CH.552 Deck Master Tournament, part 7
<span style="font-weight:400">Now it was time for the match between me and the tournament winner, Indigo.
<span style="font-weight:400">So I guess I’ll start by revealing my deck master. As I said, it isn’t one of the sixteen thepetitors could use, but a custom one I made for my own use.
<span style="font-weight:400">Vennominagant the Saintess of Poisonous Snakes.
<span style="font-weight:400">Because yes, I’m running Venoms.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Vennominagant the Saintess of Poisonous Snakes
<span style="font-weight:400">Level 9 / Dark / Reptile / Deck Master / Effect
<span style="font-weight:400">ATK 0 / DEF 0
<span style="font-weight:400">Deck Master effect:
<span style="font-weight:400">? When a monster(s) is Summoned, ce 1 Venom Counter on that monster(s).
<span style="font-weight:400">? All monsters with Venom Counters have their Effects Negated, except Reptile-Type monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">? "Venom" monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF for each Venom Counter on them.
<span style="font-weight:400">? You can send 3 Reptile-Type monsters from your Hand and/or Field to the GY; special summon 1 “Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes” from your Hand, Deck or GY; then you can set 1 "Rise of the Snake Deity" from your Deck or GY.
<span style="font-weight:400">Monster Effect:
<span style="font-weight:400">? This card gains 500 ATK/DEF for each "Venom" monster in your GY.
<span style="font-weight:400">? This card gains 500 ATK/DEF for each Venom Counter on the field.
<span style="font-weight:400">? "Venom" monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF for each Venom Counter on them.
<span style="font-weight:400">? This card cannot be targeted by, and is unaffected by, Spell/Trap effects and other Effect Monsters'' effects.
<span style="font-weight:400">? When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard: You can remove 3 Venom Counters from monsters on the field; Special Summon this card.
<span style="font-weight:400">? When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent: ce 1 Hyper-Venom Counter on your opponent.
<span style="font-weight:400">?<span style="font-weight:400"> When 3 Hyper-Venom Counters are on your opponent, you win the Duel.
<span style="font-weight:400">[This card is for tournament use only. Not a real summoning card. Property of Brian Wood.]
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<span style="font-weight:400">So let’s get to the duel. This time, the judge of the duel was Janina. She had learned the rules of Yugioh, as you may have guessed by the fact that she was my opponent in the little show riding duel.
<span style="font-weight:400">And since this was the finals, there were no coin flips. I just let Indigo pick who goes first, and she chose to go first.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I’ll summon diator Beast Retiari.” She started her turn.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And since you did, my deck master’s effect activates. When a monster is summoned, a Venom Counter is ced onto it.” I reminded Indigo, and informed the audience, as on the holograms between us, Vennominagant summoned a dark blue snake and the snake quickly slithered to Retiari and bit it, clinging to the monster.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And while a monster, other than a Reptile-Type monster, has a Venom Counter, their effects are negated. And since Retiari’s effect is negated, you can’t use your deck master on it.” I again informed the audience. Indigo already knew this.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know.” Indigo responded. “I’ll set three cards and end my turn.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then. I draw.” I began my turn. My opening hand is what someone might call shit, as I only have one monster in hand, and it is the level 5 Venom Boa. But the other cards are a lot better.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll start with Snake Rain. So I’ll discard my Venom Boa, then I can send 4 Reptile-Type monsters from my deck to my graveyard. I’ll send two more Venom Boas and two Venom Cobras.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Next, I’ll activate the Field Spell Venom Swamp. With it, during each end phase, all face up monsters on the field gain a Venom Counter. Also, all monsters, except Venom monsters, lose 500 attack for each counter. And if their attack drops to 0 because of this, the monster is destroyed.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">[Note: This isn’t how Venom Swamp works in the TCG, but Brian is using a slightly customized version. Because Vennominagant likes Venom Counters, I decided Venom monsters should also gain them. And they are kind of the main part of the deck, so why can’t their monsters use them for positive things? Also, Venom Swamp can’t weaken Vennomi monsters, since for some reason, they are a separate archetype. But Vennomi monsters can still hold Venom Counters.]
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Next, I’m activating Field Barrier. As long as it is active, my Venom Swamp cannot be destroyed and you cannot activate a Field Spell card.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll then set two cards and end my turn.” I said as I ended my turn.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... No monsters?” Indigo seemed to question.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t need any. My Venom Counters will deal with your monsters.” I answered. “Don’t forget, because I ended my turn, Retiari gets a second Venom Counter. And now it has lost 1000 attack. It only has 200 left.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then.” Indigo said before she drew a card. “I y diator Proving Ground to add diator Beast Bestiari to my hand. I’ll then summon Bestiari.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And since you did, Bestiari will earn itself a Venom Counter. And because of Venom Swamp, it loses 500 attack. And it can’t use its effects.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know, but it can be used as a material for a summoning. A fusion summoning. I fuse together my two monsters to fusion summon diator Beast Gyzarus.”n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Again, it has a snake biting it, and since it does, no effect for you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But it does still have 1900 attack. So Gyzarus, attack him directly.” Indigo ordered her monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Since you dered an attack, I’ll activate my Damage equals Reptile.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Indigo quickly read the card, but she had already dered an attack and activating a Continuous Trap doesn’t cause a rey, so the attack went through and I took 1900 damage.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now, since I took damage, Damage equals Reptile lets me summon a Reptile-Type monster with less attack than the damage I just took. So I’ll summon Venom Serpent.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Then Vennominagant’s effect grants my snake a Venom Counter.” I told Indigo, as a blue snake like the one biting the leg of her Gyzarus coiled protectively around my Venom Serpent. “And because of Vennominagant, all Venom monsters with Venom Counters gain 500 attack and defense for each, so my Serpent’s attack increases to 1500.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... that is fine.” Indigo said. “I end my turn.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“And since you did, all face up monsters gain a Venom Counter.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn. I draw.” I started my turn. And I got a monster, good. “I normal summon Venom Snake. And since I did, it gains a Venom Counter and 500 attack.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Then I activate Venom Serpent’s effect. I can ce one Venom Counter onto 1 monster on the field.” I said, about to add a Counter to my Venom Serpent so it would gain more attack.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No you won’t!” Indigo interrupted. “I activate diator Beast War Chariot. Since an effect monster activated its effect while I control a diator Beast monster, I can negate the effect and destroy the monster. So your snake is destroyed!”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... Nice move. But it doesn’t save you. My Venom Snake (1700 ATK) is stronger than your Gyzarus (1400 ATK). So Venom Snake, attack Gyzarus.” I ordered my monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I activate Defensive Tactics. For the rest of the turn, I take no battle damage and my monsters cannot be destroyed by battle.” Indigo countered.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Not bad. I suppose I must end my turn then.” I said. “And all monsters on the field get a Venom Counter.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then. I draw.” Indigo started her turn, and I swear I saw a slight smile on her face. She must have gotten a good card. “I’ll change my Gyzarus to defense, and I’ll set a card. Then I summon diator Beast Laquari.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Your Laquari gets a snake biting its ankle.” I reminded her, as a blue snake bit Laquari.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m ending my turn.” Indigo said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And thus, more snakes.” I said as three snakes flew out of Venom Swamp. Two bit into the diator Beasts while the third coiled around Venom Snake.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then. I draw.” I started my turn.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And since it is, I’m activating Master Seal!” Indigo imed. Your deck master’s effects are negated until my next end phase.” <sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="1"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="1"> Note: While Vennominagant on the field is unaffected by everything, while she is a deck master, her effects can be negated by Master Seal.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... That’s fine.” I said, as my Venom Snake’s attack dropped back down to 1200. “Because of Venom Swamp, your monsters are still weak.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Maybe. But they have their effects!” Indigo eximed. “I use Test Tiger to return diator Beast Gyzarus to my extra deck so I can special summon two diator Beasts to take its ce.” Indigo said. “I’m summoning Bestiari and Murmillo.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And since I summoned them by the effect of a diator Beast monster, their effects activate. With Murmillo, I’m destroying your Venom Snake. And with Bestiari, I’m destroying your Damage equals Reptile.”
<span style="font-weight:400">And like so, two of my cards were destroyed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll then activate my Double Tag Team.” Indigo continued. “Since I special summoned a diator Beast, I can special summon a level 4 or lower diator Beast from my hand or deck. And I’m summoning diator Beast Samnite.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“But he won’t stay on the field for long, because I’m returning him to my deck so I can special summon diator Beast Octavius. And when Octavius is summoned, I can destroy a set spell or trap you control. So it is …”
<span style="font-weight:400">“So I’ll activate it. Venom Burn. Laquari loses its Venom Counters and you take 700 damage for each. That is 1400 damage.” I responded. The two snakes that had been attached to Laquari released their bites and lunged at Indigo.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“But now my monsters have no Venom Counters, so they have all of their attack points.” Indigo said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Yes, but did you forget, it is my turn. You can’t attack on my turn, and before ites back to your turn, Venom Swamp will spread around more counters. You really should have destroyed my Field Barrier instead of Damage equals Reptile, so on your next turn, while Master Seal is still active, you could have destroyed Venom Swamp. But you do you.” I told Unika.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... maybe. I’ll return Murmillo to my deck to summon Dimacari. Then I return Dimacari to the deck to summon Alexander. And since Alexander was summoned by Dimacari, he is unaffected by spells. And since the deck master is treated as a spell, Alexander is unaffected by your deck master and Venom Swamp.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Nice moves. I think I’ll just set this card face down and end my turn.” It might seem like I didn’t do much with my turn, but a set card can do a ton. “And during my end phase, all of your diator Beasts…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Other than Alexander.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“gain a Venom Counter.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then.” Indigo said and drew a card. “And I think I’ll start by fusing together Bestiari and Laquari to summon diator Beast Gyzarus. And when Gyzarus is summoned, I can target two cards you control and destroy them. I’ll destroy your Field Barrier and your set card.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s fine. But my set trap is Waking the Dragon. And since it was destroyed by my opponent’s card effect and is now in my graveyard, I can special summon a monster from my deck or extra deck. Soe forth, Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My Vennominon gains 500 attack for each Reptile-Type monster in my graveyard. I have seven, so Vennominon has 3500 attack.” I informed Indigo.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Maybe. Maybe. But that doesn’t matter. Since your Field Barrier is gone, I can activate Colosseum - Cage of the diator Beasts.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Now I’ll return Gyzarus to my extra deck so I can summon two monsters to take its ce. So return diator Beast Bestiari and diator Beast Murmillo. And when they are summoned, my Field Spell gains counters, and their effects activate. With Murmillo, I’m destroying your King of Poisonous Snakes and with Bestiari, I’m destroying Venom Swamp!”
<span style="font-weight:400">I just watched as the poisonous swamp around us disappeared and my King of Poisonous Snakes was destroyed. I have to give it to Indigo. She really is doing everything while she can. I honestly assumed my deck master would be too much for her, but one Master Seal and she is turning things around.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now I’ll return Murmillo to summon Hoplomus. Then I can return Hoplomus to summon Spartacus.” Indigo kept going. “And since Spartacus was summoned with Hoplomus’ effect, I can add a diator Beast Equip Spell Card from my deck to my hand, and I’m adding diator Beast''s Battle dius.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Next I’ll return Octavius to my deck so I can summon Retiari. When Retiari is summoned I can banish one card in your graveyard, so I’m banishing Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll then return Retiari to summon Samnite. But then I’ll return Samnite to summon Octavius.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m returning my Bestiari to summon Laquari. And since Laquari was summoned this way, it gains 300 attack.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m fusing together Spartacus and Alexander to fusion summon diator Beast Gaiodiaz.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Andst, I’m equipping the diator Beast''s Battle dius to Gaiodiaz. And since my Field Spell has 8 counters, all of my diator Beast monsters gain an extra 800 attack.”<sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="2"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="2">Note: Indigo summoned Gaiodiaz because she wanted to have something on the field that would/will have more attack than Brian''s deck master, if Brian chooses to summon it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now we battle. diator Beast Laquari, attack him directly.” Indigo dered an attack.
<span style="font-weight:400">I knew how this would end, but I really didn’t have a choice. Indigo had won the first duel already. I just had to do what I could.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m summoning my deck master.” I eximed. “Soe forth, Vennominagant the Saintess of Poisonous Snakes.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Vennominagant gains 500 attack for each Venom monster in my GY, and 500 more for each Venom counter on the field. There are seven Venoms in my GY and no Venom counters on the field, so Vennominagant has 3500 attack.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Laquari, hold off your attack.” Indigo canceled her attack because of the rey. “Gaiodiaz, destroy Vennominagant!” She attacked. Because of the equip spell and the counters on Indigo’s Field Spell, Gaiodiaz had 3700 attack, which is enough to take down Vennominagant.
<span style="font-weight:400">And since there are no Venom Counters on the field, Vennominagant can’te back. Which means I have no deck master and I lost the first duel.
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