Fusion Monster

Fusion Monster Cards, colored purple, are cards representing a combination of two or more monsters. Fusion Monster Cards may only be included in the Fusion Deck, and cannot exist in the Main Deck. However, they may be sent to the Graveyard when destroyed, as well as Removed from Play.

Originally, the only way to properly summon a Fusion Monster was through a Fusion Summon involving the required cards as well as Polymerization. Monsters Tributed with Polymerization are called Fusion-Material Monsters.

If a Fusion Monster is returned to its owner's hand or Deck, it is instead sent back to the Fusion Deck since a Fusion Monster cannot exist either in the hand or Deck.

If a Fusion Monster is Special Summoned to the field with a Card, such as Metamorphosis, and then sent to the Graveyard, it cannot be Special Summoned to the field from the Graveyard with cards such as Premature Burial, Call of the Haunted, or Monster Reborn. In order for a Fusion Monster to be returned from the Graveyard to the field, it must be Fusion Summoned properly.

There are some Fusion Monsters that have special Summoning Conditions. For example, the Elemental Hero Fusion Monsters have a clause stipulating that they may not be Special Summoned unless they are being Fusion Summoned. This also rules out them being Special Summoned either from the Graveyard or when Removed from Play.

There are a few ways to properly Fusion Summon a Fusion Monster:

• Dragon's Mirror
• Dark Fusion
• Fusion Gate
• Future Fusion
• Instant Fusion
• Miracle Fusion
• Overload Fusion
• Polymerization
• Power Bond
• Vehicroid Connection Zone

And a few ways to Special Summon a Fusion monster:

• Cyber-Stein
• Magical Scientist
• Metamorphosis
• Re-Fusion
• NEX
• Summoner_of_Illusions
• The VWXYZ Series
• The Elemental Hero Neos and Gladial Beast Fusions "Contact Fusion"
• The "Hex-Sealed Fusion" Monster Cards (The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusion, The Dark - Hex-Sealed Fusion, The Light - Hex-Sealed Fusion)

One Fusion-Material Monster can be replaced by Fusion Substitute Monsters.

See also: Fusion Cards List