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Doomkaiser Dragon
Card# CSOC-EN043
Doomkaiser Dragon's effect isn't just for Zombie World duelists: remember that its effect can swipe copies of Plaguespreader Zombie, too!
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| Round 7: Bryan Coronel vs. Roy St. Clair |
| Jason Grabher-Meyer |
| September 10, 2005 |
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 The controversial Roy St. Clair was up against one of the day’s favorites—Bryan Coronel of Team Overdose. This one has the potential to be a match for the ages.
St. Clair opened the match with a set spell or trap. As he did, he had to shift half of the cards in his hand. When Coronel had cut his deck he’d split it, turned one stack sideways, and then shuffled it back together. He’d turned half of St. Clair’s deck upside down and it was barely registering with St. Clair. Coronel and his teammate, Anthony Alvarado (who was watching the match) both stifled small laughs.
Coronel set a spell or trap, a monster, and passed. Next turn, the monster was revealed to be Magical Merchant: attacked by Tribe-Infecting Virus, it got Coronel a Mirror Force. Next turn he set another monster, and protected it from Tribe-Infecting Virus with Book of Moon. He set another spell or trap and passed.
Roy set another spell or trap and did not flip his Tribe-Infecting Virus. “Do your Morphing Jar,” he urged Coronel.
“I don’t want to,” retorted Coronel. “This is hard . . . I could kill you right now.” He discarded Jinzo for Monster Reincarnation, brought back Magical Merchant, and set a monster.
Roy drew his card, and after laboring over the decision a bit, he set a Magician of Faith It was an interesting play, considering he hadn’t yet played any spells to reuse. He flipped Tribe-Infecting Virus, attacked what he insisted was a Morphing Jar, and Coronel flipped Mirror Force. He set one more spell or trap, and walked right into a brick wall.
Coronel activated Heavy Storm, and wiped Roy of Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force, and Sakuretsu Armor. Coronel played Pot of Greed, used Nobleman of Crossout to rob St. Clair of his lone Magician, and Roy was visibly annoyed.
“My cards are all upside down!” Coronel and Alvarado burst out laughing.
“We were gonna do that to someone in a feature match,” grinned Alvarado.
Coronel flipped his own set card—the one that Roy was so certain was Morphing Jar. It was a Magician of Faith of his own! He took back Pot of Greed, used it, flipped Magical Merchant, and then attacked before setting two more cards to his spell and trap zone. St. Clair was running out of options.
Next turn, St. Clair summoned Injection Fairy Lily, and used it to take down Magician of Faith. He used Different Dimension Capsule next and then passed. Coronel cut it off immediately. He dropped Breaker the Magical Warrior and then destroyed the Capsule, as St. Clair revealed that the card locked in it was Pot of Greed.
St. Clair started riding an Injection Fairy Lily for survival. He was topdecking poorly, and cards like Nobleman of Crossout and “more monsters” weren’t helping.
A turn later, he was reusing Different Dimension Capsule thanks to his last in-hand Magician of Faith: “Can you put in there that this is my signature card?” he asked me. Deal.
 Coronel flipped one of his set cards next turn, Premature Burial, and it brought back the Jinzo that he had discarded with Monster Reincarnation. Lily took it down when it attacked, but the turn’s summon, D. D. Warrior Lady, took out the Fairy.
St. Clair continued topdecking monsters. he set a fresh Sinister Serpent and passed. “Just win, this turn” he prodded Coronel. “You have like, nine to five card advantage here.” Coronel played Graceful Charity, then hit Sinister Serpent with Nobleman of Crossout. He summoned Sangan, played Swords of Revealing Light, and St. Clair scooped, knowing his one monster was no match for Coronel’s three.
St. Clair opened game two with Pot of Greed, then set one spell or trap and summoned Sangan.
Coronel played a Pot of his own, and then special summoned Cyber Dragon. He attacked, and Roy blew it away with Ring of Destruction. Coronel set another monster, set a card to his spell and trap zone, and passed. Roy set two spells or traps, passed back, Coronel set another monster and another spell or trap, and St. Clair hit Coronel’s Sakuretsu Armor in the end phase. He drew and ran Sangan into Coronel’s face down Magician of Faith, as Coronel took back Pot of Greed.
He played it. “Seriously? You had Pot of Greed in your hand?”
Coronel set another monster and another spell or trap card and passed.
Sangan poked again, and this time it hit Magical Merchant and got Coronel Swords of Revealing Light. Coronel summoned Sangan and St. Clair responded with Torrential Tribute. He took a Serpent and so did St. Clair. “didn’t see that coming” stated St. Clair.
Coronel passed, and St. Clair summoned Injection Fairy Lily. Coronel flipped his Torrential Tribute, taking it out, and St. Clair set another spell or trap. He had two on the field now.
Premature Burial brought back Sangan for Coronel, and he tributed it for Airknight Parshath. He took Magician of Faith with the Sangan’s effect. He attacked, but Sakuretsu Armor equalized the field. Swords of Revealing Light hit the field to protect him, and Coronel passed.
St. Clair drew, set a Magician of Faith, and eyed his in-hand Delinquent Duo. He was looking to double-Duo Coronel next turn, but his opponent had the answer—Nobleman of Crossout. Coronel set a monster, passed, and St. Clair used Nobleman of Crossout, continuing the series of mirrored plays. It removed Coronel’s Magician of Faith from the game. He continued hanging onto that Delinquent, but set Sinister Serpent.
D. D. Assailant attacked it next turn, and once he had it back in his hand, St. Clair used Graceful Charity to discard it and a Tsukuyomi. With one face down spell or trap protecting himself St. Clair passed: his only in-hand monsters were Tribe-Infecting Virus and Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning.
Coronel attacked with D. D. Assailant next turn, giving Roy cause to shrug as the blow landed squarely on his life points. Coronel set a monster, passed, and next turn St. Clair had little choice but to summon Tribe-Infecting Virus. Sinister Serpent was used as payment for Tribe-Infecting Virus’s effect, and D. D. Assailant was destroyed. St. Clair then activated Autonomous Action Unit, tried to take Coronel’s Airknight Parshath from his graveyard, and Coronel riffled his set cards to answer. “You only get to target once, right?” He flipped Call of the Haunted and took the Airknight instead. St. Clair had paid 1500 life points for nothing.
Next turn Coronel tried to attack with the Airknight, but Ring of Destruction blew it away. Metamorphosis let him trade his set Sinister Serpent for Thousand-Eyes Restrict and it sucked up the Tribe-Infecting Virus. Thousand-Eyes Restrict attempted to attack directly, but Scapegoat stopped it.
St. Clair then used Metamorphosis to bring out his own Thousand-Eyes Restrict to inhale Coronel’s. He activated Delinquent Duo, and then tributed Thousand-Eyes for Airknight Parshath. Coronel blew it away with Ring of Destruction, and that was game!
St. Clair was surprised, and had lost track of his life points. He honestly had no idea he was so close to death.
“Roy’s still my role model.” Coronel flashed a grin.
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