Duels should be played with a smile.

Sky Striker Princess, also known as Gate Blade Master, Sky Striker Princess!

Just like a piece of equipment nicknamed 875 that is also known as "Recover 5" and costs 825, but its effect is to recover 6 per second, the Sky Striker deck will become a "Gate Striker" or "Sky Striker" deck for various reasons.

As a deck featuring both strength and good looks, Sky Striker has been extremely popular since its release. However, due to its high skill ceiling and high usage rate, its overall win rate is relatively low.

However, this deck is indeed the most suitable deck for the main linking strategy in the current DM environment.

The first reason is self-evident; those who know, know.

As for the second reason... it's because Sky Striker's strength is really quite subtle.

As a beat-type deck that relies heavily on the meta, Sky Striker is quite prone to losing in the diverse deck landscape of DM. Moreover, since no one plays best-of-three matches here, it's all a single game to decide the winner. Without knowing the opponent's deck information, Sky Striker is really difficult to play.

You might save your card for a Grab Anchor and wait for the opponent's big monster, then the opponent will just Normal Summon Sapphire Dragon and enter Battle Phase to send you to another world.

Moreover, Sky Striker's strength is really easy to control. As long as the flow of cards is controlled, for example, if each Sky Striker pre-deck only includes one copy of each of the archetype cards, then Sky Striker will truly only be usable by true duelists. True duelists gain the cards' approval, and then the cards themselves print three copies of each archetype card. Then there will be no strength issue, right?

You say you can't play with just one card? Then go and get the card's approval!

You say you can't defeat your opponent and gain card recognition? Then go ahead and get three of every card and you'll win!

See? Isn't it a very simple thing?

As for your suggestion to buy three pre-built decks and start playing, I'm sorry, but as a deck that only true duelists deserve, and based on the principle that beauty is only for the strong, obtaining Sky Striker pre-built decks is extremely difficult.

A small number of pre-built sets will be given away at the press conference today through a lottery system after the purchase of the new Duel Disks. These sets will be linked to the corresponding Duel Disks and will be prohibited from being traded.

If you want to get a Sky Striker pre-built deck, you have to go to the official card shops under Kaiba Corporation and Mirage International to participate in the shop tournament. Each shop only has one pre-built deck, and only the winner of the shop tournament in that shop is eligible to purchase it.

Furthermore, if any new pre-built decks are to be released in the future, they will all be released in this manner—if the era of duelists is to continue, directly printing cards is just a crude and inefficient method.

Only when true duelists gain the recognition of the spirits through duels and then print their own cards can duelists evolve on their own, thus allowing the era to evolve.

Unfortunately, there are no card sprites in the real world, so the only way to get new cards is through F**kKonami.

In short, Leyou has already planned how to guide the duelists of this era to open the door to a new generation, but before that, he still needs to deal with this somewhat strange Ziyu.

The standard duel disk used by the Doma organization was not usable, so the method of determining the first move by rolling the number was naturally not applicable. Leyou, who had not thought of this, lost the first move without realizing it.

Compared to Doma's standard Duel Disk, Leyou's Duel Disk was naturally much more flashy. Although its shape was still the same sword-shaped Duel Disk as before, and its internal functions were not the same as the new Duel Disk that would be released soon, his Duel Disk was emitting a faint emerald glow at this moment—this unique shape and dazzling brilliance naturally attracted the attention of many spectators.

The current Leyou is like a living advertisement, inspiring many duelists to want to customize a unique duel disk—no one can resist the temptation to fill their computer case with lights and figurines, and the same goes for duel disks.

"First strike is mine! My turn! Draw!"

Seeing 8000 LP displayed on the Duel Disk, Gu Yu wasn't surprised. He knew about the rule changes before he came. However, he was still somewhat surprised when he saw that there were two extra squares in the middle of the two monster fields.

The rules regarding Link Monsters were announced at the press conference, at which time he happened to be on his way...

"Duel King! I will offer your soul under the watchful eye of Lord Raphael and the witness of the god Orichalcos!"

"I activate [Angel's Charity]! Based on the effect, draw three cards and discard two."

The opponent activated the effect immediately after the player played Tian Shi, before Le You could even see what card was played.

"【Bege, the Vanguard of the Dark World】's effect: If this card is discarded from your hand to the Graveyard by the effect of another card, it can be Special Summoned to the field."

The vanguard, who looked like a censored version of an undead from World of Warcraft, hunched over as he rose from the graveyard, weapon in hand, and stood silently at the front.

[Dark 4-Star · Demon Race · Attack 1600 · Defense 1300]

"There's also the effect of [Gold, the God of War of the Dark Realm], which is the same and can also be specially summoned into the field."

The golden demon, wielding a giant axe, emerged from the darkness, closely following the vanguard. It seemed that it lacked resentment and had no target, otherwise it would probably have gone to the other side to wreak havoc and vent its fighting spirit.

[Dark 5-Star · Demon Race · Attack 2300 · Defense 1400]

Dark Realm is a powerful deck that works well with Uncharted Realm. Its main feature is that most of its monsters can activate their effects when discarded from the hand to the graveyard, and they also have additional effects when discarded by the opponent.

When the Dark Realm, nicknamed the "Card Hand World," is combined with the invincible Heavenly Master, their strength truly skyrockets.

Leyou has started considering whether to make Tian Shi Qiang Yu a limited card (1) – if there are no banned cards, a limited card would be fine too.

However, in this Dark Realm deck, it seems a unit shouldn't be on a seemingly unremarkable grunt...

No, this is not a grunt.

A faint black aura appeared out of nowhere and enveloped the person. Staring at the black aura, Le You felt a little displeased, but he didn't know where this displeasure came from.

This person has a problem, a really big problem. In a world where playing cards can destroy planets and universes, this person's identity should absolutely not be that of an underling of the Three Musketeers of Dorma.

However, Leyou didn't lose out either, because he also drew two cards from these two special recruitments.

"Chain with the effects you just had, C1 God of War, C2 Vanguard, C3, I'll throw a G."

One side cleverly uses the negative effects of cards to turn them into positive benefits, while the other side takes advantage of the other's positive benefits to freeload and gain some benefits themselves. This kind of game of strategy at the very beginning unsurprisingly aroused cheers and excitement from the audience.

Philvo has now returned to the real world. While monitoring the duel, she also blurred some things that cannot be seen by ordinary people, such as the black aura on Gu Yu's body.

"As expected of the King of Duels, you were able to put up a fight before your turn even arrived. Unfortunately, your resistance was ultimately futile."

"I activate the Continuous Spell Card, [Guardian Angel's Treasure Card]!"

"This card requires discarding 5 cards from your hand to activate, after which I can draw two cards, and as long as this card is in my back row, I can draw two cards during each draw phase!"

I was just thinking about what kind of amazing plays the Dark Realm would pull off with their perfect opening hand of Heavenly Blessing, but it seems like their hand got stuck, and they just threw away all their cards. They truly live up to their reputation as the "Hard Hand Realm".

Discarding a card from your hand using cost will not trigger effects that only take effect when discarded.

Draw two cards; the Continuous Spell Card remains in the back row of the monster and begins to exert its effect continuously.

As Raphael's subordinate, Gu Yu possesses the same card as Raphael, but he uses it differently from his superior—he uses it to solve the problem of having a dead hand.

Before Leyou could even see what the five cards he had thrown down were, that guy immediately made another move.

Just as Yu raised a card in his hand, a whirlwind erupted around him.

Without even watching the next move, Leyou already knows which barrier the opponent is going to activate that will cause the opponent to lose.

While thinking this, another idea suddenly popped into his head—why not try it out himself next time? He still had a whole bunch of them here.

"From this moment on, the mighty power of the god Orichalcos will descend upon this place!"

"Great Orichalcos, God! Grant me boundless power!"

Just like a true cultist, a mark identical to the Orichalcos barrier suddenly appeared on the head of the man who was shouting and praying loudly. At the same time as the mark appeared, the black aura around him also became deeper.

Even his eyes were tinged with crimson, making him look like a vampire who had eaten countless loaves of bread.

"Attack Statement: Normal Summon [Dark Realm Mad King Bronn], and based on the effect of [Orichalcos Barrier], all monsters on my field gain 500 ATK!"

[Dark 4-Star · Demon Race · Attack Power 1800→2300 · Defense Power 400]

He summoned a monster that hadn't been discarded from his hand and sent to the Graveyard. In just the first turn, he had three monsters on his field, and under the influence of Orichalcos, these three monsters had a combined ATK of 7200. At that moment, the audience seemed to understand why the LP had been changed to 8000.

4000LP is really too little.

The audience on stage watched with anticipation as the duelist, who had created such a spectacle in the first round, demonstrated his Link Summoning ability – since this duel was an exhibition match, he was bound to show off his Link Summoning skills!

However, to their disappointment, this person, without any cards in hand, ended their turn without doing anything.

"8000LP might make you feel like you've been given a second chance at life, but I'll show you that in the face of endless darkness, your 8000LP is no better than a candle flickering in the wind!"

"Oh? Is that so?" Leyou replied casually, while drawing his card for this turn.

Then... he got a bit of a headache.

Seven cards in hand! A full seven cards in hand! How can that possibly cause a hand blockage?!

It seems my own synergy isn't quite there yet. With just 7 cards in hand, I can turn into a door-knife-wielding minister. This deck is really hard to handle. It's definitely not because he stuffed a bunch of weird stuff into the deck to make it 60 cards. It's definitely not.

"I activate the field spell [Sky Slash Zone - Zero]."

A futuristic-style arena appeared beneath Leyou's feet, stretching all the way to fill the entire area on Leyou's side and even pushing the Orichalcos barrier to a considerable extent.

The moment this venue appeared, the audience's anticipation was instantly aroused. They had all seen that most of the link-related content was very futuristic and sci-fi. Now that this venue had appeared, didn't it mean that the link monster to be demonstrated this time was also about to appear?

I mainly wanted to see Link Summoning, definitely not to see Kakashi!

Leyou was naturally unaware of what these viewers were thinking, and even if he had, he could only make a self-deprecating joke.

Because this game was really a disaster!

"I place a backcourt card and then activate the zero zone effect."

Leyou set down cards that were essentially useless in his hand and only useful when placed in the graveyard, and then activated the field effect with a blank expression.

"Field effect: Target 1 card on your field other than this card."

A target indicator line suddenly appeared on the field, which resembled a tactical map, pointing to the card that had been covered up.

"Flip over the top 3 cards of your deck, select one Sky Striker card and add it to your hand, return the rest to your deck, and if the flipped cards include Sky Striker, send the target card to the graveyard."

The Duel Disk automatically moved the top three cards of the thick deck to one side and then began to flip through them.

The first card is titled "[One-Hit Kill! Iaijutsu Draw]".

Leyou's eyebrows twitched slightly, looking a little embarrassed.

The second card is still [One-Hit Kill! Iaijutsu Draw].

Leyou felt a bit of a headache coming on and started praying that the next card would be a Sky Slash card, otherwise he would be completely stuck.

Then comes the third image, [Sword-type Machine - Eagle Propulsion].

Leyou clutched her chest, feeling a little breathless.

This card, you could say it's useful, and it is somewhat useful; you could say it's useless, and it's true that we can't use it right now.

"I add Eagle to my hand and send the face-down [Alchemy Fusion] to the Graveyard."

It's a little embarrassing to admit, but he's truly pinning all his hopes on this armor fusion that's entered the graveyard...

"The effect of [Fusion] is: Once per turn, return this card from your Graveyard to your Deck, then draw a card."

Silently chanting "Give me a woman, give me a woman, give me a woman," Leyou held his breath, placed his hand on top of the card deck, and prayed that he would be destined to draw a card.

"Draw! Cards!"

"..."

"I'm activating the Golden Goblin..."

[Guiyu LP: 8000 → 9000]

Leyou added 1000 LP to the opponent's account, in exchange for a second chance to draw a card, and held his breath again.

"Draw! Cards!"