Chimera Monster

Chimera Monsters (Japanese: キメラモンスター Kimera Monsutā), are a type of with a split card frame. They resemble Unity Monsters, but with two different Monster Card Types. They may share Level or Rank depending on the combination.

Characteristics
They start the Duel in the Extra Deck:


 * They cannot exist in the hand or the Main Deck; if an Chimera Monster would be moved to the hand or Main Deck, it is returned to the Extra Deck instead.
 * If an Chimera Monster is not properly Special Summoned by Chimera Summon before being sent to the Graveyard or banished, it cannot be Special Summoned from there (even by effects that ignore Summoning conditions).

Chimera Summoning
There are two main ways of Special Summoning a Chimera Monster from the Extra Deck:

Partial Chimera Summon
First, you can Summon it using 1 of the Summoning methods corresponding to one of the Monster Card Types (Fusion, Synchro, Xyz or Link.) If done this way, the Summoned monster is only treated as that Card Type while face-up on the field.

Full Chimera Summon
For the second method, you can Special Summon the Chimera Monster by using materials that fulfill the Summoning requirements of both Monster Card types shown on the card frame. For example, if the Chimera Monster you wish to Summon is a Rank 4/Level 8 Xyz/Synchro Monster, the individual requirements would be 2 Level 4 monsters for its Xyz Summon and 1 Tuner monster + 1+ non-Tuner monsters for its Synchro Summon. Thus, for its Chimera Summon it would need a 2 Level 4 monsters, with one being a Tuner Monster and the other being a non-Tuner.