Chapter 122. Team Tag Duel: Link-6 Explosion! After Gameciel's One-Gulp, the Prime Photon Dragon Appears!
In the wake of these new cards strengthening Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and with Duelists from across the worlds weighing in, they've already realized the Blue-Eyes gameplan will shift once these buffs are adopted.
Bricks will be fewer, and in-theme routing will be smoother.
The end board will hit harder, and revival/resource refills will be more complete.
Of course!
That only applies to the pure Blue-Eyes theme!
If you splash other engines in…
What kind of chemistry that creates is still unknown!
But at the very least, one thing's certain!
"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon" is absolutely a must-run in Blue-Eyes going forward!
And "Wishes for Eyes of Blue" is also one of the must-runs!
In the Main World.
Even Sei Yuki can't help but sigh after watching.
The soul-series deck Blue-Eyes White Dragon has finally gotten solid in-theme buffs!
The tearjerker is this:
Red-Eyes Black Dragon!
Red-Eyes is going to cry itself to sleep in the restroom.
Setting Red-Eyes aside…
It feels like Red-Eyes Black Dragon hasn't had a phenomenon-level theme buff in ages!
Guess if you're not one of K's favorites, the treatment really is different!
"Whew, after that video!"
"Let's see, next up…"
"This two-on-two Duel looks like good showmanship too?"
Sei Yuki browses the homepage at random.
Soon, he locks onto a target!
The title slowly surfaces across all the Duel Worlds!
"A Tag Duel of Geniuses! What does 'entertainment to a winning finish' really mean?"
Inside the short video.
Duel info pops up!
Shared Life Points for both sides: 16,000!
Player A: First to act!
Player B (Blue side): Second!
Player C (Red side): Third!
Player D (Blue side): Fourth!
This Tag Duel shares one Field, one Graveyard, and one banished zone!
Player A: "All right, let's do some antics this round!"
Player A: "My luck's awful this time! Out of four people, I'm the one taking the first turn!"
"I Normal Summon The Phantom Knights of Torn Scales!"
"Torn Scales effect! I discard The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves from my hand, then send The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots from the Deck to the Graveyard!"
"Ragged Gloves in the Graveyard, effect: banish itself to search a second Silent Boots from the Deck!"
"I Special Summon Silent Boots from my hand, then overlay two Level 3 monsters to build the Xyz network!"
"Hope-style Xyz Summon! Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction!"
"I set 1 card! Turn end!"
The Duel had barely begun—
That single Number 30 already left Duelists in every world dumbfounded!
Huh?
What even?
Someone actually made this card their first-turn play?
Sure, its ATK and DEF are both 3000!
A Rank 3 with that statline is no joke!
But this card is the Xyz version of Lava Golem!
In the Standby Phase it must detach a material or you take 2000 damage.
And while it's face-up in the Monster Zone, you can't Special Summon.
Which means it locks your own teammate's plays too!
Good grief!
This Player A really isn't afraid of his teammate flaming him!
Cut to the short video—turn passes to Player B (Blue side)!
Player B: "My turn! Draw!"
Player B: "I activate Tearlaments Scheiren in my hand!"
Player B: "I Special Summon it by discarding 1 monster, then mill 3!"
Player A: "Chain the Trap! Switcheroroo!"
Player A: "If both players control the same number of monsters, exchange control of all of them."
"Tearlaments? That's mine now!"
"And this Xyz-version Lava Golem? You can have it!"
Player B: "???"
Player B: "Another jokester?!"
"I switch Number 30 to Attack Position and enter the Battle Phase!"
"With that monster I destroy your Tearlaments Scheiren!"
"Turn end!"
So that's how it is!
No wonder!
Duelists across the worlds immediately wear looks of dawning realization!
Use that Trap to combo: hand over Number 30 to the opponent to shut off their Special Summons!
And on top of that, he even stole their Tearlaments!
ZEXAL World.
"Number 30 is a hot potato!"
"No clue how the Blue side will answer it."
Yuma Tsukumo pulls a face at the Number 30 on the field!
To them…
Number 30 is a hot potato—you want it and you don't.
"Hard to say."
"Let's keep watching."
Meanwhile Astral looks pensive.
It's only the opening—who knows what odd Duel situations will show up next?
ARC-V World.
"What about The Phantom Knights of Break Sword?"
"Why bring out Number 30 here?"
"If he makes Break Sword it's not bad either—when destroyed it can pull a monster back and go to 4 for the teammate's resources!"
Yuya Sakaki looks a bit puzzled at the Phantom Knights line.
Shun Kurosaki, Yuya, Yugo, and the others all wear thoughtful looks.
This Number 30 swap did, admittedly, manage a decent disruption.
If it were Break Sword?
Feels a bit too passive?
Of course, if the Break Sword resource sticks around without being answered, it's very plus.
But in the High World meta, that's unlikely.
Player C (Red side): "My turn! Draw!"
Player C: "I Special Summon Tenyi Spirit – Ashuna from my hand!"
"And chain-Special Illegal Knight!"
"I've got two Level 7 monsters on board already!"
"Build the Xyz network! Straight to Hope-style Rank 7!"
"Let's go! Number 42: Galaxy Tomahawk!"
"Activate the Extra Monster Zone Tomahawk effect!"
"I detach 2 materials and Special Summon as many Battle Eagle Tokens (Machine/WIND/Level 6/ATK 2000/DEF 0) as possible to my field."
"That means—5 Tokens!"
"Use 1 Token and Tomahawk to Link Summon I:P Masquerena!"
"Use 2 Tokens to Link Summon two Link Spider!"
"Link those two Link Spider together!"
"Link Arrows: two! Link-2 G Golem Crystal Heart!"
"I then Normal Summon Psi-Beast!"
"I Link Psi-Beast with a Token to make Link-2 Knightmare Phoenix!"
"Crystal Heart effect: revive Link Spider from the Graveyard!"
"Since an EARTH monster was Summoned to my field, I Special Summon Senko the Skybolt Star from my hand."
Absurd!
Simply absurd!
From the moment Number 42: Galaxy Tomahawk showed up and spat out five Tokens in one breath—
Every Duelist was slack-jawed!
Wait, this Rank-7 can make that many Tokens right on Summon?
And what do Tokens do? Do we even have to say it?
Turn into all sorts of Link Summons, that's what!
DM World.
Yugi Muto's expression is complicated—he looks at the Number 30 earlier, then back at this Number 42.
He's figured it out!
Turns out Xyz monsters are the main "antics engine"!
First we had that four-stack Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder in a previous Tag Duel!
Now this 42 is cranking the antics to the max, spewing Tokens for crazy resource conversion!
So this is the charm of Xyz and Link?
VRAINS World.
Playmaker, Akira Zaizen, and Skye Zaizen are all stunned by how ridiculous Number 42's effect is!
"Wow! Five Tokens in one go! That's something!"
"Those five Tokens are five Link-1 bodies for a Link deck! He's rolling in advantage!"
"Uh? I feel like something's off—why are these monsters all different Attributes?"
"Wait! Now that you say it, I see the key too! Why does this look so familiar?!"
As the other Link Duelists chatter…
Playmaker and the rest, who had only thought 42 was cracked, suddenly go pale!
Hold it—
It really is!
WIND Token! WATER G Golem Crystal Heart!
EARTH Link Spider! FIRE Knightmare Phoenix!
LIGHT Senko the Skybolt Star! DARK I:P!
And the Link numbers on board!
It's way beyond Link-4 or Link-5!
No—!
In that exact instant—
Everyone connects the dots to a single card!
Could it be…!?
Is it that Link-6 boss from @Ignister?!
Player C (Red): "I think you've all guessed it!"
Player C: "That's right!"
Player C: "I Link Summon using the six monsters on my field!"
"WIND! EARTH! WATER! LIGHT! DARK! FIRE!"
"The union of six Attributes!"
"Confirm Link Arrows!"
"!"
"Come forth—my top-resistance ace end board!"
"The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister!"
"Its ATK is 6000!"
"And at the same time! Arrival's effect activates!"
"I destroy your Number 30 and Special Summon an @Ignister Token (Cyberse/DARK/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0)."
"Because of Tomahawk's self-restriction, all battle damage the opponent takes becomes 0 until the end of the turn."
"So—I end my turn."
As expected!
It really is the @Ignister in-theme Link-6 ace!
Even having witnessed @Ignister spit this terrifying end boss out before—
When they see it again now—
Duelists across all Worlds can't help but draw a deep breath!
The 6000-ATK @Ignister!
Last time it appeared—it got punched out by Numeron!
This time…
Surely the @Ignister won't get blown up by some reckless beatdown again, right?
But before the Old Guard can think too hard—
The short video immediately shows an easy answer to this "effect-untouchable" Link-6 @Ignister boss!
In the clip—
Turn passes to the last player, Player D (Blue side)!
Player D: "Link-6? Sick! So cool! So strong!"
Player D: "My turn! Draw!"
Player D: "Guess what?"
"I've got just the card in hand to answer your untouchable Arrival!"
"Come! I activate Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju!"
"I Tribute your Arrival!"
"For now I'll kindly loan you this invincible 2200-ATK Sea Turtle!"
Hand answer, huh?
Kaiju?
Gameciel?
Another Kaiju!
Another Kaiju-engine Tribute-to-clear!
That Link-6 @Ignister ace that had only just hit the field and hadn't even flexed for three seconds—
Gone?
DM World.
Yugi, Seto Kaiba, and the rest twitch at the corners of their mouths.
In their hearts they'd already suspected the clear would be a Tribute.
But they didn't expect—
That it would be a Kaiju again!
What even is this Kaiju gameplan supposed to be?
How does it keep eating other people's ace end boards?!
So Kaijus are purely splashed as a generic clear in other decks?
GX World!
The Duel Academy students and faculty are just about to pop champagne for @Ignister when they watch it die three seconds later.
Now the students and teachers finally get it!
There's no such thing as a truly all-resistant boss.
Only end boards that get gobbled up over and over by Gameciel.
"I'm numb! In the High World there are so many 'fake-card' bosses!"
"And yet they can't even last three seconds!"
"Will my Crystal Beasts ever shine in the High World?"
The guy who was still hyping that @Ignister's Link-6 ace wouldn't be easy to answer a moment ago—
Gets slapped by reality in the very next second and looks deflated.
Why are 'invincible' bosses so easy to answer now?
Stop! This isn't Yu-Gi-Oh!
Player D (Blue): "Now I'll start my line!"
Player D: "I Normal Summon Galaxy-Eyes Cloudragon!"
Player D: "Effect—Tribute Cloudragon to Special Summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from my hand!"
"Then I activate Owner's Seal!"
"All monsters on the field return to their original owners' control."
"Give me back my Sea Turtle."
"Next, I banish a LIGHT and a DARK from my Graveyard!"
"I Special Summon Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning!"
"There are three Level-8 monsters on the field!"
"But I only overlay Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Black Luster Soldier to build the Xyz network!"
"Hope-style Xyz Summon!"
"Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"
"Think that's it? No! I'm going higher!"
"Rank-Up Xyz Summon! Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"
"This is my true ace!"
Having cleared the Link-6, the D-side Galaxy-Eyes player kicks off a Galaxy-Eyes explosion!
Completely different from the usual Galaxy-Eyes builds!
No negates set up.
No Galaxy-Eyes "triple piece" either!
This time he brings out Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!
And that card brings even greater pressure and suppression!
ZEXAL World.
Yuma Tsukumo and Kite Tenjo—who had been chuckling before—now wear solemn looks!
"Galaxy-Eyes, huh? I see."
"Use Prime Photon Dragon to widen the gap between both sides."
"And he even took back the Sea Turtle Kaiju!"
"Interesting!"
Kite's eyes gleam.
His gaze locks onto Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!
A Chaos Rank-Up of Galaxy-Eyes!
One card flips the game on its head!
Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon has 6400 ATK!
Moreover!
If it has Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon as an Xyz Material—
It's unaffected by the opponent's monster effects!
Now the Red side is in trouble!
Player D (Blue): "Battle Phase!"
Player D: "Sea Turtle destroys your Token."
Player D: "Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon—direct attack!"
"Take 6400!"
"Your LP drops to 9600!"
"Enjoy it!"
"Turn end."
After one round from both sides, the turn cycle ends!
The Blue field shows Gameciel plus Prime Photon Dragon!
Round two of the tug-of-war begins!
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