Evolute Currency

Evolute Currency (shortened to E-C, and エボリュートカウンター Eboryūto Kauntā in Japanese) is a type of unique to Evolute Monsters. Visually, they are a yellow orb placed where a would be, with a number indicates how many E-Cs an Evolute Monster typically gets. Like, and counters, E-Cs are mostly represented by dice.

Mechanics
Evolute Currency are placed on an Evolute Monster before the Evolute Summon is complete. An Evolute Monster Special Summoned by card effect (e.g " does not generate E-Cs. In Addition, they can be placed by card effects, but will be removed if the monster is flipped face-down or becomes banished temporarily.

Evolute Currency stays on the monster even if their effects are negated. And if the monster is Evolute Summoned and flipped face-down then flipped face-up, it will place E-Cs on itself again. (unless it is temporarily banished).

Evolute Currency can be removed manually to activate the Evolute Monster's effects, or by card effects like "".

Conjoint Evolute Monster while Conjointed can activate its own C-E rating "Currency Element" to place an equal number of Evolute Currency to the monster it's conjointed to, but they will be removed if the Conjoint Evolute Monster is Disjointed.