Finals: Louie (X-Sabers) Vs. Matt (Stun)
Louie has won the opening roll and will be beginning the first game of the finals!
Louie drew his sixth card, and set one monster and two cards in his spell and trap zone to pass his turn.
Matt summoned Thunder King Raioh and went to attack Louie’s facedown monster. Louie flipped Dimensional Prison to remove Raioh from the game. Matt then set the rest of his hand in his spell and trap zone; a full field of five cards!
Louie summoned XX-Saber Fulhelmknight and Matt responded by flipping Torrential Tribute; destroying Louie’s Fulhelmknight and his facedown XX-Saber Darksoul. Louie ended his turn and added XX-Saber Faultroll to his hand.
Matt has topdecked Spirit Reaper and summoned it to try to discard the components from Louie’s hand by attacking directly. But Louie would have none of that as he flipped another Dimensional Prison to remove the Reaper, but Matt saved his Reaper by flipping Book of Moon to turn the zombie facedown.
Louie summoned another Fulhelmknight, then activated Monster Reborn; targeting his Darksoul. Matt responded by flipping Royal Oppression; paying 800 life points to negate Monster Reborn’s effect. Louie has ended with no other plays.
Matt summoned Banisher of the Radiance, flipped the Reaper from facedown into faceup attack mode. Then Matt flipped up Smashing Ground to destroy and remove from play Fulhelmknight. Banisher and Reaper both made direct attacks. Reaper has discarded and removed Louie’s XX-Saber Faultroll from his hand.
Louie could only set one monster to end his turn.
Matt summoned Doomcaliber Knight and the Knight went to attacked Louie’s facedown monster; which turned out to be X-Saber Pashuul. Matt then switch his Reaper into defense mode and ended his turn.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Boggart Knight, opting to not activate its effect. Boggart Knight went to attack Banisher, and Matt flipped Sakurestu Armor, destroying and removing the Knight from play.
Louie’s turn began, during his standby phase, Pashuul’s effect activated and Doomcaliber Knight’s effect activated, forcing to negate the first effect monster’s effect by tributing itself. (There was a bit of confusion as if Pashuul’s effect was a maintenance cost or not, the judge ruled that it was an effect monster’s trigger effect.) Louie ended his turn without doing a thing.
Matt switched his Reaper back into attack mode and Reaper and Banisher made another direct attack, the Reaper discarding and removing XX-Saber Faultroll from Louie’s hand.
Louie again set one monster to end his turn.
Matt summoned another Doomcaliber Knight, and sent the Knight in to attack Louie’s facedown monster. Again, the monster avoid destruction, as it turned out to be a Debris Dragon. Matt ended with no other moves.
Louie set one spell or trap to end.
Matt did the same.
Then, Louie set another spell or trap card.
Then, Matt also did the same.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Darksoul, then flipped Torrential Tribute, destroying his Darksoul and Matt’s Reaper and Banisher, so that Louie can get the search effect with Darksoul. He ended and added XX-Saber Ragigura to his hand.
Matt drew and ended his turn.
Louie set a monster and a spell or trap card to end his turn.
Matt special summoned Cyber Dragon, and Louie quickly used Matt’s Royal Oppression to negate Cyber Dragon’s summon. Matt ended with no other plays.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Ragigura, activated its effect to add XX-Saber Fulhelmknight to his hand. Ragigura made a direct attack and ended his turn.
Matt activated Pot of Duality; revealing Bottomless Trap Hole, King Tiger Wanghu, and Smashing Ground from the top of his deck. Matt added King Tiger Wanghu to his hand and shuffled the others back into his deck. Then he summoned Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo and sent the Dyna to attack and destroy Ragigura.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Emmersblade and went to attack the Dyna, when Matt flipped Dimensional Prison. Louie responded with Book of Moon to turn Emmersblade facedown.
Matt set one more spell or trap card, then summoned King Tiger Wanghu, Tiger went to attack the facedown Emmersblade and Louie flipped Mirror Force to destroy the Dyna and Wanghu.
Louie flipped Emmersblade back into attacked mode and made a direct attack. Then he set one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Matt summoned Thunder King Raioh, only to get removed by Bottomless Trap Hole. Matt ended with no other moves.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Fulhelmknight, then flipped XX-Saber Darksoul. Louie tuned Fulhelmknight with the Darksoul to synchro summon XX-Saber Hyunlei. Matt activated the effect of his already face-up Royal Oppression; by paying 800 life points. Louie chained Trap Stun to Oppression; rendering it useless for the turn. Hyunlei’s summon was successful and activated its effect to destroy all of Matt’s spell and trap cards. Emmersblade made a direct attack, as did Hyunlei.
Matt summoned Neo Spacian Grand Mole and set one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Louie was being cautious and decided to go for the win by activating Giant Trunade to send back Matt’s single spell or trap card. Then Louie summoned XX-Saber Fulhelmknight; attacking the Grand Mole; bouncing both monsters back to their respective hands. Then Louie’s other two monsters attacked for game! Louie has captured game one!
Each player immediately dipped into their side decks now that each player knows what the other is playing.
Matt has opted to go first in game two by activating Pot of Duality; revealing two copies of Dimensional Prison and Banisher of the Radiance. Matt added Banisher; the only monster revealed amongst the three, and sent the rest back into the deck. Then he summoned King Tiger Wanghu, set two cards in his spell or trap zone to end his turn.
Louie drew his sixth card and almost mimicked Matt’s cards on the field; one facedown monster and two cards in his spell and trap zone. Matt flipped Mystical Space Typhoon in Louie’s end phase to take out the newly set Trap Stun.
Matt summoned Banisher of the Radiance; he was reading that Louie’s monster was either an Emmersblade or a Darksoul. When Banisher attacked the facedown monster; it turned out to be an X-Saber monster, alright; but it was X-Saber Pashuul, which could not be destroyed in battle. Matt ended his turn with one spell or trap card. Louie also flipped his copy of Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy Matt’s newly set Enemy Controller.
It was Louie’s turn, and during his standby phase, Louie took 1000 life points from Pashuul’s effect. Louie summoned XX-Saber Boggart Knight. The Knight attacked and destroyed Banisher. Then Louie tuned his Pashuul to his Boggart Knight to synchro summon XX-Saber Hyunlei; activating its effect to destroy Matt’s spell or trap card. Matt chained the facedown Torrential Tribute to destroy Hyunlei. Louie set one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Matt summoned Thunder King Raioh, made a direct attack and ended his turn.
The life point count is Matt at 7700 and Louie at 5100.
Louie activated Monster Reborn to special summon his fallen Hyunlei, then summoned XX-Saber Emmersblade, Emmersblade attacked into Raioh; destroying itself, allowing Louie to special summon XX-Saber Fulhelmknight from his deck in attack mode. Then Hyunlei attacked and destroyed Raioh, and Fulhelmknight made a direct attack.
Matt set one monster to end his turn.
Louie set one monster and sent Hyunlei to attack the facedown monster; which turned out to be Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo; which activated its effect to destroy any monster that was special summoned; which included Hyunlei and Fulhelmknight.
Matt summoned Doomcaliber Knight and attacked Louie’s facedown monster, only to be stopped by Louie’s Dimensional Prison. Matt set one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Louie summoned Debris Dragon; activating its effect to special summon Pashuul from his graveyard. Then he flipped up XX-Saber Darksoul in attack mode. Pashuul was tuned to Darksoul to synchro summon Naturia Beast. Both Naturia Beast and Debris Dragon attacked directly. Fulhelmknight was added to Louie’s hand in the end phase.
Matt only set one monster and one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Louie sent the Naturia Beast to attack Matt’s facedown monster; which turned out to be a Spirit Reaper! Louie set one monster before ending his turn.
Matt summoned Doomcaliber Knight, and attacked into Louie’s facedown Darksoul; Darksoul’s effect activated when it was sent to the graveyard, and Doomcaliber Knight promptly tribute itself to negate its effect.
Louie set one spell or trap card to end.
Matt drew and ended.
Louie did the same.
Matt set one or spell card and ended his turn.
Louie set one monster to end his turn.
Matt set another spell or trap card to end his turn.
Louie flipped up his XX-Saber Emmersblade, then ended his turn.
Matt set another spell or trap card to pass his turn.
Louie summoned XX-Saber Fulhelmknight, tuned his warrior to Emmersblade to synchro summon Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier. Matt responded by flipping Royal Oppression; paying 800 life points to negate Brionac’s summon. Louie then set one spell or trap card to pass his turn.
Matt drew and ended.
Now the life point count is Matt at 2000 and Louie at 5500.
Louie set one spell or trap card to end his turn.
Matt drew and ended his turn again.
Louie summoned another Debris Dragon; its target for its effect was Darksoul, Matt has opted to not use Royal Oppression’s effect. Darksoul was special summoned to Louie’s field. Darksoul was tuned to Debris Dragon to synchro summon Black Rose Dragon; and Matt activated Royal Oppression’s effect to negate Black Rose Dragon’s summon. Louie searched for Darksoul in the end phase.
Matt summoned Doomcaliber Knight, Louie responded by discarding Effect Veiler; targeting Doomcaliber Knight, the Knight again being forced to negate it effect. Then Matt flipped Smashing Ground, and Naturia Beast’s effect was activated; sending the top two cards of Louie’s deck to negate the effect of Smashing Ground. Matt then set one spell or trap card to end.
Louie activated Cold Wave to stop Matt from activating any spell or trap cards later. Matt chained Dark Bribe and Louie drew one card from his deck from the effect of Bribe. Louie summoned Darksoul and tuned Darksoul to his second copy of Debris Dragon; still on the field to synchro summon another Black Rose Dragon, Matt negated again with Royal Oppression. Louie added Boggart Knight to his hand in the end phase.
Matt is now at 400 to Louie’s 5500; Matt can no longer use Royal Oppression’s effect anymore.
Matt set one spell or trap card to end.
Louie drew and ended.
Matt did the same.
Louie activated Dark Hole, but Matt responded with Magic Drain, but Louie used Solemn Judgment; paying half his life to negate Magic Drain. Then he summoned Boggart Knight; its effect not being activated, Matt flipped Bottomless Trap Hole, and Louie responded by flipping Book of Moon to save it from being removed. Louie ended his turn.
Matt summoned Thunder King Raioh, only to lose it to Louie’s copy of Bottomless Trap Hole. Matt set two cards to his spell and trap zone to end his turn.
Louie flipped his Boggart knight back into attack mode. Louie quickly checked through his graveyard, and then summoned XX-Saber Fulhelmknight. XX-Saber Faultroll came next, special summoning Pashuul from the graveyard. Another Faultroll was special summoned, and Pashuul was tuned to the Faultroll who already used it effect, to synchro summon Stardust Dragon. Then, the second Faultroll special summoned Pashuul again. Pashuul was tuned to Boggart Knight to synchro summon Hyunlei to destroy the rest of Matt’s spell and trap cards. Louie attacked with all of his monsters for game and to win the match!
A very long game one where Louie set up his plays was followed by an even longer game two, with Naturia Beast blocking Matt from making any more attacks while Louie waited to collect the pieces and the Royal Oppression did not even affect him. Matt’s Royal Oppression was ultimately his demise as Louie forced Matt to use its effect continually.
Louie has won the match 2-0!
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