pendulum-sonata:

So if my understandng of the new rules is correct the new Link summon is gonna change the following things in the game:

• Limited extra deck monsters amount and bound to their link value in order to summon them.
  

• You HAVE to use the Link Summon (Whaat?) or… (sorry I’m not sure I understood that part)
  

• Now Monsters area is divided on normal summons and extra deck monsters.
  

• Link Monsters have no defense value.
  

So… on theory it sounds logical, I can understand that after Pendulum Summon - a summon explicitely made to ease the use of Extra Deck Summons - there would be a new one meant to limit its overuse and abuse or whatever in order to balance things out.

But the actual rules played out seem weird in the actual execution, and apparently hinder more than balance the game, but given that both the OCG and the anime has yet to show us the actual summon I’m gonna wait to give my pov on this.