Maruno said:
That explanation sounds wrong. The location of the Fusion Material Monsters should not affect the Special Summoning part of Future Fusion.
I was talking about having 2 copies of Chimeratech Overdragon in your Fusion Deck, and specifically targeting one of them with both Future Fusion and Overload Fusion. When Future Fusion tried to Special Summon, would it just Special Summon the next available copy of the same card, or must it be that exact card it selected previously?
This is my take on it... I believe the effect is targeting due to the fact that the selection of the Material is not "random", and specifically geared to the Fusion Monster to be summoned, BUT, I think it is only targeting the Fusion Monster by name (as a reference for the material), and not the actual card itself, much like Mind Crush.
How do you just send arbitrary monsters to the Graveyard, and then search your Fusion Deck for a monster that might fit the criteria to be summoned?
You could very well send Barrel Dragon, Blowback Dragon, and x3 Cyber Dragon, and then you have four choices, but not really, because Gatling Dragon does not require a Cyber Dragon as part of its Material, and ONLY Chimeratech Overdragon fits the full description for
ALL of the material sent.
No doubt that this will be attempted more than once, where someone will use Future Fusion and send monsters designed for a summon of Chimeratech Overdragon, and select something non-related, like Stream Gyroid, just to get access to their monsters in their Graveyard for something like Skull Lair Return (since it was a seemingly popular Deck Type after its Shonen Jump Boston Debut), and since it will be stated that it doesnt say in the ruling that you "can't", it will be argued over and over that you should be able to.
Getting back to the second part of the question, since the Fusion Monster selected is not actually being summoned for that turn Future Fusion is activated, it has more similarities to the statement I made about the Fusion Monster just being "referenced", rather than specifically targeted as, "This Monster MUST be summoned", to just simply, "One of these Monsters CAN and WILL be summoned". So, even though you have selected Chimeratech Overdragon, it is only by name, and not the specific 1 of 3 or 2 of 3, etc....