Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

Chapter 1466 Please Duel Don't Summon Yourself on the Field
[Ed Phoenix: 4000LP, 0 cards in hand]

[D.hero Destruction Phoenix Man][ATK2500]

[D. Hero Doctrine][ATK3400]

[D. Hero Blood Demon-D] [ATK2200→2700]

[D-Power] [Mirage of Nightmare]

Because of the existence of [D-Power], the large number of monsters that Ed sent to the graveyard in order to special summon [D·hero Doctrine] and [D·hero Destruction Phoenix] provided a stronger amplification for [D·hero Blood Demon-D], making its attack power higher than [D·hero Destruction Phoenix].

At the same time, although it has not been revealed yet, the seven [Hero] monsters in Ed's graveyard can be transformed into a powerful weakening force by [D·hero Destruction Phoenix Man], which can reduce the attack power of Kajiki Yuta's monsters on the field by up to 1600 points.

This means that if one wants to use combat to destroy the [D·hero Destruction Phoenix] with the lowest attack power on the field of Ed, at least 4100 attack power is required to do so, and this must be done under the power suppression of [D·hero Blood Demon-D] assisted by [D-Power].

What's more important is that because of the investment of [Mirage of Nightmare], the depleted cards in his hand will be replenished to four cards immediately after Kajiki Yuta's turn comes!
"Oh? Very impressive, three powerful monsters." Kajiki Yuta looked at the arrangement on Ed's field and nodded in approval. "And if I remember correctly, [D·hero Blood Demon-D] has the ability to seize enemy monsters as its own equipment card, [D·hero Doctrine] can cut the opponent's basic points in half during the preparation phase of each opponent's turn, and there is also [D·hero Destruction Phoenix] with a two-speed card destruction effect."

Although Kajiki Yuta doesn't dress well, he has a very good brain and is an empirical person who is completely opposite to Jonouchi's intuitive people. Most professional duelists have signed contracts with agencies or at least hired a professional duelist agent to help them handle business matters and investigate and organize duelist intelligence, but Kajiki Yuta has never been interested in those capital matters and has always been a single-handed person in the professional duelist world.

His world ranking is only eighth, but his strength is definitely more than just eighth. Even if he is competing with sixth-ranked "Thief" Keith and fourth-ranked "Dinosaur" Ryuuzaki, he is not unable to win. It's just that compared to those in front who have the assistance of the agency's team to provide data analysis, Kajiki Yuta's results are relatively unstable.

If he remembered correctly, Ed's [D·hero Destruction Phoenix] seemed to have the ability to reduce the attack power of the opponent's monster. There was no need to count them. From the current 2600 attack power of [D·hero Blood Demon-D], it can be concluded that there are seven [Hero] monsters in Ed's graveyard, which means that the attack power reduced by [D·hero Destruction Phoenix] will be as high as 1400 points.

Even if a monster of the level of [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] appears on the field, it will instantly become a weakling with an attack power of only 1600 points.

Thinking about it this way, the young people nowadays are really amazing. They are only in their teens, right? No, if you think about it carefully, weren't Yugi Muto and Jonouchi already among the best in the world at about the same age? This seems quite reasonable.

but
"But don't be too proud of winning the championship last year, Ed." Kajiki Yuta showed a hearty and confident smile, "Take a good look at the true strength of the seniors! If you underestimate me, you will suffer a great loss like you did when you duelled with the newcomer named 'Caesar' before!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

At the moment Kajiki Yuta drew a card and entered his standby phase, Ed also drew four cards from his deck: "Then during the opponent's standby phase, because of the effect of the Continuous Magic Card [Nightmare Mirage] on my backfield, I will draw cards from my deck until I have four cards in my hand."

"Draining the pond to catch all the fish? The cards you draw now must be discarded randomly in the same number of cards in your hand during the preparation phase of your turn." Kajiki Yuta glanced at the four cards Ed drew, "Or do you have the confidence to easily draw a quick-play magic card like [Unusual Food] from these four cards like Hayato Kobayashi that can eliminate the continuous magic cards on your field?"

"Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to make these two cards appear almost at the same time like Hayato-sensei." Ed looked at the four cards he drew. There was no card like [Unusual Food] among them, but he was not too worried because of [D-Power] on his backfield, he would not be able to draw cards in the draw phase next turn.

In this case, it doesn't matter even if you use up a few cards in your hand. You will have to discard them all in the next round anyway, and you won't lose even one more card. Can you still be judged as a loser because you don't have enough cards to discard?
Looking at Kajiki Yuta, Ed continued: "But before that, let me use the effect of [D·hero Doctrine] first!"

"As long as he is on the field, every time the opponent is in the preparation phase, the opponent's basic points will be cut in half!"

Both the effect of [D·hero Doctrine] and the effect of [Mirage of Nightmare] are continuous effects that do not need to be activated, which prevents them from being invalidated by cards such as [Divine Punishment] when they are activated.

However, this does not mean that you can sit back and relax when the permanent effect comes into effect. Just like [Mirage of Nightmare] is often eaten as emergency food by someone, Kajiki Yuta also played a quick-attack magic card in his hand during his preparation phase.

"Activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Forbidden Drop]! I send three monster cards from my hand to the Graveyard, select all three monsters on your field, negate their effects, and halve their attack power!"

Looking at the [Forbidden Drop] played by Kajiki Yuta, Ed was stunned for a moment before he uttered, "Huh?"

No, brother? What kind of start is this? You just took a picture of "Forbidden Drop" at the beginning. What does it mean? Are you going to let people play cards?

Not many people have the card [Drop of Taboo]. Only Ramses II and Hayato, Atem and Yugi, Caesar and Pegasus Moon have it. Among them, Pegasus Moon can be considered to be using his own cards because he is using the [Fallen Angel] deck and the [Taboo] series.

But why is this card of Kajiki Yuta——

"Because this is part of the reward I received." Seeing Ed's confusion, Kajiki Yuta didn't keep him in suspense and gave the answer directly, "It seems to be called Pegasus Yuexing? A card of the adopted son of Bekas of the International Illusion Society was requisitioned by Hayato Kobayashi for mass production. However, Duel Monsters cards cannot be copied casually, so Hayato Kobayashi made a batch of 'early test' cards."

"According to him, the effect seems to be quite good, exactly the same as the original. Although he said that he couldn't mass-produce too many cards because they would tire, he could at least produce five cards per year. While saying something like 'It's a pity that we can't sell them to stores', he gave this batch of mass-produced [Drop of Forbidden] cards to us who came to help."

After a pause, Kajiki Yuta looked at Ed with surprise again: "However, I remember that your [D·hero Destroyer Phoenix] can be activated during the main phase of both parties, right? Why don't you try to destroy your [D·hero Doctrine] to avoid [Forbidden Drop]?"

Hearing this, the corner of Ed's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "I can understand your desire to show off the effect of the new card, but unfortunately, I have already seen the effect of this card in the duel with that 'Caesar' Liang. I guess you haven't seen that duel yet?"

"You said that the card you sent to the graveyard was a monster card. So because of the effect of [Forbidden Drop], I can't use the effect of the monster card to follow the chain when [Forbidden Drop] is activated." As Ed's voice fell, [Forbidden Drop] also took effect. Absorbing the power of the three cards that Kajiki Yuta sent to the graveyard, unclean drops dripped from a black wine glass that appeared on Kajiki Yuta's field, splashing on the three monsters on Ed's field!

[D. Hero Doctrinaire][ATK3400→1700]

[D.hero Destruction Phoenix Man] [ATK2500→1250]

[D. Hero Blood Demon-D] [ATK2600→1300]

"Not only has the attack power of my monsters been reduced, but the effects have also been invalidated." Ed looked helplessly at the monsters on his field. At this moment, they didn't even have a single attack power higher than 2000. Fortunately, in order to use [Forbidden Drop], Kajiki Yuta also consumed a large number of cards in one go.

"But as a price, you only have two cards left. How are you going to win then?"

"Indeed, two cards in hand are quite difficult to deal with. If I don't draw this card during the draw phase of this turn." Kajiki Yuta showed a card in his hand, "I will cover a card in my hand and activate the magic card [Treasure Card from Heaven]!"

In Ed's confused eyes, the zero-frame start and the divine draw unique to the older generation of duelists gave him a complete shock!
Since Ed has four cards in his hand, he can only benefit from two cards in [Heaven's Falling Treasures]; but because Kajiki Yuta used [Forbidden Drop] and only had two cards left in his hand, after putting down one card, he can draw out a full six cards!

"Because I don't have any cards in hand, I can draw six cards!" Kajiki Yuta's tone was particularly excited when he drew cards, and Ed could only deeply understand Hayato's words "It's more uncomfortable to see others earn more than me than to let me lose cards" and said unwillingly, "I have four cards in hand, so I can draw two cards."

"Not only that, you have to randomly discard four cards in your hand during the preparation phase of your next turn." Kajiki Yuta gloated, "Because of Hayato Kobayashi, many people have started using the combination of [Nightmare Mirage] and [Unusual Food]. To deal with such shameless people, you can replenish up to four cards in one go. [Treasure Card from the Sky] is the best countermeasure we have summed up over the years."

"Although Jonouchi still can't beat Hayato Kobayashi even if he uses this combo on him, at least he can see the jealous look in Hayato Kobayashi's eyes, which is cool enough."

While laughing, Kajiki Yuta looked at the cards in his hand, drew out a card and said, "First, I will discard this card [Warrior of Atlantis] in my hand to the Graveyard to activate its effect."

"From my deck, add a Field Spell Card [Legendary City - Atlantis] to my hand."

"Then I activate the Field Spell Card [Legendary City - Atlantis]. The card name of this card is used as [Sea] in the rules, increasing the ATK and DEF of Water monsters on the field by 200 points. At the same time, the Level of Water monsters in both players' hands and on the field is reduced by 1☆!"

Waves suddenly surged on the calm sea, lifting up the floating platform under Kajiki Yuta's feet. When large pieces of building debris broke through the water and appeared, Ed could see clearly that the floating platform under Kajiki Yuta's feet had turned into a tall tower in the center of this underwater city.

"Compared to the increase in attack and defense, the most important thing about [Legendary City - Atlantis] is that it lowers the level of the monsters in my hand. Level 7☆ monsters will only need one sacrifice to be upgraded, and Level 5☆ monsters will no longer require sacrifices."

"So I can Normal Summon this card right away—my half, my Tamashi! The Warrior Charging the Sea!"

"Walking on the waves! [The Legendary Fisherman II]!"

As Kajiki Yuta placed the card on the duel board, a water tornado rose in front of him, and a fisherman with a whale shark under his feet, shirtless and holding a crossbow, stepped out of the waves!

[Legend of the Fisherman II] [5☆/Water] → [4☆/Water]

【Warrior/Effect】

【2200/1800】→【2400/2000】

Although it is a Level 5☆ monster, as Kajiki Yuta said, its level was downgraded by the Field Magic Card and it became a monster that can be directly Normal Summoned without releasing a Tribute, and its attack power is now the same as that of [Red-Eyes Black Dragon].

However, what attracted Ed's attention more than the numerical value was the appearance of the [Legendary Fisherman II].

"Isn't that you, Kajiki Yuta?!"

The "Legendary Fisherman II" who appeared on Kajiki Kyouta's field cannot be said to be similar to Kajiki Kyouta, but can only be said to be exactly the same. Even the hairstyle is exactly the same hedgehog head!

"Oh, now that you mention it, they do look alike." Kajiki Yuta looked at the "Legendary Fisherman II" as if he had just discovered it, and nodded, "I was wondering what Kobayashi Hayato was going to do with the photo. It turns out that he was going to use it to customize a monster that looks similar to the Duelist, just like that guy Jonouchi."

"Hehe, maybe I didn't say the wrong summoning word. [Legendary Fisherman II] is a new monster that inherits from [Legendary Fisherman]. As long as it exists on the field or in the graveyard, its card name can be used as [Legendary Fisherman]."

tw02, Meteorite Dragon and Luli Xi got the unusual painting, which is indeed the core card

The Meteorite Dragon has become very cute