Core Charge

Core Charge (神託, Shintaku, literally translated as Oracle but read as Core Charge) is a keyword exclusive to Grandwalker Nexuses, debuting in SD43/SD44. This effect targets all kinds of card aspects, including families, card types, costs, card names, effects, and so on. When those are summoned/advent, the Grandwalker Nexus obtains one core from the Void. Apart from the normal route, Core Charge could also occur immediately as the Grandwalker Nexus is deployed by sending three cards from the owner's deck to the Trash. 
Their generic text is as follows:
* Core Charge: ([Families] & [Cost])
** When you Summon/Advent(/Deploy/Use) a target Spirit(/Ultimate/Brave/Nexus/Magic), you can put one core from the Void onto this Nexus.
** When this Nexus is deployed, if you don't control a Grandwalker Nexus with the same card name, you can send three cards from your decktop to the Trash. For each target card among them, put one core from the Void onto this Nexus.
While most of the Grandwalker Nexuses could activate Core Charge via summon/advent/deploy/use of cards without restrictions other than following the conditions, there are individual Grandwalker Nexuses with extra restrictions added to their Core Charge effect. The most common type of such restriction is "core charge via summon/advent only once per turn", a restriction imposed usually when the Core Charge condition is too wide. (e.g. Cost 3 or more) Examples of this kind of Grandwalker Nexuses include Grandwalker Lolo and Producer Lili. Another type of restriction concerns the maximum cores that the Grandwalker Nexus can hold, and Core Charge doesn't occur if the number of cores on the Grandwalker Nexus is at a certain amount. Examples of this kind includes Grandwalker Antarc and Nonoin Nillon. This is usually applied to limit the number of times one can make use of the of the Nexusin a single turn. 
Starting in BSC32, Grandwalker Nexuses which charges upon deploying Nexuses have appeared; and starting in BS48, Grandwalker Nexuses which charges upon using Magic cards. 
As also stated below, Core Charge started out to be mandatory besides the deploy charge, but turned into optional from block 6 onward. 
From block 9 (Contract Saga) onward, the core charge text of Grandwalker Nexuses is changed from "put one core from the Void to this Nexus" into "+1 core to this Nexus", such that it causes less confusion on whether effects that restrict increasing cores from the Void can apply to Core Charge or any effects that put cores to Grandwalker Nexuses. 
Starting from block 11 (Contract Saga: True), a new type of Core Charge, Neo-Core Charge appeared. 
== Important rulings regarding Core Charge: ==
* Unless a card type is specified, all Core Charge conditions only target Spirits.
** e.g. A Core Charge condition with (Blade Beast & Cost 3 or more) can only target Spirits, and a Core Charge condition with (Blade Beast & Ultimate) can only target Ultimates.
* A comma in the condition indicates a separate condition of the same card type.
** e.g. In the Core Charge condition (Evil Shadow & Cost 3 or more, "Bladra"), the Core Charge targets Bladra of any cost. So when a player summons a Cost 0 Bladra, the Core Charge in the example can activate. Having "Evil Shadow & Cost 3 or more" and "Bladra" within the same bracket simply means both conditions need the same card type, which in this case, Spirit.
* The cards sent to the Trash when a Grandwalker Nexus is deployed are not affected by anti-deck destruction effects, as they are being "sent to the Trash," not "discarded from the deck," much like Ultimate Trigger.
*Effects such as those of The DragonMaskOgre Biranba and Onmyou Child can't affect the cores obtained from Core Charge, but they can affect cores a Grandwalker Nexus's effect puts from the Void to other places (cards on the Field, Reserve and such).
* When multiple target Spirits are summoned at once (such as by the effects of The DarkSnakeGodKing Shenmadou or The GiantCannonMothership Mother-Phaia), only one core is added by Core Charge. Core Charge triggers upon timing instead of the number of Spirits summoned.
* Since the Ultra Advent saga, the activation of Core Charge became optional. Due to this, while the text of Core Charge on older Grandwalker Nexus cards does not state the option, their Core Charge is still optional to activate.
== Also See ==
* List of cards with Core Charge
* Neo-Core Charge
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