Now we have more clarification on Pendulum rules at least.
If you Pendulum Summon from the Extra Deck, they are under the same penalty as every other Extra Deck monster. No Link Monster means you can only Pendulum Summon 1 Monster into the EMZ, with a Link Monster, into as many zones as you have enabled.
Note, this only goes for doing it from the Extra Deck. Pendulum Summoning from the hand still works as usual. However this is a major nerf to the mechanic, and vastly undercuts the inherent resiliency of Pendulum Decks.
Also the wording from Konami suggests that cards like Ultimaya Tzolkin and Bahamut Shark will NOT subvert the Link Rules. You want them to go off, better have those extra zones ready.
Mask of Restrict might become a staple to stop ritual decks and kaijus
I play Volcanic Kaijus so links dont really bother me. I still OTK, I still burn, I still control with kaiju effects. never really have more than 1 extra deck monster on the field at a time.
Kinda kills my norden plays though but I can still use summmoner monk to get a rank 4
I could see that card being banned or going to 1 since it has no downside.
Initially though I think people will play decks that dont rely as much on the extra deck so dimensional barrier might fall out of rotation or into the sidedeck.
I have no idea when the new rules go into effect though. Maybe next year?
I guess itās cool that pendulum is done, but Iām seeing lots of theorycrafting that still produces boss monsters in single turns. One of them is even a one card first turn setup. I mean, Iām a total fan of slowing the game down, but it looks like itās not doing too good of a job at that even from the start.