Xyz Summon

An Exceed Summon (エクシ一ズ召喚, Ekushīzu Shōkan) is a type of Summoning featured in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime and manga series.

Exceed Summons can be conducted when there are two or more monsters of the same Level on the field. Those monsters can be used as Exceed Material Monsters to Summon an Exceed Monster whose Rank is the same as the Levels of the monsters used.

In order to Exceed Summon an Exceed Monster, you must first take the required Exceed Material Monsters face-up on your side of the field and stack them together. Then, the Exceed Monster is Exceed Summoned from your Extra Deck, and placed on top of the stack.

Exceed Material Monsters are not sent to the Graveyard. Instead, they are placed on the same Monster Card Zone beneath the Summoned Exceed Monster.

The respective Battle Positions of the Exceed Material Monsters do not matter, so long as they are all face-up. However, once you have Exceed Summoned your Exceed Monster, ensure that the entire stack is neatly aligned in face-up attack position, regardless of whether or not the Exceed Monster is summoned in face-up ATK or DEF position.

An Exceed Summon is a type of Special Summon, and an Exceed Monster cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard or removed from play pile unless it was properly Exceed Summoned first.

Some effects may require you to remove Exceed Material Monsters from an Exceed Monster. In this case, the required Exceed Material Monsters are taken from beneath the Exceed Monster in question and sent to the Graveyard. Be wary though, as some such effects may have a sting in the tail should an Exceed Monster have no Exceed Material Monsters left beneath it.

Exceed Material Monsters are not considered 'on the field'. Therefore, an effect such as that of "Sangan" will not trigger, while effects such as Dandylion's will still trigger (different from Sangan in that it does not have to enter the Graveyard from the field to get its effect). Also if a 'revived' Monster like Quillbolt Hedgehog or Plaguespreader Zombie is used as an Exceed Material Monster and sent to the Graveyard, it remains in the Graveyard.

Note that an Exceed Monster Special Summoned via any means other than an Exceed Summon will not have any Exceed Material Monsters beneath it. Therefore, any negative effects that might apply to an Exceed Monster in such a state will be applied immediately.

If an Exceed Monster is flipped face-down, the Exceed Material Monsters beneath it are not sent to the graveyard.

If a card that would remove from play cards sent to the graveyard (such as Macro Cosmos or Banisher of the Radiance) is in effect, when an Exceed monster is destroyed/removed from the field the Exceed Material Monsters beneath it are removed from play. However if an effect that would remove from play a Monster(s) on the field (like Dimensional Fissure) is activated, only the Exceed Monster will be affected. The Materials used will be sent to the Graveyard.

Trap Monsters can be used as Exceed Material Monsters. Tokens cannot be used as Exceed Material Monsters.

In the anime, when an Exceed Monster is Exceed Summoned, a galaxy-like gate appears in which the Exceed Material Monsters (in a energy form) transfer into. The gate explodes and the Exceed Monster appears. The Exceed Material monsters then turn into orbs of light which surround the Exceed monsters who absorbs them when the player removes them. This idea of a galaxy is probably derived from its card frame or vice versa.

Similar to how players say that they "Tune" their monsters to perform a Synchro Summon, players would state that they "Overlay" their selected monsters to perform an Exceed Summon.