Xynchro [016/?]

[Neutrality Man]

Before anyone starts saying "Icksynchro", Xynchro is pronounced "Zinc-row"

The Synchros' effects either gain power from treating Xyz monsters as Level 0 while using them as Synchro Materials, or get a different effect by coming out as an Xyz. The twin bosses are Summoned by combining the Xyz and Synchro mechanics. Synchro Summon addition using Ranks and Levels as equals; overlaying them in the case of "Omnitrellis, Xynchro Overlord of Antimatter".
 

Think of these as more like the Arcana Force monsters. As a core Deck, those are FAR too luck-based to ever be viable, but individually as support cards, they can make games. Similarly, Xynchro is designed as a similar group of monsters that can support other Extra Deck-centered builds, and maybe if the player has some skill in Deck-building (rather than just taking everything off of deck-list.com and killing the spirit of the game) they might be able to make Xynchro their Deck Core... but that is far from a priority on my end.

 [spoiler="Card in order of creation"]

[spoiler="Xandrose, Xynchro Knight"]1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz monsters
When this card is Synchro Summoned, you can Special Summon a number of level 4 or lower Warrior-type monsters from your hand or Graveyard up to the number of Xyz Monsters used as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of this card[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Yulina, Xynchro Mage"]1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz monsters
When this card is successfully Synchro Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Rank 4 or lower Xyz Monster from your Extra Deck. While that Xyz Monster is face-up on the field, this card cannot be destroyed by card effects. This card cannot be destroyed by battle a number of times per turn equal to the number of Xyz Monsters used as Synchro Material monsters for the Synchro Summon of this card.[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Zegmaier, Xynchro Dragon"]1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz monsters OR 2 Level 9 monsters
This card is also treated as a Rank 9 Xyz monster. When this card is successfully Synchro Summoned, you can banish cards from either Graveyard equal to the number of Xyz Monsters used as Synchro Material monsters for the Synchro Summon of this card. You can detach 2 Xyz Material from this card to Special Summon a "Xynchro" monster from your Extra Deck. A monster Special Summoned by this effect cannot attack the turn it is Summoned and is banished instead of being sent to the Graveyard.[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Xynchro Novagate"]Cannot be Special Summoned except by its own effect. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of a "Xynchro" monster, Special Summon this card during your next Standby Phase. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can treat this card as any Level 1 to 5. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material monster during the turn this effect is activated.[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Xynchro Shinobi"]Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can flip this face-up card you control into face-down defense position. When this card is flipped face up; select and apply one of the following effects:
• Target one card on the field; destroy that target.
• Inflict damage to your opponent equal to this card's ATK. This damage is treated as Battle Damage. This card cannot attack the turn you activate this effect.[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Xynchro Dolphin"]This card can be used as 2 Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. If this card is the only Xyz Material attached to an Xyz Monster that originally had another attached Xyz Material: that Xyz Monster gains the following effect: • This card does not have to detach Xyz Materials to activate its effects. During your Standby Phase, either pay 500 Life points or detach all Xyz Material attached to that Xyz Monster.[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Xynchronia, The Realm Beyond"]All "Xynchro" monsters gain 300 ATK. When a monster is Special Summoned from an Extra Deck, this card's controller applies the appropriate effect based on the kind of monster Summoned:
• Fusion: Special Summon 1 Level 6 or lower Monster from either Graveyard to your side of the Field. Its effects are negated.
• Synchro: Gain Life Points equal to the ATK of the Summoned monster.
• Xyz: Draw a number of cards equal to the Summoned monster's Rank.[/spoiler]
Rulings:
• "Zegmaier, Xynchro Dragon" will only trigger one effect, despite being treated as both a level 9 Synchro and a Rank 9 Xyz. The controller of "Xynchronia, The Realm Beyond" chooses whether to draw 9 or gain 3300 Life Points.
• Xynchro Xyz Monsters Summoned as Synchro Monsters only Trigger the Synchro effect, and vice-versa.


[spoiler Xynchro Force - Matter]When this card is activated: You can Special Summon up to 2 Level 4 or lower "Xynchro" monsters from your Graveyard. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot be used as Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. While this card remains face-up on the Field: Destroy any Xyz Monster that battles a "Xynchro" monster at the start of the Damage Step (without damage calculation).[/spoiler]


[spoiler="Xynchro Force - Antimatter"]When this card is activated: You can Special Summon up to 3 Rank 3 or lower Xyz Monsters from your Extra Deck. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot attack. While this card face-up remains face-up on the Field: Face-up Xyz Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects.[/spoiler]
 


[spoiler=Synchronus, Xynchro Wyvern]
2 Level 4 monsters OR 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz monsters
This card can also be Synchro Summoned, and if it is, it is treated as a Level 4 Tuner Synchro monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. Once per turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to Special Summon one non-Synchro "Xynchro" Monster. It cannot be Tributed or used as Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. If this card is a Synchro Monster, it gains the following effects:
• This card gains 200 ATK for each "Xynchro" monster you control.
• When this card is Synchro Summoned, destroy cards your opponent controls equal to the number of Xyz monsters used as Synchro Material.
[/spoiler]


[spoiler=Nimbosus, Xynchro Aviary]
3 Level 2 monsters OR 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
This card can also be Synchro Summoned, and if it is, it is treated as a Level 2 Synchro monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. Once per turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to return one Spell or Trap card on the field to the bottom of the Deck. If this card is a Synchro Monster, it gains the following effect:
• Once per turn: return one card on the field to the owner's hand, and if it was a monster, increase this card's ATK (permanently) by the returned monster's original ATK.
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[spoiler=Cantillos, Xynchro Emperor]
2 Level 5 "Xynchro" Monsters OR 1 Tuner Xyz monster + 1 or more non-Xyz monsters
Once per turn: You can detach one Xyz material from this card, add one "Xynchro" Tuner from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand. This card can also be Synchro Summoned and if it is, it is treated as a Level 5 Synchro Monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. While this card is a Synchro Monster, any monster that battles this face-up card, but is not destroyed by the battle, is returned to the top of its owner's Deck at the end of the Damage Step.
[/spoiler]


[spoiler=Henvilsaiko, Xynchro Empress]
1 Tuner + 1 or more "Xynchro" monsters OR 3 Level 5 monsters
Once per turn, while this card is a Synchro Monster: you can send the top 3 cards from your Deck to the Graveyard, and banish any monsters among them. During your next Standby Phase, select one of those monsters, add it to your hand and shuffle any remaining monsters back into your Deck. This card can also be Xyz Summoned as an Xyz Monster, and if it is, it gains the following effect:
• Once per turn: you can detach one Xyz material from this card to select one face-up monster your opponent controls; if you would Synchro Summon a monster while that opponent's monster is face-up on the field, you can use that opponent's monster as a Synchro Material monster.
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[spoiler=Rentillia, Xynchro Overlord of Matter]
1 Tuner Synchro Monster + 2 or more non-Tuner "Xynchro" Xyz Monsters
This card must be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck by using the above monsters as Synchro Material where the used Xyz Monsters' Ranks added to the Tuner Synchro Monster's Level equals 12, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Synchro Summon is also treated as an Xyz Summon. Neither player can Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck. Once per turn, you may Special Summon one monster from your Graveyard. It cannot be Tributed, and cannot attack or activate its effects during the turn it is Summoned in this way. When a monster Special Summoned by this effect is removed from the field, banish it. During your End Phase, Banish the top 6 cards of your Deck, or destroy this card.
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[spoiler=Omnitrellis, Xynchro Overlord of Antimatter]
2 Tuner Xyz Monsters + 1 or more non-Tuner "Xynchro" Synchro Monsters
This card must be Special Summoned from the extra Deck by using the above monsters as Xyz Material where the used Synchro Monsters' levels added to the Tuner Xyz monster's Ranks equal 12, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Xyz Summon is also treated as a Synchro Summon. While this card has Xyz Material, neither player can Summon monsters from the Extra Deck. During each of your End Phases: detach one Xyz Material from this card and reduce this card's ATK and DEF by 1000. When this face-up card has no Xyz Material, banish this face-up card and return all Xyz monsters in any Graveyard to their owner's Extra Decks.
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Equip only to a "Xynchro" Synchro or Xyz Monster. The equipped Monster is treated as both an Xyz Monster and a Synchro Monster. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: Attach 1 monster whose Level is equal to the Rank and/or Level of the equipped monster from your hand or Graveyard to the equipped monster.

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I don't really want to state any combos with these cards, as I want people to THINK when they play. But I can give an example of how the mechanics work. (This has been added to the initial post as well.) This is because self-contained archetypes make the game boring as f*** to me, since there's no surprise anymore.

Say your field is a Dark Resonator (Level 3 Tuner), and 3 Xyz monsters of inconsequential Rank and you have an empty hand. In your Graveyard are 2 D.D. Warrior Lady. Your turn comes and you draw a D.D. Assailant (Level 4).
 
In your Extra Deck is Xandrose, Xynchro Knight.
 
Normal Summon D.D. Assailant, and Tune Dark Resonator to him. 3 + 4 = 7
 
Since Xyz Monsters have no Level, they don't affect the math of the Synchro Summon at all. You can thus add them on to the Synchro Material, if you so choose, thanks to the Material listing on Xandrose, Xynchro Knight reading "+ 0 or more Xyz Monsters".
 
You send the Synchro Material and the optionally used Xyz Monsters at the same time, and Synchro Summon Xandrose from your Extra Deck.
 
Xandrose, Xynchro Knight's effect activates upon his Summon's success. Assuming you sent all 3 Xyz Monsters as Synchro Material, Xandrose then allows you to Summon both D.D. Warrior Lady (1, 2) and the D.D. Assailant (3) you just sent as Material since all 3 of them are Level 4 and Warrior-type.

[Kuri]

Interesting idea. Although if these cards did exist the idea of using Tuners, etc and XYZ is kinda weird (Monster + Monster = XYZ + Tuner + Monster= Xynchro????) but I'd use these cards in a friendly deck. Again, interesting idea I'd like to see more of these maybe. Suggestion: Maybe have a few cards that have effects that activate based on XYZ material?

[Neutrality Man]

Interesting idea. Although if these cards did exist the idea of using Tuners, etc and XYZ is kinda weird (Monster + Monster = XYZ + Tuner + Monster= Xynchro????) but I'd use these cards in a friendly deck. Again, interesting idea I'd like to see more of these maybe. Suggestion: Maybe have a few cards that have effects that activate based on XYZ material?

No, it's 1 tuner + 1 non-tuner non-Xyz Monster = Xynchro monster Synchro Summon
or
1 tuner + 1 non-tuner non-Xyz Monster + up to 3 Xyz monsters = Xynchro Monster Synchro Summoned with power-ups

3 Xyz monsters make Yulina require 4 kills to finally be rid of her, circumvented by Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment, Light-Imprisoning Mirror, or Compulsory Evacuation Device.

3 Xyz monsters also lets Xandrose Summon 3 allies to assist, as long as they are Warriors.

and 3 Xyz monsters turn a Synchro Summoned Zegmaier into a mini-Soul Release. If he's Summoned through his Xyz mode, he can call one of the other two out of the grave to help on Defense.

I'd love to make more, but there's only so many ways to put the color-inverted concentric Synchro Rings on the images. It's the Xynchro Archetype logo. (Like the symbol on all the Steelswarms and Evilswarms, or the Gustos, etc) I'm opening this Archetype's thread up to anyone who wants to try and make a card for it. All I ask is that the fanfiction Lore for this group I thought up is maintained.
 

That Lore is quite simple:

 

[spoiler="Act 1"]At some point in the past, the Different Dimension Gate and Ally of Justice Cosmic Gateway got their transdimensional signals crossed when Kozaki opened a Monster Gate set for the Duel Terminal world too close to the D.D. Gate. As a result an entire village on either side was sucked into the void between dimensions, thought dead by all others. [/spoiler]

 

[spoiler="Act 2"]There, matter and antimatter were functionally neutral and didn't nuke each other if they came in contact. The villagers from both universes learned from each other to harness the powers of both antimatter, from the Duel Terminal world, and matter, from the original Duel Monster universe. (Explored through every card art featuring a character connected to the Gagagigo series, for more info here, just read the Trivia pages for Gagagigo's various stages on yugioh.wikia.com )[/spoiler]

 

[spoiler="Act 3"]After generations spent in the new world, the villagers lost any concept of having been originally from seperate universes, adopting the name "Xynchro", and eventually returned to the Duel Monster world with their own "Xynchro Gate", since by that time, the Duel Terminal World was erased by the Genesis Star God, Sophia, rebooting the universe. And now the Xynchro live among those in the Duel Monster world.[/spoiler]

 

I'll be making Xynchro Gate tomorrow, from there, it's open to public submission.
COLLABORATIVE ARCHETYPE THREAD GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
 

[Neutrality Man]

Xynchro Gate is now Xynchro Novagate

[spoiler=Outdated version, proceed]

 

Cannot be Special Summoned except by its own effect. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material monster for a Synchro Summon if its Level is not 3. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of a "Xynchro" monster, Special Summon this card during your next Standby Phase. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can treat this card as any Level 1 to 5.

 

The community at large may now start adding cards to this Archetype, this thread is open for it. I'll still be adding as ideas come to me, but that happens slowly and this thread will get necro'd if I wait for those.[/spoiler]

[Kuri]

Oh I know that it's XYZ + Tuner + non-tuner. It's just that a dedicated Deck would need a lot of monsters. That's why I said it was kinda weird.

OT: New card is interesting I would just lower its defense to 1300 just seems more balanced imo. But "This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material except if its Level is 3." Confuses me because either it relates to the card itself or the "Xychro" monster. Imho remove that effect or change to: This card can only be used as Xyzchro material...(along those lines).

EDIT: I would create some but I'm currently using a phone for Internet access atm and I have no clue when my internet will be back.

[Neutrality Man]

Cannot be Special Summoned except by its own effect. This card can only be used as a Synchro Material monster for a Synchro Summon while this card's Level is 3. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of a "Xynchro" monster, Special Summon this card during your next Standby Phase. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can treat this card as any Level 1 to 5.

[Neutrality Man]

Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can flip this face-up card you control into face-down defense position. When this card is flipped face up; select and apply one of the following effects:

• Target one card on the field; destroy that target.

• Inflict damage to your opponent equal to this card's ATK. This damage is treated as Battle Damage. This card cannot attack the turn you activate this effect.

 

As for animation for anime appearances, the white-armored girl hits LP, the black-armored man pops cards, and they fight monsters in the Battle phase by double-teaming.

[Neutrality Man]

[spoiler="Xynchro Dolphin"]This card can be used as 2 Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. If this card is the only Xyz Material attached to an Xyz Monster that originally had another attached Xyz Material: that Xyz Monster gains the following effect: • This card does not have to detach Xyz Materials to activate its effects. During your Standby Phase, either pay 500 Life points or detach all Xyz Material attached to that Xyz Monster.[/spoiler]

[arkra12]

Very nice. I like xandrose's picture especially. And very nice photo editing skills on the cards to have them all have the circles

[Neutrality Man]

Very nice. I like xandrose's picture especially. And very nice photo editing skills on the cards to have them all have the circles

Thanks, 100 points to the first person to find the easter egg on Shinobi's image and say what it is.

[dokktorawesome]

Very cool concept...

 

Suggestion: Perphaps you could call it Xynchro Summon? But that might not work...oh well, just a suggestion.

[Neutrality Man]

Very cool concept...

 

Suggestion: Perhaps you could call it Xynchro Summon? But that might not work...oh well, just a suggestion.

Honestly, I couldn't do that in good faith, since these are just Synchro Summons that happen to use XYZ Monsters as Level 0s.
 At best, Xynchro Summon can be a colloquial term for this particular type of Synchro Summon, like how I call it a "Chaos Summon" for the Summon of BLS-EotB, Lightpulsar Dragon, Chaos Sorceror, etc.

[arkra12]

By the way, where did you get xandrose's image? I would love to know

[Neutrality Man]

I Googled up a random image of a Knight, then ran it through the "Ink Sketch" filter in Paint.NET.

[Neutrality Man]

Field Spell GET

The image is a highly-altered picture of NYC.

[spoiler="Xynchronia, The Realm Beyond"]All "Xynchro" monsters gain 300 ATK. When a monster is Special Summoned from an Extra Deck, this card's controller applies the appropriate effect based on the type of monster Summoned:

• Fusion: Special Summon 1 Level 6 or lower Monster from either Graveyard to your side of the Field. Its effects are negated.

• Synchro: Gain Life Points equal to the ATK of the Summoned monster.

• Xyz: Draw a number of cards equal to the Summoned monster's Rank.[/spoiler]

[Neutrality Man]

More backrows! n_n
 

[spoiler Xynchro Force - Matter]When this card is activated: You can Special Summon up to 2 Level 4 or lower "Xynchro" monsters from your Graveyard. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot be used as Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. While this card remains face-up on the Field: Destroy any Xyz Monster that battles a "Xynchro" monster at the start of the Damage Step (without damage calculation).[/spoiler]
 

[spoiler="Xynchro Force - Antimatter"]When this card is activated: You can Special Summon up to 3 Rank 3 or lower Xyz Monsters from your Extra Deck. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot attack. While this card face-up remains face-up on the Field: Face-up Xyz Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects.[/spoiler]

[Neutrality Man]

Errata on Novagate

"Cannot be Special Summoned except by its own effect. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of a "Xynchro" monster, Special Summon this card during your next Standby Phase. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can treat this card as any Level 1 to 5. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material monster during the turn this effect is activated."

 

You can alter its level through means other than its effect and still synchro now.

[Neutrality Man]

So, we can make Xyz Monsters here now.  Now I can make the rest of my Xynchro Archetype without Yugico! Due to the increased size of cards, I am now placing the images in Spoiler tags to save on size.
 
Synchronus, Xynchro Wyvern
[spoiler=Images]Standard:

Foiled:
[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
2 Level 4 monsters OR 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz monsters
This card can also be Synchro Summoned, and if it is, it is treated as a Level 4 Tuner Synchro monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. Once per turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to Special Summon one non-Synchro "Xynchro" Monster. It cannot be Tributed or used as Xyz Material for an Xyz Summon. If this card is a Synchro Monster, it gains the following effects:
• This card gains 200 ATK for each "Xynchro" monster you control.
• When this card is Synchro Summoned, destroy cards your opponent controls equal to the number of Xyz monsters used as Synchro Material. 
[/spoiler]
Nimbosus, Xynchro Aviary
[spoiler=Images]Standard:

Foiled:
[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
3 Level 2 monsters OR 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
This card can also be Synchro Summoned, and if it is, it is treated as a Level 2 Synchro monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. Once per turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to return one Spell or Trap card on the field to the bottom of the Deck. If this card is a Synchro Monster, it gains the following effect:
• Once per turn: return one card on the field to the owner's hand, and if it was a monster, increase this card's ATK (permanently) by the returned monster's original ATK. 
[/spoiler]
Cantillos, Xynchro Emperor
[spoiler=Image][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
2 Level 5 "Xynchro" Monsters OR 1 Tuner Xyz monster + 1 or more non-Xyz monsters
Once per turn: You can detach one Xyz material from this card, add one "Xynchro" Tuner from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand. This card can also be Synchro Summoned and if it is, it is treated as a Synchro Monster and cannot have Xyz Materials attached to it. While this card is a Synchro Monster, any monster that battles this face-up card, but is not destroyed by the battle, is returned to the top of its owner's Deck at the end of the Damage Step. 
[/spoiler]
Henvilsaiko, Xynchro Empress
[spoiler=Image][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
1 Tuner + 1 or more "Xynchro" monsters OR 3 Level 5 monsters
Once per turn, while this card is a Synchro Monster: you can send the top 3 cards from your Deck to the Graveyard, and banish any monsters among them. During your next Standby Phase, select one of those monsters, add it to your hand and shuffle any remaining monsters back into your Deck. This card can also be Xyz Summoned as an Xyz Monster, and if it is, it gains the following effect:
• Once per turn: you can detach one Xyz material from this card to select one face-up monster your opponent controls; if you would Synchro Summon a monster while that opponent's monster is face-up on the field, you can use that opponent's monster as a Synchro Material monster.
[/spoiler]
Rentillia, Xynchro Overlord of Matter
[spoiler=Images][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
 1 Tuner Synchro Monster + 2 or more non-Tuner "Xynchro" Xyz Monsters
This card must be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck by using the above monsters as Synchro Material where the used Xyz Monsters' Ranks added to the Tuner Synchro Monster's Level equals 12, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Synchro Summon is also treated as an Xyz Summon. Neither player can Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck. Once per turn, you may Special Summon one monster from your Graveyard. It cannot be Tributed, and cannot attack or activate its effects during the turn it is Summoned in this way. When a monster Special Summoned by this effect is removed from the field, banish it. During your End Phase, Banish the top 6 cards of your Deck, or destroy this card.
[/spoiler]
Omnitrellis, Xynchro Overlord of Antimatter
[spoiler=Images][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
2 Tuner Xyz Monsters + 1 or more non-Tuner "Xynchro" Synchro Monsters
This card must be Special Summoned from the extra Deck by using the above monsters as Xyz Material where the used Synchro Monsters' levels added to the Tuner Xyz monster's Ranks equal 12, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Xyz Summon is also treated as a Synchro Summon. While this card has Xyz Material, neither player can Summon monsters from the Extra Deck. During each of your End Phases: detach one Xyz Material from this card and reduce this card's ATK and DEF by 1000. When this face-up card has no Xyz Material, banish this face-up card and return all Xyz monsters in any Graveyard to their owner's Extra Decks. 
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[Ziliath]

your synchro cards dont work... fundamentaly XYZ monsts dont have a level, but oddly enough with a lack of a level that actually means they are NOT level 0, synchro monsers deal exclusivaly with a level.

 

if you want them to work, convert a rank to level, swapping 1 star for a different is the same as changeging earth to fire, dragon to aqua, this happend in Zexal TV series so its leagal.

 

or just say "An equivilent rank" as its wording, allowing you to use a rank monster as synchro matrial

 

("1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters + 1 or more equivilent rank Xyz monster(s)")

but the above would mean a XYZ monster rank would contribute as an equivlent level to tank

[Neutrality Man]

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-tuner monsters + 0 or more Xyz Monsters
I'm aware Ranks and Levels aren't the same. The Ranks aren't contributing unless Rentillia or Omnitrellis is the monster being Synchroed. In which case their Summon is a written-on-card special method like the VWXYZ series of Machine-type Fusions. Xyz Monsters aren't necessary at all.
 
The Xyz that get Summoned as Synchro Monsters are treated as Synchros with the Level equal to their printed Rank. I guess I'll just make the text smaller by printing that on all of them instead of just Synchronus.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

I think the concept is very interesting, but could use more elaboration on how exactly they work and how they play. Like examples of combos you would use, so I can better understand the text.

[tirtouga]

There cool pictures!

[Neutrality Man]

I think the concept is very interesting, but could use more elaboration on how exactly they work and how they play. Like examples of combos you would use, so I can better understand the text.

I don't really want to state any combos with these cards, as I want people to THINK when they play. But I can give an example of how the mechanics work. (This has been added to the initial post as well.) This is because self-contained archetypes make the game boring as fuck to me, since there's no surprise anymore. Think of these as more like the Arcana Force monsters. As a core Deck, they are FAR too luck-based to ever be viable, but individually as support cards, they can make games.
 
 
Say your field is a Dark Resonator (Level 3 Tuner), and 3 Xyz monsters of inconsequential Rank and you have an empty hand. In your Graveyard are 2 D.D. Warrior Lady. Your turn comes and you draw a D.D. Assailant (Level 4).
 
In your Extra Deck is Xandrose, Xynchro Knight.
 

 
Normal Summon D.D. Assailant, and Tune Dark Resonator to him. 3 + 4 = 7
 
Since Xyz Monsters have no Level, they don't affect the math of the Synchro Summon at all. You can thus add them on to the Synchro Material, if you so choose, thanks to the Material listing on Xandrose, Xynchro Knight reading "+ 0 or more Xyz Monsters".
 
You send the Synchro Material and the optionally used Xyz Monsters at the same time, and Synchro Summon Xandrose from your Extra Deck.
 
Xandrose, Xynchro Knight's effect activates upon his Summon's success. Assuming you sent all 3 Xyz Monsters as Synchro Material, Xandrose then allows you to Summon both D.D. Warrior Lady (1, 2) and the D.D. Assailant (3) you just sent as Material since all 3 of them are Level 4 and Warrior-type.

[Neutrality Man]

Mattermorph

 

Equip only to a "Xynchro" Synchro or Xyz Monster. The equipped Monster is treated as both an Xyz Monster and a Synchro Monster. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: Attach 1 monster whose Level is equal to the Rank and/or Level of the equipped monster from your hand or Graveyard to the equipped monster.

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While Xandrose and Yulina are valid targets to equip, they do not benefit at all, It's really better spent on Henvilsaiko or Cantillos.