Alright, here's where the REAL duel begins.

Another thing that I should mention is what cards will be used. Archetypes or card types that the players used that fit will be used, even if they might never have used it from the anime/manga/convention. Also, there will be times when anime and real life effects might be used separately or sometimes will be used in combination.

When those cards appear, I will tell you when that happens in the end of the chapter.

For the sake of things, I will not have the peanut gallery here, ie. Team 5Ds or Yugi's friends or even the MC, where they will provide commentary. I feel it's unnecessary, and you guys could imagine how they'll talk, but the point is for Yugi and Yusei to have their Duel, not hear their friends argue.


Chapter 2: Synchro Assault

"DUEL!" the two Duelists cried out, as their Duel Disks activated, the Life Point gauge rising up to 8000. They two then drew five cards.

"I'll take the first turn, but because of that, I can't draw a card," Yugi declared.

Scanning his hand, Yugi began to think of various plays and strategies he could use. He couldn't afford to be careless. One wrong move and Yusei will immediately use that against him. From what Yugi understood, Yusei played mostly a defensive style utilizing various trap cards, but could easily shift into powerful offensive plays using Synchro monsters. The more terrifying thing was the speed in which he could summon his powerful monsters.

He had to admit, when it came to speed, Yusei was in a league of his own.

Deciding on the card he wanted to choose, Yugi picked it up with his right hand. "Alright, I summon my Berry Magician Girl in attack mode," Yugi declared, placing a card on the Duel Disk, and in an instant, the picture of the creature from the card, a baby fairy-like being emerged, sucking on a pacifier while holding a wand and wearing a spellcaster cap, its four pixie wings fluttering to keep it afloat.

A small image depicting its attack and defense points appeared, showing it had 400 of each.

"Sure, she may be small, but her abilities nothing to laugh at. When my Berry Magician Girl is summoned to the field, her special ability activates. I can add a 'Magician Girl' monster from my Deck to my hand," Yugi explained, as Berry Magician Girl began waving its wand around and flying above Yugi, sprinkling a glowing dust onto him, causing Yugi's Deck to glow, as a card that was near the bottom of his Deck was pushed out for Yugi to take, before his Deck began to shuffle itself, and Yugi revealed the monster he had chose. "I choose Chocolate Magician Girl."

Alright, with this, his play was set. Now he just needed for the rest of the pieces to fall into place. "I place 3 cards face down on the field, and end my turn," Yugi finished, setting the cards into the slots of his Duel Disk, which projected 3 images of the cards in the same position they were set in.


Yusei looked at Yugi's opening strategy calmly with calculating eyes, trying to determine Yugi's moves.

For his opening move to summon such a weak monster in attack mode of all things was very careless, and Yugi was no doubt anything but.

Did Berry Magician Girl have another effect? Maybe it would trigger if Yusei launched an attack.

Or perhaps the real threat are Yugi's face down cards? They could be bait to lure Yusei in. With Yugi, either of these things were possible.

Regardless, Yusei wasn't backing down from this.

"Alright Yugi, it's my move. I draw," Yusei declared, as he drew a card from the top of his deck. "First off, I'll send my Level Eater from my hand to the graveyard. With that, I can special summon my Quickdraw Synchron in defense mode."

Placing one of his cards into the slot that represents his Graveyard, Yusei plays a monster horizontally onto his Disk.

Immediately, a cowboy looking creature with a red scarf that fluttered like a cape and carrying two pistols appeared, but rather than keeping them out, the monster placed them in its holsters and knelt down with its arms up in a guarding position right over a larger version of its card, before a blue color washed over the monster, representing its position to defense, with a screen appearing to indicate it having 1400 DEF points.

"Next, I use my Level Eater's special ability. By reducing Quickdraw Synchron's level by one, I can special summon it to the field in defense mode. So come on the field, Level Eater," Yusei called out, as Quickdraw Synchron's card began to release a glow on one of its stars, as the star suddenly grew insect legs and crawled out, rendering Quickdraw Synchron as a level 4 monster now, and Level Eater.

"If you thought I was done there, think again, Yugi. I now summon my Synchron Carrier in defense mode," Yusei stated as he summoned another monster to the field, this one appearing to be some sort of robot with hooks for hands and a hook being carried behind it. "Now I use Synchron Carrier's special ability. While he's on the field, I can perform an additional summon so long as the monster I summon is a 'Synchron' monster. Synchron Carrier, bring out Bri Synchron."

Yusei watched as Yugi's eyes widened in shock as Yusei summoned the large jet fighter robot with green highlights.

"You really know how to move fast, Yusei. It's just your first turn, and already four monsters out? I'm also willing to bet that you've got more moves to make," Yugi remarked before giving off a smile to indicate that he was ready.

"That's right, Yugi. Both Bri Synchron and Quickdraw Synchron are in fact Tuner monsters, and now I'm going to perform a synchro summon. First, I tune my level 1 Level Eater with my now level 4 Quickdraw Synchron."

As he began, Quickdraw Synchron suddenly dissipated with four green rings as Level Eater jumped into the rings, being scanned by it, the monster being outlined by a yellow line before slowly becoming a single star.

"Clustering stars will call upon a new force! Become the path its light shines upon! Synchro Summon! Junk Warrior!"

A beam of light suddenly fires through the rings and envelop the star, before a new monster took form, a large robot with purple body, shoulder pads with jet plane wings extending from it, a white scarf wrapped around its neck, and its eyes resembling red goggles. The robot spun through before releasing an air punch, releasing the force of lights that once surrounded it from its summon.

"It's not over yet. Now that Junk Warrior's been synchro summoned, Synchron Carrier's special ability activates," Yusei warned, as Synchron Carrier suddenly moved the hook from its back to reach into the ground that formed a trash pile, and brought out a strange monster. "Whenever a Warrior or Machine-Type Synchro monster has been synchro summoned, a 'Synchron Token' is summoned to the field."

The token monster showed a screen depicting it as a Level 2 Earth Machine-Type monster with 1000 ATK and 0 DEF.

"However, that's where things get interesting. You see, Junk Warrior also has a special effect. When it's been synchro summoned, it gains the attack of all level 2 or below monsters, and while Synchron Carrier has no attack, the token it brought out certainly does. So Junk Warrior gains an additional 1000 attack points."

Junk Warrior's screen depicting its 2300 ATK points suddenly rose to being 3300.

"Also, now I have more monsters on my side," Yusei pointed out, and Yugi noticed the level count Yusei could use. "So you know what that means. I tune level 2 Synchron Carrier and level 2 Synchron Token with level 4 Bri Synchron."

Yugi watched as the four rings appeared and four stars were scanned through it. Yusei guessed that Yugi would be seeing Yusei's ace, Stardust Dragon appear. However, this was where Yusei would reveal his surprise.

"The ruler's heartbeat, will now file through here! Take witness to its creation-shaking power! Synchro Summon! Red Dragon Archfiend!" the Signer chanted, and almost as if resonating with it, the mark of a dragon appeared on Yusei's right arm.

Now appearing next to Junk Warrior was a demonic dragon with three horns over its head, black scaled body with scarlet red parts over the legs, arms, and torso. As the dragon released a mighty roar, flames emerged that seemed to bring the temperature up to a dangerous level.

"Red Dragon Archfiend? But that's Jack's ace monster, isn't it? How come you have that? Unless…" Yugi mentioned, and Yusei saw that the King of Games came to a realization.

Yusei nodded at Yugi. "That's right. I'm not facing you alone. All the strength of my friends are with me. Yugi, you face not just me, but the entirety of Team 5Ds!" the Turbo Duelist declared.


Eyes widening in shock as Yugi watched a large dragon made of crimsons flames emerge from behind Yusei, letting out a cry that echoed throughout the field. He could feel the boundless power that was coming from it and being channeled into Yusei.

"So this is… the Crimson Dragon…" He heard the legends, and about the Signers, but to actually witness it with his own eyes was something completely different.

A shiver ran up Yugi's spine, but strangely enough, he couldn't feel any fear… but rather there was a feeling of excitement coursing through him. Eyes filling with determination, Yugi looked at his opponent straight in the eyes.

"So I face all of Team 5Ds? Perfect. It truly shows how much of a bond you share with your friends, and no doubt you'll be even more powerful because of that. But don't think you'll defeat me just like that," Yugi reminded him, having no intention of losing. So Yusei was drawing the strength of his bonds through his cards. Yugi will believe in his own deck to pull him through.

Smiling at that, Yusei nodded. "Good, a worthy remark by the King of Games. Now I activate Bri Synchron's special ability. When used for a Synchro Summon, the monster it calls out gains an additional 600 attack points, but will have its effects negated. Both of these last only for the turn, though."

Now Red Dragon Archfiend glowed with a mix of red and green aura before roaring aloud, its attack raising from 3000 to 3600.

"First four monsters summoned at once, then two Synchro Summons, and both of them are over 3000 attack points? You sure know how to make an impressive display, Yusei," Yugi praised. Only one that ever made such strategic plays with so much power was Kaiba.

"I appreciate that, Yugi. Now, Red Dragon Archfiend, attack Berry Magician Girl. Absolute Powerforce!" Yusei cried out, as Red Dragon Archfiend coated its fist with fire and charged at Berry Magician Girl, the infant spellcaster looking at the giant dragon with wide eyes that were tearing up.

Yugi was rather surprised by that. To charge in without paying attention to his face down cards? Either Yusei was being careless, or he was ready for it.

"I don't think so. I activate Berry Magician Girl's special ability. When attacked, Berry Magician Girl automatically switches into defense mode," Yugi said, as Berry Magician Girl raised its arms and projected a small feeble shield, but in its fear, the wand glowed and formed a small distortion in space in front of it. "Not only that, but Berry Magician Girl also calls out another of its allies from my deck to come out. So now I bring out, Lemon Magician Girl in defense mode!"

The distortion expanded and Lemon Magician Girl jumped out, wearing a yellow spellcaster outfit, earrings that resemble monster levels, white stockings, and a more developed set of wings than Berry Magician Girl's, as it knelt while having her arms crossed defensively in front of her with the bar showing her to have 600 defense points.

Yugi could guess that Yusei was questioning what Yugi's plan was, but he could tell his opponent wasn't going to stop the attack. "Even so, Red Dragon Archfiend's attack continues. Go!"

Not hesitating Red Dragon Archfiend continued its attack, smashing through the shield the infant spellcaster formed, and destroyed her, her image shattered like glass shards.

"Since Red Dragon Archfiend's effects are negated, Lemon Magician Girl won't be destroyed by its effect," Yusei explained, as Yugi had figured. He knew the ace monsters of Team 5Ds and what their effects could do. Red Dragon's effect really shut down many defensive plays that use monsters in defense mode.

"Now then, I'll have Junk Warrior attack your Lemon Magician Girl. Go, Scrap Fist!"

The large purple robot charged towards the blonde spellcaster, but all of a sudden, the girl raised her wand and blasted Junk Warrior with energy, before a flash of light formed.

"You activated Lemon Magician Girl's special ability. When she's attacked, she brings out a friend and makes you attack them instead. So I call out my good old friend!" Yugi declared, as suddenly the clouds began to form overhead and a lightning bolt struck onto the field, as a magic circle appeared.

"From the depths of time, the unyielding spirit that wields the ultimate magic ascends! Come forth, Dark Magician!"

Placing the card on the Duel Disk, a magician clad in black spellcasting armor with white hair and blue tinted skin emerged from the magic circle, before he raised his hand to summon his black scepter out as well, which spun around the spellcaster before being grabbed. Junk Warrior began to charge towards the new monster that had 2500 attack points.

However, what shocked Yusei was how Lemon Magician Girl's energy blast was causing a static electricity to cover Junk Warrior, as it's attack points dropped from 3300 to 1650.

"I forgot to mention, Lemon Magician Girl also lowers the attacking monster's attack by half. She might seem weak, but she leaves quite the sour taste," Yugi jokes. "Now Dark Magician, strike back at Junk Warrior with your Dark Magic Attack!"

Retaliating towards Junk Warrior's charge, Dark Magician raises its rod and fires a blast of dark energy at Junk Warrior. The powerful magical attack struck Junk Warrior with devastating force, and Yugi expected for the monster to be destroyed in an explosion. However, both Yugi and Dark Magician expressed shock when Junk Warrior began to push the magical energy back, it's attack points returning to 3300.

"Surprised? I had a feeling that you might pull something like that, so I had a little insurance," Yusei began explaining, as he held up a card. "I used my Rush Warrior's special ability. By discarding him, I can double my Junk Warrior's attack for the battle. So even though your Lemon Magician Girl lowered Junk Warrior's attack points, Rush Warrior raised Junk Warrior's attack right back up. The tables have turned once more. Junk Warrior, attack Dark Magician with Scrap Fist!"

Machine eyes glowed a bright red as Junk Warrior flew to the air and charged toward Dark Magician, throwing a punch that projected a much larger image of it's fist. The spellcaster attempted to retaliate by firing another blast of magical energy, only for the force of the warrior's fist to break through, slamming him onto the ground before he shattered, a strong gust of wind releasing from its destruction that struck Yugi as he crossed his arms in front of him to avoid being blown back, the life point gauge on his Duel Disk dropped to 7200.

Once the wind died down, Yugi looked at Yusei with a smile.

"Not bad, Yusei. I thought I caught you off guard with my strategy, but you saw it coming already," Yugi complimented. Yusei must have picked up on the fact that the Magician Girls had low power, and possibly guessed they would be used to summon stronger monsters or potentially lower Yusei's monsters' power. "However, we've still got a long way to go. Now that I took some damage, I can activate this."

One of the three set cards reveals itself. "The trap card, Dig of Destiny. Whenever I take battle damage, I can draw one card," Yugi explained as he drew a card from his deck before pointing at Junk Warrior. "And now that the battle is over, Rush Warrior's effect will wear off, with Junk Warrior's attack reduced to half once again."

Just as Yugi said, Junk Warrior's attack returned to being 1650. Unlike Rus Warrior's effect to double Junk Warrior's attack for the duration of the battle, Lemon Magician Girl's effect is permanent so long as Junk Warrior remains on the field.

"I place one card face down and end my turn. With that, Bri Synchron's effect wears off, so Red Dragon Archfiend's attack points go down, but his effect returns," Yusei finished, as he watched Red Dragon Archfiend's power go back down to 3000. However, he also noticed that Junk Warrior's attack still remained as 1650, likely understanding how Lemon Magician Girl's effect works now.


So the attack reduction was permanent? A very dangerous ability. That more or less seals his attacks, since any reckless attacks would result in not only Yugi summoning a new monster, but Yusei's monster weakening and likely losing the battle, which only adds to Yugi's advantage. Were all the Magician Girls like this?

No, Berry Magician Girl summoned another monster and switched positions, but didn't redirect the attack, nor did she reduce Red Dragon's attack points. So maybe not all of them? Either way, Yusei understood that he couldn't underestimate those monsters at all.

However, Yusei couldn't help but smile at how Yugi performed his moves. Even though Yusei's Junk Warrior managed to destroy Yugi's ace, Yugi was able to recover and seems to still hold some control over the Duel. Defeating him would be no easy task.

"My turn. I draw," Yugi spoke, and Yusei noticed that after drawing the card, a smirk slowly formed on Yugi's face, before reaching for another card in his hand. "First off, I'll summon my Chocolate Magician Girl in attack mode."

Now appearing next to Lemon Magician Girl, a woman with a more revealing spellcaster outfit of deep blue color, having her shoulders and midriff exposed, aqua green hair, and wings that were slimmer and straighter than Lemon Magician Girl's. Her attack bar showed to have 1600 points.

"Next, I sacrifice Lemon Magician Girl to summon a new monster," Yugi declared, as Lemon Magician Girl faded away in a flash of blinding light, and soon a new image began to take her place.

"From the vast cosmos of time and space, the whispers of the heart illuminates all with the most profound wisdom. Cast your hallowed judgment, Silent Magician!" Yugi chanted, as the light finally dimmed to show a beautiful woman with silver hair and a tight blue dress that extended down with the side of her hips shown, a large bust, and an extra white outfit on top that formed down the center of her dress with shoulder pads. She wore a large white hat, along with a pair of white gloves and knee high boots, and carried a white wand with her. However, her attack points read as only 1000.

"Silent Magician can be Special Summoned to the field so long as I offer a Spellcaster-Type monster as Tribute. Also, for every card in my hand, she gains 500 attack points. Since I hold just one card, she gets only 500 points," Yugi explained, as Silent Magician grew slightly stronger to 1500 ATK points.

A monster that grew stronger depending on the number of cards in the hand? That resembled the ability of the Egyptian God monster, Slifer the Sky Dragon. However, Silent Magician's ability seemed inferior to Slifer's.

"Now, Silent Magician, attack Junk Warrior!" Yugi declared, which caught Yusei off guard.

"What? You're going to attack Junk Warrior? But Junk Warrior has more attack points!" Yusei questioned. Was it a bluff? No, Yugi must have planned something.

"I know, which is why I reveal my facedown card!" Yugi declared, as the set card revealed itself, a spell card that should a picture of Silent Magician in it. "The Quick-Play Spell, Silent Burning."

At the activation, Silent Magician's eyes began to glow as she was coated by a white magical aura that began to blow a huge gust of wind all over the arena. Yugi then began to explain the effect. "When activated, if I control a 'Silent Magician' monster, and I happen to have more cards in my hand than my opponent, then both of us will continue to draw cards until we both have six."

"Six?" Yusei questioned and realized how this worked in Yugi's favor, as he saw the King of Games hold up the only card in his hand.

"You have no cards in your hand, while I have just one, so you can draw six cards while I draw five," Yugi stated.

Yusei already realized the danger of the attack, and reacted to the move. "I reveal my trap, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow!" As the card revealed itself, an iron bar that held up a metallic scarecrow looking figure appeared. "Thanks to this card, your attack is negated. Not only that, but Scrap-Iron Scarecrow returns to being set rather than go to the graveyard, so I can use it again."

As his trap set itself once more, Yusei watched as Yugi had a look of admiration and surprise form on his face. "Wow, that was impressive, Yusei," he said. "I guess you were prepared to stop an attack from me just in case. But though the attack was negated, the effect remains. So now we both draw."

Both Yugi and Yusei began to draw cards till they had the approved number and Yusei watched as Silent Magician's attack points raise to 4000 now. If Yusei had let that attack continue, he would have taken over 2000 points of damage. However, that spell card Yugi used, Silent Burning, was a double-edged sword. Though it strengthened Yugi's monster's attack points and refilled his hand, it had also refilled Yusei's empty hand. Not only that, but Yugi couldn't declare another attack since his only remaining monster only has 1600 attack points, which couldn't harm Junk Warrior nor Red Dragon Archfiend.

However, he then noticed the look in Yugi's eyes, and realized that it wasn't over.

"Yusei, you have cards given to you by your friends that represent the bonds you share with them. What I hold here is a card that represents the bond I share with someone important to me as well," Yugi said, as he picked one card up, before suddenly revealing it. "When this monster is drawn, I can special summon him immediately. Since I drew him through Silent Burning's effect, he's coming onto the field."

"A monster that can be summoned by simply drawing it?!" Yusei questioned, shocked that such a card would exist.

"Mighty servant of the Nameless Pharaoh, transcend through time and space to come to my aid, and vanquish all enemies with your radiant loyalty! Descend, Palladium Oracle Mahad!"

And just like that, in a gold beam of light , a figure, knelt in front of Yugi appeared, as the figure stood up and turned around, garbed in golden armor and carried a golden staff in hand. When Yusei saw it, he could feel it within his mind that the monster that appeared was more than a simple duel monster, as even his Signer mark began to glow to indicate something unique about that monster. A screen appeared, showing Mahad to have 2500 ATK points.

"Now that I summoned a new monster, Silent Magician's attack goes down as well," Yugi mentioned, as Silent Magician's attack lowered to 3500. "However, now that I have Mahad on the field, I now have another attack."

Yusei immediately realized that Yugi's battle phase hadn't ended yet, meaning that he could still perform an attack now that he had a new monster on the field. Junk Warrior was going to be destroyed now, and Yusei couldn't make any moves to protect it.

"Mahad, attack Red Dragon Archfiend!"

The moment Yusei heard those words, his eyes widened in shock.

Yugi was attacking Red Dragon? Why? Mahad had less attack points? Unless…

As if reading his mind, Yugi began to speak. "Looks like you realized it. Mahad has another special ability. Whenever he battles with a DARK monster, his attack automatically doubles," Yugi said, as Mahad's attack went all the way up to 5000 as he jumped into the sky, a pattern of seals appeared as a golden beam of light fired towards Red Dragon Archfiend, engulfing him in the light before the dragon let out a pained roar as it was incinerated.

Feeling the gust of wind, Yusei felt himself get pushed back that his balance broke and he fell onto his back, his life counter going down to 6000.

"I place 2 cards face down and end my turn," Yugi finished, two cards appearing set before vanishing, and Silent Magician's attack points lowering to 2500.

Slowly getting up from the ground, Yusei stared at Yugi, seeing a large aura of power surrounding Yugi. It was incredible… Yugi no longer held the spirit of the pharaoh, but his own might was just as great. Yusei's body began to shake while getting up. 'This feeling… is this fear? No… this… this is excitement. It's unlike anything I've ever felt before. Yugi, you're a duelist beyond anyone I've ever encountered…' Yusei thought to himself as he clenched his fist tightly, a sense of determination filling his body as he stood up, placing his hand on his deck.

"It's my move, I draw!" Yusei declared as he looked at his hand, before examining the field.

He wondered why Yugi hadn't attacked Junk Warrior with Mahad. Since Junk Warrior was also a DARK monster, Mahad's attack would have doubled, and Yusei would have taken over 3000 points of damage. Perhaps he thought that Red Dragon Archfiend was the greater threat? Junk Warrior's current condition made it difficult to be used any longer for battle.

However, Yusei had more plays up his sleeve.

"I summon Jet Synchron in Attack Mode," Yusei said, as a large jet engine turbine appeared with a eyes on the jet nose and arms and legs forming from the wing plates. "Now I tune my Level 5 Junk Warrior with my Level 1 Jet Synchron."

"Sacred wings that command the meteor shower! Ride the wind of souls around the world! Synchro Summon! Stardust Charge Warrior!"

As the two monsters vanished into the light, now appeared a new warrior with a humanoid figure, wearing armor resembling Yusei's Stardust Dragon, and two jet wings protruding down its back. On those wings, there were three large blade like objects were attached to each wing. A screen shows it having 2000 ATK points.

"When Stardust Charge Warrior is synchro summoned successfully, I'm allowed to draw a card," Yusei explains before drawing another card, his eyes widen slightly at seeing it, before a plan begins to form. Perhaps he could actually manage to turn everything around. "Next I also activate the effect of my Jet Synchron. When it's sent to the graveyard as part of a synchro summon, I'm allowed to move a 'Junk' monster from my deck and add it to my hand, and I pick my Junk Synchron."

As he spoke that, Yusei watched his deck push out the card he selected, and after removing it from the deck, the deck immediately reshuffled itself.

"Now, I activate the spell, Battle Waltz! When activated, I can create a 'Waltz Token' on the field that has all of Stardust Charge Warrior's attack, defense, level, type and attribute. However, no battle damage is involved with the token."

As the spell began to take effect, a mirror image of Stardust Charge Warrior began to form next to him.

"Not so fast, Yusei," Yugi suddenly interjected. "I activate my Silent Magician's special ability. Once per turn, I can negate the activation of a spell card. Spell Silencer!"

Silent Magician twirled her wand around before the orb on the end of the wand glowed a bright translucent blue color, as the Battle Waltz spell card sudden began to lose color, and slowly began to fade away, the token that was being formed also vanishing. As the spell card's activation was negated, it naturally went towards the graveyard.

However, the smile on Yusei's face hadn't left for a moment. "I figured that you might have had an effect like this, and you took the bait," Yusei said, surprising Yugi. "Now Stardust Charge Warrior! Attack!"


He knew that Yugi would negate the effect? Then was Battle Waltz just a diversion? What could he be planning? However, Yugi could only watch as Yusei's monster began to ready itself.

The six blade like objects suddenly ejected from the jet wings from Stardust Charge Warrior, the end revealing the blade objects to be laser blasters instead of blades, as the they floated beside the monster with three on each side, the power charging together.

"Now I activate my spell card!" Yusei quickly declared, activating it, and suddenly, Yugi saw a silhouette of Stardust Dragon appear over the warrior as the lasers fired several individual blasts of energy from each one, before they all spiraled together in convergence, turning into a single large blast.

The blast of energy engulfed both Silent Magician and Palladium Oracle Mahad, as they both let out a cry of pain before suddenly vanishing from the field, and Yugi looked at the empty spaces where his monsters once stood in shock.

"Wha-?!" Yugi could only mutter.


And there we go. How's the Duel so far? Interesting? I hope so. Both Yugi and Yusei are very skilled, and neither will budge.

Yusei will need to draw out all the power of the Crimson Dragon to stand a chance against Yugi. He's the vessel of the pharaoh that surpassed him in the end after all.

So some might argue on Yugi having Mahad in his deck when that should be Atem's card. I say no to that because if Yugi can use Dark Magician, then having Mahad is perfectly alright. Since the card appeared in the Duel in Dark Side of Dimensions, I imagine that Yugi could have kept that card now. It's a very good card to represent how their bond never faded, and Atem entrusting Yugi with Mahad, his most loyal servant, is a perfect way to show how deep their bond can be, especially since Mahad's loyalty for Atem can even extend to the vessel that inherited Atem's will.

Oh yes, more info. The current forbidden list is active for this Duel, however, both Duelists are allowed to have 1 Forbidden card in their Deck from the TCG. Yes, the Forbidden List for the Duel will be from the TCG, not OCG.

Also, you guys might also be wondering about the case of summon chants. Well... I like them. So I'll be using them and even giving Yugi's monsters that I feel deserve it some chants as well. So far you saw Dark Magician's, Silent Magician's, and Mahad's. More will come your way later. If you don't like it, sorry for that.