Neo-Core Charge

Neo-Core Charge (), a new variant of the existing effect, Core Charge, is introduced in SD68, and serves as the main gimmick of Contract Grandwalker Nexuses. 
Despite having a different name, Neo-Core Charge is a type of Core Charge, and is affected by any effects that target Core Charge. The relationship between the two are much like and . 
The generic text is as follows: 
◆When your target Spirit is summoned, you can +1 core to this Nexus.◆(Once per Turn: Same Name) When this Nexus is deployed, you can send three cards from your decktop to the Trash. For each target card among them, +1 core to this Nexus.
While it is still an effect to accumulate cores on Grandwalker Nexuses, there are quite a few differences between the original Core Charge and Neo-Core Charge. 
The first major difference being how the "deploy charge", the part of Core Charge that you can carry out when deploying the Grandwalker Nexus, is now limited to (Once per Turn: Same Name) but doesn't care whether there are other copies of the same Grandwalker Nexus on your Field. While the deploy charge under the old Core Charge is often something similar to once per game unless the Grandwalker Nexus on your Field are destroyed, the deploy charge under Neo-Core Charge allow players to get an immediate boost for each copy of the same Grandwalker Nexus. This increases the flexibility of Core Charge against removal of cores on Grandwalker Nexuses. (In the past, if you have a copy of Grandwalker Nexus A deployed, and the cores on it get removed, even if you deploy a second copy of Grandwalker A, you can only charge slowly again via the regular summon/advent route. But with Neo-Core Charge, you can get an instant boost when you deploy a second copy Grandwalker A, just like the time when you deploy Grandwalker A for the first time.) 
This feature also goes along with the new keyword, Revive, as you can re-deploy one copy of Contract Grandwalker Nexuses from Soul State per turn. A Core Charge that limits to (Once per Turn: Same Name) but doesn't concern whether a second copy is on the Field means that every time you revive a Contract Grandwalker Nexus, you can get an instant charge via the deploy charge route. 
The second major difference is how is removed from the accumulation route of Core Charge in Neo-Core Charge. There can be multiple reasons behind the change. One of them is a balancing concern when the deploy charge of Neo-Core Charge is now (Once per Turn: Same Name) unlike the past. Another possible reason includes how is removed to separate the new era from the era before, which focused primarily on . It also contrasts with the Grand Advent era and Ultra Advent era, the first two eras of Grandwalker Nexuses that partly revolves around advents. As the new keyword, Manifest, is essentially a type of summon, it is enough for Neo-Core Charge to react to summons only. 
== Also See ==
* List of cards with Neo-Core Charge
* Core Charge
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