Welcome to Round 1 of the December 2022 YCS Remote Duel! Kemal Mohamed from Brooklyn, New York is Dueling against Aimilios Pervanas from Greece in our Round 1 Feature Match! In this Match, both Duelists are continents apart as they take the first step toward becoming a YCS Champion. Mohamed is using a Dark World Deck powered up by the new Structure Deck: Dark World that was released at the beginning of the month. Pervanas, on the other hand, is using a Tearlaments Deck that was adjusted for the latest Forbidden & Limited List. It’s time to Duel!

Duel One

Mohamed started off Duel 1 by activating the effect of Genta, Gateman of Dark World to add The Gates of the Dark World to his hand. He activated it and then used its effect to banish Genta from his Graveyard, discard Snoww, Unlight of Dark World and draw a card. He Special Summoned his banished Genta with its effect and added a Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World to his hand with Snoww’s effect. Next, he activated Dark World Accession to fuse the Grapha and Broww, Huntsman of Dark World in his hand and Fusion Summon Grapha, Dragon Overlord of Dark World. He used Broww’s effect to draw a card and then Normal Summoned Tour Guide From the Underworld. He used its effect to Special Summon Doomdog Octhros. He Link Summoned Cross-Sheep next, and then used Octhros’s effect to add a Grapha from his Deck to his hand. Next, he used the effect of the Dark World Accession in his Graveyard to return it to his hand and discard Reign-Beaux, Overking of Dark World. He used the Reign-Beaux’s effect to add Sillva, Warlord of Dark World to his hand and then returned Genta to his hand to Special Summon Reign-Beaux. He then Special Summoned Snoww with Cross-Sheep’s effect, since Cross-Sheep was pointing at Grapha, Dragon Overlord of Dark World. He returned Reign-Beaux to his hand next to Special Summon Grapha from his Graveyard and then Link Summoned Muckraker From the Underworld. He then used the effect of another Genta in his hand to get another Gates from his Deck and activated it. He banished Tour Guide, discarded Reign-Beaux, and drew a card with the effect of Gates. Next, he used Reign-Beaux’s effect to add another Sillva to his hand. He returned Snoww to his hand to Special Summon Reign-Beaux and then returned Reign-Beaux to his hand to Special Summon Grapha from his Graveyard. He activated the effect of Danger! Nessie! next with 8 cards in his hand, randomly discarding Accession to Special Summon Nessie and draw a card. Next, he used the effect of the Danger!? Jackalope? in his hand and randomly discarded Snoww to Special Summon the Jackalope and draw a card. He used Snoww’s effect to add Dark World Archives to his hand. He activated the Archives and then used its effect to discard Broww. He drew a card with Broww’s effect. Then, he discarded Sillva to draw 2 more cards with the effect of Archives and Special Summoned Sillva. He sent Sillva and Jackalope to the Graveyard to Link Summon Knightmare Phoenix and then sent Knightmare Phoenix and Nessie to the Graveyard to Link Summon Knightmare Unicorn. Next, he activated the effect of Zalamander Catalyzer by revealing Ceruli, Guru of Dark World from his hand. He discarded the Ceruli and Special Summoned the Catalyzer. Pervanas used the effect of Bystial Druiswurm to try to banish Ceruli, Mohamed used Grapha’s effect to stop it, and then Pervanas Chained Bystial Magnamhut’s effect to banish Ceruli. Pervanas activated Magnamhut’s effect to get a search in the End Phase and then Pervanas used the effect of the Danger!? Tsuchinoko? in his hand. He discarded the Tsuchinoko and Special Summoned it, and then sent it to the Graveyard with Unicorn to Link Summon Knightmare Gryphon. He discarded Dark World Accession with its effect to Set the Accession and then drew a card. Next, he activated the effect of Muckraker From the Underworld targeting Snoww, and Pervanas Chained the effect of the Bystial Saronir in his hand to banish the Snoww and Special Summon Saronir. In the End Phase, Pervanas added a Druiswurm from his Deck to his hand.

Pervanas activated Terraforming to add Primeval Planet Perlereino to his hand and activated Perlereino to add Tearlaments Scheiren to his hand. Next, he used the effect of a Druiswurm in his hand to banish Reign-Beaux from the Graveyard and Special Summon it. He Link Summoned Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy next and tried to use Druiswurm’s effect to send Knightmare Gryphon to the Graveyard – but Mohamed used his Grapha, Dragon Overlord of Dark World’s effect to change the effect to allow him to discard a Grapha. He destroyed Dharc with Grapha’s effect. He then randomly looked at the Scheiren in Pervanas’s hand with Grapha’s remaining effect and Special Summoned it to his field. Mohamed then activated a face-down Dark World Accession to banish his on-field Scheiren and a Grapha in his Graveyard to Summon another Grapha, Dragon Overlord of Dark World. Next, Pervanas activated Scheiren’s effect to Special Summon it from his hand and send the top 3 cards of his Deck to his Graveyard. He used the effects of the sent Tearlaments Havnis and Agido the Ancient Sentinel. Agido sent 5 more cards to the Graveyard, allowing him to use several more effects. Once he resolved all of the effects that activated in his Graveyard, he was able to Fusion Summon Mudragon of the Swamp and Tearlaments Kitkallos. He used the effect of a Mudora to return Dharc from his Graveyard to his Extra Deck and both Dark World Accessions to Mohamed’s Deck, and then Link Summoned Dharc again. He used Dharc’s effect to Special Summon Snoww from Mohamed’s Graveyard and then Xyz Summoned Abyss Dweller and used its effect. He entered his Battle Phase and attacked, and then Xyz Summoned Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder over Abyss Dweller in Main Phase 2! He activated its effect to send all cards on the field to the Graveyard! Next, he Normal Summoned Tearlaments Reinoheart and used its effect to send a Scheiren to the Graveyard. He activated the effect of the Scheiren to fuse it with Kitkallos and Summon Tearlaments Rulkallos. He passed his turn.

Mohamed drew a card and then Normal Summoned Ceruli, prompting Pervanas to use his Druiswurm’s effect to banish Grapha from Mohamed’s Graveyard and Special Summon Druiswurm. Mohamed promptly conceded.

Aimilios Pervanas wins Duel 1 after resolving the effect of Zeus despite Kemal Mohamed’s incredible start!

Duel Two

Pervanas started off Duel 2 by using Genta’s effect to add Gates to his hand. He activated it and used its effect to banish Genta and discard Sillva. He drew a card and then Special Summoned Genta and Sillva. Next, he used the effect of Danger! Nessie! and randomly discarded Card Destruction to Special Summon Nessie and draw a card. He then used another Genta’s effect to discard it and grab another Gates from his Deck. He activated another Gates and used its effect to banish Genta, discard Grapha, and draw a card. Pervanas used the effect of a Bystial Druiswurm in his hand to banish the Grapha and Special Summon the Druiswurm. Next, Mohamed Normal Summoned Tour Guide and used its effect to Special Summon Doomdog Octhros. He Link Summoned Akashic Magician and used the effects of his Octhros and Akashic Magician. He added Reign-Beaux to his hand with Octhros and returned Nessie to his hand with the Magician’s effect. He used Nessie’s effect to randomly discard a Jackalope and then Special Summoned Nessie and drew a card. He continued on quickly using the effects of Danger! monsters with just a few minutes left in the round. After a flurry of plays, time in the round was called with Mohamed still in the first Main Phase of the Duel! Mohamed continued his turn to the point where he was able to perform a Rank 4 Xyz Summon, but he couldn’t Summon Gagaga Cowboy from his Extra Deck because he used the effect of Muckraker From the Underworld to Special Summon a monster from his Graveyard earlier in the turn! He was locked into only Summoning Fiend-type monsters! Unable to gain Life Points or deal damage, Mohamed conceded.

Aimilios Pervanas uses his Tearlaments to defeat Kemal Mohamed’s Dark World Deck in Round 1 after a long first Duel! He’s advancing with a 1-0 record!