Brandon Diez from North Salt Lake, Utah and Steven He from Plano, Texas are both current 5-1 in the Genesys Main Event at YCS Houston, and now they’re Dueling against one another in this Round 7 Feature Match! Diez is using a HERO Deck strengthened by the new Destiny HERO cards from Beyond the Brave while He is using a Labrynth Deck that benefited from the recent Genesys point update. It’s time to Duel!

Duel One

He started off Duel 1 by activating the effect of Labrynth Chandraglier in Main Phase 1 by discarding Lovely Labrynth of the Silver Castle from his hand. He Set Big Welcome Labrynth from his Deck with Chandraglier’s effect. He Set 2 cards to his back row and Set a monster before ending his turn.

Diez drew Destiny Draw and added it to his hand of Polymerization, Evil HERO Dead-End Prison, Vision HERO Vyon, Evil HERO Adusted Gold, and Vision HERO Faris. Diez activated the effect of Faris in his hand by discarding Dead-End Prison and Special Summoned Faris. Diez used Faris’s effect to place Vision HERO Increase from his Deck in his Spell & Trap Card Zone. He activated Big Welcome Labrynth and Diez Chained the effect of Increase by Tributing Faris. Diez Special Summoned Increase and He Special Summoned Lovely Labrynth from his Graveyard and returned his Set monster to his hand. In a new Chain, Diez activated Increase’s effect on the field and He activated the effects of the Lovely Labrynth on his field and the Chandraglier in his Graveyard. He returned the Chandraglier to his hand and then destroyed Evil HERO Adusted Gold from Diez’s hand with Lovely Labrynth’s effect. Diez Special Summoned Vision HERO Vyon from his Deck with Increase’s effect. Next, Diez activated Vyon’s effect to send Elemental HERO Shadow Mist from his Deck to his Graveyard, and used Shadow Mist’s effect to add Destiny HERO – Doom Overlord from his Deck to his hand. Diez Normal Summoned Doom Overlord and used its effect to banish Lovely Labrynth until the next Standby Phase. Next, He activated Dogmatika Punishment targeting Doom Overlord. He sent Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts from his Extra Deck to his Graveyard to destroy the Doom Overlord with Punishment’s effect. Next, He activated Terrors of the Overroot to send Vyon to the Graveyard and Set Faris from Diez’s Graveyard back to his field. Diez ended his turn.

He drew a card and then returned his Lovely Labrynth from banishment to the field. In Main Phase 1, he activated the effect of the Chandraglier in his hand by discarding another Chandraglier and Set a Welcome Labrynth from his Deck. Next, he Normal Summoned Ariane the Labrynth Servant. He activated its effect by sending his Set Welcome Labrynth to the Graveyard and Special Summoned Arianna the Labrynth Servant from his Deck. He added Labrynth Cooclock from his Deck to his hand and then used Lovely Labrynth’s effect to Set Big Welcome Labrynth from his Graveyard. He activated the effect of the Cooclock in his hand, then flipped Big Welcome Labrynth. He Special Summoned Labrynth Stovie Torbie and returned it to his hand. He activated the effects of the Lovely Labrynth and Ariane on his field, and the Chandraglier in his Graveyard. As each effect resolved, he destroyed Polymerization from Diez’s hand with the effect of Lovely Labrynth. Next, He attacked Increase with Ariane to destroy it and attacked the face-down Faris with Lovely Labrynth to destroy it. In Main Phase 2, He used the effect of his Stovie Torbie by discarding Chandraglier and Set Big Welcome Labrynth from his Deck. He Set another card to his back row and then ended his turn.

Diez drew Evil HERO Dead-End Prison and then Normal Summoned Vision HERO Vyon. Diez activated its effect to send Shadow Mist from his Deck to his Graveyard and then used Shadow Mist’s effect to add Destiny HERO – Malicious from his Deck to his hand. Next, He activated Big Welcome Labrynth and Special Summoned Lady Labrynth of the Silver Castle from his Deck before returning it to his hand. Then, He activated the effects of Lovely Labrynth, Ariane, Chandraglier, Cooclock, and Welcome Labrynth since a monster left the field by a Trap Card effect. He destroyed Vyon with the effect of Lovely Labrynth, drew and Set a card with Arianna, drew a card with Ariane, and recovered Chandraglier, Cooclock, and Welcome Labrynth from his Graveyard. He then used Chandraglier’s effect by discarding Absolute King Back Jack and Set Labrynth Labyrinth from his Deck with Chandraglier’s effect. He rearranged the top cards of his Deck with Back Jack’s effect. Next, Diez activated Destiny Draw by discarding Malicious and drew Dark City at Midnight and Evil HERO Adusted Gold from his Deck. Diez activated Adusted Gold’s effect to add Dark Calling from his Deck to his hand. He activated Dark Calling and banished Adusted Gold and Malicious from his Graveyard to Special Summon Evil HERO Malicious Bane. Next, He activated Simultaneous Equation Cannons. He banished Fossil Dragon Skullgar and two copies of Evilswarm Exciton Knight from his Extra Deck and then returned Skullgar and an Exciton Knight to his Extra Deck, banishing Malicious Bane from the Duel. Diez activated Dark City at Midnight next, and used its effect to add Destiny HERO – Dreadnought Servant from his Deck to his hand. Diez Special Summoned it by destroying Dark City at Midnight and then added Polymerization to his hand. Diez used his Dark City at Midnight’s effect to Special Summon Destiny HERO – Dreadmaster from his Deck. He Special Summoned Doom Overlord from his Graveyard with Dreadmaster’s effect and then used Doom Overlord’s effect to banish Stovie Torbie until the next Standby Phase. Next, he used Doom Overlord’s effect by sending Destiny HERO – Destro-Dogma from his Deck to his Graveyard and added a Dark City at Midnight from his Graveyard to his hand. Diez activated Dark City at Midnight and then Tributed Dreadnought to Special Summon Destiny HERO – Dreadnought Master from his Extra Deck. Diez used Dreadnought Master’s effect to add D – Force and Destiny HERO – Dogma from his Deck to his hand. He activated D – Force and added Destiny HERO – Plasma from his Deck to his hand. He activated Polymerization and fused his Dreadnought Servant with Doom Overlord to Summon Destiny HERO – Dangerous in Attack Position. Diez activated the effect of Dangerous by discarding Dead-End Prison from his hand. Diez sent Destiny HERO – Denier from his Deck to his Graveyard and increased the ATK of his two Destiny HERO monsters by 1000. Next, Diez banished Dreadmaster, Shadow Mist, and Vyon from his Graveyard to Special Summon Destro-Dogma from his Graveyard. Diez used Denier’s effect to Special Summon it from his Graveyard and used its effect to place Dreadmaster from banishment on top of his Deck. He entered his Battle Phase and his Dreadnought Master used its 8100 ATK to attack Lovely Labrynth. Then, He banished Back Jack from his Graveyard to activate its effect, and Diez Chained Destro-Dogma’s effect to fuse the Dangerous on his field and the Doom Overlord in his Graveyard in order to Summon Destiny HERO – Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer. He excavated Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon from the top of his Deck, Set it to his field, and then activated it. Diez Chained Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer’s effect to destroy the D – Force and He’s face-down Dogmatika Punishment before all monsters on the field were put face-down by the Karma Cannon. In Main Phase 2, Diez Tributed 3 monsters to Summon Destiny HERO – Plasma. He used his Dreadnought Servant’s effect to banish the Dreadnought Servant and put He’s face-down card in his back row on top of his Deck. Diez used Plasma’s effect to equip it with the face-down Lovely Labrynth.

He drew a card and returned Stovie Torbie to his field from Doom Overlord’s effect. He then Set a card to his back row. He Flip Summoned Ariane and Arianna and then switched Lady Labrynth into Attack Position. Lady Labrynth attacked and destroyed Plasma and then He banished Big Welcome Labrynth from his Graveyard to return the face-down Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer to the Extra Deck. He triggered the effects of his several cards that activate effects when a monster leaves the field by a Trap effect and then attacked directly with Ariane and Arianna. He flipped up Labrynth Labyrinth in Main Phase 2 and then used Stovie Torbie’s effect by discarding Chandraglier to Set a Big Welcome Labrynth from his Deck. He then activated the effect of Arias the Labrynth Butler by discarding it to Set Welcome Labrynth from his hand. He returned Cooclock from his Graveyard to his hand and then flipped Welcome Labrynth. He Chained Lady Labrynth’s effect to Set Ice Dragon’s Prison from his Deck and Special Summoned Arias from his Deck with Welcome Labrynth’s effect.

Diez drew Winged Kuriboh Sabatiel LV10 and then banished 3 cards from his Graveyard to Special Summon Destro-Dogma from his Graveyard. Diez activated the effect of his Winged Kuriboh to add Fusion Destiny from his Deck to his hand and returned the Winged Kuriboh to his Deck. Next, He activated Big Welcome Labrynth and Chained Lady Labrynth’s effect to Set Simultaneous Equation Cannons from his Deck. He Special Summoned Lovely Labrynth from his Graveyard and returned Lady Labrynth from his field to his hand. He activated the effects of Lovely Labrynth, Stovie Torbie, Chandraglier, Ariane, Arianna, and Welcome Labrynth, and Diez Chained Destro-Dogma’s effect. Diez Fusion Summoned Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer and He resolved all of his card effects on the Chain, destroying a Dogma from Diez’s hand with Lovely Labrynth’s effect. In a new Chain, Diez used Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer’s effect to destroy the Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer and Dark City. Diez activated the effects of Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer and Dark City in Chain and Special Summoned Dreadmaster. Diez used Dreadmaster’s effect and Special Summoned Denier and Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer from the Graveyard. Diez Tributed Dreadmaster to Summon Dreadnought Master from his Extra Deck and then entered tried to enter his Battle Phase. While still in the Main Phase, He activated Arias’s effect to Set Terrors of the Overroot from his hand. He then activated Ice Dragon’s Prison targeting Dreadmaster in the Graveyard and Special Summoned it before banishing both Dreadmaster and Dreadnought Master from the Duel. Next, Diez activated Fusion Destiny, and He Chained the effect of Cooclock. Diez sent Destiny HERO – Celestial and Destiny HERO – Dreadnought Servant from his Deck to his Graveyard to Special Summon Destiny HERO – Dominance in Defense Position. Diez used Dreadnought Servant’s effect to put a card on top of He’s Deck, and He Chained Equation Cannons to banish Diez’s entire field! Lovely Labrynth returned to the top of He’s Deck from Dreadnought Servant’s effect. With no cards left in his hand or on his field, Diez Special Summoned Destro-Dogma from his Graveyard and activated its effect. In the End Phase, He Special Summoned Lady Labrynth from his hand.

In He’s next Standby Phase, He lost 2000 Life Points from Destro-Dogma’s effect. He activated Terrors of the Overroot, and Diez Chained Destro-Dogma’s effect to Fusion Summon Skyborne Blue Cularsaw. Diez activated its effect and He Chained Welcome Labrynth to Special Summon Arianna and destroy Cularsaw thanks to the added effect from Labrynth Labyrinth. Direct attacks from He’s monsters wiped out all of Diez’s Life Points.

Steven He wins the first Duel with just 20 seconds left in the round! The Duelists shuffled up for the second Duel, but time expired before they began. Unable to complete their Match, both Duelists received a Match loss!