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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 8: Nareg Torossian vs. Juan Cardenas |
| Jason Grabher-Meyer |
| September 10, 2005 |
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 Torossian and Cardenas had sat across from each other at Shonen Jump Championship Indy. In a tight match at the semifinal table, the unknown Torossian had brought down the veteran Cardenas. Now fate had afforded them a rematch!
Torossian opened and set one card. It was a move he’d done a lot at Indy. Cardenas summoned Exarion Universe and swung straight into Scapegoat, triggering a replay. Cardenas attacked again, and this time used Exarion’s effect. The result was 1400 life point loss to Torossian. Cardenas played Swords of Revealing Light and ended his turn.
The Indy champ set a spell or trap and played Swords of Revealing Light as well. Cardenas used Mystical Space Typhoon on it on his next turn, and Exarion attacked. Torossian blew it out of the water with Ring of Destruction. He set one monster on his turn, passed back to Cardenas, and Cardenas summoned Tribe-Infecting Virus.
Tribe’s effect went off to destroy the remaining Sheep tokens, and Cardenas activated Nobleman of Crossout on Torossian’s face down. He chained Ceasefire though, and saved his Sinister Serpent from being removed from play. Tribe-Infecting Virus attacked, destroyed it, and the cycle was repeated next turn. Torossian hid behind Sinister, destroyed it yet again, and this time he set another monster.
Torossian summoned Asura Priest. It attacked Tribe, then attacked Cardenas’s facedown: “I hope it’s not a Morphing Jar.” It was D. D. Warrior Lady, and it removed Asura Priest from play. A turn later, Torossian was attacking with Sinister Serpent against an open field and spell and trap zones were building: Cardenas was setting more and more spell and trap cards, while Torossian was matching him in fear of Morphing Jar. He summoned Breaker the Magical Warrior, Juan flipped Bottomless Trap Hole, and Torossian chained Torrential Tribute. Cardenas had one face down. “Is it Morphing Jar?”
It flipped, and it was.
“Yes! I knew that was coming!”
Both players traded monsters, and Torossian slowly built himself some card advantage: by the end of the next turn each player had two face down spell or traps, but Torossian had Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer and three in-hand cards to Cardenas’s two. Kycoo attacked and hit clean through. The life point totals were 3400 to 5200 in Torossian’s favor.
Cardenas drew, played Graceful Charity, and discarded Lightning Vortex and Dust Tornado. He then flipped his last face down, revealing Heavy Storm! It took out Torossian’s Premature Burial, but he chained Scapegoat to fill his board with Sheep tokens. Delinquent Duo removed all but one of Torossian’s cards, and Juan summoned Cyber Dragon and Tsukuyomi. Tsuku flipped Kycoo face down, attacked it, and one of the Sheep fell to Cyber Dragon.
Torossian set a spell or trap next turn and passed. Cardenas summoned Tsukuyomi, turned Cyber Dragon face down, flipped it face up, and attacked . . .
. . . right into Mirror Force. Still, he removed both of his destroyed monsters and summoned Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning. The Soldier removed one Sheep from play, and Torossian was up.
He set one spell or trap, and lost both his Sheep to Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning’s attack next turn. He topdecked Lightning Vortex though, and used it to destroy the Soldier. It all came down to topdecking now. He summoned D. D. Assailant and attacked, but next turn he lost it to another Cyber Dragon. Both players started setting cards and passing like crazy, knowing that one false move here would lose the game.
Torossian was the first to blink. He set Tsukuyomi, and a turn later used it to tribute for Jinzo. Cardenas flipped Scapegoat, saving himself the damage, but in main phase two, Torossian used Delinquent Duo and Cardenas lost all but one in-hand card.
He fought back with Snatch Steal, but Torossian outplayed it with a chained Book of Moon. Cardenas set a monster and passed. Torossian summoned D. D. Warrior Lady next turn, but Cardenas drew for his own, flipped Magical Merchant, and hit Metamorphosis. He then tributed the Merchant to bring out Thousand-Eyes Restrict: it inhaled Jinzo. Thousand-Eyes Restrict swung at the D. D. Warrior Lady, she removed herself and the Thousand-Eyes Restrict from play, and Cardenas set a spell or trap. Torossian flipped Dust Tornado in the end phase to destroy it, revealing Call of the Haunted!
Another pair of turns passed with nothing but set cards. The life point totals were 2900 to 700, with Cardenas struggling to regain his very narrow footing. Torossian summoned another D. D. Assailant, attacked straight into Magician of Faith, and Magician of Faith tossed Cardenas a Metamorphosis. He had one more Sheep to use it with.
He did so next turn, and Thousand-Eyes Restrict absorbed the D. D. Assailant. It attacked, and the life point totals were now at 1200 to 700. Torossian asked to see Cardenas’s graveyard. “I know you can tie it again!” he said, referring to their previous game at Indy. He knew Cardenas did not have his Ring of Destruction in the graveyard. With four set spell or traps on the field, there was a good chance that Cardenas had it face down on the table.
Still, Torossian had no choice. He played Heavy Storm, and Cardenas was out of options. He flipped the Ring of Destruction that was indeed set in his spell and trap zone, targeting the 1700 ATK Thousand-Eyes Restrict. The Thousand-Eyes Restrict exploded, both players took 1700 damage directly, and play moved to game 2.
Game 1 had no winner.
Torossian opened game 2, and he did so with a set spell or trap and yet another summoned Sangan. This time, Cardenas had the answers.
Cardenas drew, played Mystical Space Typhoon, summoned D. D. Warrior Lady, attacked Sangan with and opted to remove it, and then played Delinquent Duo. He finished with Swords of Revealing Light, and it bought him safety for three turns. Torossian did little but set monsters and build his forces.
The Duo had cost Torossian a Jinzo, and he brought it back with Premature Burial when the Swords came down. Jinzo brought down Cardenas’s one monster, Tribe-Infecting Virus, and the D. D. Assailant he had summoned on a previous turn attacked next.
“Attack a . . . Goat?” Torossian asked.
“Nope.” The attack went through and hit Cardenas directly.
Next turn Cardenas played Graceful Charity, discarded Jinzo, and then brought it back with a Premature Burial of his own. It attacked, but was repelled by Book of Moon. Cardenas set a monster, set a second spell or trap card, and passed.
Torossian continued his offensive push, flip summoning his set monster and revealing Tsukuyomi. It flipped D. D. Assailant face down, which he then flipped up again. He summoned another Tsukuyomi, this time from his hand, and flipped down his Jinzo. It gave Cardenas an opening in which to flip traps, and he used Call of the Haunted to bring up his own Jinzo yet again.
Torossian attacked with everything, wiping away Cardenas. The Jinzo and a single set Tsukuyomi on Cardenas’s side was not enough to hold off the horde he had allowed Torossian to build.
Torossian wins game 2 for a match total of 0-1 in his favor!
 Cardenas finally got a chance to open a duel, and did so with the classic single card face down in each zone. Torossian attempted to gain card advantage by summoning Breaker the Magical Warrior, but when he broke the face down it flipped: Scapegoat! He opted not to attack at all.
Cardenas flipped his set Magical Merchant, got a Premature Burial for his trouble, and then set two cards to his spell and trap zone. Torossian continued to refuse to attack: “Locked again” he remarked. He was unaware of the Cyber Dragon that was raring to go in Cardenas’s hand.
He summoned it next turn, tributing the Merchant. The Dragon swung at Breaker, but Magic Cylinder dishes the damage back at Cardenas—yet another repeat of a blow from Indy. Torossian turned Breaker the Magical Warrior to defense next turn though, and the shiny Dragon quickly devoured it.
Cardenas attempted to press against an open field a turn later, but the Dragon ate nothing but Sheep: it swallowed down one and Cardenas eyed his three set spells and traps before adding a fourth. He was now far over-committed to the field: four set spells or traps to Torossian’s one. Torossian gave a small laugh.
He drew, then played Pot of Greed. “I was laughing because I saved that Last Turn. I never do that.” With a huge hand, he now had a rather sizable chance of having a Heavy Storm. He activated Delinquent Duo though: another way to get the two for one Storm would afford him. He discarded Sinister Serpent, Tribe-Infecting Virus, and in the end phase he activated Dust Tornado: no Heavy Storm, but it cost Cardenas his Mystical Space Typhoon.
Cardenas’s turn arrived. Cyber Dragon ate another Sheep. Cardenas passed. Excitement.
Torossian drew. Torossian passed. The Cyber Dragon ate a third Sheep. How a game with maxed-out hands on both sides of the field could suddenly grind to a screeching halt is beyond me.
Torossian set one monster and discarded Sinister Serpent in his end phase. Cyber Dragon finished off the mutton platter that was Torossian’s board, and Nobleman of Crossout removed his face down monster from play, revealing Tsukuyomi.
The Dragon ate another monster next turn, but this time it choked on D. D. Assailant. Both were removed from play, and Torossian continued setting monsters. Cardenas attacked with an Exarion Universe, but ran into Magician of Faith. He punched through the Magician to deal some damage, but Torossian got another Pot of Greed.
“One card is all I need!” he said, almost pleading to his deck for whatever the mystery card was. He drew, played Pot of Greed, and then blurted a light expletive: apparently he didn’t find the one card in the three he drew. He set two more cards to his spell and trap zone, set one more after some consideration, and then discarded Sinister Serpent. The game was still at 6000 to 5900, with Torossian barely leading.
Exarion Universe attacked, but Torossian blew it up with Ring of Destruction. It was 4100 to 4200. Cardenas set a monster, passed, and Torossian drew, finally getting what he needed. That was Heavy Storm.
He blew away both fields, summoned Asura Priest, summoned Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and removed Cardenas’s set monster from play. Premature Burial brought back D. D. Warrior Lady from his graveyard, and Metamorphosis changed Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning into Cyber Twin Dragon! Attacking with a massive group of monsters, Torossian took the game!
“Once someone activates Scapegoat, I’m not even going to attack them. I’ll just draw until I have the perfect hand.” Torossian moves on with a 7-1 record for the tournament, and a 2-0 record against Juan Cardenas.
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