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[mightymushroom]

Heh, when Kuriboh wins a matchup you must be doing something right.

Those are some rather modern-looking windmills they've got set up at Dover.

[TamerVirus]

FREAKY

FISH

GUY

[FallacyofUrist]

Isn't Chakra's thing that it doesn't die, though?

[birdy51]

Isn't Chakra's thing that it doesn't die, though?

Let me have my suspense. ;.;

Also, I forgot Freaky Fish Guy was a thing. This is also a canon name for Mako.

[birdy51]

Brahs. I started this a long time ago. Then I nested the update into other updates and spent two more hours trying to fix the narrative. So, forgive any mistakes, but I think this update lovingly created from the flesh of the nested update is the correctest version. Anyways.

NO TIME FOR SHENAAANIGAGGNS     DUEEEEEEL.

Spoiler: Vs. Mako 2 (click to show/hide)

But before we begin, let's look at that now. Sea  that snake? That all means that the Roaring Ocean Snake is never going be battling off Sea Terrain. Strong? Oh yeah. I think I forget this a few times this update, which results in at least one embarrassing death for Chakra.

Because Chakra isn't dead. Chakra never dies for realsies.





Meanwhile, Magical Labyrinth does die. It usually does… Revealing yet another Roaring Ocean Snake! REEE!!!



Haha!



Drama shot!



Phantom Dewan does  his job. Ohoho… One snake delayed…

I don't mind. I haven't had a battle this interesting in a while!



Sending in my Wall of Illusion here, since I really don't trust that face down card.



But just in case, Ushi Oni has my back.

Ushi always has my back. Sort of like Air Eater.



Air Eater is actually the real MVP come to think of it. I don't think I would have won the battle against Tea without him. Anyone could have beat Tristan, but Tea took some real work.

Yes! A man's trust in his cards! Is there nothing more beautiful! It's like finding true love!!
 
I ah… I guess?!



Speaking of which Mako, looks like you can't rely on that one! Back to the deck it goes!

Yaaaaaargh!!!



Just fusing meh cards.



BISTRO BUTCHER DOING TAKE OUT ON THIS IDIOT SANDWICH RAAAAAAH.



Sadly however, even the best wall cannot defend against the wrath of the Roaring Ocean Snake.

But I have a solution.



It is called running, far, far away!



Defend me my peons!!



Well if I can't go forward, I'll just go around!



Welp. This electric eel lust fried the butcher, which is a horrifying turn of events.

I guess you could say it's a kitchen nightmare!



I ah… Can't remember why he's spellbound this turn. Oh right!

HAHA! Now I remember! OFFSCREEN HAPPY LOVER SACRIFICE! Happy Lover of course being the sole Light Card in my deck. Light trumps Water in the attribute cycle, meaning that this attack was… Moderately effective at stalling.

  That was a stellar defense, a defense for the ages! Good play!

Well ah… Thanks Mako. I find your offense to be… Really terrifying.



Thankfully, I've got a plan to keep you down.



First I have to get this Bottom Dweller out of the way.

Oh Chakra. This fight would probably be over already if you could actually die. I don't know what I would do without you.



There go. Fiend's Hand! Bonus points to whoever remembers what this beauty does.



I've gotcha now!



Yargh!

And another one bites the dust! Now there is nothing to oppose me!

You do realize I have one more, riiight?

TRIPPLE DRAT!!!

Heh. Gird your loins landlubber, this sailor has more fight in him yet!



Indeed you do I suppose! But Air Eater has been secretly closing in THIS WHOLE TIME!! Plot twist!

Oh really? Hah! Didn't you forget? The sea is my ELEMENT! Like the magnificent cuttlefish, I will escape your clutches and strike back with a Roaring Ocean Snake fury!



Haha. I'm not worried. That's why I'm discarding as many cards as I can. That's just how I show how not worried I am!



In fact... This fusion… This fusion cannot be defeated!





….I might have forgot how strong that card was.



These cards of course don't fuse. There is no such thing as a zombie cyborg. Don't delude yourself you charlatan neo hippy pidgeon lovers.



*Mission Impossible Theme Inserted



Another Chakra form bites the dust, and he pops up behind me again. Poor Chakra.



Air Eater however remembers that his business is in the business of kicking ass and taking names.



Roaring Ocean Snake deletes Chakra, Chakra disappears. You know the drill.



You can't catch me, I'm the fisherman-man!



Nyhahahaha!



Blah blah, Chakra dies and… Chakra?!

Gotcha.

Hah, right. You said that last time and then Chakra came back.

Except. Ah. He's not coming back.

WHY IS CHAKRA'S NOT COMING BACK, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

Well, no worries buddy. I'll explain it. You see, when a creature like Chakra dies, he'll revive if there are still spaces around your Deck Leader. Your hidden card is occupying one space, Chakra has one space, and my Roaring Ocean Snake still occupies his own space.

When my Roaring Ocean Snake attacks, he both occupies the space he's in, and the space that he's attacking into, which is Chakra. Chakra's effect takes place before my card's move resolve. So, that means that Chakra has no room to revive...

So ah, yeah. Chakra is dead, dead. Graveyard dead.

UWAAAAAAAH!!!



Well. I guess this is it then. This has been an enjoyable battle indeed!

Wait, no! HOLD IT!



You've activated my TRAP CARD!!!



But when did I lay this?

...Oh...

OH! RIGHT!!! REWIND!!!



Before Chakra died, I threw down this guy. It wasn't enough to save Chakra but…

It's enough to defeat my monster.

Hahaha! What a fantastic twist!

Hah… No kidding. No. Freaking. Kidding.





Well. I still don't know what to do. But I  do know that Shadow Servants power each other up, and ah… Air Eater can't do this himself.



With Darkness Approaches, this happens twice! This would probably be more effective if I had multiple Darkness Approaches, or a third Skull Servant, but this will probably get them away from instantly nuked levels. Every other card on the field also gets flipped. Wisely, I don't attack his Spellbound face-down card because I am not suicidal.



Sneak attack! Oh wait. That's me!

Oh right.  Forgot about that. Short term memory loss!



More power! But more importantly…



Looks like I've run aground.





Yep.



Gah, this was one HELL of a fight.



But in the end… Victory, from the mouth of the wolf. ((Sadly, I do know that picture wasn't actually from this battle, leave me alone. ;.; ))



Good job Air Eater. You've earned. You really, really earned it.





And hey. That was a fun fight!  We should do it again some time!

Oh I'm sure we will. Just, NEVER with that deck EVER again.



And then Mako takes us to France. Which, is a really bro move. You know what? I like Mako. More NPCs should be like Mako. Everyone else is a jerk, telling us about how evil we are, but Mako never judged us for our decisions. Everyone else is like, Oooh, betrayal this, betrayal that, I can't marry my Welsh husbando. Boo hoo.

And speaking of jerks, I think I see one right now…



Joey will be our next opponent. And this time?



This time, I am taking NO prisoners.

And it's over. I don't want to have a battle like that again any time soon. If you were paying attention to the upper right corner, you might have noticed that my deck was at zero. Most of the time in Yu-Gi-Oh! that means you lose, but thankfully that is not the case for this game.

However, it stands to reason that if my Deck was at 0, that would mean that I burnt through MY ENTIRE DECK. Every card got burned! Every. Single. One! GAH!

So, in the interest of not having a battle like that again, I'm going to go ahead and bulk my deck out a bit. But I'm not sure how to do that since Chakra is dead. Like, dead, dead.

He's never coming back ever again. Ever.

So! I need a replacement ritual. I have three choices for a potential replacement!

Beastly Mirror Ritual

For a sacrifice of one Wicked Mirror and a Fiend Reflection, along with a Fiend card, this will summon up a nice Fiend's Mirror! Not the strongest card, but it has an interesting side effect.

Construct of Mask

Offer up two Spellcasters and a Mask of Darkness, and you get the Mask of Shine & Dark! It's a dark card that specializes in taking down Warrior Types, which might be a bit handy against Joey depending on what cards he uses.

Puppet Ritual

Enjoy creepy puppets or Puppet related monstrosities? Then you might like this card! Brutally murder two Machine Cards and one innocent Mysterious Puppeteer, and sacrifice them to the Egyptian God Cards to get  Psycho Puppet, the puppet who MURDERS.

Bold your choice and let me know what you think. Now that we've reached France and need to break out the heavy ammunition, I'll be settling up with another bonus update to talk about another neat trick to build your deck.


_{Oh thank God, this update from hell is over... I need sleeeeeeeeep… Let me know if anything super doesn't make sense... Please....}

[TamerVirus]

Construct of Mask

Cuz I'm all about that duality shit

[birdy51]

You got it! Have a bonus update!

Spoiler: What's the Passowrd? Or more adventures in Deck Making (click to show/hide)

Hello! Welcome to the bonus update.

Now that we've finally entered France, I'm going to stop pulling at least some of my punches. By this time, if you've been dueling a few times,  you might have been lucky enough to win something like this.



Hell yeah. Summoned Skull is one of the strongest Fiends in the game, with an attack of 2500, but at the same time, most of the duelists I've been facing have been kicking my ass sideways. This includes Tea. So, it's about time I upped my game a little.



Plus!~ As a bonus for winning cards in the roulette, some  of those cards also will have alternative art like this one here. It's a nice bonus on top of what is also usually a really nice card. What you earn from the roulette is usually randomized, so there is potential to end up with a slightly less handy card, but hey. Good cards are good cards. If it's not one you can use in your deck, you could always use it for Reincarnation fodder later.

Moving right along, we're going to need a Mask of Darkness for the Construct of Mask ritual. Unfortunately, the only one with that card isn't available on this route. I could try Reincarnating things over and over again but... There is another way that one might be able to get new cards.



Insert a password like so…



Un voila!!! Mask of Darkness. It used to be that there were only a handful that Konami ever released codes for. Nowadays however, the game has been broken into and it has been revealed that the vast majority of cards have codes; the only exceptions being most Ritual Cards and the monsters related to them. Gamefaqs has the full list these days, which makes it a boon for people like myself revisiting the game.

Anyways. I might be making use of Mask of Darkness in the future in other ways, especially since it's effect is extra fantastic.



Mask of Darkness revives  Magic Cards upon being flipped face-up. This effect can be chained with Darkness Approaches, which sets every card on the field Face-Down. This means that any card with a special effect that activates on flipping can be chained over and over again. At some point, I'm definitely going to have to show that off.

So, if anything can be learned here, it's that I definitely need to get a few copies of it in my deck. It's a Fiend too, so why the heck not, right?



It makes for a good time to promote Kryuel as well.



And after a few promotions…



Kryuel finally gains a Deck Leader Ability. Any allied Fiends within a burst around Kryuel gain a +400 to ATK and DEF. Which is a good little bonus! It's not the strongest ability in the world, but it's an absolutely nice bonus.

Anyways, Last bit before I sign off.



If you're having trouble with the Yorkist Side, consider Tea. Tea has every tool in the world to create an absolutely terrifying deck.

Burn the world in a blaze of Light

Heh heh heh. INDEED.

Meet the deck of Fairies, or Tea 2.0.



The lynchpin to this deck, is Mystical Elf. When flipped face up, Mystical Elf increases the power of all Light Creatures by 800 points. Gyakutenno Megami increases the attack of all monsters below 1000 ATK by 1000. So, if you're willing to wait a bit, you can create some absolute MONSTERS when you stack these effects. Keep them face down while you stack up monsters, then unleash a torrent of buffs all at once, and you end up with several monsters with attacks breaking 4000 with ease. Throw in Sword and Shield, and it gets even better, as Mystical Elf's already stellar defense becomes a murderhobo brand offense.

Even better yet? Mystical Elf is insanely easy to fuse; just take any card with Elf in the name and fuse it with another Fairy and you get another copy. This makes the usually insignificant Dancing Elf an excellent card to have around since it makes it child's play to get several Mystical Elves on the field at once.

In other words? Don't mess with a good Light Deck. If will eat you up and spit you out. Light cards in particular excel at buffing each other in mass swathes, so it's honestly kind of lucky that Tea wasn't further into the game. Otherwise… I'd shudder to think what her deck might look like.

Anyways! That's all for now. The battle with Joey is finished, so I'll be working on setting up that update next time. Until then!

[Akura]

I'm guessing that you might want to get two or three Mystical Elves, Mask of Darkness, and Darkness Approaches onto the field at the same time. Forget burning the world in just a blaze of light - go for antipodean nukes.

...Coincidentally, does DotR have card effects that allow you to cause damage attacking Defense-positioned monsters? I know the TCG has plenty, I just don't know if any of the video game adaptations do.

[birdy51]

I'm guessing that you might want to get two or three Mystical Elves, Mask of Darkness, and Darkness Approaches onto the field at the same time. Forget burning the world in just a blaze of light - go for antipodean nukes.

...Coincidentally, does DotR have card effects that allow you to cause damage attacking Defense-positioned monsters? I know the TCG has plenty, I just don't know if any of the video game adaptations do.

A little bit better, Light Decks have Mask of Darkness variant in a Magician of Faith, a Light Spellcaster. If you end up doing that, Magician of Faith also gets boosted to the heavens!

Also, not quite sure what you mean. If you mean to ask whether there are cards in this game that can attack from Defense Position, there unfortunately isn't any. But! Other games do have that capability, notably in a card called Total Defense Shogun. I always liked playing with that guy. Aside from that though, there is another variant of Samurai Cards who attack with their Defense stat, but those are much, much later in the series and I don't really know them well at all.

[Akura]

No, what I meant was, card effects that allow an attacker to kill something in Defense position, and do damage to the opponent's Life Points which Defense position normally blocks. Example: Big Bang Shot increases the equipped Monster's ATK by 400 and allows it to cause damage to the opponent's LP if it attacks the opponent's Defense-positioned Monster, at the cost of banishing the equipped Monster if BBS ever leaves the field. Apparently at some point they started calling it "Piercing" damage.

[birdy51]

No, what I meant was, card effects that allow an attacker to kill something in Defense position, and do damage to the opponent's Life Points which Defense position normally blocks. Example: Big Bang Shot increases the equipped Monster's ATK by 400 and allows it to cause damage to the opponent's LP if it attacks the opponent's Defense-positioned Monster, at the cost of banishing the equipped Monster if BBS ever leaves the field. Apparently at some point they started calling it "Piercing" damage.

Ah. Gotcha. I don't there is, though some of the cards that do Piercing Damage would be available. Airknight Parsath comes to mind.

Anyways. Current mood is stressed and overworked. Next update will be on Wednesday at the earliest, since it is my day off. Hopefully. Sorry for the delay!

[birdy51]

Oh nelly. I had this battle back in August, but now I’m only just getting back to it. Still. Better late than never! Let’s get back in this!

Spoiler: Vs. Joey (click to show/hide)

Our tale takes us to France, land of the croissant and traitorous Welsh whelps. The winding road arrives at Amiens, where Joey blocks our path.



In England, I’m know[sic] as Christopher Urswick. But I’ll be best remembered as the Slayer of the Rose Duelist!

Oh will you now? Well maybe, We’ll see. First we have to talk about you.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Christopher Urswick, as played by the hot-head Joey Wheeler. He’s a good kid, if not a bit of an ass and of the main characters is the one most likely to drown himself or lose his soul for his friend’s sake. Joey is cool like that, always ready to drown or lose his soul.. His decks have always had an element of luck to them; whether it be effects that activate through dice rolls or coin flips or anything else. Warrior Cards and Red-Eyes Black Dragon also play a presentable role, but we’ll talk more about that later.

Given his comments, you’d think Joey would be loaded to bear with some badass descendent of ultimate war-making, but not really. Christopher Urswick was a just a priest.

Hey, not just any priest. I am the confessor Margaret Beaufort!

Oh riiight. You did do that… Thing? Yeah. I totally know about that… Thing.

Seriously? What are they teaching kids these days.

A confessor is just a priest who takes confessions Any old priest can do that.. But I’m a bit more special. I helped arrange Yugi’s claim to the throne in England!

Yeah yeah yeah, that’s just a lot of speculation.

You idiot. It’s not going to be speculation when I put your skull on my mantle!

Dude, that’s not even kosher. You’re priest. If you want to get uppity, save it till we battle. Speaking of which, I need to talk about your deck....

Which is by the way, is a nice break from the super-streamlined, horror decks that I’ve been facing lately! Joey has his goals split between buffing his Warrior Cards, and laying out some sweet Dragon Cards like Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Thousand Year Old Dragon. Time Wizards rolls on this one aren’t present, it just happens to make Dragons older if they have less than 2400 attack. This game doesn’t have effects that aren’t magically set to just do what they are told, so we’re fresh out of luck based tactics. Kind of boring, but whatever! He’s ah… Sort of Joey yet!

  I am all Joey! Are you ready to battle or what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s time to DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL!!!!

---







Alriiight. Not much to work with in this hand, but eh. Whatever. We've got Air Eater, so we'll likely see him before too long. Joey's map is a bit like Tristan's, but instead of having horizontal rows of terrain, we have columns. This works VERY well in our favor, as two of those columns are Wasteland and Yami terrain. Fiends and Zombies be praised!

Also, if you think there is a discrepancy with Air Eater's attack, have no fear. This is Kryuel's leadership abilities in action! Any Fiends that are really close by him get an additional 400 to their attack and defense. Air Eater would be summoned into the Forest Terrain, which Fiend's hate for some reason, so that's a net loss of 100Pts. We don't like Forest, so naturally we don't stick around.

For now, we go ahead and lay down our Shadow Eyes as good old stand-by and end the turn.

I'm sure that this will be over quick.



I'll just place this card face down and end my turn.

Alright friend.



I'm gonna level with ya.



This is a long one so I would appreciate if you don- Wait. Are you moving around?

  What. You didn't think I'd just stand around did you? I'm not Tristan or Tea, I know how to battle.

Hrmm. Well, yeah you do. Huh. I wasn't quite expecting Joey to move around like this. I guess from now on, enemy Deck Leaders will move around a little bit. Which is dangerous… But not really.





FIRE! Fire BURN!

What. Things getting to hot for you?



Grumble… Scrabble raggle. I'll burn you before too long…





Hrmm. Well that might be a strongish card. But! I just drew a good one too! Toon Summoned Skull is as strong as they come! His base attack of 2500 is already very impressive, but it will be wonderfully augmented by the local Toon Terrain on the edge of the map.

Which, what is Toon Terrain? Aha! Toon Terrain is special; most monsters that enter the Terrain immediately disadvantaged. The ones that don't are Toon Monsters. They treat Toon Terrain as advantageous and move twice as fast when in that terrain. It's a niche set of monsters, but if you have them, you have them. And we have… One!



Hey. 'Nough yacking. We're dueling here!



Oh. A Fusion. That could be… Interesting. Joey doesn't have a whole lot of fusion material, but what he does fuse tends to be pretty decent.



Looks like things are squaring up. This battle will begin in earnest real soon.



Onwards my beautiful Toon Soldier…



Alright. Here we come!





Seriously?

Yeah, you would have no idea how often this one has played out like this.



Oh. Really. Well this one might be over quick.

In the mean time…







Hah. That will do some damage.



But also delay. Earth Monsters sadly still Spellbind Wind Monsters. : (



Creeping ever more towards his demise…



Might be bad, probably isn't. So close…



Aha! Yes!

Oh no. What have I done.





Drat! That might make things a little more difficult. I was hoping for the quick win for once...

Not likely. You didn't think I was that dense, did you?

...I ah… Might have? Clearly I'm working with an expert. This calls for dignified, and respectful tactics.



Tossing out my deck, oh yeah, tossing out my deck~



No, wait! Come back!



Least I've got a few strong guys up my sleeves yet. And it looks like we have a challenger!







Sort of like Joey, Thousand Year-Old Dragon blows a lot of smoke, but doesn't accomplish much.



Summoned Skull will accept NONE of that shit.







Well, that certainly isn't good but…



I don't think you're going to be attacking us any time soon.

Gah. More delays. Fine!

On the other side of battle…



Flash intro! Toon Summoned Skull is on the Yami Terrain, which naturally makes him a bit stronger.







Doesn't do it as coolly as the OG Summoned Skull, but you can't argue with results!



Ding dong, the snail is dead! I have cards to show off you heathens!



Oh wait. Five monsters. Whoops!

Oh come on, we all know you meant to do that Dastardly.

That's my name! Don't wear it out! Joey goes in to attack with his Flame Swordsman...





But that spells the end for him.



Speaking of spells, this one spells doom! But I need a few Spellcasters before I can use it.



The DARKNESS approaches!



Meanwhile, Joey is shoring up on the terrains that actually help him. Which isn't good. I would prefer if he didn't do that.

Ah nice. I think you'll like this card.





Dratbaskets! What did that do!?

Yeah, see, that card is a fun one. It flips the Attacks and Defenses of all monsters on the field. And if I remember right, Summoned Skull isn't exactly a winner in the whole Defense department.

Double Drat! Well. Guess I might have to improvise. I'll improvise…. By continuing to attack!







You know, I don't think this counts as a victory for me…

And I don't think I lost much by losing that Summoned Skull.



Thankfully, I have at least one extra Spellcaster to have be sacrificed in an eldritch ritual!



A Spellcaster...



...That stalls! This card ends up Spellbound.





Gack! No! What are you doing! That's my strategy!



Guess I must still be in this, right?



Not for long! There is Spellcaster #2.



Time to activate the summoning!







There we are! Mask of Shine & Dark. He'll gain 900 ATK when battling Warriors, which is no small bit of change.



DESTROY CAT.



DESTROY!!







First comes the light…





Then comes the dark! That one takes em out.



In the meantime, we get attacked…





Whoop! Unnecessary ejection!



But then… Ninjas!



Course Masks of Shine & Dark takes care of him real nicely. Ah. I can tell we're going to be going real far with this one.



Getting a little close for comfort there buddy… I'm going to have to finish this somehow. But I think I have just the thing...





Jackpot.





Mask of Shine & Dark?



NOOOO!!!

But… I already had some contingency plans.



Son of a biscuit.

Indeed, I'm sure my solution to your little monster will drive you absolutely…



BATTY!



Well. That stinks…



But I'm sure I can still win this.



Ok. I probably don't have this one.

Nope. You certainly don't!





Not even wolves can defeat my dank beam memes.

Move in close, drop in a monster…







And this one is ours.





Yoink!



Hah! Yep. And now we get to move on.



Wait! Come back Rose Caaaaard!





Gah. Guess we'll have to beat up Shadi for the next one… And hopefully remember to take a picture large enough to get a read on it!

And that's it! Ah! Sorry for the delay. A moment of silence for Mask of Dark and Shine…


And we're good. Next battle I might mix things up a little bit, so stay tuned!