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You're saying a lot of words, and they make some amount of sense.

TBH, I dropped out of the game during the time of Synchro summons, so anything beyond that I'm gonna have to take a refresher course in understanding. Might even just make a character that uses a more old school deck rather than the new pendulum or link cards or whatever.
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You probably don't know what an Xyz monster is either, then. To quickly sum it up, an Xyz monster is a type of Extra Deck monster that summons itself by using monsters on the field of the same level.

Xyz monsters, instead of levels, have ranks. That means that a card which says "Increase the level of your monster by 1" doesn't work on an Xyz monster. A rank 4 Xyz monster will need level 4 monsters to summon it, much like how a level 8 synchro would need a level 4 tuner and a level 4 non-tuner (or any combination that adds up to 8, but I'm using two level 4's to make the comparison easier). Once you have the right amount of equally-levelled monsters on the field, you stack them on top of one another and then place the Xyz monster on top of them. This is because the monsters underneath that Xyz monster act as a way to activate the Xyz monster's effect: By sending a material it used to the graveyard, their effect activates.

To illustrate this, I'll use the first Xyz monster shown off in full: [url=https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Number_17:_Leviathan_Dragon]"Number 17: Leviathan Dragon."[/url]

Leviathan Dragon needs two level 3 monsters to summon it. When they're used to summon it, it will have 2 materials. If you detach one of those materials and send it to the graveyard to activate its effects, it will both have 1 material and have gained 500 ATK. You can then, later, send the second material to the graveyard as well, making it gain another 500 ATK but making it so it can no longer attack anything other than a monster, since it no longer has any monsters stacked underneath it.

Here is a [url=https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Decode_Talker]link[/url] and a [url=https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Odd-Eyes_Pendulum_Dragon]pendulum[/url] card to demonstrate, as I talked about those earlier as well.