Chapter 466: Draw Paradox

Fujiki You Xuan sent five cards from the top of the deck to the Graveyard, but the turn did not end there.

"Although the summon of 'Machina Fortress' failed, this card itself also has a Special Summon effect," Fujiki You Xuan said. "Discard Machine-type monsters from the hand with a total Level of 8 or higher, and Machina Fortress can revive itself from the Graveyard."

He revealed a card in his hand.

"Discard the Level 8 'Machina Gearframe' from my hand to revive Fortress from the Graveyard!"

A heavy roar sounded, machine parts rubbed and collided, heavy tracks landed on the ground, and the giant cannon locked onto the front.

【Machina Fortress, ATK 2500】

"Machina Fortress, attack the face-down monster."

The machine's heavy cannon fired, blasting open the face-down monster with one shot.

【Skull-Mark Ladybug, DEF 400】

"When Skull-Mark Ladybug is flipped, I draw one card from my deck."

Dr. Einstein drew a card.

"My turn ends."

Dr. Einstein: "Then it's my turn, draw."

He looked up at Fujiki You Xuan, revealing a smile that seemed to carry a hint of playfulness.

"I activate this guy from my hand—"

"—Continuous Spell 'Schrödinger's Mischievous Cat'!" (Original card)

Fujiki You Xuan raised an eyebrow.

It seemed something strange had appeared again.

This time it was a cat wearing a white suit, with a hat on its swaying tail, looking like an elegant magician.

"Whenever I draw a card outside of the Draw Phase, I can choose to return the drawn card to the deck and shuffle it after confirming it."

"If I use this effect to return and shuffle, I can then draw the same number of cards I returned from the deck. However, if I use this effect to draw, I cannot use 'Schrödinger's Mischievous Cat's' effect to draw again."

Misawa realized: "Using this card to increase the chance of drawing the cards you need?"

"Activate the Spell card 'Pot of Greed', draw two cards from the deck."

Einstein drew two cards and pushed up his glasses to look at them carefully.

"Hmm... I choose to use the Mischievous Cat's effect, return the two cards to the deck, and draw two more."

The doctor drew two more cards and then smiled.

"Then I'm going to summon this guy. Normal Summon 'Netherworld Arithmetician Laplace'!"

Although he was called an arithmetician, he looked like a goat-headed skeleton demon.

【Netherworld Arithmetician Laplace, ATK 1000】

"Then I set two cards in the back row. Then activate the Spell card 'Wormhole'!"

Dr. Einstein continued.

"'Wormhole' allows me to select one monster on my field and banish that monster from the game until the Standby Phase of my next turn. Of course, the monster zone remains unusable during that period."

"I banish 'Netherworld Arithmetician Laplace' from the game!"

A huge wormhole opened in the universe, as if to swallow even the brilliance of the stars. The Netherworld Arithmetician was sucked into it by an irresistible gravitational force and disappeared from the field.

"Banish your own monster?" Asuka wondered.

"Hehe, not bad, little girl. But Laplace is an arithmetician with special abilities," Einstein laughed. "Netherworld Arithmetician Laplace, when this card leaves the field, inflict 300 damage to the opponent for every card on the field!" Misawa realized: "So that's why you deliberately set the cards first and then activated Wormhole."

"Now I have one Field Spell, the Continuous Spell 'Schrödinger's Mischievous Cat', and two set cards on my field. You have 'Machina Fortress' on your field, for a total of five cards."

"Therefore, the total is 1500 damage!"

The demon that had already left the field appeared semi-transparently, as if chanting something. Various numbers and formula symbols appeared in the sky, surrounding Fujiki You Xuan and piercing through him.

Knowledge is power. jpg.

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000 -> LP 2500】

"Then the effect of the Field Spell 'Relativity Field' is also activated," Einstein said. "Because you took damage, all monsters on your field must take damage equal to the amount of damage the controller took."

"In other words, 'Machina Fortress's' ATK decreases by 1500."

【Machina Fortress, ATK 2500 -> ATK 1000】

"So that's it, attacking the duelist is equivalent to attacking the monster!" Misawa said. "Is this Dr. Einstein's duel?"

"My turn ends."

Please... collect... 6... 9... books...!

Fujiki You Xuan: "My turn, draw."

But before he could draw, the doctor interrupted again: "Wait! In your Draw Phase, the Trap has already been activated!"

"Continuous Trap 'Draw Paradox'!"

One of his set cards in the back row flipped over.

"As long as this card is on the field, neither of us can draw in our own Draw Phase," Dr. Einstein said. "But in return, both players can draw one card in the opponent's Draw Phase."

"So now, in your Draw Phase, it becomes me drawing one card."

Misawa: "?"

Asuka: "?"

What kind of strange card is this again?

Fujiki You Xuan frowned slightly.

"So that's it, the master of Duel Physics is truly well-deserved."

Being able to print such fake cards, isn't that exactly what being well-deserved means?

Swapping Draw Phases and drawing in the opponent's turn. At first glance, it seems like a fair condition, but first of all, the timing of this card's activation is in the opponent's hands, so the opponent can easily maintain card advantage and use it as a means similar to "Sealing Ceremony of Katon" to seal a key draw. Moreover, this card is a Trap, and it can be sacrificed or destroyed before one's own Draw Phase arrives.

Furthermore, this card turns the normal draw of each turn into a "card effect draw," so there is even more potential to negate the draw itself. Drawing one card in the opponent's turn and then negating the draw effect in one's own turn, the card advantage opened up at this point is basically enough to let the opponent be carried away.

In the world of anime, there is no such thing as game balance. Powerful cards are like top-tier cultivation techniques in fantasy novels; no one in fantasy would accuse a peerless technique of breaking game balance. A duelist who can control powerful cards is a strong person.

And now, not to mention how Dr. Einstein's deck is, the cards he printed, such as the Singularity Demon just now and this Draw Paradox, are indeed cards with great potential. If these were all printed by himself, then his reputation might really not be blown out of proportion.

"Then activate the effect of the Spell card 'Takeover5' from the Graveyard," Fujiki You Xuan said. "Banish this card from the Graveyard and the same-named card from the deck during my Standby Phase, draw one card from the deck."

Fujiki You Xuan drew a card.

"Hmm, even after eating that Draw Paradox, you still managed to draw a card?"

Einstein frowned, seeming somewhat dissatisfied that the draw lock for this turn hadn't been achieved.

"Then I'll add this card as well..."

"Trap card 'Tyrant's Monopoly'!"

His other set card in the back row also flipped open.

"This card can only be activated during the Standby Phase; the opponent cannot conduct a Battle Phase this turn!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 467 =====