If youre an enthusiast who only wants to bolster your collection or worse, have kids that just want to indulge in their favorite hobby, you have a seemingly growing number of jerks to thank for things going down like this

And now, how each of the special summons works: Link summon - Send a number of face-up monsters with the right material requirements from the field to the graveyard to pay for a Link monster's Link Rating Pendulum summon - Activate two Pendulum monsters in the far left and right of the spell/trap zones, and then summon as many monsters as you like that have levels between the 'scales' on the Pendulum monster cards Xyz summon - Stack the 'materials' specified by the card you're summoning, and put the Xyz monster on top face-up Synchro summon - Send a 'tuner' monster and any other monster with the combined levels you need to the graveyard to summon a Synchro monster Fusion summon - Send the specific monsters listed on the card to the graveyard along with the required summoning card Ritual summon - Send the specific ritual spell card and monster tribute to the graveyard to summon a Ritual monster Battle phase Now the monsters fight

$25 Upgrade +1/+1 Counters is a very deep archetype so there's more sweet upgrade options that I could ever hope to cover, but I selected some of my favorites: for protection I've added Bulwark Ox and Mutational Advantage, a bunch of proliferates with Metastatic Evangel and Dreamtide Whale being the two best, ramp got a massive upgrade with Astral Cornucopia / Kami of Whispered Hopes / Purestrain Genestealer / Summon: Fenrir, and so on
It needs a dedicated deck to really work
Congrat on pulling the trio