CH.544 Next Yugioh Tournament

CH.544 Next Yugioh Tournament

With enough time having passed since the last Yugioh tournament I hosted, I decided to host another one. But because I didn’t quite have all the Synchro monsters yet, and I wanted to improve the Factory VR before I hold the Turbo Duel Tournament, I decided to just hold a Deck Master tournament.

Don’t know what that is? Well, don’t worry, because I can explain it. Deck Masters duels were these things in the OG Yugioh anime, for all of one arc, where you’d pick a monster to be your ‘deck master’. And that deck master monster would give you a special ability to which you’d either have access to for the entire duel, as a continuous effect. Or would give you an activatable, ignition style effect that you can use either once per turn, or once per duel.

Your deck master, while in the ‘deck master slot’, cannot be interacted with in any way, except that you can choose to special summon that deck master whenever you want. But once summoned, you cannot return your deck master to its place. It has to stay on the field.

Also, when on the field, it no longer gives you those ‘deck master’ advantages it had when it was a deck master.

Think of the ‘deck master’ ability like the pendulum effect on a pendulum card. I think that is the best way of looking at it.

Now, after you summoned your deck master, it is just like any other monster. Except that if it is destroyed, you lose the duel. So summoning your deck master is extremely risky.

Now there are exceptions for the destruction, like if you can replace the monster immediately, like if your deck master was a battle floater, you can name the monster you summoned with the effect of your deck master as your new deck master, and you won’t lose.

Or if you use your deck master as a material to summon an extra deck monster, that extra deck monster will become your new deck master.

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So yeah. That was deck masters quickly. Now, for the tournament card pool.

I made a few deck master monsters that you’d have to pick from to use as the base of your deck. Yes, you can have multiple in your deck, and then just pick one of them to be your deck master for that duel, but you probably want to just build around one of them.

I started off with a monster that was popular in the last tournament, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

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I made an alternative variant of it called the Blue-Eyes Master Dragon. Same stats as the OG, and as a monster, its only effect is that its name is treated as a Blue-Eyes White Dragon while on the field. Its deck master ability on the other hand is quite something.

With it, once per turn, during your turn, you can pay 1000 life points to either add one level 8 or lower dragon from your deck to your hand. Or to special summon a Dragon normal monster from your hand. You can’t use both effects on the same turn.

It will go super well with any Dragon decks someone might want to play, but it is also risky, as the life point costs do add up. But still a ‘free’ search for just 1000 life points is really nice, and the special summoning can also help.

My next one had to be Dark Magician. He comes with two effects.

First is Double Magic. A simple, but potentially devastating effect. During your turn, you can pay 1000 Life Points to activate a Spell effect twice.

The second deck master effect it has is that when it is summoned to the field, you can automatically summon a Dark Magician Girl from your deck. And if your deck master Dark Magician on the field dies, you can target one Dark Magician Girl you control and it becomes your new deck master.

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Naturally to go with the Dark Magician, I also made a Dark Magician Girl deck master. Her effect allows you to, once per turn, during either players’ turn, when a Spell card is activated or the effect of a Continuous Spell is activated, to pay 1000 life points to negate the activation and destroy the spell.

She also has the effect to special summon a Dark Magician when she is summoned to the field, and if she dies, you can name a Dark Magician on your field as your new deck master.

I think the two of them will both be run in the same deck, and each of them offers unique opportunities. Though I might have my opinions on which one is better, it will be interesting to see what the participants think.

Oh, and speaking of running multiple deck masters in one deck. Yes, I’m allowing that. You have to just name one of them as your deck master at the start of each duel. Yes, you can change between duels in a match. And you can only run one copy of each deck master. And no, the deck masters don’t count as the originals for the functions of deck building, so you can have both Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl deck masters, and still run three copies of the OG versions of them.

Of course I had to include Jinzo as a possible deck master. I mean, the anime already did a perfect design for me, so I’m just going with that. So Jinzo, either as a deck master or when summoned to the field, negates all face-up Trap effects your opponent controls and destroys them.

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For those that want to run Fusion decks, I have King of the Swamp.

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It has two effects. Once per turn, you can reveal a Fusion monster in your extra deck to add a monster listed in its materials to your hand. So basically Fusion Conscription.

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And yes, you can use both effects on the same turn.

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For Elemental Heroes, you have Elemental HERO Stratos. You can’t run it in the main deck, but the deck master variant is quite nice.

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With it you can, once per turn, destroy spells or traps on the field, up to the number of HERO monsters you control. Or add 1 HERO monster from your Deck to your hand.

Also, all summons of a HERO fusion monster can be done without Polymerization, if the materials needed for the summon are on your field.

Next up, I decided to allow the Fortune Ladies. Except the Synchro, since I don’t want any Synchro summoning in this tournament. So I made Fortune Lady Master.

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She starts off level 1, but like all the other Fortune Ladies, she gains a level during each standby phase. And not just yours.

She comes with a few effects. One, all Fortune Lady monsters you control gain a level during each players’ standby phase, not just your own. Also, you can reduce the level of Fortune Lady Master, by any amount but only until she is level 1, to increase the level of 1 Fortune Lady monster you control by the amount you decreased her level by.

And when summoned to the field, Fortune Lady Master keeps the level she was at in the deck master position, and gains 600 attack and defense times her level.

For Gladiator Beasts, I used Test Tiger.

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It not only makes it so that Glad Beasts don’t have to return to the deck or extra deck when their condition procs, but they can be returned to the deck whenever you want, and it is treated as them being returned by their own effect.

Next up, because I wanted to, I made an Arcana Force monster. That of Arcana Force X - Wheel of Fortune.

I know Reversal of Fate is technically based on the Wheel of Fortune arcana, but I don’t care. It isn’t a monster, and it isn’t named Arcana, so I can make a Wheel of Fortune.

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Arcana Force X - Wheel of Fortune has a coin flip effect, as do all Arcana Force monsters. Both while it is a deck master and while it is a regular monster.

For its Deck Master effect, during each of your standby phases, you flip a coin.

If heads, add 1 Arcana Force monster from your deck to your hand. All Arcana Force monsters you control gain 1000 attack, also they are unaffected by your opponent’s spells and traps.

If tails, add 1 Spell or Trap that mentions ‘Arcana Force’ in its effect text from your deck to your hand. All Arcana Force monsters you control gain 1000 defense, also they cannot be destroyed by battle.

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In case anyone wants to play Rituals, I made a deck master version of Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands. His deck master effect is just to add a Ritual spell or a Ritual monster to your hand, once per turn. Also, all Ritual monsters you control gain 500 attack and defense, and deal piercing damage.

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Last is Dark World, and for them I introduced Zure, Knight of Dark World as a deck master.

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His deck master ability is that once per turn, you can discard a card to either add 1 Dark World card from your deck to your hand, or target 1 Dark World monster from your graveyard and add it to your hand. Also, once per turn, when a Dark World monster(s) is destroyed, by battle or card effect, instead of going to the graveyard, you can add them to your hand and then discard 1 card for each Dark World monster added to your hand by this effect.

So yeah. Those will be the deck masters. I think there will be some interesting decks made around them.