Summon any number of monsters from their hand, and/or any number of face-up Pendulum Monsters in their Extra Deck, whose individual Levels are exclusively between the Pendulum Scales of the cards in their Pendulum Zones (i.e. monsters whose individual Levels are between the Pendulum Scales and not the same as the Pendulum Scales' values).
Starting with the New Master Rule, Pendulum Monsters that are face-up in the Extra Deck can only be Summoned to an unoccupied Main Monster Zone that a Link Monster points to or an Extra Monster Zone. Monsters that are Pendulum Summoned from the hand can only be Summoned to Main Monster Zones.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, prior to the introduction of the Extra Monster Zone, only 1 Pendulum Monster could be Pendulum Summoned face-up from the Extra Deck at the time.
Because of the restriction on Levels, no monsters can be Pendulum Summoned if the cards in the Pendulum Zones have Pendulum Scales that differ by one or less (i.e. 4 and 4, 3 and 4, or 4 and 3). However, this has no impact on the usage of Pendulum Effects.
A Pendulum Summon is a type of built-in Special Summon, so it can be negated by cards like "Solemn Warning" and "Thunder King Rai-Oh". Pendulum Summoning is unrelated to the effects of the Pendulum Monsters in the Pendulum Zones, so can be performed even if their effects are negated (such as due to the effect of "Vector Pendulum, the Dracoverlord").
Using Pendulum Scales of 1 and 8 to Pendulum Summon three monsters: A Level 6, a Level 5, and a Level 3
