Logan Johnson from Seattle, Washington is Dueling against Ryhan Jabri from Paris, France in this Top 16 Feature Match that pits two Sinful Spoils Rescue-ACE Decks against one another! Jabri won YCS Utrecht in 2020, and he’s looking to claim his second YCS victory. But Johnson, who has made the Top Cut of a few YCS events but never won one, is hungry for his first victory. One of these Duelists will be eliminated, and the other will advance to the Top 8. It’s time to Duel!

Duel One

Johnson opened up Duel 1 with WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, ALERT!, EMERGENCY!, and EXTINGUISH!. He activated WANTED in the Draw Phase to add Diabellstar the Black Witch to his hand. In his Main Phase, he discarded EXTINGUISH! to Special Summon it and used its effect to Set Original Sinful Spoils – Snake-Eye from his Deck. He sent Diabellstar to his Graveyard to Special Summon Rescue-ACE Hydrant and used Hydrant’s effect to add Rescue-ACE Air Lifter to his hand. He used Air Lifter’s effect to add Rescue-ACE HQ. Next, he activated EMERGENCY! to Special Summon Rescue-ACE Turbulence and Tribute Air Lifter. He successfully activated Turbulence’s effect to Set CONTAIN!, RESCUE!, and EMERGENCY! from his Deck. He activated ALERT! to add Rescue-ACE Preventer to his hand and then Special Summoned it by banishing Air Lifter from his Graveyard. He sent Turbulence and Hydrant to the Graveyard to Link Summon I:P Masquerena and then banished EMERGENCY! from his Graveyard to Set Extinguish from his Graveyard. He banished WANTED from his Graveyard to send Sinful Spoils from his Graveyard to his Deck and draw Air Lifter from his Deck. He activated HQ and used its effect to return a banished EMERGENCY! plus 3 cards from his Graveyard to his Deck and draw Jet Synchron.

Jabri drew a card and Johnson activated EMERGENCY! in the Standby Phase; but Jabri Chained Ash Blossom to negate its effect. Next, Jabri activated Reinforcement of the Army to add Rescue-ACE Impulse from his Deck to his hand. He Normal Summoned Air Lifter and activated its effect to add EMERGENCY! to his hand. He attempted to enter his Battle Phase, and Johnson used his Masquerena’s effect while still in the Main Phase. Jabri Chained the effect of Impulse to Special Summon Rescue-ACE Fire Engine from his Deck. Johnson Link Summoned S:P Little Knight with the effect of Masquerena by sending Masquerena and Preventer to the Graveyard. Jabri used Fire Engine’s effect to Special Summon a Rescue-ACE monster from his Deck, Johnson Chained the effect of Little Knight to banish the Fire Engine, and then Chained Preventer’s effect to Special Summon his banished Air Lifter. Jabri Chained EMERGENCY!, and then Johnson Chained Ash Blossom to negate it! Little Knight banished the Fire Engine, Fire Engine’s effect Special Summoned Hydrant from the Deck, and Air Lifter was Summoned to Johnson’s field. Johnson activated Air Lifter’s effect to add EMERGENCY! to his hand. On the resolution of its effect, he flipped RESCUE! and Special Summoned Preventer from his Graveyard. He immediately used its effect to put Jabri’s Air Lifter face-down. Next, he flipped EXTINGUISH! to destroy Hydrant, but Jabri Chained ALERT!. Johnson Chained Little Knight’s effect to banish Little Knight and Hydrant until the End Phase. ALERT! returned Impulse from the Graveyard to Jabri’s hand. Next, Jabri activated WANTED and used its effect to add Diabellstar the Black Witch to his hand. He Special Summoned it by discarding Rescue-ACE Impulse and activated its effect, but Johnson stopped the effect with CONTAIN!. Jabri activated Snake-Eye from his hand next, sending his Diabellstar to the Graveyard to Special Summon a Hydrant. He used the Hydrant’s effect to add Turbulence from his Deck to his hand. Next, he used the effect of the WANTED in his Graveyard to banish it, return Snake-Eye to his Deck, and draw a card. He banished ALERT! and EMERGENCY! to Special Summon Turbulence and used its effect to set CONTAIN!, RESCUE!, EXTINGUISH!, and EMERGENCY! from his Deck face-down to his field. He activated RESCUE! to Special Summon I:P Masquerena from the Graveyard and then used Masquerena and Hydrant to Link Summon Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy. He used Dharc’s effect to Special Summon Masquerena again and then combined Masquerena and Dharc to Link Summon Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians. He used Selene’s effect to Special Summon Diabellstar. He used Selene and Diabellstar to Link Summon Accesscode Talker with 5300 ATK! He used Accesscode’s effect twice to destroy Johnson’s monsters, and then direct attacks from Accesscode and Turbulence wiped out all 8000 of Johnson’s Life Points!

Ryhan Jabri turns the first Duel around to take the win!

Duel Two

Johnson opened up Duel 2 with ALERT!, Reinforcement of the Army, WANTED, Triple Tactics Talent, and Original Sinful Spoils- Snake-Eye.

He activated WANTED in the Draw Phase to add Diabellstar to his hand and then activated Reinforcement of the Army to add Air Lifter to his hand. He Normal Summoned it and activated its effect, but Jabri Chained the effect of Air Lifter from his hand to Special Summon Preventer from his hand. Johnson added EMERGENCY! to his hand, and then Johnson activated the effect of Rescue-ACE Fire Engine from his hand to Special Summon it. Johnson activated Triple Tactics Talent to take control of one of Jabri’s Monsters, and Jabri Chained the effect of Preventer to try to put Air Lifter face-down. Johnson Chained EMERGENCY! to Special Summon Hydrant from his Deck and Tribute his Air Lifter. Johnson took control of the Fire Engine.  Johnson used Hydrant’s effect to try to get a monster from his Deck, but lost out to Ash Blossom. Next, Johnson activated ALERT! to add Turbulence to his hand and Jabri conceded.

Johnson pushes the Match to a third and final Duel!

Duel Three

Jabri Normal Summoned Air Lifter and activated its effect as Chain Link 1, Chaining the effect of Fire Engine as Chain Link 2. He Special Summoned the Fire Engine and added EMERGENCY! to his hand. He activated it, but lost out to Johnson’s Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. He sent Air Lifter and Fire Engine to the Graveyard to Link Summon I:P Masquerena and then banished EMERGENCY! and Air Lifter from his Graveyard to Special Summon Turbulence from his hand. He used its effect to Set EMERGENCY!, EXTINGUISH!, CONTAIN!, and RESCUE! from his Deck to his field and then Set a fifth card to his back row.

Johnson drew Pot of Prosperity and added it to his hand of EMERGENCY!, Rescue-ACE Air Lifter, Rescue-ACE HQ, and Triple Tactics Talent. He activated Prosperity by banishing 6 cards from his Extra Deck face-down and Jabri Chained EMERGENCY! to Special Summon Hydrant from his Deck and Tribute Preventer from his hand. Johnson excavated the top 6 cards of his Deck and added Super Polymerization to his hand. Jabri used Preventer’s effect to Special Summon Air Lifter and used Air Lifter’s effect to add Rescue-ACE HQ from his Deck to his hand. Johnson activated Super Polymerization by discarding HQ and fused Jabri’s Hydrant and Air Lifter together to Summon Mudragon of the Swamp. Next, he used Mudragon’s effect to make it a FIRE-Attribute monster. Johnson Normal Summoned Air Lifter next, but Jabri paid 4000 Life Points to negate its Summon with Solemn Judgment! Johnson entered his Battle Phase and attacked I:P Masquerena with Mudragon to destroy it. In Main Phase 2, he activated Triple Tactics Talent to take control of Turbulence! He activated Turbulence’s effect to Set EXTINGUISH!, CONTAIN!, RESCUE!, and ALERT! from his Deck to his field. On the resolution of the effect, Jabri flipped RESCUE! and Special Summoned Fire Engine from his Graveyard. Johnson activated EMERGENCY! next and Special Summoned a Hydrant before Tributing the Turbulence. Jabri used his Fire Engine’s effect to Special Summon Hydrant from his Deck. Johnson used his Hydrant’s effect to add Preventer from his Deck to his hand and then Special Summoned it. He used its effect to put Jabri’s Fire Engine face-down and then flipped EXTINGUISH! to destroy Jabri’s Hydrant. Johnson sent Hydrant to the Graveyard to Link Summon Linkuriboh and then sent Linkuriboh and Preventer to the Graveyard to Link Summon S:P Little Knight. He used the effects of Little Knight and Preventer to Special Summon Air Lifter and banish the face-down Fire Engine. He used Air Lifter’s effect to add EMERGENCY! to his hand and then banished an EMERGENCY! from his Graveyard to Set another EXTINGUISH! before passing his turn.

Jabri drew a card and Johnson flipped EMERGENCY! in the Standby Phase to Special Summon a Hydrant from his Deck and Tribute Air Lifter. Jabri activated Reinforcement of the Army to add Air Lifter to his hand and then activated HQ.  Johnson Chained his Mudragon’s effect to make the Mudragon a FIRE monster and then Jabri returned 4 cards to his Deck with HQ to draw a card. Time in the round was then called! Johnson, up in Life Points, was declared the winner!

Logan Johnson advances to the Top 8 with his Sinful Spoils Rescue-ACE Deck!