Chapter 125. Speedroid Team Play—Cosmic Blazar, Baronne de Fleur, and Crystal Wing! Five Set Backrow vs. Soul of the Supreme King!
The back-and-forth of the whole Duel!
That last wave of monster interactions!
It left both the opponents and their own teammate unable to react!
A single Lava Golem that should have doomed both players on the red side…
Was turned around and used against its controller!
Is this the entertainment player's knack for surprise?
Too absurd!
Who on earth would have guessed it?
The last card to pop out was "Creature Swap," huh?
All six Duel Worlds erupted into heated discussion over the follow-up sequence!
In the chat, the first to speak was Yugi Muto!
Yugi Muto: "Lava Golem in the end only harms its user. It can't be helped."
Marik Ishtar: "Nonsense! My ace, my precious Lava Golem, only backfired because they don't know how to play it! In the earlier situation, that was a trash misplay! Otherwise how could they possibly get burned to death by their own Lava Golem!"
Jaden Yuki: "Uh, everyone, you're missing the point. This one was clearly a Duel between an entertainment player and a competitive player!"
Yusei Fudo: "Indeed. The blue side's D Duelist really gave it everything. Making double 'Clear Wing' at the end was their limit. But then… Lava Golem, sigh…"
Yusaku Fujiki: "All I can say is, entertainment players' Decks are about who can top-deck the weirdest stuff. Who knows what's in that deck?"
As the old-guard protagonists discussed, they felt even more deeply how crucial top-decks are.
With a clutch draw at the key moment…
The card you pull can really save your life!
Of course, even more important is a leap in thinking.
Squeezing as many combo lines as possible out of every single card…
That is the key to victory!
In the short video, after this team tag video ends…
Just when everyone thought the short would be over…
The next team tag video immediately begins!
The title is "Endless Struggle in an Extreme Tag Duel! A Scheme in the Dark Decides the Endgame!"
That's right.
Right after the last tag match, Sei Yuki immediately found another tag Duel with explosive "show effect."
And this tag Duel's twists and entertainment value will be even higher than the last.
Please enjoy!
Team Duel! Both teams start with 16,000 LP!
Player A: going first.
Blue Player B: going second.
Red Player C: going third.
Blue Player D: going fourth.
In a team Duel, partners share the same field, Graveyard, and banished zone.
Player A: "Alright, once again we're doing a talent-packed two-on-two!"
Player A: "As everyone knows, tag Duels bring out the geniuses! For my first turn I'm on a top-tier competitive deck: Speedroid!"
Player A: "I activate the effect of Speedroid Terrortop."
"When I control no monsters, I can Special Summon this card from my hand."
"At the same time, from my Deck I add Speedroid Taketomborg."
"I Special Summon Taketomborg and use its effect, Tribute itself to pull Speedroid Denden Daiko Duke from the Deck."
"Denden Daiko Duke's effect activates. I excavate the top two cards of my Deck and add Speedroid Double Yoyo to my hand."
"Next I Link Summon with Terrortop and Taketomborg."
"Link-2! Hi-Speedroid Rubber Band Shooter!"
"Rubber Band Shooter's effect! I banish Hi-Speedroid Kitedrake from my Extra Deck, then pick Speedroid Denden Daiko Duke and Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice from the Deck."
"You randomly choose one for my hand and the other goes to the Graveyard."
Opening thunderbolt!
We kick off with the standard explosion from the combo deck, Speedroid!
Facing this "unfamiliar" archetype, the old hands from the various Duel Worlds had to sit up and actually think.
Every Synchro deck earlier had already made their CPUs start to smoke.
And this Speedroid deck clearly will too.
They had to watch every step carefully.
The video shows Blue Duelist B randomly selecting one card.
Actually, either pick leads to the same place.
If you don't interrupt Speedroid's line, the end-board will absolutely be strong enough.
Player A: "Okay, Red-Eyed Dice to hand, Denden Daiko Duke to the Graveyard."
Player A: "I Normal Summon Red-Eyed Dice and Link with it."
"Link-3! Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon!"
"Auroradon's effect! I Special Summon three Mecha Phantom Beast Tokens (Machine/WIND/Level 3/ATK 0/DEF 0)."
"I Tribute Auroradon and one Token to Special Summon Mecha Phantom Beast O-Lion from the Deck."
"I banish Denden Daiko Duke from the Graveyard to change one Token's Level from 3 to 1."
"Level 2 Tuner O-Lion + Level 1 Token—Synchro Summon!"
"2 + 1 equals Level 3!"
"Level 3 Synchro Tuner—Martial Metal Marcher—hits the field!"
"Marcher's effect! Revive O-Lion from the Graveyard."
"O-Lion's effect! I generate another Level 3 Token."
"Level 2 O-Lion + Level 3 Token—Synchro again!"
"3 + 2 makes Level 5!"
"Arise! Hi-Speedroid Hagoita!"
Numb!
Completely numb!
Even though everyone already realized this was an explosive Synchro deck, their brains still couldn't keep up with the Synchro tempo after watching these steps.
Especially the one-by-one pairing of Tuners and non-Tuners.
Yugi Muto, Jaden Yuki, Yuma Tsukumo, and the rest went pale.
Huh?
What is happening?
Are Synchro decks all this insane?
Can a single Synchro deck really make your mind lag behind the speed of its plays?
Is this the acceleration brought by Turbo Duels?
Now they finally get it!
Riding a D-Wheel to play Yu-Gi-Oh! really is different!
This Synchro flood is so hard to parse!
In the video, the explosion continues!
Player A: "I banish Denden Daiko Duke from the Graveyard to revive Red-Eyed Dice."
Player A: "Red-Eyed Dice makes Hagoita go from Level 5 to Level 2."
"Level 2 Hagoita + Level 1 Tuner Red-Eyed Dice—Synchro!"
"2 + 1 equals Level 3—Hi-Speedroid Cork Shooter!"
"Cork Shooter's effect! Because the materials used for that Synchro were all Speedroids and they're all in my Graveyard—"
"I Special Summon that set back!"
"Revive, Dice and Hagoita!"
"Red-Eyed Dice continues! I make Cork Shooter Level 5."
"Level 5 Tuner Cork Shooter + Level 5 Hagoita—Synchro!"
"5 + 5 equals 10! Baronne de Fleur!"
"At the same time, Hagoita's effect in the Graveyard! If I control a Hi-Speedroid Tuner, I can Special Summon it from the GY."
"Next, my last Level 3 Token + Level 1 Tuner Red-Eyed Dice—Synchro Summon: Hi-Speedroid Puzzle!"
"Level 3 Synchro Tuner Martial Metal Marcher + Level 4 Hi-Speedroid Puzzle + Level 5 Hi-Speedroid Hagoita—"
"3 + 4 + 5 equals Level 12!"
"Come! Triple Tuning! A heart in perfect tranquility!"
"The gathered stars! A prayer that soars toward the future!"
"Synchro Summon! Cosmic Blazar Dragon!"
"I activate the Spell—Speed Recovery!"
"I revive Level 5 Hi-Speedroid Hagoita from the Graveyard!"
"Then I Special Summon the Level 3 Tuner Speedroid CarTurbo from my hand!"
"Level 5 plus Level 3 makes the final piece of my equation!"
"Synchro Summon! Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon!!!"
"Since you didn't interrupt, it shouldn't be easy to break my board now, right?"
"I set one card."
"My turn is over."
Only now does the Speedroid flood truly end.
On the field:
Baronne de Fleur—omni-negate plus pop.
Cosmic Blazar Dragon—omni-negate plus Summon negate.
Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon—monster effect negate.
Having seen "Master of Negates" boards before, and seeing that this was not some "Stardust junk" pile but a Speedroid board, all of them fell silent.
Every Synchro step along the way.
Recycling resources and exploding lines.
The key being—one card to pull out an entire Synchro ceiling.
You call this a Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel?
Even Yugo, the Speedroid user himself, was stunned after watching these lines and ideas.
ARC-V World.
"This is… the power of Speedroids?"
"This is… the kind of flood Speedroids can do?"
Yugo gulped, unable to believe the Speedroid board in the video.
As a Speedroid player himself, he had never seen a board like this.
Rin was also taken aback by such a Speedroid line.
Even Yuya Sakaki, Yuto, and Yuri showed grave expressions.
Because even they couldn't follow all of it now.
Non-Synchro Duelists said it even more plainly.
"I closed my eyes for a second and opened them—how did it turn into this?"
Is this Synchro magic?
Or Synchro plugins?
Blue Player B: "My turn! I draw."
Blue Player B: "I don't have the specific key card to crack your board this time."
"But I can set one card, set two, set three… set five."
"Turn end."
???
What is this?
Eldlich?
Pure stun?
A heavy backrow trap pile?
Huh?
A resounding five-card backrow?
What kind of bizarre play is this?
Even with Baronne and Blazar on the field, they're both boss-level cards.
But facing five set cards at once… that's not easy either!
Red Player C: "My turn!"
Red Player C: "I draw one, then activate Baronne to destroy your middle set!"
Blue Player B: "The card you popped was 'Dinomorphia Frenzy.'"
Blue Player B: "Heh, whatever, go on."
Red Player C: "I Special Summon Mathmech Circular and send Mathmech Sigma from the Deck to the Graveyard."
Blue Player B: "Flip Trap—Torrential Tribute!"
Blue Player B: "Blow up all monsters on your field!"
Red Player C: "I chain Baronne! Negate your Torrential Tribute!"
Blue Player B: "Oh? Chain 'Solemn Strike.'"
Blue Player B: "I pay 1500 LP to negate Baronne's effect!"
Numb!
The stun pile makes its move!
One Torrential plus the Speed-3 Counter Trap, Solemn Strike!
That means even the ever-Speed-2 omni-negates like Cosmic Blazar Dragon can't chain to fight back!
The end result—without a doubt, Torrential resolves.
Every monster on the field gets wiped out.
Two cards in one wave, and the thorny red-side board is cleared!
The old-guard Duelists wore sympathetic looks.
Who would have thought—among those five set cards, there was a premium Counter Trap.
But the veteran protagonists also realized something was off here.
Regardless of whether the opponent had a Speed-3 Counter Trap, this sequence shouldn't have been stopped by Baronne.
It should have been Cosmic Blazar Dragon.
Because if Blazar negates, it can banish itself to dodge.
At least in this situation, Blazar could have been preserved.
Obviously, Player C got greedy for Blazar's style and on-field presence.
Player A: "Dude! You shouldn't have used Baronne! You should have used Cosmic Blazar!"
Player A: "I'm so numb right now!"
Red Player C: "Ahem, who knew he had that backrow…"
Red Player C: "Relax, it's fine. Small matter. Let him take the Blazar."
"My turn continues."
"I Normal Summon Pikari @Ignister."
"I search 'A.I. Meet You.'"
"I activate A.I. Meet You to grab Achichi @Ignister."
"I Link with Pikari into 'Dark Infant @Ignister.'"
"Dark Infant's effect! I search the Field Spell 'Ignister A.I.Land.'"
"I activate A.I.Land."
Blue Player B: "I pre-flip my Trap—'Soul of the Supreme King!'"
Blue Player B: "I pay half my LP. I Special Summon, ignoring conditions and with effects negated in Defense Position, 'Supreme King Z-ARC' from my Extra Deck."
"Alright, dare you activate the Field Spell's effect?"
"Huh? Do you dare?"
Red Player C: "Why wouldn't I?"
Red Player C: "I activate the Field Spell's effect!"
Stop!
He actually did it!
Upon that activation, 'Soul of the Supreme King' also triggers from the Graveyard!
Those who remembered this interaction all blanched.
Oh no!
It's over!
Now it's over!
The red player is really fearless.
He even dares to activate the Field Spell now!
All to make the archetype's Link-6 boss—worth it?
Blue Player B: "Good, good! I banish Soul of the Supreme King from the Graveyard!"
Blue Player B: "From my Extra Deck I Special Summon these four monsters!"
"Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon! Brave-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!"
"Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon! Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon!"
"Come on! All of you, hit the field!"
On the field, because of Soul of the Supreme King's effect, Blue Duelist B effortlessly cheats out four terrifying ace end-bosses, each with at least 3000 ATK!
Yugi Muto: "What is he doing? Letting the opponent cheat out four powerhouses! How do you win from there?"
Yuma Tsukumo: "I don't get it. He could have just stopped here and been fine. They have 16,000 LP—you're not getting OTK'd, right?"
Yusei Fudo: "Actually, I think continuing the line is better. As long as Soul of the Supreme King is in the GY, you'll have to deal with it sooner or later."
Yusaku Fujiki: "Right. Rather than forgetting about it and getting blown out later, force it out now and look for a full clear."
The chat immediately split into fierce debate.
Some believed forcing the line here was a mistake.
Player C refused to heed the warning and insisted on firing the Field Spell's effect, handing the advantage to the blue side.
And among the monsters the opponent brought out, Crystal Wing can still negate the follow-up.
But others believed this was the real key to breaking the board.
As long as Soul of the Supreme King sits in the Graveyard, those four monsters will hit the field eventually.
Better to force it now.
By making them appear right away, the Duel state actually becomes clearer.
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