Meter

Meter (Japanese: メートル Mētoru) is a property exclusive to Excharge Monsters, in place of a Level/Rank.

A monster's Meter is represented by a line of purple stars on the top-right. Printed Meter ranges from 0-13 (all monsters with a printed Meter of 0 have a Meter Condition stating that their original Meter is to be treated as a different value). Monsters can only have 1 Meter at a time.

An Excharge Monster's Meter is not a Level, and furthermore, Excharge Monsters do not naturally have a Level. Because of this, Excharge Monsters cannot be used as material for Ritual, Synchro, Xyz, or other Excharge Monsters. Additionally, any effect that concerns Levels/Ranks, or refers to them, cannot be used on Excharge Monsters and they do not affect them.

Overclocked Meter
Overclocked Meter is a property of Meter that is separate in function and effect. Overclocked Meter is gained either through properly Excharge Summoning an Excharge Monster, or by increasing it via card effect. However, increasing/decreasing Meter is not the same thing as increasing/decreasing Overclocked Meter. If an Overclocked Monster has its original Meter changed, the value of the Overclocked Meter will remain the same, but the amount of actual Overclocked Meter will change by the difference.

For example, if a monster whose original Meter is 5 and is Overclocked to 9 has its Original Meter increased to 6, the Overclocked Meter will still be at 9, but the amount of actual Overclocked Meter will only be 3 instead of 4.

Overclock Drain
During the End Phase of each of your turns, all Excharge Monsters you control lose all of their Overclocked Meter that they currently have. However, once, while face-up on the field, if an Excharge Monster was Overclocked using more materials than the minimum required, the amount of Overclock drained during the End Phase will be reduced by its current Overclocked Meter minus the total amount of materials used. to a minimum of 1.

For example, a Meter 5 Excharge Monster, Excharge Summoned with 3 materials whose Levels total 9, will make it so that the amount of Overclocked Meter drained is only 1, down to 8. However, if it were instead Overclocked to 10, it would drain by 2, because those 3 materials only cover enough to protect 3 Overclocked Meters.