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To detach is to send an Xyz Material(s) attached to an Xyz Monster to the Graveyard. This is done as a cost to activate the effect of the Xyz Monster, as a kind of maintenance cost to keep it on the field or avoid possible negative effects, or as a result of a card effect, such as with "Overlay Capture". More powerful effects usually require detaching more Xyz Materials.

Since Xyz Materials are not considered to be on the field, effects which activate when a monster is sent to from the field to the Graveyard, or when it leaves the field by any way, do not activate.

If an effect like that of "Macro Cosmos" is applying, the detached materials are banished instead of being sent to the Graveyard. On the other hand, since Xyz Materials are not treated as any particular card type when detached, they are not affected by effects involving specific card types, like that of "Dimensional Fissure".

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