Who let him play Yu-Gi-Oh!

An island in the sea, the headquarters of Duel Academy.

Principal Samejima, who had been busy for most of the day, finally had some free time. He came to the office, made a cup of tea leisurely, and took advantage of this rare break to check the results of this year's admissions exam and some of the duels that interested him.

He didn't expect that Professor Kuronos actually went into battle in person. It was obvious that he was deliberately trying to embarrass a certain jellyfish head freshman. But this student named Yujo Judai is really strong. During the entrance examination, he defeated the top actual person in charge of the academy who was holding his own deck of cards.

Principal Samejima took a sip of tea and was very satisfied with the extraordinary potential shown by his Judai classmates.

Then, of course, he also took a look at this year's number one actual duel. It is said that this person's written test scores were all perfect except for the subjective part of the open-ended test questions. He beat the second place student Daichi Misawa who was also close to perfect scores, and his performance was very impressive.

So let’s take a look at this person’s actual combat performance and deck construction.

What is this?

Principal Samejima couldn't help but scratch his shiny head.

He thought that he must have been in the dueling world for many years, so he was well-informed. But I haven’t seen such a construction very often.

No, if I must say it, the deck used by the legendary Duel King Muto Yugi in his later years of fame, which he had the chance to meet once at an invitational tournament hosted by Kaiba when he was young, seems to have a bit of this flavor.

It is said that when Duel King Game was in the late stages of his dueling career, many opponents who tried to challenge him ended up getting frustrated, and their distorted expressions after the fight were like cosplaying Malik during the Duel City period.

It's a bit like the unlucky examiner opposite me in the assessment duel before me.

However, the evolution of the dueling world over the years has long proven that it is the unique skill of the dueling king and cannot be easily imitated by others. Over the years, the mainstream construction of Duel has been moving closer to the direction guided by Seto Kaiba. This kind of unique skill has been rare since Duel King closed his cards and retired.

Unlike traditional professors represented by Kuronos, Principal Samejima does not insist that students learn tactics and build decks according to textbook standards.

It’s just that ordinary students do not have the ability to innovate and develop independently. But Principal Samejima, with his many years of teaching experience, felt at a glance that there might be a student named Yu Xuan.

Could it be that this year the academy actually recruited a newbie with such a rare talent?

Thinking of this, Principal Samejima suddenly couldn't help but look forward to it.

Looking at Yujo Judai on the roster, and then at Fujiki Yugen next to him, the principal leaned into his seat and took a leisurely sip of tea, and couldn't help but smile with relief.

Little Duel Academy actually recruited two talented people, Wolong and Phoenix, at the same time this year.

It's really gratifying.

The efficiency of Duel Academy is quite high. Within a few days after the test, candidates can already check their scores, results, and admission information.

As expected, You Xuan received the admission notice.

Of course, there is still a month until school starts, so I’m not in a rush to land on the island right away. However, the new freshmen of the college have completed their registration, and these passing students have been counted as freshmen in this year's reserve camp in advance.

You Xuan took his newly received student ID information and logged into Haima Company's card inquiry system through the college channel. As expected, there were more options for purchasing cards.

However, he quickly glanced through it, and for the time being, he recorded all the cards in stock that he thought he might need and made a list. Then take inventory and analyze one by one.

Most of them are thought to be useful, but may need to be used with specific builds or combos. These are listed first and put aside for discussion.

Immediately decide that the cards you want to buy are generally general-purpose cards that can be used in most decks. These cards are mainly happy red pits.

For example, "Causal Cutoff" can directly send the opponent's monster to another dimension by discarding a card in the hand, and there is also the "Destruction Wheel", a ten thousand-year-old banned card that was not castrated back then - it can blow up a monster and both sides will bear it at the same time. The numerical damage of the monster's attack power is a weapon that can overturn the table if you can't win. People in the world call it the draw wheel.

In addition, he was even more surprised to find that there are actually pitfalls in the omnipotent in-app purchase channel.

As the saying goes, hand traps are difficult to guard against. Unlike trap cards that are easy to guard against and clear when placed on the field, hand traps that can be discarded directly from the hand to activate the effect have been the mainstream of Yu-Gi-Oh since its birth. Even continues to this day.

Of course, early hand pits were not as brutal as modern ones, and they were generally used to block attacks and have a knife-blocking effect. Its origin is naturally the mascot that has been inherited from the DM period, the chestnut ball in Yugi's hand that can directly negate combat damage by discarding it.

So when he found a chestnut ball in the rare card column, Yu Xuan bought it on the spot without hesitation. He was also a little surprised that such a rare thing could still see one without being snatched away.

But that's right. From the animation, it seems that the duelists are not particularly interested in this kind of low-star monster that is weak in combat and can only block a sword once. Even if the chestnut ball is rare, most of its additional value comes from its body. "It's just the mascot of the first Duel King."

Then he even discovered that there was a column called "Theme Pre-Group" in the college department. I clicked on it and took a look. It was probably a pre-assembled deck with a specific theme, sold in a package at a fixed price.

We even saw the legendary "elemental heroes" among them.

But it’s natural to think about it. In the first episode of GX, when Chronos saw the deck of the 10th generation, he called it a "very common hero deck". In this era, the hero deck itself is also a civilian construction. However, as more and more new ten-generation cards were printed in the later ten generations, they gradually began to fall out of the ranks of civilians.

Every card player has more or less heroic dreams in his heart. Since they all came to the GX era, Yu Xuan curiously tried to check it out.

Then Lightspeed gave up on his dream of being a hero.

The monsters basically only include the four famous losers, and the current stock of fusion heroes only has two or three, and then there are a bunch of exclusive accessories for the losers. What about lightning gun, wing scatter, burst return, etc.

There are various cards that even Judai-san only used once in the anime and then disappeared. The one that stands out is that the meaning is unclear.

At a cursory glance, he found that it was not a deck that ordinary people could control. Almost every Magic Trap card must be used with a specific hero Mortal Bone, and even if it is painted with 502 and forcibly bound together, the applicable scenarios of each combination are too limited, and it will cause accidents in actual combat. Stuck to the point of doubting life.

So Judai-san was able to defeat most of the dueling academies with these things in the early stage. This ability has already been beyond the reach of 99% of the duelists.

Elemental heroes are not considered for the time being. You Xuan then turned back.

Then I discovered that Judai's younger brother Marufuji Sho's vehicle deck "Robot" series was actually included in it.

His eyes lit up and he quickly looked through the card list in the construction.

Sho Marufuji's robot deck is not a rare deck in the current environment. It has performed mediocrely in the real card environment for many years. It has never had competitive strength and is a relatively marginalized entertainment deck.

But there is an early god card in this deck that Sho Marufuji used in the anime, but it has not been implemented by Foundation K nearly twenty years ago.

really!

You Xuan's eyes immediately locked on the specific card in the deck, and he bought this construction without hesitation.

The cards in the set cannot be sold individually, but can only be purchased together as a set. But it doesn't matter, the build itself is not expensive, and in the current environment, it's not a bad idea to buy the entire build just for this one card.

[Kite robot, 1 star, attack power 200, defense power 400.

Effect:

1) You can discard this card from your hand to reduce the combat damage of a direct attack on the player to 0.

2) When this card exists in the graveyard, it has only one chance to reduce the combat damage of a direct attack to the player to 0. 】(animation effect)

This card has not been implemented in reality. Historically, it has only been exclusive to two games, "Card Power 3" and "Duel Link" on the PSP. It can be used as a hand pit and a tomb pit respectively, and one card can block two swords. In the GX era, where hand pits are extremely scarce, it is undoubtedly a life-saving artifact.

You Xuan was immersed in the pleasure of buying and buying, and another wave of reinforcements came. The card inventory is becoming more and more abundant, and the optional configuration of the deck is becoming more and more free, but the wallet that has just been swelled is also rapidly depleted.

You Xuan decided to keep some notes on hand before spending them all. He exited the interface and sighed softly, looking at the sky.

Sure enough, what the seniors said is right.

Why play Yu-Gi-Oh if you don’t have money?