YGO EQG XX - Episode 027

"Written in the Stars" is the 27th episode of the series.

It's the second round of the tournament and Spike runs into Starlight, the second member of Team Dominator. They then duel against each other.

Spike vs. Unknown Duelist
Duel continues from an unspecified turn. Spike controls no cards and an unknown amount of LP. The opponent controls "Ancient Gear Golem" (3000/3000) in Attack Position and an unknown amount of LP.

 Turn ?: Spike 

Spike draws. He then activates "Flame Spear Dragon" (Left 3) and "Flame Banner Dracokid" (Right 7) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Flame Sabre Dragon" (1500/1200) and "Iron Tail Dragon" (2100/1400) in Attack Position. He then Tributes "Flame Sabre Dragon" and "Iron Tail Dragon" in order to Tribute Summon "Gandora-X the Dragon of Demolition" (0/0) in Attack Position. He then activates its effect to destroy all monsters his opponent controls and inflict damage to his opponent equal to its ATK (Spike's Opponent ? → 0).

Spike vs. Starlight Glimmer
 Turn 1: Starlight 

Starlight draws. She then Normal Summons "Celestial Spirit Cancer" (600/1600) in Defense Position. She then Sets two cards.

 Turn 2: Spike 

Spike draws. He then Normal Summons "Assault Wyvern" (1800/1000) in Attack Position. "Assault Wyvern" attacks and destroys "Cancer". Since a monster with 1500 or less ATK was destroyed by battle, Starlight activates her face-down "Starburst Draw" to draw one card equal to the Level of "Cancer". "Cancer" is Level 4, so she draws four cards. Since "Assault Wyvern" destroyed a monster by battle, its effect activates, Tributing itself to Special Summon a Dragon-Type monster from his hand. He Special Summons "Des Voltsgalph" (2200/1700) in Attack Position. "Des Voltsgalph" attacks Starlight directly, but Starlight activates her face-down "Celestial Ursa Minor" to Special Summon four "Ursa Minor Tokens" (0/0) in Defense Position. Since Starlight activated a Magic Card, the second effect of "Des Volstgalph" activates, increasing its ATK by 200 until the end of the turn ("Des Volstgalph": 2200 → 2400/1700). A replay occurs and "Des Voltsgalph" attacks and destroys an "Ursa Minor Token". Since "Des Volstgalph" destroyed a monster in battle and sent it to the Graveyard, its effect activates; inflicting 500 damage to Starlight (Starlight 4000 → 3500). He then Sets a card.

 Turn 3: Starlight 

Starlight draws. She then activates "Celestial Ursa Major" to Tribute her remaining "Ursa Minor Tokens" and Special Summon an "Ursa Major Token" (?/?) in Attack Position. Since Starlight activated a Magic Card, the second effect of "Des Volstgalph" activates, increasing its ATK by 200 until the end of the turn ("Des Volstgalph": 2200 → 2400/1700). Due to the second effect of the "Ursa Major Token", it gains 800 ATK and DEF for each "Ursa Minor Token" Tributed ("Ursa Major Token": ? → 2400/? → 2400). She then Normal Summons "Celestial Spirit Libra" (900/900) in Attack Position. Since "Libra" was summoned in Attack Position, its effect reduces its DEF to 0 and increase its ATK by the same amount ("Libra": 900 → 1800/900 → 0). He then finds and activates the Action Card "Skill Share" to negate the effect of "Libra" and grant its effect to the "Ursa Major Token" ("Libra": 1800 → 900/0 → 900; "Ursa Major Token": 2400 → 4800/2400 → 0). The "Ursa Major Token" attacks "Des Voltsgalph", but Spike activates his face-down "Stepping Down for the Future Generations" to Tribute "Des Voltsgalph" and Special Summon "Ember Dragon" (1200/1100) and "Flame Banner Dracokid" (1100/1100) from his Deck in Attack Position. A replay occurs and the "Ursa Major Token" attacks and destroys "Ember Dragon". Since "Ember Dragon" was destroyed by battle, its effect activates, Special Summoning two "Ember Tokens" (0/0 each) in Defense Position. "Libra" attacks and destroys an "Ember Token". She then Sets two cards.

 Turn 4: Spike 

Spike draws. He then Normal Summons "Heat Wing Dragon" (300/200) in Attack Position. He then tunes the Level 1 "Heat Wing Dragon" and "Ember Token" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Flame Banner Dracokid" in order to Synchro Summon "Flame Hunter Dragon" (2300/1300) in Attack Position. Since "Heat Wing Dragon" was used for the Synchro Summon of a FIRE monster, its effect activates, increasing the ATK of "Flame Hunter Dragon" by 500 ("Flame Hunter Dragon": 2300 → 2800/1300). "Flame Hunter Dragon" attacks "Libra", but Starlight activates her face-down "Interception" to redirect the attack to the "Ursa Major Token", destroying it instead (Starlight 3500 → 3100). Starlight activates her face-down "Starlight Ride" to Special Summon "Celestial Spirit Scorpio" (1800/600) and "Celestial Spirit Aries" (1400/900) from her Deck in Attack Position. He then Sets a card.

 Turn 5: Starlight 

Starlight draws. She then activates the effect of "Aries" to look at the top three cards of her Deck, send any "Celestial Spirits" among them to the Graveyard and Special Summon one "Wool Token" for each one sent. She sends two, so she Special Summons two "Wool Tokens" (300/300) in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Scorpio" to reduce the ATK of "Flame Hunter Dragon" by 200 for every "Celestial Spirit" she controls ("Flame Hunter Dragon": 2300 → 1700/1300). "Scorpio" attacks and destroys "Flame Hunter Dragon" (Spike 4000 → 3900). Spike finds and activates the Action Card "Reflective Guardian" to Special Summon two "Reflection Tokens" in Attack Position whose Levels equal to the Level of "Flame Hunter Dragon" and their ATKs are equal to their Levels x200 (1000/1000 each). "Libra" attacks and destroys a "Reflection Token" (Spike 3900 → 3100). "Aries" attacks and destroys the remaining "Reflection Token" (Spike 3100 → 2700). Both "Wool Tokens" attack Spike directly (Spike 2700 → 2400 → 2100). She then Sets a card.

 Turn 6: Spike 

Spike draws. He then activates the effect of the "Flame Banner Dracokid" in his Extra Deck, sending it to the Graveyard to add "Flame Breaker Dragon" and "Flame Core Dragon" from his Deck to his hand. He then activates "Flame Breaker Dragon" (Left 1) and "Flame Core Dragon" (Right 8) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Scorcher Dragon" (1200/700) from his hand and "Flame Hunter Dragon" (2300/1300) from his Extra Deck in Attack Position. Since "Flame Hunter Dragon" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, destroying all Spells and Traps Starlight controls. Since "Gravity Well" was sent to the Graveyard, its effect activates, switching all monsters on the field to Defense Position. He then tunes the Level 5 Synchro Pendulum Monster "Flame Hunter Dragon" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Scorcher Dragon" in order to Synchro Summon "Dragonic Blazemaster" (3000/2000) in Attack Position. Starlight finds an unknown Action Trap, which inflicts 200 damage to Starlight everytime one of her monsters is destroyed. "Dragonic Blazemaster" attacks and destroys "Scorpio" (Starlight 3100 → 2900). Since "Dragonic Blazemaster" destroyed a monster by battle, its effect activates, allowing it to attack again, but the Battle Damage will be halved. "Dragonic Blazemaster" attacks and destroys "Aries" (Starlight 2900 → 2700). The effect of "Dragonic Blazemaster" activates, allowing it to attack again, but the Battle Damage will be halved. This continued and destroyed every monster Starlight controls (Starlight 2700 → 2100). He then Sets a card.

 Turn 7: Starlight 

Starlight draws. She then activates "Magical Mallet" to shuffle three cards in her hand into her Deck and draw three cards. She then activates "Celestial Device Sextans" to revive "Celestial Spirit Pisces" (2000/500) in Attack Position. She then activates its effect to halve its ATK ("Pisces": 2000 → 1000/500) and allow it to attack twice this turn. She then activates "Reverse Polarity" to swap the ATK of "Pisces" and "Dragonic Blazemaster" until the End Phase ("Pisces": 1000 → 3000/500; "Dragonic Blazemaster": 3000 → 1000/2000). "Pisces" attacks "Dragonic Blazemaster", but Spike finds and activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack. Spike activates his face-down "Shrink" to halve the ATK of "Pisces" ("Pisces": 3000 → 1500/500). "Pisces" attacks and destroys "Dragonic Blazemaster" (Spike 2100 → 1600).

 Turn 8: Spike 

Spike draws. He then Pendulum Summons "Flame Hunter Dragon" (2300/1300) from his Extra Deck in Attack Position. He then activates "Monster Reborn" to revive "Dragonic Blazemaster" (3000/2000) in Attack Position. Starlight finds and activates the Action Card "Draw Score" to look at the top five cards of her Deck and Set any Quick-Play Spell Cards or Trap Cards among them face-down and allow herself to activate them this turn. She Sets four cards. He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Flame Breaker Dragon" to pay 400 LP (Spike 1600 → 1200), banish "Armored Wyvern" from his hand and Special Summon "Peewee Dragon" (300/100) and "Magna Drago" (1400/600) from his Deck in Attack Position. He then Double Tunes the Level 2 Tuner monsters "Peewee Dragon" and "Magna Drago" with the Level 8 Synchro Monster "Dragonic Blazemaster" in order to Synchro Summon "Dragonic Blazemaster Inferno Legend" (3500/3000) in Attack Position.

Due to the effect of "Inferno Legend", it gains 300 ATK for every Dragon-Type monster in Spike's Graveyard ("Inferno Legend": 3500 → 6200/3000). "Flame Hunter Dragon" attacks "Pisces", but Starlight activates her face-down "Starlight Veil" to negate three attacks this turn. "Inferno Legend" attacks "Pisces", but that attack is negated via "Starlight Veil". He then activates the second effect of "Inferno Legend" to banish one Tuner monster from his Graveyard and allow it to attack again ("Inferno Legend": 6200 → 5900/3000). "Inferno Legend" attacks "Pisces", but that attack is negated via "Starlight Veil". He then activates the second effect of "Inferno Legend" to banish one Tuner monster from his Graveyard and allow it to attack again ("Inferno Legend": 5900 → 5600/3000). "Inferno Legend" attacks "Pisces", but Starlight activates her face-down "Celestial Weapon" to negate the attack and equip itself to "Pisces", switching it to Defense Position and increasing its DEF by 500 ("Pisces": 2000/500 → 1000). He then activates the second effect of "Inferno Legend" to banish one Tuner monster from his Graveyard and allow it to attack again ("Inferno Legend": 5600 → 5300/3000). "Inferno Legend" attacks and destroys "Pisces". He then activates the second effect of "Inferno Legend" to banish one Tuner monster from his Graveyard and allow it to attack again ("Inferno Legend": 5300 → 5000/3000). "Inferno Legend" attacks Starlight directly, but Starlight activates her face-down "Celestial Spirit Ophiuchus" to Special Summon the latter (1700/1000) in Defense Position. A replay occurs and "Inferno Legend" attacks and destroys "Ophiuchus". Since "Ophiuchus" was destroyed by battle, its effect activates, equipping itself to "Inferno Legend" and reduce the ATK of "Inferno Legend" by 100 for every "Celestial Spirit" monster in Starlight's Graveyard during each Standby Phase. Starlight activates her face-down "Starlight Beacon" to Special Summon "Celestial Spirit Gemini" (1000/1000) from her Deck in Attack Position.

 Turn 9: Starlight 

Starlight draws. On Starlight's Standby Phase, the effect of "Ophiuchus" activates ("Inferno Legend": 5000 → 4300/3000). She then activates "Celestial Device Circunis" to add "Celestial Spirit Leo" from her Deck to her hand. Due to the effect of "Gemini", it counts as two Tributes for the Tribute Summon of a LIGHT monster. She then Tributes "Gemini" in order to Tribute Summon "Celestial Spirit Leo" (2500/2000) in Attack Position. She then equips "Leo" with "Celestial Spirit Orion's Sword", increasing its ATK by 1000 ("Leo": 2500 → 3500/2000). She then activates the effect of "Leo" to look at the top five cards of her Deck and send any "Celestial Spirit" monsters among them to the Graveyard. "Leo" attacks "Inferno Legend". Due to the effect of "Leo", it gains 200 ATK for every monster in her Graveyard ("Leo": 3500 → 5300/2000). "Leo" then destroys "Inferno Legend" (Spike 1600 → 600). Since "Leo" destroyed a monster by battle, the effect of "Orion's Sword" activates, inflicting 100 damage to Spike for every "Celestial Spirit" in Starlight's Graveyard. There are currently nine (Spike 600 → 0).

Trivia

 * "Iron Tail Dragon" is a real monster in another Card Game called "Cardfight!! Vanguard". Look it up. It even nearly matches the description.
 * It actually makes sense for Starlight to have Starburst Draw in her Deck because it has Star in its name. I bet she even has Starburst Reload.