Bohdan Temnyk from Australia and Alejandro Garcia from Mexico City are both two-time Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championship competitors. Now, they’re facing off against one another in a Duel that was effectively determine which one of these Duelists is eliminated, and which one will still have a shot at the Top 32 cut. Temnyk is piloting a Danger! Thunder Dragon Deck featuring some Crusadia monsters this weekend, while Garcia is piloting a Salamangreat Deck. Temnyk and Garcia both have 6-2 records as of now, so they both need a victory in the current round. It’s a battle of titans in this Round 9 Feature Match. Let’s Duel!

Duel One

Garcia started off Duel 1 by Summoning Salamangreat Jack Jaguar.

He used it to Link Summon Salamangreat Balelynx and Temnyk Special Summoned Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay from his hand and used its effect to draw 2 cards and return a card from his hand to his Deck. Garcia used Balelynx’s effect to add Salamangreat Sanctuary to his hand and then Set 2 cards to his back row. In the End Phase, Temnyk discarded a Thunder Dragondark from his hand to grab another from his Deck.

Temnyk drew a card and then had Chaos Emperor, the Dragon of Armageddon; Thunder Dragondark; Batteryman Solar; Crusadia Reclusia; Thunder Dragon; and Danger! Nessie! in his hand. He Summoned Solar to the field and used its effect to send Thunder Dragonroar from his Deck to his Graveyard. Next, he discarded Thunder Dragon from his hand to activate its effect and add 2 more copies of Thunder Dragon from his Deck to his hand. He banished Thunder Dragon and Thunder Dragonroar from his Graveyard to Special Summon Chaos Emperor, the Dragon of Armageddon next, and used the banished Dragonroar’s effect to Special Summon another Dragonroar from his Deck. He used the effect of Solar to Special Summon a Batteryman Token and then used the Solar and the Token to Link Summon Knightmare Phoenix. He discarded Thunder Dragon from his hand to activate its effect and target a card in Moreno’s back row, and Moreno Chained the effect of Phantazmay in his hand to Special Summon it. Then, Moreno Chained Paleozoic Dinomischus to target Chaos Emperor. Temnyk Chained the effect of Phantazmay by discarding Nessie, and Garcia Chained Lost Wind to negate Phantazmay’s effect. As the Chain resolved, Garcia discarded Salamangreat Spinny for Dinomischus, Chaos Emperor returned to the bottom of the Deck, and Garcia Special Summoned Phantazmay to the field and used its effect to draw 2 cards and return 1 to his Deck. Next, Temnyk used Nessie’s effect to add a Danger!? Jackalope? from his Deck to his hand, and used its effect to randomly discard Reclusia, Special Summon Jackalope to the field, and draw a card. Temnyk combined all of his monsters to Link Summon Saryuja Skull Dread next, and activated its effect. Garcia Set Lost Wind from his Graveyard, and Temnyk drew 4 cards and returned 3 cards from his hand to the bottom of his Deck. He activated Sekka’s Light to draw 2 cards next, and then used Saryuja’s effect to Special Summon Omni Dragon Brotaur from his hand. He activated its effect and discarded Danger!? Tsuchinoko? to have the Omni Dragon Brotaur target itself, allowing Temnyk to add Chaos Dragon Levianeer from his Deck to his hand. He Special Summoned Tsuchinoko to his field with its effect and then sent Brotaur to the Graveyard to Link Summon Guardragon Elpy. He used Elpy’s effect to Special Summon Eclipse Wyvern from his Deck and then sent the Wyvern to the Graveyard to Link Summon Guardragon Pisty. He used his Wyvern’s effect to banish Levianeer from his Deck when the Wyvern went to the Graveyard and then banished Eclipse Wyvern, Thunder Dragondark, and Batteryman Solar from his Graveyard to Special Summon Levianeer. He added Levianeer and Thunder Dragonduo to his hand, and then destroyed Phantazmay and Lost Wind on Garcia’s field with Levianeer’s effect. Moreno Link Summon Guardragon Agarpain next, and then Special Summoned Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss from his Extra Deck with Agarpain’s effect. He Link Summoned another Saryuja by using 4 monsters as Link Materials, activating its effect, and then Special Summoned Chaos Dragon Levianeer from his hand. He Special Summon a Dragonroar to his field, Tributed it to Summon Thunder Dragon Colossus from his Extra Deck, and then Special Summoned Darkest Diabolos, Lord of the Lair from his hand with its effect. Attacks from Saryuja, Darkest Diabolos, Tsuchinoko, Levianeer, Thunder Dragon Colossus, and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss ended the Duel!

Bohdan Temnyk builds an incredible field on his first turn to win the first Duel of the Match!

Duel Two

Garcia Summoned Lady Debug and used its effect to add Salamangreat Gazelle to his hand. He used Debug to Link Summon Balelynx and used Balelynx’s effect to add Sanctuary to his hand. He activated the Sanctuary and then used Balelynx to Link Summon Balelynx, and activated the effect of the Gazelle in his hand to Special Summon it. He used Gazelle’s effect to send Spinny from his Deck to his Graveyard, then Special Summoned Spinny. He combined Spinny with Gazelle to Xyz Summon Salamangreat Miragestallio and detached Gazelle to activate its effect and Special Summon Salamangreat Foxy from his Deck in Defense Position. Garcia sent Foxy and Balelynx to the Graveyard to Link Summon Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf and then discarded Jack Jaguar from his hand to Special Summon Foxy linked to Sunlight Wolf. He used Sunlight Wolf’s effect to add Gazelle from his Graveyard to his hand. He sent Foxy and Sunlight Wolf to his Graveyard to Link Summon another Sunlight Wolf and then Special Summoned Jack Jaguar and Set a card to his back row.

Temnyk opened up with Thunder Dragonduo, Thunder Dragon, Batteryman Solar, 2 copies of Jackalope, and Chaos Dragon Levianeer.

He discarded a Thunder Dragon to activate its effect and add 2 more copies of it from his Deck to his hand. Next, he Summoned Batteryman Solar and used its effect to send Thunder Dragonroar from his Deck to his Graveyard. He banished Dragonroar and Thunder Dragon from his Graveyard to Special Summon Dragonduo and used Dragonroar’s effect to Special Summon Thunder Dragondark from his Deck. Then, he used Solar’s effect to Special Summon a Batteryman Token to his field. He used Dragondark and a Token to Link Summon Knightmare Phoenix co-linked to Sunlight Wolf and activated its effect by discarding Jackalope. Garcia Chained the effect of Phantazmay in his hand, and then Chained Salamangreat Rage to destroy Dragonduo and Phoenix. Phantazmay Summoned itself to the field, allowing Garcia to draw a card and return a card to his Deck, and Temnyk drew a card with Phoenix’s effect. Garcia Tributed Artifact Lancea from his hand to prevent banishing, and Temnyk discarded Dragonhawk to Special Summon Dragonduo back from his Graveyard. Next, Temnyk activated Jackalope’s effect and randomly discarded Chaos Dragon Levianeer to Special Summon Jackalope to the field and draw a card. Temnyk sent Solar to the Graveyard to Special Summon Thunder Dragon Colossus next, and then entered his Battle Phase. Colossus attacked and destroyed Miragestallio, and then Dragonduo attacked and destroyed Phantazmay. In Main Phase 2, Temnyk combined Dragondark with Colossus to Xyz Summon Number 68: Sanaphond the Sky Prison in Defense Position. He detached an Xyz Material to activate its effect before ending his turn.

Garcia activated the effect of Sunlight Wolf to add Salamangreat Rage from his Graveyard to his hand. He Normal Summoned Gazelle and used its effect to send Salamangreat Falco from his Deck to his Graveyard. He sent Jack Jaguar to the Graveyard to Link Summon Balelynx and Temnyk tried to Special Summon Phantazmay from his hand. Garcia activated Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring to stop the Special Summon, and then used Sunlight Wolf’s effect to return Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring from his Graveyard to his hand. Garcia sent Gazelle, Balelynx, and Sunlight Wolf to the Graveyard to Link Summon Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax. He attacked and destroyed Number 68.

Temnyk banished Dragonhawk, Colossus, and Number 68 from his Graveyard to Special Summon Levianeer, and used the effects of Dragonhawk and Levianeer. He destroyed both cards on Garcia’s field and then shuffled 3 cards from his hand back into his Deck to draw 3 new ones. Avramax’s effect activated to shuffle Levianeer back into Temnyk’s Deck. Temnyk Normal Summoned Crusadia Draco next and then attacked directly with Jackalope and Draco.

Garcia activated Will of the Salamangreat and used it to Special Summon Gazelle. He used Gazelle’s effect to send Spinny to his Graveyard and then Special Summoned Spinny back to his field. After a flurry of plays, he had Summoned Sunlight Wolf to the field with Jack Jaguar behind it and Falco in Attack Position. Attacks from Garcia’s monsters destroyed Temnyk’s monsters and dropped his Life Points down to 4300 Life Points. As time in the round dropped to 0, Garcia was declared the winner, up 5600 Life Points to 4300 Life Points.

The Match ended in a 1-1 draw! Bohdan Temnyk and Alejandro Garcia Moreno now each have a 6-2-1 record!