Round 1 Feature Match: Hilary Valentine vs. Justin Johnson
Hilary Valentine, better known as the Twitch and YouTube personality “Shiggys” for her Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL content, is from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She plays a ton of MASTER DUEL but is also a big Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME fan and is excited to be playing in YCS Philadelphia this weekend! She’s here cosplaying as I:P Masquerena while using a Cyberse strategy that focuses on Link Summons! Valentine’s Deck is bolstered by the new Firewall Defenser from Cyberstorm Access. Now she’s Dueling against Justin Johnson from Virginia Beach, Virginia in Round 1. Justin is using a Superheavy Samurai Deck, which recently got a ton of support in the latest Booster Set. With that new support from Cyberstorm Access, Superheavy Samurai Decks are able to create incredible fields using very few cards on the very first. That could make this a tough Match for Valentine if she doesn’t draw cards that can disrupt Johnson’s strategy. It’s time to Duel!
Duel One
Valentine opened up Duel 1 with Firewall Defenser, Cynet Mining, Mathmech Equation, PSY-Framegear Gamma, and Triple Tactics Talents.
She started off with Cynet Mining and discarded PSY-Framegear Gamma to add Mathmech Circular to her hand. She Special Summoned Mathmech Circular by sending Mathmech Sigma from her Deck to her Graveyard and then used Sigma’s effect to Special Summon it. Next, she combined Circular with Sigma to Xyz Summon Mathmech Alembertian and used its effect by detaching both Xyz Materials. Johnson Chained the effect of his PSY-Framegear Gamma to negate the activation of its effect and destroy Alembertian while Special Summoning the Gamma from his hand and a PSY-Frame Driver from his Deck! Next, Valentine activated Triple Tactics Talents to draw 2 cards from her Deck, picking up Parallel Exceed and Droll & Lock Bird. She Normal Summoned Firewall Defenser and linked it into Linguriboh. She Special Summoned Parallel eXceed from her hand and used its effect to Special Summon another copy from her Deck. Next, she used Linguriboh and Parallel eXceed to Link Summon Splash Mage and used the Mage’s effect to Special Summon Sigma from the Graveyard. Then she used Splash Mage and Sigma to Link Summon Transcode Talker. She used Transcode Talker to Special Summon Splash Mage back to the field and then used all of her monsters to Link Summon Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Terahertz in the Extra Monster Zone! She used Darkfluid’s effect to send Cyberse Desavewurm from her Extra Deck to her Graveyard and gain 2500 ATK, and then ended her turn. In the End Phase, Driver and Gamma were banished from Johnson’s field
Johnson Normal Summoned Superheavy Samurai Soulpiercer and then activated Superheavy Samurai Monk Big Benkei in his Pendulum Zone. Valentine negated its activation with the effect of Desavewurm by banishing it from her Graveyard. Next, Johnson sent Soulpiercer to the Graveyard to Link Summon Superheavy Samurai Scarecrow and added Superheavy Samurai Motorbike to his hand with Soulpiercer’s effect. Valentine activated the effect of her Droll & Lock Bird! Johnson activated Superheavy Samurai Prodigy Wakaushi in his Pendulum Zone next, and used its effect to place Superheavy Samurai Monk Big Benkei in his other Pendulum Zone and Special Summon the Wakaushi. Johnson activated his Scarecrow’s effect by discarding Superheavy Samurai Wagon next and Special Summoned Soulpiercer. He equipped Superheavy Samurai Soulpeacemaker from his hand to Scarecrow and then Tributed the Scarecrow to Special Summon Motorbike from his Deck. Next, he used Motorbike’s effect to increase its own Level to 4 and then he Tuned Motorbike with Soulpiercer to Synchro Summon Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon. He used its effect to Special Summon Motorbike from his Graveyard and then Synchro Summoned Baronne de Fleur by Tuning his Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon with Motorbike. Valentine activated the effect of her Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Terahertz to send Mereologic Aggregator to the Graveyard and gain 2500 ATK. She used the Mereologic Aggregator’s effect to try to negate the effect of Baronne de Fleur, and Johnson used his Baronne’s effect to negate the effect of the Mereologic Aggregator. Next, Johnson used his Baronne de Fleur’s effect to try to destroy Darkfluid; but Valentine banished Firewall Defenser from her Graveyard to protect Darkfluid! Next, Johnson activated Wakaushi’s effect. He discarded a Motorbike to Special Summon Superheavy Samurai Scales. He used Scales’s effect to Special Summon Motorbike from his Graveyard and then Tuned Motorbike with Baronne de Fleur to Synchro Summon Superheavy Samura Brave Masurawo. Next, he Tuned his other 2 monsters together to Summon Superheavy Samurai Ninja Sarutobi. He then used Wakaushi’s effect to put it in his Pendulum Zone and passed his turn.
Valentine drew Firewall Defenser and then activated Mathmech Equation. Johnson Chained the effect of his Masurawo to draw 3 cards and Valentine Special Summoned Circular. She Normal Summoned Firewall Defenser next, and used Circular and Defenser to Link Summon G Golem Crystal Heart. She Special Summoned Firewall Guardian with the effect of Firewall Defenser. She used G Golem Crystal Heart’s effect to Special Summon Transcode Talker next, and then Link Summoned Accesscode Talker! She Special Summoned Firewall Guardian back from her Graveyard and then used her Accesscode Talker’s effect three times to clear Johnson’s field of everything except the Masurawo. Next, she used Darkfluid Dragon’s effect to send Mathmech Nabla to the Graveyard and gain 2500 ATK. Nabla’s effect allowed Darkfluid to attack twice. Darkfluid attacked and destroyed Brave Masurawo, and then attacked directly for 10,500 points of damage!
Hilary Valentine wins Duel 1 with an attack from Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Aggregator! Johnson chose to go first in Duel 2!
Duel Two
Johnson started off Duel 2 by Special Summoning Superheavy Samurai Stealthy from his hand.
He activated Big Benkei in his Pendulum Scale and used its effect to add Soulpiercer to his hand. Valentine activated the effect of Droll & Lock Bird from her hand once again! Johnson equipped Stealthy with Soulpiercer. “Let’s see what happens,” he said. He passed his turn, clearly disappointed to have been hit by Droll & Lock Bird two Duels in a row.
Valentine drew Triple Tactics Talents and added it to her hand of Firewall Defenser, Cynet Mining, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, and Firewall Guardian. She activated Cynet Mining to get rid of a Defenser and add Mathmech Circular to her hand; but Johnson activated the effect of a Droll & Lock Bird of his own after it resolved! Valentine Special Summoned Mathmech Circular and sent Sigma from her Deck to her Graveyard. Next, she Special Summoned Sigma from the Graveyard with its effect. She activated Triple Tactics Talents to look at Johnson’s hand and send Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion back to his Deck. Then she Normal Summoned Firewall Guardian and used it to Link Summon Linguriboh. Next, she used her Guardian’s effect to Special Summon it back to the field. She Link Summoned Splash Mage next and used its effect to Special Summon Firewall Defenser from her Graveyard. Then, she Link Summoned Decode Talker Heatsoul. She used her other monsters to Link Summon Update Jammer. Next, she sent Update Jammer and Heatsoul to the Graveyard to Link Summon Accesscode Talker. Accesscode gained 3000 ATK with its effect and was allowed to attack twice due to Update Jammer’s effect! Valentine banished 3 monsters from her Graveyard to clear Johnson’s field with Accesscode’s effect. Finally, two direct attacks from Accesscode Talker finished Johnson off!
Hilary “Shiggys” Valentine takes a 2-0 win over Justin Johnson’s Superheavy Samurais in Round 1!