CH.768 The Sphere Field Tournament, part 8
I gave Myrphe the time she needed to side deck for the second duel of the match. I know she has some alright cards, but I purposefully didn’t run many of the ‘power cards’ in her deck to limit myself. You know, stuff like Void Trap Hole, Bottomless Trap Hole and a few other powerful traps.
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But she did have some backrow removal in her side deck, so she was likely adding that in, just to deal with my Light of the Galaxy.
She also has other traps to stop attacks outside of Rainbow Life. Stuff like Draining Shield. So she might be looking at adding that to buy herself more time without having to discard, or control an Xyz monster for Rainbow Life.
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I tried not to think too much about that, but it was hard. It is a deck I made, literally. Most of it is custom cards. Only the Numbers, as well as some of the spells and traps are actual cards in the TCG. The entire lineup of main deck monsters are my customs. And even the extra deck has plenty of my custom Number C monsters. So it really feels more like my deck than many others that I only customized a bit.+
After Myrphe was done side decking, she placed her deck back into her duel disk, which automatically shuffled the deck, and we were ready for the second duel.
Again, Myrphe got to pick who goes first, and she chose to go first. So we drew our opening hands and got ready to duel.
She began with a play she’s made before. Special summoning Lonely Rainbow Butterfly, normal summoning Rainbow Baby Spider, using Lonely Rainbow Butterfly’s effect to raise its level to 10, using Baby Spider’s to match it, and overlaying both for Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula.
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It wasn’t a bad plan since my deck does rely on special summoning.
Especially since Myrphe played the Spell Card Sphere Field Mirror. With it, since she controlled a Number monster with 2 or more overlay units, she could detach 1 of those units and use it to Xyz summon the Sphere Field version of the same Number monster.
So that gave Myrphe 2 Number 35s, one of them being the Sphere Field variant.
She activated Memories of Hope, which let her draw 2 cards. She set 2 cards and ended her turn.
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Duel 2, end of turn 1
| Hand: 1 | LP: 8000 | Myrphe | GY: 11 Memories of Hope | Banished: |
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 SF Number, defense, OLU:1 | defense OLU:1 | |||
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| Hand: 5 | LP: 8000 | Brian | GY: | Banished: |
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I have to say, it was a nice lineup to slow me down. 2 monsters that do burn and grow more powerful as they do. It will give Myrphe a nice lead, as long as she has something in her hand for the next turn.
Mine was a good one. I could OTK Myrphe, depending on her set card. But I wasn’t going to do that. I want to give her a chance.
I began by normal summoning Galaxy-Wing - Cipher. And with its on summon effect, I summoned Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon. That did cause me 1200 damage, which also made Myrphe’s monsters gain 2400 attack, but that was to be expected.
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Galaxy-Wing - Cipher
Level 4
Light/Fairy/Effect
1000/1000
If you control a "Galaxy-Wing" monster, you can special summon this card from your hand.
If this card was summoned from your hand or GY, you can special summon 1 "Galaxy-Wing" monster from your deck.
If you control another "Galaxy-Wing" monster, you can add 1 “Galaxy”, "Photon", "Tachyon" or "Cipher" Spell or Trap from your deck to your hand. You must control “Galaxy-Wing - Photon” to add a "Photon" card, and “Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon” to add a "Tachyon" card.
You can only use the second and third effect of “Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon” once per turn.
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I then used Galaxy-Wing - Cipher’s effect to search out Light of the Galaxy, since I didn’t start out with it in my hand. I activated the spell on the spot.
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Now came the small problem I had. Do I summon Tachyon Dragon and just negate the spiders or do I summon two more Galaxy-Wing monsters? If I summon two more, I’ll take 2400 burn. And then another 2400 when I summon 2 Galaxy-Eyes. That will only leave me with 800 life points. And I know, the only one that matters is the last one. But at the same time … Not a great plan when Myrphe’s monsters can exploit the difference in our life points. Besides, I've already used Tachyon Dragon.
So instead, I’ll summon a different Galaxy-Eyes and see what Myrphe can do. I can afford to lose this duel.
“I overlay my two Cipher-Wings.” I said.
“Are you summoning Tachyon Dragon again?” Myrphe asked.
“I could, but no. I think it is about time you meet my third Galactic Dragon.” I told her, as I began my chant.
“Light waves that pass the distance of Galaxies, gather together to form a Dragon that will shine its cosmic light to bring us a brighter future.
“Appear with brilliance, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon!”
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As Myrphe looked at my new dragon, her two spiders got to work. Both of them sprayed some poison on me and I took 1200 damage.
“I activate Cipher Dragon’s ability. It uses an overlay unit to take control of one of your monsters. The monster I take control has its effect negated and cannot attack directly, but for the turn, its name is Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon and its attack is 3000.” I explained, as I used Cipher Dragon to grab control of Myrphe’s Sphere Field Number.
As the spider came to my side of the field, an illusion formed around it making the spider appear like a copy of my dragon. I switched it to attack mode and moved into my battle phase.
“Now battle. My copy Cipher Dragon attacks your Ravenous Tarantula.” I ordered.
Since Myrphe now only has 1 Ravenous Tarantula, its defense was just 2400, so my dragon destroyed it just fine. Myrphe didn’t even use her face-downs, so they probably couldn’t help. It did make me worry a bit, but I’m sure I can handle them.
After Myrphe’s spider was destroyed, I ordered my true Dragon to attack her directly. Myrphe again didn’t use her face downs, so she took 3000 damage.
I moved to my main phase 2, and set 4 cards face down, filling my spell and trap zone. They will hopefully be able to stop Myrphe from killing me next turn, even if few of them are just insurance.
Speaking of, setting all those cards still left 1 ‘hand trap’ in my hand, so I was quite confident as I ended my turn, and the SF Number 35 returned to Myrphe’s field.
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Duel 2, end of turn 2
| Hand: 1 | LP: 5000 | Myrphe | GY: 32 Memories of Hope; Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula; Rainbow Baby Spider | Banished: |
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| Hand: 2 | LP: 5600 | Brian | GY: 13Galaxy-Wing - Cipher | Banished: |
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It was again Myrphe’s turn, and she drew a card.
She began by special summoning Rainbow Butterfly. She used its effect to search for a Rainbow Spider and also special summoned it, milling two Rainbow Baby Moths to the GY.
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She then activated a trap, Dimension Slice. She targeted my Galaxy-Eyes with it, in an attempt to banish the dragon. I couldn’t have that so I activated a counter trap, Tachyon Transmigration. It negated the trap and shuffled it back into Myrphe’s deck.
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She used the two level 4 monsters to Xyz summon Number 70: Malevolent Sin, and revealed her next trap, Xyz Effect. She went after my Light of the Galaxy, and I couldn’t stop her so it was destroyed.
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Myrphe used her second Memories of Hope to draw 2 cards, and activated 1 of them, Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders.
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Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders
Continuous Spell
You can only activate this card if you control 2 or more Insect-type Xyz monsters. Set Spell/Trap cards your opponent controls cannot be activated in response to this card’s activation.
While you control 2 or more Insect-type Xyz monsters, your opponent cannot activate set Spell/Trap cards.
If you control no Insect-type Xyz monsters, destroy this card.
You can banish this card, from the GY, special summon 1 Insect-type Xyz monster from your GY, but its effects are negated.
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That did limit my options quite a bit, but I can handle this.
Myrphe used the effect of Malevolent Sin to banish my Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon for the turn. And since she detached Rainbow Butterfly, she got to special summon Lonely Rainbow Butterfly from her deck.
She moved into her battle phase and declared an attack with Number 70. Because of our life point difference, it had 3000 attack. And if the attack goes through, her Lonely Rainbow Butterfly will be strong enough to go for game.
So we can’t have that. Luckily I had the hand trap ready to go. Since my opponent declared a direct attack, I can discard Galactikuriboh to summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from my hand, or deck which I did, and change the attack target to be it. I then attached Galactikuriboh to Number 70 as a material. But since I summoned a monster, I took 600 damage.
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That was actually a good thing. Because now our life points are equal. And that means that my Photon Dragon is the strongest monster on the field.
Now normally you should be able to cancel the attack since a replay occurred, but because of how Galactikuriboh is worded that isn’t the case. So Myrphe’s spider had to attack my stronger dragon.
Not that I let that attack come through. I used the effect of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to banish both monsters until the end of this turn.
That did leave my field empty, but it also left Myrphe with just 1 Insect Xyz monster, so my backrow was active once more.
Before Myrphe could attack directly with Lonely Rainbow Butterfly, I activated a Trap and a Quick-Play Spell. Photon Timestop and Photon Lead.
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With Photon Timestop I activated another copy of Light of the Galaxy from my deck. And with Photon Lead I special summoned Galaxy-Wing - Photon from my hand, which I then used to special summon Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon from my deck.
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Yes I did take 1200 damage because I special summoned 2 monsters, but I have 2 monsters with 2000 attack on the field. And I can double the attack of one of them if Myrphe attacks.
So even with her now 3600 attack Lonely Rainbow Butterfly, she couldn’t attack over my monsters as they would double to 4000 with Light of the Galaxy.
That left Myrphe no choice except to move into her main phase 2, which returned my Photon Dragon and her Malevolent Sin to the field. But my dragon had +1000 attack thanks to the two overlay units Malevolent Sin had.
Myrphe then set her last card, changed Ravenous Tarantula back on defense and ended her turn.
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Duel 2, end of turn 3
| Hand: 0 | LP: 5000 | Myrphe | GY: 104 Memories of Hope; Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula; Rainbow Baby Spider; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Butterfly; Rainbow Spider; Dimension Slice; Xyz Effect; Memories of Hope | Banished: |
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| SF Number, defense, OLU:1 |  |  OLU:0 | ||
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| Hand: 0 | LP: 3800 | Brian | GY: 75Galaxy-Wing - Cipher; Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon; Galactikuriboh; Tachyon Transmigration; Light of the Galaxy; Photon Timestop; Photon Lead | Banished: 16 Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon |
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It was my turn again, so I drew a card. And during my standby phase, my Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon returned.
I was again at a crossroads. Should I go for game? Will Myrphe’s face down prevent me from going for game? It probably won’t, so I’m going for game.
I Xyz summoned Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon using my two Galaxy-Wings and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. It negated the effects of Myrphe’s monsters, the most important one of course being SF Number 35. I also got to draw a card thanks to Light of the Galaxy.
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But I didn’t need the card I drew, as I already had the card I needed in my hand, Rank-Up-Magic Galaxy Ascension. With it I ranked up my Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon.
“Lightwaves that pass the distance of Galaxies, prism into all potential futures of this world and light up the correct path!
“Light the road to our Future. Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon!”
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Since I summoned Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon with Rank-Up-Magic Galaxy Ascension, it gained an extra 2000 attack for the 4 overlay units my Galaxy-Eyes monsters have.
I then used the effect of Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon. I detached a material from it to take control of Myrphe’s SF Number 35, and the monster was once again twisted into an illusion of a dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon in this case.
But, since it now was a “Galaxy-Eyes” with Xyz material, my Neo Cipher Dragon’s attack didn’t go down despite it having used an overlay unit.
I changed my stolen monster into attack and moved to my battle phase. I attacked Myrphe’s Number 70 with the stolen monster, and she didn’t stop the attack. So her spider was destroyed and she took 2100 damage. That also destroyed her Sealing Web, since she now had no Xyz Insects on the field.
I then attacked her remaining monster with Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, using Light of the Galaxy to double my monster’s attack. But Myrphe responded to that by using her face-down card, Draining Shield. It negated my attack and gave Myrphe 9000 LP.
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Good move on her part. But I still have one more dragon. So I attacked over her Lonely Rainbow Butterfly with my boosted Neo Cipher Dragon, inflicting 4100 damage.
I moved to my main phase 2, pondered for a second if I should use my stolen monster as material for Dark Matter. I decided against it since this is just duel 2, set my last card face down, and ended my turn. This returned Myrphe’s Sphere Field Number to her field, and my Neo Cipher Dragon’s attack went down by 500 since I now only had 3 materials attached to Galaxy-Eyes Xyz monsters I control.
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Duel 2, end of turn 4
| Hand: 0 | LP: 7800 | Myrphe | GY: 147 Memories of Hope; Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula; Rainbow Baby Spider; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Butterfly; Rainbow Spider; Dimension Slice; Xyz Effect; Memories of Hope; Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders; Draining Shield; Lonely Rainbow Butterfly; Number 70: Malevolent Sin | Banished: |
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 OLU:3 |  +1500 ATK, OLU:0 | |||
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| Hand: 0 | LP: 3800 | Brian | GY: 98Galaxy-Wing - Cipher; Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon; Galactikuriboh; Tachyon Transmigration; Light of the Galaxy; Photon Timestop; Photon Lead; Galactikuriboh; Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon | Banished: |
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Myrphe drew her card, and during her standby phase, she revealed it. Because she had once again top decked Rank-Up-Magic Final Number. She activated it and we let the roulette spin. It spun and she pulled SF Number 100: Numeron Dragon. It then evolved into its chaos form. SF Number C100: Don Thousand Dragon.
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Number C100: Don Thousand Dragon
Rank 2
Dark/Dragon/Xyz/Effect
0/0
3 "Number C" Xyz Monsters with the different names and Ranks
When this card is Xyz Summoned: You can send any number of cards from your hand or field to the GY, special summon an equal number of Xyz monsters from your extra deck, ignoring summoning conditions, but their effects are negated and they are banished during the end phase.
When this card is destroyed by card effect: You can banish as many monsters on the field as possible (min. 1), then each player Sets 1 Spell/Trap Card from their Deck or Graveyard to their field.
If this card has "Number 100: Numeron Dragon" as an Xyz Material, it gains this effect.
You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; all face-up Xyz monsters on the field gain 1 rank, then this card gains ATK and DEF equal to the combined Ranks of all Xyz Monsters currently on the field x 1000.
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I don’t get Myrphe’s luck. Somehow she always gets the perfect monster. Not that it really matters.
Myrphe detached a material for the effect of Don Thousand Dragon, but I stepped in. I activated a set card, Eye of the Galaxy Dragon.
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Eye of the Galaxy Dragon
Quick-Play Spell
Target monsters your opponent controls up to the number of Dragon-type "Galaxy-Eyes" monsters you control: Negate their effects.
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With 2 Galaxy-Eyes on my field, I negated the effects of both of Myrphe’s monsters, reducing the attack of both to 0.
Myrphe couldn’t do anything, thus she had to end her turn.
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Duel 2, end of turn 5
| Hand: 0 | LP: 7800 | Myrphe | GY: 169 Memories of Hope; Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula; Rainbow Baby Spider; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Butterfly; Rainbow Spider; Dimension Slice; Xyz Effect; Memories of Hope; Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders; Draining Shield; Lonely Rainbow Butterfly; Number 70: Malevolent Sin; SF Number 100: Numeron Dragon; Rank-Up-Magic Final Number | Banished: |
| SF Number, defense, OLU:1 |  OLU:0 | |||
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| OLU:3 | +1500 ATK, OLU:0 | |||
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| Hand: 0 | LP: 3800 | Brian | GY: 1010Galaxy-Wing - Cipher; Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon; Galactikuriboh; Tachyon Transmigration; Light of the Galaxy; Photon Timestop; Photon Lead; Galactikuriboh; Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon; Eye of the Galaxy Dragon | Banished: |
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It was my turn again, and since it was, before I could even draw for a turn, things happened. Mainly the destruction of SF Number C100 by the Numeron Sphere Field. Final Number no longer protected it, and it is a SF Number with no material, so it was destroyed. And because of its own effect, it banished all other monsters on the field, and then both Myrphe and I got to set a card from our decks.
I wasn’t worried about the card she just set. It can’t be activated this turn anyway, so I’m in the clear. For this turn.
I finally got my draw.
“I’ll start by activating my set card, Xyz Reborn. With it I’m resurrecting my Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon.” I began my turn. “And since I have Light of the Galaxy, I get to draw a card.”
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“And before you think I’m done, I’ll use my Cipher Dragon as a material to Xyz summon.
“Arm yourself with blades of light and slice apart any traps that might be on my path.
“Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon!”
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“I’ll use its effect. I detach a material to destroy your face down card.” I said, as my dragon sliced Myrphe’s set card. It was also a copy of Xyz Reborn, so maybe she wanted to bring back Number 35?
“Next I’ll normal summon Galaxy Knight. Since I control a Galaxy monster, I can normal summon it without tributing, but its attack is 1800 for the turn.” I explained. “And when summoned this way, I can special summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from my graveyard.” I added as my dragon was resurrected.
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“Now I’ll overlay my level 8 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Galaxy Knight.” I announced.
“Darkness and light wandering in the universe. Sorrowful Dragons who sleep in the interstate. Gather your powers and open the door of the truth.
“Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"
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With that I moved into my battle phase and declared an attack with Prime Photon Dragon. Myrphe couldn’t stop it and I used the dragon’s effect to give it an extra 3400 ATK.
That left Myrphe with just 400 LP, so the attack from my second dragon finished her off.
I wasn’t happy about it, but I’d won. Sure I could have held back even more, just for fun, but I know Myrphe wouldn’t like that. She expects me to duel to the best of my ability, and I … kind of did.
I did hold back a little to drag on the duels, but I didn’t give her super easy wins and I did counter her plays to the best of my abilities.
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Duel 2, end of turn 5
| Hand: 0 | LP: 0 | Myrphe | GY: 1911 Memories of Hope; Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula; Rainbow Baby Spider; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Baby Moth; Rainbow Butterfly; Rainbow Spider; Dimension Slice; Xyz Effect; Memories of Hope; Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders; Draining Shield; Lonely Rainbow Butterfly; Number 70: Malevolent Sin; SF Number 100: Numeron Dragon; Rank-Up-Magic Final Number; SF Number C100: Don Thousand Dragon; Lonely Rainbow Butterfly; Xyz Reborn | Banished: 112 SF Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula |
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 OLU:1 |  OLU:1 | |||
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| Hand: 0 | LP: 3800 | Brian | GY: 1213Galaxy-Wing - Cipher; Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon; Galactikuriboh; Tachyon Transmigration; Light of the Galaxy; Photon Timestop; Photon Lead; Galactikuriboh; Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon; Eye of the Galaxy Dragon; Xyz Reborn; Galaxy Knight | Banished: 214 Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon; Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon |
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I have to say, it was a nice lineup to slow me down. 2 monsters that do burn and grow more powerful as they do. It will give Myrphe a nice lead, as long as she has something in her hand for the next turn.
Mine was a good one. I could OTK Myrphe, depending on her set card. But I wasn’t going to do that. I want to give her a chance.
I began by normal summoning Galaxy-Wing - Cipher. And with its on summon effect, I summoned Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon. That did cause me 1200 damage, which also made Myrphe’s monsters gain 2400 attack, but that was to be expected.
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Galaxy-Wing - Cipher
Level 4
Light/Fairy/Effect
1000/1000
If you control a "Galaxy-Wing" monster, you can special summon this card from your hand.
If this card was summoned from your hand or GY, you can special summon 1 "Galaxy-Wing" monster from your deck.
If you control another "Galaxy-Wing" monster, you can add 1 “Galaxy”, "Photon", "Tachyon" or "Cipher" Spell or Trap from your deck to your hand. You must control “Galaxy-Wing - Photon” to add a "Photon" card, and “Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon” to add a "Tachyon" card.
You can only use the second and third effect of “Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon” once per turn.
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I then used Galaxy-Wing - Cipher’s effect to search out Light of the Galaxy, since I didn’t start out with it in my hand. I activated the spell on the spot.
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Now came the small problem I had. Do I summon Tachyon Dragon and just negate the spiders or do I summon two more Galaxy-Wing monsters? If I summon two more, I’ll take 2400 burn. And then another 2400 when I summon 2 Galaxy-Eyes. That will only leave me with 800 life points. And I know, the only one that matters is the last one. But at the same time … Not a great plan when Myrphe’s monsters can exploit the difference in our life points.
Well, whatever. I have to go for it. I overlaid my two Galaxy-Wings and Xyz summoned Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon. This resulted in me getting burned for another 1200 damage.
But Myrphe didn’t activate her set card yet, so it must not be the one her deck has that can negate a summon. And I got to draw a card thanks to Light of the Galaxy.
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I moved into my battle phase and as I did, I activated the effect of Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon. She didn’t negate it either, so I attacked her regular Number 35 with Tachyon Dragon. It has Rainbow Baby Spider as an overlay unit, and it can be used to go into the higher ranked Xyz spiders, unlike the SF version. And with its effects negated, the SF version isn’t that bad to deal with.
My attack went through just fine, which made me even more worried about what Myrphe had set face down. So I set three cards face down, even if my true trap was kept in my hand, and I ended my turn.
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Duel 2, end of turn 2
| Hand: 1 | LP: 8000 | Myrphe | GY: | Banished: |
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| Hand: 3 | LP: 5600 | Brian | GY: | Banished: |
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It was again Myrphe’s turn, and she drew a card.
She began by special summoning Rainbow Butterfly. She used its effect to search for a Rainbow Spider and also special summoned it, milling two Rainbow Baby Moths to the GY.
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She then activated a trap, Dimension Slice. She targeted my Galaxy-Eyes with it, in an attempt to banish the dragon. I couldn’t have that so I activated a counter trap from my hand, Tachyon Transmigration. It negated the trap and shuffled it back into Myrphe’s deck.
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She used the two level 4 monsters to Xyz summon Number 70: Malevolent Sin, and revealed her next trap, Xyz Effect. She went after my Light of the Galaxy, and I couldn’t stop her so it was destroyed.
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Myrphe used her second Memories of Hope to draw 2 cards and then played one of them, Rank-Up-Magic Numeron Force. She used it to rank up her Sphere Field Number and called out SF Number C35: Temperate Tarantula.
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This again allowed the attack gain effect to be active. But I still had my face-downs, so no issue. But Myrphe seemed to know that as she activated one more card. Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders.
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Sealing Web of the Xyz Spiders
Continuous Spell
You can only activate this card if you control 2 or more Insect-type Xyz monsters. Set Spell/Trap cards your opponent controls cannot be activated in response to this card’s activation.
While you control 2 or more Insect-type Xyz monsters, your opponent cannot activate set Spell/Trap cards.
If you control no Insect-type Xyz monsters, destroy this card.
You can banish this card, from the GY, special summon 1 Insect-type Xyz monster from your GY, but its effects are negated.
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Her Continuous Spell completely blocked off my back row, so she was now free to attack.
Myrphe moved into her battle phase and attacked my dragon with Number 70. Nothing I could do except take it, so I took 1800 damage and my dragon was destroyed.
She then attacked with her Sphere Field Chaos Number, which now had 5200 attack.
Luckily I had another hand trap ready to go. Well, it isn’t a trap card this time, but a monster. Since my opponent declared a direct attack, I can discard Galactikuriboh to summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from my hand, or deck which I did, and change the attack target to be it. But since I summoned a monster, Myrphe got 800 LP.
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This turned the Temperate Tarantula’s attack on my new dragon. It was stronger than my monster so I had to use Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon’s effect to banish both of them for a bit.
But this gave me a chance to activate some of my backrow. Photon Timestop and Photon Lead.
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With Timestop I added another copy of Light of the Galaxy to my hand, while Photon Lead special summoned Galaxy-Wing - Photon from my hand, which I then used to special summon Galaxy-Wing - Tachyon from my deck.
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When the battle phase ended, my dragon and Myrphe’s spider both returned to the field. But her spider had no overlay material so its attack gain effect wasn’t active, while my dragon had gained 1000 attack because of the two overlay units it had.
During her main phase 2, Myrphe used the effect of Malevolent Sin. She detached Rainbow Butterfly from it and banished my Photon Dragon until my next standby phase. But I feel like the more important part was detaching Rainbow Butterfly, since that allowed her to summon Rainbow Mother Spider from her deck. She tributed it and summoned Rainbow Baby Moth and Rainbow Baby Spider from her deck, both in defense.
She then ended her turn.
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Duel 2, end of turn 3
| Hand: 1 | LP: 8800 | Myrphe | GY: | Banished: |
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 SF Number, OLU:0 | +300 ATK, +3 rank, OLU:1 |  (defense) |  (defense) | |
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| Hand: 3 | LP: 3800 | Brian | GY: | Banished: |
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It was my turn again, so I drew a card. And during my standby phase, my Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon returned.
And with it came the end of this duel. Sadly.
I could hold back and not win this turn, but I know Myrphe wouldn’t like that. She expects me to duel to the best of my ability, and I will.
So as much as it pained me, I began my play. I activated the Light of the Galaxy I searched for on my last turn, and then I Xyz summoned using my 3 level 8 monsters, calling out Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon.
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It negated the effects of all of Myrphe’s monsters, and then I used its effect to consume the single overlay unit of Malevolent Sin, granting my dragon an extra 500 attack.
So with the now 5000 attack, I attacked Myrphe’s Temperate Tarantula. With no effect it had 1000 attack, and I could double the attack of my dragon to 10,000. And 9000 damage is more than she had life points, so I won the second duel, and the match.
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