"My turn. Draw."
It was Kira’s turn again.
"Activate Spell Card ’Fiend’s Sanctuary’," Kira declared. "Special Summon one ’Metal Fiend Token’ on my field."
A classic summoning array opened up on the ground, summoning a tiny silver puppet at its center.
[Metal Fiend Token, ATK 0]
"Next, from my hand, activate Spell Card ’Tribute Doll’," Kira continued. "Release one monster on my field, and Special Summon a Level 7 monster from my hand.
But as a cost, that monster cannot attack this turn.
I release ’Metal Fiend Token’."
The token disintegrated into light and vanished.
"I Special Summon Level 7 ’Phantasmal Summoning Beast’ from my hand!"
The monster’s thin body was built on a skeletal frame, its massive signature bone wings stretching to three times its frame. The semi-transparent violet wing membranes contrasted sharply with its emaciated spine.
[Phantasmal Summoning Beast, ATK 0]
Level 7 with 0 ATK, and named ’Phantasmal Summoning Beast’—its very presence sent a sense of crisis over the field.
That sense of crisis was proven instantly.
"Phantasmal Summoning Beast’s effect," Kira said. "Release this card to add one ’Uria, Lord of Searing Flames’, ’Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder’, or ’Raviel, Lord of Phantasms’ from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand."
Kira waved a card retrieved from the Graveyard.
"I return ’Lord of Phantasms Raviel’ from my Graveyard to my hand."
Crow gritted his teeth. "After so much effort, he brought back Raviel..."
Jack: "But summoning that Sacred Beast needs three tributes! Even if he recovers it, he can’t play it that easily!"
Kira laughed, "Not necessarily."
Jack: "Nani!?"
"Phantasmal Summoning Beast’s next effect: After adding a Sacred Beast to the hand, you can Special Summon from your hand a Level 10 Pyro, Thunder, or Fiend monster with equal ATK and DEF, ignoring summoning conditions!"
The three: "!"
’Pyro, Thunder, Fiend’—the exact tribes for Uria, Hamon, and Raviel.
’Level 10, ATK = DEF’—narrowing the options to just those three.
"Descend again! Lord of Phantasms Raviel!"
The world changed color. A blue blaze erupted from the earth’s fissure. The giant shadow of a Sacred Beast soared up, great claws slamming the ground and shaking heaven and earth.
[Lord of Phantasms Raviel, ATK 4000]
Yusei said gravely, "This precise Sacred Beast play..."
He’d realized it. The Three Phantoms had high ATK, trap immunity, strong effects, but that wasn’t the main issue. The problem was they had a thousand ways of bouncing back.
Even if you barely defeated them after immense effort, they’d probably return next turn.



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