As the two duelists pulled into the pits, I was there to congratulate both of them. But naturally Myla more than Saffee. 

After that was over, I officially challenged Myla to a turbo duel, and after just a bit of hesitation, she accepted and was ready to jump onto her bike.

I was happy to see that she was still ready to go, so I called out my own D-wheel. … which wasn’t a D-wheel in anything but name.

My D-wheel was actually a near perfect copy of Meklord Astro Dragon Asterisk, and instead of riding on the roads, it flew just a bit above them. It can fly anywhere I want it to fly, but I don’t want to be too unfair.

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Because yes, I’m using Meklords. I’m the bad guy of these tournaments, so I need a bad guy deck. And what better against Synchro monsters than the anti-Synchro archetype. And when else would I use Meklords?

I also have plenty of custom cards ready to go, but more about them when I get to play them.

Myla was taken back by my massive flying D-wheel, but she still seemed ready to go. So I mounted mine and we were ready to race.

Sadly before we could get to that, we had to pick our Field Spells.

Myla picked what she usually does, Aroma Garden, Naturia Forest, Spiritual Forest, Gaia Power and Forest.

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For myself, I ran a modified Meklord Fortress, a modified and Field Spellified The Resolute Meklord Army, Fortissimo the Mobile Fortress, Machine Conversion Factory which was also now a Field Spell, and last Machine Assembly Line, again turned into a Field Spell.

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By the way, Machine Conversion Factory gives a 200 attack and defense boost to machines, not 300. Just so it matches other Field Spells allowed in the tournament. Machine Assembly Line might seem Junk specific, as it does use Junk Counters, but it can be used by any Machine deck. Also, the “You can send this card to the Graveyard, then target 1 Machine-Type monster in your Graveyard whose Level is less than or equal to the number of Junk Counters that were on this card; Special Summon that target.” effect is now mandatory and it automatically activates, for both players, when the Field Spell ends. Myla doesn’t run any Machines so she can’t use it, but I’ll get plenty of use out of that effect. You’ll see why when we get to my custom monsters.

Meklord Fortress I modified by making it affect all Meklord monsters, not just Meklord Emperors, but I removed the search on destruction effect from it. And The Resolute Meklord Army does make Meklords battle destruction immune when in attack position. I removed the ‘effects are negated’ part, but in return for the good stuff, I gave it the negative effect of turning the Meklord into defense position after it was attacked.

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After reading over all of my Field Spells, Myla banned Fortissimo the Mobile Fortress and Meklord Fortress. Not bad picks but I feel like she will be banning Machine Assembly Line in the future duels. Probably.

For my part, I removed Naturia Forest, because I just didn’t want to deal with Naturia monsters, and Gaia Power, just to nerf myself as my Granel’s are Earth attribute, so they would also get the buff from Gaia Power. I really hope Myla doesn’t pick this Field Spell for the second and potentially the third duel and instead goes with something like Luminous Spark. Sure Gaia Power works with all of her Naturia monsters, but her main strategy is still Aroma, and the Aroma Synchros are Light attribute, so Luminous Spark is likely better for her. And the only Light attribute monster I run is Meklord Astro Mekanikle, which is definitely not my primary strategy. Even if I did buff Astro Mekanikle, but we will talk about that if I actually summon it.

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With the Field Spells picked, the track formed. The first field was Machine Conversion Factory. The one after that will be Aroma Garden. 

Actually, that is something I didn’t talk about yet. As the commentator, I could see the entire track and I always knew what field would come next. But for the duelists, they could only see the current field and then what will be coming after it. The start is a special case where they see the first two, despite technically not being on the first field. 

So to put it simply, we won’t know what Field Spell will come after Aroma Garden until we enter the Aroma Garden.

But with the track formed, we were ready to start. Fantasia, our start fairy, was ready to let us off with a wave of her flags, and I was ready to go. 

As soon as the flags came down, my massive ‘D-wheel’ shot down the track. It has basically all of its stats maxed out, so I was much faster than Myla who had to balance her bike's stats. As I’ve said, I’m the bad guy, so I cheat. I still wasn’t so OP that I could just leave people in my dust, as that would be boring, but I could get the first turn against anyone, unless they maxed out their bikes acceleration and top speed.

Myla had not, so I easily got the lead and the first turn. Which was just fine with me. Let’s see how the audience, and Hiro, react to my custom cards.

“I normal summon Meklord Army of Skiel.” I began my turn. And most people who know how bad Meklords are would probably expect me to stop there, or at most set a few cards. But this is a custom brew. “And since I now control a Skiel monster, I can special summon Meklord Anti-Tuner of Skiel from my hand.”

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Meklord Anti-Tuner of Skiel

Level 5

1500/1200

Wind/Machine/Anti-Tuner/Effect

➀ If your opponent controls a Synchro Monster or you control a "Skiel" Monster: You can special summon this card from your hand. You can only summon "Meklord Anti-Tuner of Skiel" once per turn this way. ➁ If this card is sent from the Field to the GY: Add 1 "Meklord" Monster from your deck to your hand.

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Doing that got me the reaction I wanted. Normally I wouldn’t hear what was going on in the commentators booth, but Hiro was yelling loud enough that I could hear it on the track. Blame my enhanced hearing or maybe the fact that we are quite literally in my mental realm.

Hiro was going crazy because of my custom cards, and I hadn’t even revealed anything yet.

“Now, with my two monsters, I Anti-Synchro summon.” I said, but I know people don’t know what that is, so I explained. “When Anti-Synchro summoning, instead of adding the levels of the Tuner and the Non-Tuner monsters, you reduce the level of the Anti-Tuner from the Non-Tuners.”

“... But wouldn’t that mean you summon a monster with a negative level?” Myla asked. 

Wow. She is surprisingly smart. Not all people in the world can do mental arithmetics and even more don’t understand negative numbers.

“Exactly!” I confirmed. “Born from the Momentum caused by Synchro summons, the Meklords needed new Machines to join on their fight against the fools who relied on Synchros. To negate some of their might, a new negative force was born!

I Anti-Synchro summon. Come forth, level minus 1, Meklord Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel.”

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Meklord Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel

Level -1

2400/2400

Wind/Machine/Anti-Synchro/Effect

1 Anti-Tuner + 1 "Meklord" Monster

➀ If your opponent controls a Synchro Monster; this card can attack your opponent directly. ➁ This card cannot Cannot be destroyed by battle with a Synchro Monster and you take no damage from battles with Synchro Monsters. ➂ Once per turn, during either players turn, when a Monster Effect is activated that would remove a "Meklord" monster from the Field: You can destroy this card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it. 

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As my custom Meklord Emperor, now covered in shining gold metal that almost looked like mana overloaded orichalcum, appeared next to my massive D-wheel, I saw Myla go even paler than she already was. She definitely wasn’t expecting this, but I wonder if she realized why I told you that Machine Assembly Line is overpowered.

Yeah. My custom Synchro monsters are all level -1. That means that even with 0 counters on Machine Assembly Line, I’ll be able to resurrect them when we leave that field.

“The effect of my Anti-Tuner of Skiel activates.” I said. “If it leaves the field, I can add one Meklord monster from my deck to my hand. I’m adding Meklord Emperor Skiel.” 

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“I’ll then set two cards and end my turn.” I announced.

Meanwhile, in the commentators booth, Alice had to mute the broadcasting microphone because Hiro was going crazy about "Brian using a custom brew deck." or something like that. Which while true also isn’t, as 'My' Yugioh isn’t the same as the one Hiro and I played in our old world.

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Duel 1, end of turn 1

LP: 8000Speed Counters: 1BrianHand: 2    ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  [https://i.imgur.com/J9qZwr3.png]  ------Active Field Spell:------        LP: 8000Speed Counters: 0MylaHand: 5 

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“... okay. My turn. I draw.” Myla began her turn and during her standby phase, both of us gained a Speed Counter.

She seemed to realize that none of her monsters could easily deal with my Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel, as she took her time looking over her options. Almost too much as I began to get worried she would run out of time. But eventually Myla activated a card, One for One. 

She discarded Naturia Tulip and summoned Aromaseraphy Angelica. I was a bit worried since she called out a Tuner monster, but maybe she had a plan.

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Also yes, the info screen the D-wheels has does show her the effects of the Meklord Emperor Skiel I added to my hand. It does have a full reminder system that shows her cards she has confirmed are in my hand, or if she has seen something like my set card. And it can text to speech the card effects so you don’t have to read them.

But back to what Myla is doing. It seemed like she was stalling for time until the next Field Spell, as she had yet to make her next play. I didn’t mind as I understand that she could really use the upcoming Aroma Garden. 

When she was about to be penalized for inaction, she finally normal summoned, calling out Aromage Rosemary. 

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But because my turn had been quick, we still weren’t quite at the Aroma Garden, so again Myla had to stall for time. During that time she focused on her driving and tried to overtake me, but it was quite easy for me to stay ahead.

For her next stall move, Myla set a card face down. But luckily for her, it was enough as we arrived at the Aroma Garden, with the field after it being revealed to be Machine Assembly Line.

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And with the Garden now as our field, Myla Synchro summoned using her two monsters. She called out Aromaseraphy Rosemary. 

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She then used Aroma Garden to gain 500 life points, which triggered the effect of Aromaseraphy Rosemary. She targeted my Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel and negated its effects. Then, because of Aroma Garden, Aromaseraphy Rosemary gained 500 attack. And because Myla now had more LP than I do, Aromaseraphy Rosemary gained 500 more attack because of its own effect. That resulted in Aromaseraphy Rosemary’s attack raising to 3000, which is more than my monster. 

I still waited for Myla to enter her battle phase before I made my play. But as soon as she did, I flipped over my Mektimed Blast trap. With it I destroyed both my Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel and Myla’s Aromaseraphy Rosemary.

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Because of that, two different effects triggered. Since a monster I control was destroyed by a card effect, I got to special summon Meklord Emperor Skiel from my hand. And since an Aroma monster was destroyed while Aroma Garden is active, Myla gained 1000 life points. 

Myla set two cards and ended her turn.

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Duel 1, end of turn 2

LP: 8000Speed Counters: 3BrianHand: 1     ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/31930787.jpg]  ------Active Field Spell:------    ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  LP: 9500Speed Counters: 1MylaHand: 1 

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My turn began and I drew a card. And we both gained Speed Counters. 

I used four of mine for an extra draw, as my deck really isn’t the best at keeping my hand topped. Luckily I have a card that will help with that, but first.

“I normal summon Meklord Army of Wisel. And since I now control a Wisel monster, I can special summon Meklord Anti-Tuner of Wisel from my hand.”

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Meklord Anti-Tuner of Wisel

Level 5

1900/200

Dark/Machine/Anti-Tuner/Effect

➀ If your opponent controls a Synchro Monster or you control a "Wisel" Monster: You can special summon this card from your hand. You can only summon "Meklord Anti-Tuner of Wisel" once per turn this way. ➁ If this card is sent from the Field to the GY: Add 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap, or one Spell/Trap that specifically mentions "Meklord" in its text, from your deck to your hand.

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“Now I’ll play Boon of the Meklord Emperor. Since all monsters I control are Meklord monsters, and there are only Meklord monsters in my graveyard, I get to draw a card for each Meklord I control.” I explained my customized version of the spell as I activated it. “Since I control 3, I get to draw 3 cards.”

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I looked at the three cards I drew and I happened to draw a fun one. So naturally I activated it. 

“I play Synchro and Anti-Synchro.1Note: Card name is written as Synchro & Anti-Synchro, but since Brian is pronouncing it, I wrote it that way. Since there is a Synchro monster in your graveyard and an Anti-Synchro monster in mine, we both get to special summon 1 of them.”

Neither of us had options so I summoned my Meklord Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel while Myla brought back her Aromaseraphy Rosemary. I think you can guess why I designed this card beyond it just being a fun card, but sadly I didn’t get to activate the effect of my regular Emperor Skiel before Myla made a play.

She activated her two set cards, Dried Winds and Blessed Winds. She used Blessed Winds to return Aromage Rosemary to her deck and gain 500 life points. Which triggered the effect of Dried Winds, allowing her to destroy my Meklord Emperor Skiel.

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And naturally with the 500 attack boost Aromaseraphy Rosemary got since Myla has more life points than I do, it was the strongest monster on the field. … for now at least.

Didn’t bother me too much and I moved into my battle phase. I don’t know if you read my Meklord Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel, but it has a fun little effect. If my opponent just so happens to control a Synchro monster, Anti-Synchro Skiel can attack directly. And guess what, Myla has a Synchro on her Field.

So I ordered Anti-Synchro Skiel to attack directly, which reduced Myla’s life points to 7600, aka. less than mine. That caused Aromaseraphy Rosemary to lose 500 attack, which made it equal in attack to my Meklord Army of Wisel. Because in case you forgot, Meklord Army of Wisel gains 100 attack for each Meklord I control except itself. So with 2 on my field, it also had 2000 attack and I had the two monsters crash into each other.

Finally I attacked directly with my 1900 attack Meklord Anti-Tuner of Wisel. 

I then set one card and ended my turn.

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Duel 1, end of turn 3

LP: 8000Speed Counters: 0BrianHand: 2  ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png][https://i.imgur.com/J9qZwr3.png]  [https://i.imgur.com/gwdouPL.png] ------Active Field Spell:------    15177750.jpg [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/15177750.jpg]28265983.jpg [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/28265983.jpg]  LP: 5700Speed Counters: 2MylaHand: 1 

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Myla’s turn began and she was in a hurry. We were still under Aroma Garden, but not for long.

She immediately used Blessed Winds to bring back her Aromaseraphy Rosemary. And before she would run out of time, she used Aroma Garden to gain 500 life points, which triggered both Aromaseraphy Rosemary’s effect and Dried Winds. She negated the effects of Meklord Anti-Synchro Emperor Skiel and followed that up by using Dried Winds to destroy the Emperor.

Then we entered the next Field Spell, which is as I said previously Machine Assembly Line. And I was still in the lead, so an extra Speed Counter for me. And my one remaining Machine gained 200 attack.

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Myla then moved into her battle phase. She attacked over my Anti-Tuner with her Aroma Garden boosted Aromaseraphy Rosemary. It was destroyed and I took 400 damage, the Machine Assembly Line gained 2 Junk Counters, and the effect of my Anti-Tuner of Wisel activated.

If it is sent from the field to the GY, as it just was, I can add 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap, or one Spell/Trap that specifically mentions "Meklord" in its text, from my deck to my hand. I added another copy of Boon of the Meklord Emperor to my hand.

During her main phase 2, Myla summoned Naturia Cherries and used it to tune with her Aromaseraphy Rosemary. She summoned out Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram and used it to search for Humid Winds. 

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She then set 1 card. I wonder what it is. … that was a joke, and ended her turn. 

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Duel 1, end of turn 4

LP: 7600Speed Counters: 2BrianHand: 3  ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]    ------Active Field Spell:

[https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/25518020.jpg](2 counters for Brian)

------ [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/79656239.jpg]  15177750.jpg [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/15177750.jpg]28265983.jpg [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/28265983.jpg]ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  LP: 5700Speed Counters: 2MylaHand: 1 

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My turn began. I drew a card and we both gained Speed Counters. 

Myla flipped her Humid Winds face up, but she didn’t use it yet. She just showed she has it because I already knew she did. … maybe. I don’t know.

I had plenty of cards in my hand, sadly only one, well two, three, were really useful. Technically two, but Boon needs some setup first.

“I’ll play Reboot. With it I’ll return Meklord Astro Mekanikle to my deck, and in return, I can get the Meklord Anti-Tuner of Skiel from my grave back to my hand.”

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“Then, since you control a Synchro monster, I can special summon Meklord Anti-Tuner of Skiel.” I waited just a second in case Myla wanted to respond to that, but she didn’t so I continued. “I’ll then play my face down, Chaos Infinity. All defense position monsters are changed to attack, and I can special summon a Meklord monster from my deck or graveyard, but its effects are negated and it is destroyed during the end phase. I’m summoning out Meklord Army of Granel.”

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“And one more. Since I control a Granel monster, I can special summon Meklord Anti-Tuner of Granel from my hand.”

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Meklord Anti-Tuner of Granel

Level 5

1400/2000

Earth/Machine/Anti-Tuner/Effect

➀ If your opponent controls a Synchro Monster or you control a "Granel" Monster: You can special summon this card from your hand. You can only summon "Meklord Anti-Tuner of Granel" once per turn this way. ➁ If this card is sent from the Field to the GY: Gain 4000 Life Points. 

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“I’ll then play Boon of the Meklord Emperor. I get to draw 3…”

“No you won’t.” Myla interrupted. “I’m using Humid Winds to gain 500 life points. And since I did, the effects of Dried Winds and Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram activate. I’m destroying your two Anti-Tuners!”

And as she said, my Anti-Tuners were destroyed and Boon only let me draw 1 card. But the effects of both of my Anti-Tuners activated. With Skiel, I got to add 1 Meklord monster from my deck to my hand and with Granel I gained 4000 life points.

The monster I added to my hand was naturally Meklord Emperor Granel. Lastly, Machine Assembly Line gained 4 more counters for me.

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I activated the card I drew with Boon, Speed of the Typhoon. With it, I could remove any number of Speed Counters and destroy that many face up Spells or Traps. I removed all three of mine and destroyed all three of Myla’s Winds.

I couldn’t do anything else so I ended my turn. And during my end phase, Chaos Infinity destroyed my Meklord Army of Granel. Which then allowed me to special summon Meklord Emperor Granel from my hand. And since it gains attack equal to half my life points, it gained 5800 attack. And defense, but it is in attack position.

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Duel 1, end of turn 5

LP: 11600Speed Counters: 0BrianHand: 0     ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/4545683.jpg]  ------Active Field Spell:

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Myla began her turn. 

Sadly for her, it didn’t seem like she had much she could do as all she did was set a monster, changed Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram to defense and end her turn. 

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Duel 1, end of turn 5

LP: 11600Speed Counters: 1BrianHand: 0     ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/4545683.jpg]  ------Active Field Spell:

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My turn. I drew a card, we gained Speed Counters and finally left the Machine Assembly Line. Thanks to that, I got to special summon any Machine-type monster with a level less than 6 from my graveyard. 

Since Myla only has a Synchro monster and a face down defense monster, I decided to call out Meklord Army of Wisel for the piercing damage.

We entered the Spiritual Forest by the way.

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I then used Granel to snag Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram. That raised the attack of my Granel to 8000.

So I moved to my battle phase and attacked Myla’s face down monster. I also activated the effect of Army of Wisel to deal piercing damage.

Myla’s face down monster was revealed to be Aroma Jar. And while it survived the battle, Myla’s life points didn’t.

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With just 5200 remaining and my piercing Granel hitting her for 7600, her life points were reduced to nothing and I won the first duel.

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Duel 1, turn 7, end of the duel

LP: 11600Speed Counters: 2BrianHand: 1   [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/79656239.jpg] ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png [https://orig10.deviantart.net/69f2/f/2016/289/4/1/ygo_card_backing__final__by_icycatelf-dal6wsb.png]  [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/4545683.jpg][https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/39648965.jpg] ------Active Field Spell:------   [https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/21452275.jpg](defense)    LP: 0Speed Counters: 6MylaHand: 1 

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