YGO EQG XX - Episode 029

"Sparks of Human Potential" is the 29th episode of the series.

An hour before the last episode and Tempest has defeated the rest of the Mane/Hair 7, except for Sunset Shimmer, when they duel against each other. Who will win?

Applejack vs. Tempest Shadow
The duel continues from an unspecified turn. Tempest controls no monsters, "Spine-Hog Dominator" (Left 1) and "Tempest Unicorn Dominator" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones and 2000 LP. Applejack controls "Orchid Cowboy" (2100/600) in Attack Position, "Orchid Defender" (1400/2600) in Defense Position and 1100 LP.

 Turn ?: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Tempest Rogue Dominator Scarvolt" (2500/2000) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating both "Orchid Cowboy" and "Orchid Defender". She then activates "Dominator Lightning" to increase the ATK of "Scarvolt" by 500 for every Dominated monster on the field ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 3500/2000). Due to the effect of "Scarvolt", it can attack up to a number of times equal to the number of Dominated monsters, but the Battle Damage Applejack will take will be halved and the attacked monster won't be destroyed by battle. "Scarvolt" attacks "Orchid Cowboy" twice (Applejack 1100 → 400 →  0).

Rarity vs. Tempest Shadow
The duel continues from an unspecified turn. Tempest controls "Storm Guard Dominator Sword" (1500/1200), "Spine-Hog Dominator" (Left 1) and "Tempest Unicorn Dominator" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones and 1800 LP. Rarity controls "Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond" (3400/2000) in Attack Position and 1950 LP.

 Turn ?: Rarity 

"Lady Brilliant Diamond" attacks "Sword", but Tempest activates her face-down "Negate Attack" to negate the attack and end the Battle Phase.

 Turn ?: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then activates "Riryoku" to halve the ATK of "Lady Brilliant Diamond" ("Lady Brilliant Diamond": 3400 → 1700/2000) and increase the ATK of "Sword" by the same amount ("Sword": 1500 → 3200/1200). She then Pendulum Summons "Tempest Rogue Dominator Scarvolt" (2500/2000) and "Spine-Hog Dominator" (1200/600) in Attack Position. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating "Lady Brilliant Diamond". "Sword" attacks and destroys "Lady Brilliant Diamond". "Spine-Hog Dominator" and "Scarvolt" attack Rarity directly (Rarity 1950 → 750 → 0).

Fluttershy vs. Tempest Shadow
The duel continues from an unspecified turn. Fluttershy controls "Sacred Guardian Beast Kindness Dragonoid" (2600/1900) in Attack Position and two copies of "Winged Kuriboh" (300/200) in Defense Position and 1300 LP. Tempest controls "Spine-Hog Dominator" (Left 1) and "Tempest Unicorn Dominator" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones and 2800 LP.

 Turn ?: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Scarvolt" (2500/2000) and "Storm Guard Dominator Spear" (1800/800) in Attack Position. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating both "Winged Kuribohs". She then activates "Dominator Lightning" to increase the ATK of "Scarvolt" by 500 for every Dominated monster on the field ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 3500/2000). Due to the effect of "Scarvolt", it can attack up to a number of times equal to the number of Dominated monsters, but the Battle Damage Fluttershy will take will be halved and the attacked monster won't be destroyed by battle. "Scarvolt" attacks "Kindness Dragonoid", but Fluttershy discards "Kuriboh" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0. "Scarvolt" attacks "Kindness Dragonoid" (Fluttershy 1300 → 850). She then activates the effect of "Spear" to halve its ATK and allow it to attack directly this turn ("Spear": 1800 → 900/800). "Spear" attacks Fluttershy directly (Fluttershy 850 → 0).

Sunset Shimmer vs. Tempest Shadow
Turn 1: Sunset

Sunset draws. She then activates "Rocket Smasher" (Left 2) and "Corona Beast Sun Heart Lion Cub" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Corona Paladin Strider" (1700/1400) and "Blaze Wing Firebird" (1400/800) from her hand in Attack Position. Since "Blaze Wing Firebird" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, increasing Sunset's LP by 200 for every card in her hand. She has two (Sunset 4000 → 4400). She then Sets a card.

 Turn 2: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then activates "Spine-Hog Dominator" (Left 1) and "Tempest Unicorn Dominator" (Right 8) in the Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Spine-Hog Dominator" (1200/600), "Storm Guard Dominator Sword" (1500/1200) and "Storm Guard Dominator Spear" (1800/800) from her hand in Attack Position. Since Tempest Pendulum Summoned, the Pendulum Effect of "Spine-Hog Dominator" activates, allowing Tempest to draw three cards (One card for every monster Pendulum Summoned). She then activates "Obsidian Orb" to dominate "Stirder". She then activates the effect of "Sword" to Tribute "Spine-Hog Dominator" and destroy "Stirder". "Spear" attacks "Blaze Wing Firebird". Due to the Pendulum Effect of "Tempest Unicorn Dominator", "Spear" gains 200 ATK for every monster Dominated this turn ("Spear": 1800 → 2000/800). "Spear" then destroys "Blaze Wing Firebird" (Sunset 4000 → 3400). "Sword" attacks Sunset directly, but Sunset activates her face-down "Beacon of Hope" to draw one card. If it's a monster, she can Special Summon it. She draws "Corona Mage Marlena", so she Special Summons it (800/1500) in Attack Position. A replay occurs and "Sword" attacks and destroys "Marlena" (Sunset 3400 → 2700). Since "Marlena" was destroyed by battle and Battle Damage was inflicted, its effect activates, allowing Sunset to draw one card for every 500 damage inflicted, so she draws one card. She then Sets a card.

 Turn 3: Sunset 

Sunset draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Strider" (1700/1400) from her Extra Deck and "Blaze Fang Sun Tiger" (1200/1100) and "Corona Beast Sunset Unicorn" (1800/1300) from her hand in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Sunset Unicorn" to reduce the Level of "Strider" by one and change it to a Tuner monster. She then tunes the Level 4 "Sunset Unicorn" with the Level 3 "Strider" in order to Synchro Summon "Shimmering Phoenix Princess Daydream" (2300/2200) in Attack Position. She then activates its first effect to send "Corona Mage Marlena" from her Extra Deck to the Graveyard and reduce the ATK of all monsters Tempest controls by its Pendulum Scale x100. The Pendulum Scale of "Marlena" is 8 ("Sword": 1500 → 700/1200; "Spear": 1800 → 1000/800). "Daydream" attacks "Spear", but Tempest finds and activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack, however Sunset activates the second effect of "Daydream" to pay 300 LP (Sunset 2700 → 2400), negate the activation of "Evasion" and destroy it. Due to the effect of "Blaze Fang Sun Tiger", it gains ATK equal to the change in LP ("Blaze Fang Sun Tiger": 1200 → 1500/1100). Due to the Pendulum Effect of "Sun Heart Lion Cub", all monsters Sunset controls by the Level of the monsters they battle x100 ("Daydream": 2300 → 2700/2200). "Daydream" then destroys "Spear" (Tempest 4000 → 2300). "Blaze Fang Sun Tiger" attacks and destroys "Sword" (Tempest 2300 → 1500). Tempest activates her face-down "Dominator Spark", but Sunset activates the effect of "Daydream" again (Sunset 2400 → 2100) to negate the activation of "Dominator Spark" and destroy it. She then Sets two cards.

 Turn 4: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Spine-Hog Dominator" (1200/600) from her Extra Deck and "Tempest Rogue Dominator Scarvolt" (2500/2000) from her hand in Attack Position. The Pendulum Effect of "Spine-Hog Dominator" activates, allowing Tempest to draw two cards. Since she Pendulum Summoned two monsters. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating "Daydream" and "Sun Tiger". She then activates "Dominator Recharge". Now whenever monsters are destroyed, Tempest will gain LP equal to their Levels x100. She then Tributes "Spine-Hog" in order to Tribute Summon "Storm Guard Dominator Flail" (2100/1700) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Scarvolt", it can attack up to a number of times equal to the number of Dominated monsters, but the Battle Damage Sunset will take will be halved and the attacked monster won't be destroyed by battle. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Tempest Unicorn" to increase the ATK of her "Dominator" monsters by 200 for every dominated monster on the field ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 2900/2000; "Flail": 2100 → 2500/1700). "Scarvolt" attacks "Daydream" and "Sun Tiger" (Sunset 2100 → 1800 → 950). "Flail" attacks "Sun Tiger", but Sunset activates her face-down "Corona Beast Shield-Mane Lion" to Special Summon itself as a monster (0/3000) in Defense Position. "Flail" then destroys "Sun Tiger", but due to the latter's effect, Sunset takes no Battle Damage. The effect of "Dominator Recharge" activates (Tempest 1500 → 1800). Since a FIRE monster with 1500 or less ATK was destroyed by battle, Sunset activates her face-down "Eruption Draw" to draw three cards. She then activates the "Flail" to destroy "Daydream". The effect of "Dominator Recharge" activates (Tempest 1800 → 2500).

 Turn 5: Sunset 

Sunset draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Strider" (1700/1400) and "Sunset Unicorn" (1800/1300) from her Extra Deck and "Solar Flare Phoenix" (2500/2100) from her hand in Attack Position. Since "Solar Flare Phoenix" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, doubling Sunset's LP (Sunset 950 → 1900). She then Normal Summons "Sun-Ray Salamander" (100/100) in Attack Position. She then Tributes "Solar Flare Phoenix" and "Sun-Ray Salamander" to Special Summon "Solar Phoenix Blaze Incarnate" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. She then activates its effect to banish "Sun Tiger" and "Daydream" and grant itself the effects of both monsters. She then activates "Blazing Heart of Fire" to target "Blaze Incarnate", destroy all other monsters she controls and increase the ATK of "Blaze Incarnate" by the combined Levels of the Tributed monsters x100 ("Blaze Incarnate": 3000 → 4400/2500).

"Blaze Incarnate" attacks "Scarvolt". The effect of "Sun Heart Lion Cub" activates ("Blaze Incarnate": 4400 → 5100/2500). Tempest activates her face-down "Paralysing Spark" to Tribute "Flail" and equip it to "Scarvolt", but Sunset activates the "Daydream" granted effect of "Blaze Incarnate" to pay 300 LP (Sunset 1900 → 1600), negate the activation of "Paralysing Spark" and destroy it ("Blaze Incarnate": 5100 → 4800/2500). Tempest activates the effect of "Paralysing Spark" from her Graveyard, banishing it to negate the effects of "Blaze Incarnate" and reduce its ATK by the Level of "Flail" at the End Phase. "Blaze Incarnate" then destroys "Scarvolt", but Tempest activates her face-down "Defense Draw" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0 and draw one card. She then Sets a card. On Sunset's End Phase, the effect of "Paralysing Spark" activates ("Blaze Incarnate": 3000 → 2400/2500).

 Turn 6: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Spine-Hog Dominator" (1200/600) and "Scarvolt" (2500/2000) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating "Blaze Incarnate". She then Normal Summons another "Spear" (1800/800) in Attack Position. She then equips "Scarvolt" with "Staff of Sacanas", increasing its ATK by 500 ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 3000/2000). She then activates the second effect of "Sacanas" to reduce the ATK of "Spear" to 0 ("Spear": 1800 → 0/800), negate the effects of "Spear" and grant them to "Scarvolt". She then activates the effect of "Tempest Unicorn Dominator" ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 2900/2000). "Scarvolt" attacks "Blaze Incarnate", but Sunset finds and activates the Action Card "Sand Guard" to prevent her monster from being destroyed by battle this turn and halve all Battle Damage she takes involving it, however Tempest activates the granted effect of "Scarvolt" to halve its ATK and allow it to attack directly ("Scarvolt": 3200 → 1600/2000). "Scarvolt" attacks directly (Sunset 1600 → 0).