We’re ready to kick off the YCS Houston competition with a knightly Genesys Feature Match! Patrick Huffman is here from Buena Vista, Colorado, using Phantom Knights! He’s facing a Houston local, Salina Sanchez with Regenesis Mekk-Knights!

Duel 1

Sanchez won the roll and chose to play second. Huffman raised an eyebrow, but was happy to play first. Sanchez’s opening hand was two copies of Mekk-Knight Blue Sky, two copies of Mekk-Knight Purple Nightfall, and Kumongous, the Sticky String Kaiju.

Huffman started by playing Reinforcement of the Army, adding The Phantom Knights of Decayed Cloak to his hand. He revealed The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots in his hand to Special Summon Decayed Cloak, and used its effect to add The Phantom Knights of Torn Scales to his hand. He Special Summoned Silent Boots, and Xyz Summoned The Phantom Knights of Malevolent Scythe. He used Scythe’s effect, detaching Silent Boots to Special Summon The Phantom Knights of Doomed Soleret. Doomed Soleret’s effect put The Phantom Knights’ Rank-Up-Magic Requiem in his hand. He Normal Summoned Tour Guide From the Underworld, which let him Special Summon Edge Imp Sabers. He banished Silent Boots from the Graveyard to add Phantom Knights’ Fog Blade to his hand. Then, he stacked Tour Guide, Sabers, and Doomed Sorelet for Shamanite Shamanknight. He used its effect, detaching its materials to Special Summon Doomed Sorelet again. He activated the effect of Edge Imp Sabers, putting a card from his hand on the Deck to Special Summon the Sabers. He stacked Sabers with Doomed Sorelet for Number 3: Cicada King. He Set two back row cards and passed. Notably, one of those back row cards was in the same column as Scythe.

Sanchez drew Lava Golem. She Tributed all of Huffman’s monsters, handing over Lava Golem and Kumongous, each in the same columns as Huffman’s back row cards. She Special Summoned Purple Nightfall and activated its effect, and got hit by Fog Blade. She Special Summoned Blue Sky, and it was hit by a second Fog Blade.

Huffman took 1000 damage due to Lava Golem. He Normal Summoned Torn Scales, discarding The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves to send The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak to the Graveyard. He used the effect of Ancient Cloak to add Silent Boots to his hand. He Special Summoned Silent Boots, stacking it with Torn Scales for The Phantom Knights of Break Sword. He used its effect to destroy itself and Purple Nightfall. Break Sword revived Silent Boots and Torn Scales as Level 4 monsters. He used them to Xyz Summon Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, using its effect to drain the ATK of Blue Sky. He banished Silent Boots from the Graveyard to add The Phantom Knights’ Rank-Up-Magic Launch to his hand. He used Requiem to bring Scythe back from the Graveyard, then ranked up Dark Rebellion into Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon! It stole the last of Blue Sky’s ATK. Unfortunately, he had no way to remove his Fog Blade that was protecting Blue Sky. He used Launch to upgrade Scythe into Evilswarm Ophion. He banished a Fog Blade from the Graveyard to Special Summon Doomed Sorelet, and passed the turn.

Sanchez drew Mekk-Knight Yellow Star. She was locked out by Ophion, and passed the turn.

Huffman took another 1000 damage from Lava Golem. He banished Ragged Gloves from the Graveyard to send Silent Boots to the Graveyard. He banished that to add Phantom Knights’ Sword to his hand. He passed.

Sanchez drew Regenesis Cycle! She used it to banish Ophion, letting her Special Summon Purple Knightfall. She temporarily banished it for its effect to add Mekk-Knight Indigo Eclipse to her hand. She Special Summoned her second Blue Sky, adding Mekk-Knight Red Moon and Purple Nightfall to her hand. She used both copies of Blue Sky to Tribute Summon Red Moon, using its effect to destroy Lava Golem. Red Moon attacked and destroyed Doomed Sorelet.

Huffman banished Fog Blade from the Graveyard to Special Summon Doomed Sorelet. He Special Summoned Torn Scales from the Graveyard as well, discarding Phantom Knights’ Sword to send Decayed Cloak to the Graveyard. He used Torn Scales and Doomed Sorelet to Xyz Summon Break Sword, using it to destroy itself and Red Moon. Break Sword revived his monsters as Level 4’s, and he Xyz Summoned Evilswarm Nightmare. He played Fusion Destiny, fusing Destiny HERO – Celestial from his hand and Destiny HERO – Dasher from his Deck into Destiny HERO – Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer! He attacked with everything to end the first Duel!

Duel 2

Sanchez played first this time, with a hand of Yellow Star, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Lightning Storm, Draco-Utopian Aura, and Radian, the Multidimensional Kaiju. She Set the Aura and passed.

Huffman Special Summoned Decayed Cloak, and Sanchez flipped her trap to negate Decayed Cloak, banishing Yellow Star to steal Huffman’s monster. Huffman Normal Summoned another Decayed Cloak, then played Fusion Destiny, sending Dasher and Celestial to the Graveyard to bring Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer to the field. He Set one back row card, now being careful to keep it in a separate column from his monsters. He attacked with Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer to destroy the stolen Decayed Cloak, then attacked directly with his own Cloak.

Sanchez drew World Legacy’s Secret. She gave away Radian by Tributing Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, then played Lightning Storm. Huffman Chained Phantom Knights’ Sword on his Cloak, and let all his cards be destroyed. This way, his Sword went to the Graveyard where he wanted it, while also leaving him with no cards on the field for any Mekk-Knight shenanigans. Sanchez Set World Legacy’s Secret and passed the turn.

Huffman banished Sword from the Graveyard to Special Summon Decayed Cloak, then Special Summoned Silent Boots. He Xyz Summoned Scythe, detaching Boots to Special Summon his third Decayed Cloak, adding Doomed Sorelet to his hand. Sanchez flipped up World Legacy’s Secret to Special Summon Radian from the Graveyard. Huffman continued, banishing Silent Boots to add Rank-Up-Magic Requiem to his hand. He played it to Special Summon Decayed Cloak, then ranked up Scythe into Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon. He used its effect to take half of Radian’s ATK, and Sanchez responded with Ghost Ogre to destroy Dark Rebellion. Huffman used his two Decayed Cloaks to Xyz Summon Break Sword. He used that to destroy itself and Radian. Break Sword then brought the Cloaks back to the field, increased to Level 4. He used them to play Evilswarm Nightmare, and attacked directly. In Main Phase 2, he Xyz Summoned Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder.

Sanchez drew Blue Sky. The field was only World Legacy’s Secret and Zeus in separate columns, so she passed.

Huffman Normal Summoned Doomed Sorelet, which Set Fog Blade on the field. He moved to the Battle Phase, sending both monsters to attack and end the Match!

Patrick Huffman wins this knightly Match, with Phantom Knights!