YGO EQG XX - Episode 023

"Tricks and Trials" is the 23rd episode of the series.

Twilight Sparkle vs. Trixie
 Turn 1: Trixie 

Trixie draws. She then activates "Performage Water Dancer" (Left 2) and "Performage Lion Rider" (Right 7) in her Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Performage Tightrope Wheeler" (1800/1300) and "Performage Plushfire" (1000/1000) from her hand in Attack Position. She then Sets two cards.

 Turn 2: Twilight 

Twilight draws. She then activates "Pendulum Caster" (Left 2) and "Magi-Beast Mystic Dracoteen" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Timebreaker Magician" (1400/0) from her hand in Attack Position. Since "Timebreaker Magician" was Pendulum Summoned on its own, its effect activates, doubling its ATK ("Timebreaker Magician": 1400 → 2800/0). She then Normal Summons "Flame Burst Magician" (1300/600) in Attack Position. Since "Flame Burst Magician" was Normal Summoned, its effect activates, inflicting 800 damage to Trixie (Trixie 4000 → 3200). "Timebreaker Magician" attacks and destroys "Tightrope Wheeler", but Trixie activates her face-down "Damage Trap" to halve all Battle Damage she would take this turn (Trixie 3200 → 2700). "Flame Burst Magician" attacks and destroys "Plushfire" (Trixie 2700 → 2550). Since "Plushfire" was destroyed by battle, its effect activates, allowing Trixie to add "Performage Juggler Knight" from her Deck to her hand. Trixie activates her face-down "Trap Converter" to destroy "Damage Trap" and draw three cards.

 Turn 3: Trixie 

Trixie draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Plushfire" (1000/1000) from her Extra Deck and "Performage Juggler Knight" (1500/1200) from her hand in Attack Position. She then activates "Ritual of the Grand Amulet" to Tribute "Plushfire" and "Juggler Knight" in order to Ritual Summon "Enchantress of the Grand Amulet" (2900/1000) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Enchantress of the Grand Amulet", it gains 100 ATK for every Spellcaster-Type monster on the field and in both players' Graveyards  ("Enchantress of the Grand Amulet": 2900 → 3000/1000). She then equips "Enchantress of the Grand Amulet" with "Staff of Relentless Rage". Now whenever the equipped monster destroys a monster by battle, another monster Twilight controls will be destroyed and Twilight will take damage equal to its Level x100. "Enchantress of the Grand Amulet" attacks and destroys "Flame Burst Magician" (Twilight 4000 → 2300) ("Enchantress of the Grand Amulet": 3000 → 3100/1000). The effect of "Staff of Relentless Rage" activates, destroying "Timebreaker Magician" (Twilight 2300 → 2000). She then Sets a card.

 Turn 4: Twilight 

Twilight draws. She then activates "Magical Mallet" to shuffle the card in her hand into her Deck and draw one card. She then Pendulum Summons "Timebreaker Magician" (1400/0) from her Extra Deck and "Magician's Valkyria" (1600/1800) from her hand in Attack Position. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Pendulum Caster" to change "Timebreaker Magician" into a Tuner monster. She then tunes the Level 3 Tuner monster "Timebreaker Magician" with the Level 4 "Magician's Valkyria" in order to Synchro Summon "Twilight Warlock" (2500/2100) in Attack Position ("Enchantress of the Grand Amulet": 3100 → 3200/1000). She then activates its effect to look at the top five cards of her Deck and add "Spellbook of Secrets" to her hand. She then activates "Spellbook of Secrets" to add "Magic Tome of Starswirl" from her Deck to her hand. She then equips "Twilight Warlock" with "Magic Tome of Starswirl", increasing its ATK by 100 for every "Spellbook" card in Twilight's Graveyard. There are currently two ("Twilight Warlock": 2500 → 2700/2100). She then activates the second effect of "Magic Tome of Starswirl" to send "Spellbook of Power" from her Deck to the Graveyard and activate its effect, increasing the ATK of "Twilight Warlock" by 1000 ("Twilight Warlock": 2700 → 3700 → 3800/2100). "Twilight Warlock" attacks and destroys "Enchantress of the Grand Amulet" (Trixie 2550 → 1950). Since a Ritual monster was destroyed by battle, Trixie activates her face-down "Ritual of Control" to pay half of her LP (Trixie 1950 → 975) and take control of "Twilight Warlock". She then Sets two cards.

 Turn 5: Trixie 

Trixie draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Plushfire" (1000/1000) and "Juggler Knight" (1500/1200) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. Twilight activates her face-down "Spellbook of Illusion" to Special Summon 4 "Spellbook Tokens" (0/0) in Defense Position. She then activates "Ritual of Lost Souls" to Tribute "Twilight Warlock" and "Plushfire" in order to Ritual Summon "Lost Souls Magician" (?/?) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Lost Souls Magician", its ATK and DEF become equal to the total ATK and DEF of the Tributed monsters ("Lost Souls Magician": ? → 3500/? → 3100). She then activates its effect to discard a Trap Card and negate the effects of Trap Cards Twilight controls this turn. "Lost Souls Magician" attacks and destroys a "Spellbook Token". She then activates the third effect of "Lost Souls Magician" to reduce its ATK by 500 ("Lost Souls Magician": 3500 → 3000/2100) and allow it to attack again. "Lost Souls Magician" attacks and destroys the second "Spellbook Token". She then activates the effect of "Lost Souls Magician" again ("Lost Souls Magician": 3000 → 2500/2100). "Lost Souls Magician" attacks and destroys the third "Spellbook Token". She then activates the effect of "Lost Souls Magician" a third time ("Lost Souls Magician": 2500 → 2000/2100). "Lost Souls Magician" attacks and destroys the last "Spellbook Token". "Juggler Knight" attacks Twilight directly. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Lion Rider" to increase its ATK by 500 ("Juggler Knight": 1500 → 2000/1200). Twilight finds and activates the Action Card "Ice Guard" to Special Summon "Magi-Beast Twilight Unicorn" (1800/1300) from her hand in Attack Position. A replay occurs and "Juggler Knight" attacks and destroys "Twilight Unicorn" (Twilight 2000 → 1800). She then equips "Juggler Knight" with "Magic Guardian Circle". Now the equipped monster cannot be attacked.

 Turn 6: Twilight 

Twilight draws. She then finds and activates the Action Card "Frozen Voyage" to banish "Flame Burst Magician" from her Graveyard and Special Summon "Spirit Chanter" (500/300) and "Royal Charmer" (100/100) from her Deck in Attack Position. She then Pendulum Summons "Twilight Unicorn" (1800/1300) and "Timebreaker Magician" (1400/0) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Pendulum Caster" to change "Timebreaker Magician" into a Tuner monster. She then tunes the Level 3 Tuner monster "Timebreaker Magician" with the Level 4 "Twilight Unicorn" in order to Synchro Summon "Twilight Alicorn" (2600/1900) in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 7 "Twilight Alicorn" and the Level 2 "Spirit Chanter" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Royal Charmer" in order to Synchro Summon "Alicorn Princess Twilight Ascension" (3300/3000) in Attack Position. She then activates its first effect to look at the top five cards of her Deck and send all "Spellbook" cards among them to the Graveyard. She sends three. She then activates its second effect to target two "Spellbook" cards in her Graveyard, add one to her hand and banish the other. She adds "Magic Tome of Starswirl". She then activates "Spellbook of Rebirth" to revive "Magician's Valkyria" (1600/1800) in Attack Position. She then activates "Spellbook of Power" to increase the ATK of "Magician's Valkyria" by 1000 ("Magician's Valkyria": 1600 → 2600/1800). She then equips "Twilight Ascension" with "Magic Tome of Starswirl" ("Twilight Ascension": 3300 → 3700/3000). "Twilight Ascension" attacks and destroys "Lost Souls Magician" (Trixie 975 → 775). "Magician's Valkyria" attacks "Juggler Knight", but Trixie finds and activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack. On Twilight's End Phase, the effect of "Twilight Ascension" activates, destroying "Juggler Knight" and inflicting damage to Trixie equal to its Level x300 (Trixie 775 → 0).

Fluttershy vs. Aria
The duel continues from an unspecified turn. Fluttershy controls "Sacred Guardian Beast Grand Grizzly" (2300/1800), "Winged Kuriboh" (300/200), a face-down and 3700 LP. Aria controls "Ocean's Idol Nera" (Left 1) and "Ocean's Idol Vespers" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones and 3200 LP.

 Turn ?: Aria 

Aria draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Ocean's Idol Allegra" (1000/1000), "Ocean's Idol Rhapsody" (2300/1900), "Ocean's Idol Medley" (2000/2000), "Ocean's Idol Cabaletta" (2000/100) and "Ocean's Idol Arietta" (2400/2100) in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Arietta" to return "Allegra", "Rhapsody" and "Medley" to her hand and return "Grand Grizzly", "Winged Kuriboh" and "Transcendant Wings" to the bottom of Fluttershy's Deck. "Arietta" attacks Fluttershy directly, but Fluttershy discards "Kuriboh" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0. "Cabaletta" attacks Fluttershy directly (Fluttershy 3700 → 1700). She then Sets a card.

Most of the duel is skipped. Fluttershy controls "Sacred Guardian Beast Silk Spider" (Left 1) and "Sacred Guardian Beast Breezy Fairy" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones and 800 LP. Aria controls "Gravity Bind" and 2500 LP. Due to the effect of "Gravity Bind", all Level 4 or higher monsters cannot attack.

 Turn ?: Fluttershy 

Fluttershy draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Sacred Guardian Beast Kindness Dragonoid" (2600/1900) in Attack Position. She then Normal Summons "Synkuriboh" (300/200) in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 7 "Kindnes Dragonoid" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Synkuriboh" in order to Synchro Summon "Sacred Guardian Beast Kindness Dragonia" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. She then activates its effect to Tribute itself and Special Summon up to 5 Level 1 monsters from her Graveyard. Those Level 1 monsters will have their ATKs doubled and can attack directly this turn. She Special Summons "Kuriboh", "Winged Kuriboh", two copies of "Kuribon" and "Synkuriboh" (300/200 each) in Attack Position. "Kuriboh", "Winged Kuriboh", two copies of "Kuribon" and "Synkuriboh" all attack Aria directly since they are Level 3 or lower (Aria 2500 → 1900 → 1300 → 700 → 100 → 0).