YGO EQG XX - Episode 044

"The Guidance of our Lord" is the 44th episode of the series.

The final duel has arrived. Flash vs Tempest. The duel that also started this story. Fitting.

Featured Duel: Flash Sentry vs. Tempest Shadow
 Turn 22: Flash 

Flash draws. He then activates "Magna Caster Ratio" (Left 1) and "Lustrous Feather Magna Leghorn" (Right 8) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Flash Wing Magna Pegasus" (1400/800) from his hand in Attack Position. He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Magna Caster Ratio" to target "Magna Pegasus", look at the top five cards of his Deck, banish one monster among them and increase the ATK of "Magna Pegasus" by the banished monster's Level x200. He banishes Level 4 "Glow Claw Magna Chimp" ("Magna Pegasus": 1400 → 2200/800). "Magna Pegasus" attacks and destroys "Ryyk" (Tempest 3600 → 3400). He then Sets three cards.

 Turn 23: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Tempest Rogue Dominator" (2500/2000), "Storm Guard Dominator Glaive" (1900/1200) and "Ryyk" (2000/1500) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position and "Storm Guard Dominator Shield" (1000/2000) from her hand in Defense Position. Since Tempest Pendulum Summoned, the Pendulum Effect of "Spine-Hog Dominator" activates, allowing Tempest to draw four cards (one card for each Pendulum Summoned monster). Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating "Magna Pegasus". She then equips "Scarvolt" with "Staff of Sacanas", but Flash activates his face-down "Different Dimension Chest" by banishing "Staff of Sacanas". Now as long as "Different Dimension Chest" is on the field, "Staff of Sacanas" will stay banished. If "Different Dimension Chest" is destroyed, the banished card will return to Tempest's hand. "Glaive" attacks and destroys "Magna Pegasus" (Flash 4000 → 3500). "Ryyk" attacks Flash directly, but Flash activates his face-down "Beacon of Hope" to draw one card. If it's a monster, he can Special Summon it. He draws "Reflector Scale Magna Snake", so he Special Summons it (1600/1300) in Attack Position. A replay occurs and "Ryyk" attacks and destroys "Magna Snake" (Flash 3500 → 3100). "Scarvolt" attacks Flash directly, but Flash activates his face-down "Defense Draw" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0 and draw a card.

 Turn 24: Flash 

Flash draws. He then activates "Starburst Reload" to banish "Magna Pegasus" from his Graveyard and draw four cards. He then Pendulum Summons "Star Fang Magna Tiger" (2400/2100) from his hand and "Magna Snake" (1600/1300) from his Extra Deck in Attack Position. He then Normal Summons "Veil Pixie X" (100/100) in Attack Position. He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Magna Leghorn" to increase the Level of "Veil Pixie X" by 2. He then tunes the Level 4 "Magna Snake" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Veil Pixie X" in order to Synchro Summon "Flashback Dragon" (2300/2200) in Attack Position. He then activates its effect to banish "Magna Tiger" and Special Summon "Magna Fighter Gun Runner" (1600/1400) and "Crystal Tusk Magna Boar" (1000/1000) from his Deck in Attack Position (As their combined Levels equal to that of the banished monster's Level). He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Ratio", targets "Gun Runner" and banishes the Level 5 "Spino-Gear Magna Saur" ("Gun Runner": 1600 → 2600/1400). "Gun Runner" attacks and destroys "Scarvolt" (Tempest 3400 → 3300). Since "Gun Runner" destroyed a monster by battle, its effect activates, banishing itself to Special Summon "Flash Heart Dragon X" (2500/2000) from his Deck in Attack Position (as its Level is equal to that of the destroyed monster). Since "Flash Heart Dragon X" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, banishing "Shield". "Flash Heart Dragon X" attacks and destroys "Ryyk" (Tempest 3300 → 2800). "Flashback Dragon" attacks "Glaive", but Tempest finds and activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack. He then Sets a card.

 Turn 25: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then activates "Magical Mallet" to shuffle all but one card in her hand into her Deck and draw the same amount of cards. She then Pendulum Summons "Scarvolt" (2500/2000) and "Ryyk" (2000/1500) from her Extra Deck and "Storm Guard Dominator Puppeteer" (1000/1000) from her hand in Attack Position. Since Tempest Pendulum Summoned, the Pendulum Effect of "Spine-Hog Dominator" activates, allowing Tempest to draw three cards. Since "Scarvolt" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, dominating "Flashback Dragon" and "Magna Boar". Since "Ryyk" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, allowing Tempest to add "Dominator Lightning" from her Graveyard to her hand. She then activates "Dominator Lightning" ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 3500/2000). "Scarvolt" attacks "Magna Boar", but Flash activates his face-down "Interception" to redirect the attack to "Flash Heart Dragon X". Due to the effect of "Scarvolt", "Flash Heart Dragon X" isn't destroyed by battle and the Battle Damage is halved (Flash 3100 → 2600). Flash finds and activates the Action Card "Protector of the Weak" to make "Flash Heart Dragon X" the only monster Tempest's monsters can attack. Due to the second effect of "Scarvolt", it can attack a number of times equal to the number of Dominated monsters on the field. "Scarvolt" attacks "Flash Heart Dragon X" again (Flash 2600 → 2100). She then activates the effect of "Puppeteer" to free all Dominated monsters on the field and inflict 200 damage to Flash for each one. Two were freed (Flash 2100 → 1700). Since there are no longer any Dominated monsters, the effect of "Glaive" activates, destroying "Flashback Dragon" and "Magna Boar". On Tempest's End Phase, Tempest discards three cards due to his hand being over the hand size limit.

 Turn 26: Flash 

Flash draws. He then Pendulum Summons "Magna Snake" (1600/1300) and "Magna Boar" (1000/1000) from his Extra Deck and "Magna Scholar Ingenium" (1000/1000) from his hand in Attack Position. He then activates the effect of "Ingenium" to fuse "Magna Snake" with "Flash Heart Dragon X" in order to Fusion Summon "Spiral Vector Dragon" (3500/1500) in Attack Position. "Spiral Vector Dragon" attacks "Puppeteer". This activates the first effect of "Spiral Vector Dragon", allowing Flash to excavate the top card of his Deck equal to the Pendulum Scale of "Magna Snake" and reduce the ATK of "Puppeteer" by 500 for each Pendulum Monster found. The Pendulum Scale of "Magna Snake" is 7, so he excavates the top seven cards of his Deck. He finds "Charge Horn Magna Bull", "Lightspeed", "Nightlight Magna Sheep", "Reflection Guard", "Reverse Polarity" and "Magna Caster Lunara" ("Puppeteer": 1000 → 0/1000). Tempest finds and activates the Action Card "Doppelganger Spell" to activate the effect of the "Team Spirit" in Flash's Graveyard, redirecting the attack to "Scarvolt", destroying it instead (Tempest 2800 → 1800). "Magna Boar" attacks and destroys "Puppeteer", but Tempest activates her face-down "Defense Draw" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0 and draw a card.

 Turn 27: Tempest 

Tempest draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Scarvolt" (2500/2000) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. The effect of "Scarvolt" activates, dominating "Magna Boar" and "Ingenium". The Pendulum Effect of "Spine-Hog Dominator" activates, allowing Tempest to draw one card. He then activates "Heavy Storm" to destroy all Spells and Traps on the field. Since "Different Dimension Chest" was destroyed, its effect returns "Staff of Sacanas" to Tempest's hand and Flash draws two cards. She then equips "Scarvolt" with "Staff of Sacanas", increasing its ATK by 500 ("Scarvolt": 2500 → 3000/2000). She then activates the final effect of "Staff of Sarcanas" to Tribute "Scarvolt", "Glaive" and "Ryyk" in order to Special Summon "Storm King Dominator" (4000/4000) from his Deck in Attack Position.

The duel continues in the next episode.