Round 7 Feature Match: Anderson Tsang vs. Bruce Zhang
We’re in Round 7, and we saw YCS Denver Champion Anderson Tsang with a True Draco Deck still in contention, so we decided to pick him for a Feature Match. It also happens that he’s playing against Bruce Zhang, who we’ve already featured earlier today. Them’s the breaks! With both players at 4-2, they’re getting dangerously close to the bubble. An X-3 record will have a harder time making the Top 32 cut to Day 2. Whose Day 2 hopes will stay alive for one more round? Let’s find out! It’s time to Duel!
Duel 1
Tsang won the roll and elected for Zhang to go first. He started with Silver Gadget whose effect Special Summoned A-Assault Core. The two monsters were used to Xyz Summon Bujintei Tsukuyomi. He Set 2, then used the effect to discard Solemn Strike to draw 2. He activated his freshly drawn Union Hangar, adding B-Buster Drake to hand. He Set another card to the back row and passed, but in the End Phase Tsang activated Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries and revealed ABC-Dragon Buster! Zhang banished all 3!
Tsang started with a Normal Summon of Amano-Iwato. He Set Terraforming and Dragonic Diagram then activated Card of Demise! He then activated Terraforming to find another Dragonic Diagram. He then activated Pot of Duality, taking Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King. He then flipped up Dragonic Diagram, Set True Draco Apocalypse and activated Dragonic Diagram to add True Draco Heritage to hand by destroying Apocalypse. True Draco Apocalypse’s effect destroyed Bujintei Tsukuyomi. He then activated True Draco Heritage and used its effect to draw 1 card. Tsang used True Draco Heritage to Tribute Amano-Iwato and True Draco Heritage and Tribute Summon Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King! Tsang used True Draco Heritage’s effect to destroy a face-down card, but Zhang chained it: Torrential Tribute! Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King was destroyed. Tsang pressed on by activating the second Dragonic Diagram, using the effect to destroy another Amano-Iwato to add True King’s Return to his hand. He Set it and True Draco Apocalypse and passed. His other Set card was another Card of Demise.
Zhang Normal Summoned B-Buster Drake and used the effect of Union Hangar to equip A-Assault Core to B-Buster Drake. The Machine attacked but Tsang activated True King’s Return to bring back Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King.
Tsang drew Pot of Duality, revealing Dragonic Diagram, Card of Demise, and Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King. He picked Master Peace to add to his hand. He activated Dragonic Diagram, destroying Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King on his field to add Disciples of the True Dracophoenix to his hand. He activated Disciples of the True Dracophoenix and used the effect to Tribute it and True Draco Apocalypse to Tribute Summon Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King. The effects destroyed Zhang’s Set Solemn Strike and B-Buster Drake (with A-Assault Core being destroyed in B’s place). Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King destroyed B-Buster Drake in battle. When Tsang activated his Set Card of Demise, Zhang elected to concede and move to the second Duel.
Duel 2
Zhang elected to have Tsang go first. He started with Upstart Goblin, drawing Majesty Maiden, the True Dracocaster. He then activated Pot of Duality, revealing Amano-Iwato, Solemn Judgment, and Disciples of the True Dracophoenix. He opted for Disciples of the True Dracophoenix, Normal Summoned Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, then used the additional Tribute Summon from Disciples to Tribute Summon Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King. His hand was Majesty Maiden, the True Dracocaster and Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries. He passed there.
Zhang activated Pot of Desires, banishing 10 cards from his Deck to draw 2 cards. He then activated Union Hangar and used its effect to add B-Buster Drake to his hand. He Normal Summoned Silver Gadget, whose effect Special Summoned Gold Gadget from his hand, and Gold’s effect then Special Summoned B-Buster Drake from his hand. Zhang used the effect of Union Hangar to equip A-Assault Core to B-Buster Drake. He used B-Buster Drake and Silver Gadget to Link Summon Qliphort Genius! He used the effects of B and A to add C-Crush Wyvern from Deck to hand and B-Buster Drake from Graveyard to hand. He Set one card to the back row and passed. In the End Phase, Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King destroyed Zhang’s Set Torrential Tribute.
Tsang activated Pot of Duality, revealing True Draco Heritage, True Draco Apocalypse, and Amano-Iwato. He deliberated momentarily before choosing True Draco Apocalypse. He activated Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries, revealing ABC-Dragon Buster, then Set True Draco Apocalypse and used it to Tribute Summon Majesty Maiden, the True Dracocaster. Tsang used True Draco Apocalypse’s effect to destroy Zhang’s Silver Gadget. Silver Gadget’s effect activated, Tsang Chained Majesty Maiden’s effect, then Zhang Chained his in-hand Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit. At the end of it, Ignis Heat, the True Dracowarrior was added to Tsang’s hand, and Zhang had a C-Crush Wyvern and a Gold Gadget on his field.
Zhang Normal Summoned B-Buster Drake and used Union Hangar’s effect to equip C-Crush Wyvern from the Deck to B-Buster Drake. He used B-Buster Drake and Gold Gadget to Link Summon Underclock Taker. He used B-Buster Drake’s effect to add another B to his hand. He Set one card to the back row and passed. In the End Phase, Tsang used Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King to destroy Zhang’s Set Torrential Tribute.
Tsang drew Majesty Maiden, the True Dracocaster for turn. He attacked with Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King into Underclock Taker.
Zhang Normal Summoned B-Buster Drake and used the two Drakes to Xyz Summon Bujintei Tsukuyomi. He Set a card to the back row and used Bujintei Tsukuyomi’s effect, discarding two copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring to draw 2 cards.
Tsang drew Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. He attacked into Bujintei Tsukuyomi and passed.
Zhang Set a card and passed.
Tsang drew Dragonic Diagram. He activated it and Zhang extended the handshake.
Zhang gets shut down by Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries in both Duels and Anderson Tsang moves on with an 5-2 record!