Mealtiply

Mealtiply (増食, Soushoku), also known as Fruitiply in English, is a special ability of Yellow spirits. It debuted in BS35. Spirits with this effect have the following text: 
*"Mealtiply: Cost X or less - (When Summoned) You can reveal two cards from your decktop. Among them, you can summon one Cost X or less "Drifting Spirit" family Spirit card, without paying the cost. Discard any unsummoned or remaining cards."
Examples of cards with this ability include The Fruitsel Straw-Berry and Kuurin. The ability allows the player to summon multiple spirits during Main Step through a chain reaction of multiple Mealtiply from Spirits summoned. It became the core tactic of the God-King era Drifting Spirit deck, and the core theme of the Fruitsels (果物人).
The major weakness of the effect is that it relies on reveals from deck and the cost limit of the cards to be summoned. Stronger Mealtiply effects have a higher cost limit but also a higher raw cost in geneal, making the balance and ratio of different costs of cards in deck become an important thing that the players need to take note of. Another weakness is that while the player can chain summons via Mealtiply, the number of cores one can spend on maintaining the level of spirits don't increase in the process, so a new summon doesn't necessarily increase the total number of spirits on the Field. 
The introduction of The FruitQueen Mangosteena later, however, greatly changed the structure of the deck by providing core boost every summon. This enables the chain summon of Mealtiply to build up a board with unimaginable numbers and provide a great number of cores in the process for later use. The number of cores it generates and the speed of digging up one's deck soon proves to be problematic when it both makes the deck extremely fast and unwanted loops possible. Mangosteena was hence limited to change the situation. 
== Related Articles ==
* List of cards with Mealtiply
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