Yu-Gi-Oh!: From Casual Gamer to Soulful Player

"My turn, draw a card!" Shadi drew a card. "I activate the effect of 'Royal Guardian Sphinx'."

Then Hyoga looked at the Sphinx that had been turned upside down.

Of all the effects of [Royal Guardian Sphinx], the most important one is that when a Flip Summon is successful, it bounces all of the opponent's monsters back to their hand.

In comparison, the [Fanbing Shiren], which has a similar effect, can only return one card to the player's hand.

Note that they can only be activated when "Reverse Summon" is successful, not when it is reversed.

A successful Flip Summon is achieved only when Shadi himself flips the monster from its inside defensive position.

If someone is flipped over by a thousand-year-old primitive, it's just a reversal; the effect is ineffective.

So when the Millennium Primal Man attacked just now, even though the Sphinx had higher defense, Shadi still activated [Traveler's Trial] to stop him from attacking.

Although we failed, it's okay.

This 8-star Sphinx also has an effect that allows it to switch to a back-side defensive state once per turn during its main phase.

This is the effect that Xia Di is going to use right now.

Sphinx glanced at the Millennium Primal Man who was clutching his swollen left cheek, then, under Shadi's control, returned to his inner defensive stance.

"Then, I will perform a reverse summoning on him."

If this succeeds, Glacier will be left with an empty field and will be directly slapped in the face by Sphinx's 2300-point attack.

Moreover, if the Millennium Primal Man were bounced back into the hand, then the soul power that Hyoga consumed when summoning him would be a huge waste.

However, if the other party wastes it with you, then it doesn't count as a waste.

"No rush!" Hyoga chuckled, flipping over a face-down card. "Trap Card, Torrent Tribute! Destroy all cards on both sides!"

The ancient man looked at the fierce waves surrounding him and felt they looked familiar... Had he experienced something similar before?

The Sphinx remained silent and, before it could even react, was eliminated along with the Millennium Primal.

According to the rules of the dimensional duel, both sides were damaged because of the destroyed monsters.

[Glacier, LP7750→5000]

[Shadi, LP8000 → 5000]

"What a coincidence!" Hyoga touched his chin. "The scores are the same again!"

It's interesting that Hyoga's starting hand of monsters is different every time, but he always manages to draw [Torrent Tribute].

Could it be that it is his own Tamashi?

"At the same time, another face-down card activates, 'Last Words'! When I have monsters on my field sent to the Graveyard, I Special Summon a monster with 1500 or less ATK from my Deck! I Summon New Water Spellcaster in Defense Position!"

The power of his soul surged, and Hyoga still bestowed upon him the greatest possible blessing.

[New Water Mage, Defense 3000]

However, at the same time, Shadi activated the effect of [Royal Guardian Sphinx], which can be activated if the opponent's card is destroyed, allowing you to Special Summon a Level 5 Rock-Type monster from your hand or Deck.

"I Special Summon 'Guardian Sphinx' from my Deck!"

[Guardian Sphinx, Defense 2400]

Another, smaller Sphinx sprang out, roaring angrily at the glacier.

It sounded like a lion's roar, but Hyoga thought it was a cat's meow.

However, Special Summoned monsters can only be placed face-up and cannot be placed face-down for defense.

Shadi's expression was somewhat puzzled as he looked at the monster with 3000 defense points summoned by Hyoga.

"'Guardian Sphinx' has the same effect as 'Royal Guardian Sphinx', actively switching to face-down defense position."

"Then, I'll summon another monster to the back side for defense! My turn..."

"etc!"

Seeing that Shadi was about to end his turn with only two cards left in his hand, Hyoga quickly revealed a face-down card, "Before your turn ends, I activate my last face-down card, 'Great Dust Tornado'!"

[Sandstorm Tornado (Normal Trap)]

[Effect: You can target 1 Spell/Trap Card on your opponent's field. Destroy that card. Then, you can place 1 Spell/Trap Card face-down from your hand.]

This card can destroy your opponent's cards, but it cannot negate card effects.

However, compared to the destructive effect, Glacier values ​​the effect of being able to set cards after activation more... Setting cards during the opponent's turn, can this be considered as accelerating the card-setting process?

However, seeing his card destroyed, Shadi narrowed his eyes...

A trap card that destroys other cards?

Shadi initiated the [Traveler's Trial] with another purpose: to serve as a target for the glacier to cause destruction.

To date, the cards that can destroy an opponent's Spell & Trap Cards are almost all Spell Cards.

Shadi has two remaining face-down cards, one of which is a counter trap, "Anubis's Judgment." This card can negate and destroy a spell card that the opponent uses to destroy your spell/trap card, and then destroy one of the opponent's monsters, dealing damage equal to that monster's attack power.

The damage from the monster's destruction, combined with this effect damage, can deal double the monster's attack power in one go.

Unfortunately, the opponent used a trap card to destroy his own cards!

Is this a kind of luck?

Hyoga could only say that he had roughly sensed something, but he didn't feel any danger.

It seems that the "luck" of 7 stars is enough to deal with Shadi.

"Then I'll put one more card face down, turn over!"

Shadi finished his turn, and it was Hyoga's turn again.

"What a strong defensive formation!" Hyoga laughed as he drew a card. "Looks like if I can't break through this round, I'll be the one who loses."

"I activate Pot of Greed, draw two cards!"

"Then summon 'Ten Thousand Hands God' from your hand!"

[Ten Thousand Hands God, Attack Power 1400]

"According to its effect, when it is successfully summoned, I will add a Ritual Monster Card to my hand!"

"Then, the newly created ritual magic 'White Dragon Descent' is activated!"

It's truly fresh out of the oven; this is the ritual magic that Hyoga just created to enhance the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

"I offer 'Jera's Warrior' from my hand as a sacrifice. Come forth!"

"The blade that pierces through absolute defense, the zealous paladin, the 'White Dragon Paladin'!"

The surging white light sucked Jera in, and then a paladin riding a young white dragon and wearing precious gold armor soared out from it.

[White Dragon Paladin, Attack Power 1900]

"This is a paladin riding a white dragon! Coincidentally, he's the nemesis of you sphinxes!"

"White Dragon Paladin, attack that little kitten! White Dragon Cross Slash!"

The white dragon beneath him suddenly spread its wings, carrying the paladin into the sky. Then, like a predator hunting its prey, it plummeted down, slicing through a sharp angle before soaring back into the sky.

The entire sequence of movements traced an "N" shape.

But such a cool move is not the key point.

Even though the attack power of [White Dragon Paladin] is lower than that of [Guardian Sphinx], it was the latter's card that was destroyed.

This time, there wasn't even a reversal.

"The White Dragon Paladin's effect," Hyoga explained, "is that when attacking a monster guarding the inner side, no damage calculation is needed; it's destroyed directly!"

boom!

[Shadi, LP5000 → 2600]

Even so, Xia Di did not hesitate at all.

"Then comes the Thousand-Handed God's attack on your final monster! The Myriad Kingdoms Shocking Palm!"

The strangely shaped but unmistakably angelic Thousand-Armed God attacked the last monster.

Why did Hyoga dare to let Manjushin attack?

That's because Hyoga discovered that Shadi didn't release any soul power when summoning the last monster.

Therefore, this monster's attack and defense must both be 0.

Sure enough, the monster's defense was reduced to 0 after it flipped over.

But it is 【Hani Hani】, not the 【Fanbing Shiren】 that we saw before.

【Honey Honey】Flip effect: Return one monster on the field to its owner's hand!

This time it's not a "reverse summoning" but a "reverse"!

Shadi's chosen target was naturally the ritual monster, the White Dragon Paladin.

Once he returned the cards to his hand, he couldn't summon them directly.

But Glacier did not hesitate.

"Activate the effect of 'White Dragon Paladin' to Tribute yourself and Special Summon cards from your hand or Deck..."

"Blue-Eyes White Dragon!!!"

The White Dragon Paladin raised his longsword to the sky, and as he gradually disappeared, a white hole appeared in the air, from which a powerful dragon roar resounded.

The strongest Normal Monster, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, has arrived!

Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Attack Power 3000