Chapter 32: Why Play Yu-Gi-Oh Without Money?
Island on the sea, Duel Academy headquarters.

After being busy for most of the day, Principal Samejima finally had some free time. He came to the office, leisurely made a cup of tea, and took advantage of this rare break to check the results of this year's entrance examination and some duels that interested him.

He had never expected that Professor Chronos would personally take part in the battle. It was obvious that he was deliberately trying to embarrass a certain jellyfish-headed freshman. But this student called Yuki Judai was really strong. He actually defeated the head of the academy's actual combat who was holding his own deck in the entrance examination.
Principal Samejima took a sip of tea and was very satisfied with the extraordinary potential shown by Judai.

Then, of course, he also took a look at the actual duel of this year's first place. It is said that this person's written test scores were all full marks except for the open-ended questions in the subjective part, surpassing the second place student Misawa Daichi who also scored close to full marks, and his performance was very impressive.

Then let's take a look at this person's actual combat performance and deck construction
What is this?

Principal Samejima couldn't help but scratch his shiny head.

He thought that he had been in the dueling world for many years and had seen a lot, but he had never seen such a build before.

No, if he must say something, the deck used by the legendary Duel King Yugi Muto in his later years of fame, which he had the opportunity to see once at an invitational tournament hosted by Kaiba when he was young, does seem to have some of this flavor.

It is said that when Duel King was in the late stage of his duel career, many opponents who tried to challenge him ended up getting so angry that their faces twisted after being beaten were just like Malik in the Cosplay of the Duel City era.
It’s a bit like the unlucky examiner in the assessment duel right now.

However, the evolution of the duel world over the years has long proved that it is the unique skill of the Duel King, which cannot be easily imitated by others. For so many years, the mainstream duel construction has been moving closer to the direction led by Kaiba Seto, and this kind of unique skill has rarely been seen since the Duel King retired.

Unlike traditional professors such as Chronos, Principal Samejima does not insist that students must learn tactics and build decks according to the textbook standards.

It's just that most students don't have the ability to innovate and develop independently. But with his many years of teaching experience, Principal Jiaodao felt at first glance that this student named You Xuan might have it.

Could it be that the college has recruited a new student with such a rare talent this year?
Thinking of this, Principal Samejima couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Looking at Yuki Judai on the roster, and then at Fujiki Yugen next to him, the principal leaned back in his chair, leisurely drank a sip of tea, and couldn't help but smile with relief.

The small Duel Academy unexpectedly recruited two great talents, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chu, at the same time this year.

What a joy.

The efficiency of Duel Academy is quite high. Within a few days after the exam, candidates can check their scores, results, and admission information.

As expected, You Xuan received the admission notice.

Of course, there was still a month before the start of school, so there was no rush to land on the island. However, the new class of freshmen at the academy had already completed registration, and those who had passed the entrance exam had already been counted as freshmen in reserve this year.

You Xuan took his newly received student ID information and logged into Haima Company's card query system through the college channel. As expected, there were more options for purchasing cards.

However, he quickly flipped through them and recorded all the cards in stock that he thought might be used, making a list. Then he counted and analyzed them one by one.

Most of them are considered to be potentially useful, but may require coordination with specific builds or for combos, so these are listed aside for discussion.

The cards that you decide to buy immediately are generally general-purpose cards that can play a role in most decks, and these cards are mainly Happy Red Pit.

For example, the "Cause and Effect Severance" can send the opponent's monster to another dimension directly by discarding a card in your hand, and the perennially banned card "Destruction Wheel" that was not castrated back then - it can blow up a monster and both sides will suffer numerical damage from the monster's attack power at the same time. It is a weapon that will overturn the table if you can't win, and is known as the Draw Wheel.

In addition, he was even more surprised to find that there were actually scams in the universal in-app purchasing channel.

As the saying goes, no matter how defensive you are, hand traps are hard to guard against. Unlike Trap Cards that are easily guarded against and cleared out when placed on the field, hand traps that can be directly discarded from the hand to activate their effects have been the mainstream of Yu-Gi-Oh since its birth, and even continue to this day.

Of course, the early hand traps were not as brutal as the modern ones, and were generally used to defend against attacks. The origin of the hand traps was naturally the mascot from the DM era, the chestnut ball in Yugi's hand that could directly negate combat damage by discarding it. So when he found a chestnut ball in the rare card column, You Xuan bought it without hesitation on the spot, and was a little surprised that such a rare thing could still be seen without being snatched away.

But that's true. From the animation, it seems that duelists don't seem to be particularly interested in low-star monsters that are weak in combat and can only block a sword once. Even the extra value of the chestnut ball, in addition to its rarity, mostly comes from being the "mascot of the first generation of the duel king."

Then he discovered that there was a column called "Theme Pre-sets" in the Academy Department. He clicked on it and took a look. It was probably a pre-set deck with a specific theme, sold as a whole set at a fixed price.

We even saw the legendary "elemental hero" among them.

But it is only natural when you think about it. In the first episode of GX, Chronos called the tenth generation deck "a very common hero deck" when he saw it. In this era, the hero deck itself was a civilian deck. However, as more and more new cards were printed in the later tenth generation, it gradually began to break away from the ranks of civilians.
Every card player has a heroic dream in his heart to some extent. Now that they have come to the GX era, You Xuan curiously tried to look it up.

Then Guangsu gave up his dream of being a hero.

The monsters are basically the famous four waste heroes, and there are only two or three fusion heroes in stock. Then there are a lot of exclusive accessories for various waste heroes, such as lightning gun, wing scatter, burst return, etc.
There are all kinds of cards that even Judai-san only used once in the animation before disappearing, and their meaning is clearly unclear.

After a quick look, he realized that this was not a deck that ordinary people could master. Almost every card of Magic Trap had to be used in conjunction with a specific hero, Mortal Bone, and even if 502 was applied to force them to be used together, the applicable scenarios of each combination were too limited. In actual combat, the cards in hand were stuck and he doubted his life.

Therefore, Judai was able to use these things to defeat most of the Duel Academy in the early stage. This ability was beyond the reach of 99% of the duelists.
Elemental heroes were not considered for the time being. You Xuan then flipped back.

Then I discovered that the "Robot" series of transportation cards from the tenth generation's younger brother Maruto Sho was also on the list.

His eyes lit up and he quickly looked through the card list in the deck.

Marufuji Sho's robot deck is not a rare deck in the current environment. It has also performed mediocrely in the real card environment for many years and has never had any competitive strength. It is a relatively marginalized entertainment deck.

But this deck contains an early god card that was used by Marufuji Sho in the animation, but after nearly 20 years, Consortium K has not yet made a real card.

really!

You Xuan's eyes immediately locked onto that particular card in the deck, and he bought the deck without hesitation.

The cards in the deck cannot be sold individually, and you can only buy the whole deck together. But it doesn't matter, the deck itself is not expensive, and in the current environment, it is not a loss to buy the whole deck just for this card.

[Kite robot, 1 star, attack power 200, defense power 400.

effect:

1) You can discard this card from your hand to reduce the battle damage of a direct attack against the player to 0.

2) While this card is in the Graveyard, you can only have one chance to reduce the battle damage of a direct attack on a player to 0. 】 (Animation effect)

This card has not been made into a real card in reality. In history, it is only available in the two games "Card Force 3" and "Duel Links" on PSP. It can be used as a hand pit and a grave pit respectively. One card can block two attacks. In the GX era, when hand pits were extremely scarce, it was undoubtedly a life-saving artifact.

You Xuan was immersed in the pleasure of shopping, and another wave of reinforcements came. The card inventory became more and more abundant, and the optional configuration of the card deck became more and more free, but the wallet that had just been bulging for a short time was also rapidly depleted.

You Xuan decided to keep some money on hand and not spend it all. He exited the interface, sighed softly, and looked up at the sky.

It turns out that what our predecessors said was right.

What's the point of playing Yu-Gi-Oh if you don't have money?
(End of this chapter)