When Cards Collide 22

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22: Defense
Edit 1: Spoiler

Last Solution:

1.      Tribute Summon Kaiser Glider by offering Sangan as a Tribute. Use Sangan’s effect to add Marauding Captain to your hand.
2.      Activate The Warrior Returning Alive. Return Mystic Swordsman LV4 to your hand.
3.      Pay 500 Life Points to use the effect of Ultimate Offering to Normal Summon Marauding Captain. Use Marauding Captain’s effect to Special Summon Mystic Swordsman LV4 in Attack Position (your LP now 1600).
4.      Activate Destruction Ring, targeting Kaiser Glider. Use Kaiser Glider’s effect to return Ultimate Baseball Kid to your opponent’s hand (your LP now 600 and his LP now 3800).
5.      Activate Exchange. Your opponent will select Twin Swords of Flashing Light – Tryce. You select Ultimate Baseball Kid.
6.      Pay 500 Life Points to use the effect of Ultimate Offering to Normal Summon Ultimate Baseball Kid (your LP now 100).
7.      Attack Blazing Inpachi with Ultimate Baseball Kid to do 1650 damage (his LP now 2150).
8.      Attack Night Assailant with Mystic Swordsman LV4, using his effect to destroy Night Assailant immediately.
9.      Attack directly with Marauding Captain to do 1200 damage (his LP now 950).
10. Send Marauding Captain and Mystic Swordsman LV4 to your Graveyard to inflict 1000 points of direct damage to your opponent’s Life Points.

Final Result: Him – (-50), You – 100

Problem – Win the Game in One Turn:

You can’t really get a more stereotypical puzzle then this. It contains Ultimate Offering, Magician of Faith, Sangan, Double Spell, Book of Moon, a very large hand, monsters Set when your opponent has monsters in Attack Position, and an excessive number of Tribute monsters. It’s about as realistic as a Star Wars film, but strangely you lot seem to like it. Anyway, they demonstrate some of the more obscure rulings of the game. This is because thinking of genuinely clever maneuvers is ruddy hard. However, you lot seem to like them, so enjoy!

Field: (the upper part of the screen are your opponent’s cards)


Breaker the Magical Warrior (face-up ATK)	Legendary Jujitsu Master (face-up DEF)	Mobius the Frost Monarch (face-up ATK)	Gear Golem the Moving Fortress (face-up DEF)
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	Sangan (face-down DEF)		Magician of Faith (face-down DEF)
Zero Gravity (face-down)	Final Attack Orders (face-down)	Call of the Haunted (face-down)		Ultimate Offering (face-up)

Your Hand:
Red-Eyes B. Dragon, Ghost Knight of Jackal, Book of Moon, Double Spell, Inferno Fire Blast, Zombyra the Dark, Offerings to the Doomed

Your Life Points: 1100

Your Opponent’s Life Points: 9700

Your Deck Contains the Following Cards That You Can Obtain:
Red-Eyes B. Chick, Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke

Your Graveyard Contains:
Hyper Hammerhead, Zaborg the Thunder Monarch

Your Opponent’s Graveyard Contains:
Non-Spellcasting Area, Shooting Star Bow – Ceal, Creature Swap, Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce

All Cards on the Field are Controller by Their Respective Owners.

There are no Spell Counters on the field.

You start during your Main Phase 1 having done nothing this turn.

In The Following Situations, Your Opponent Will Do the Following:

1. If you activate Creature Swap, he will select the monster on his side of the field with the lowest ATK.

This is a puzzle saved by my error checker, ExMinion of Darkness. He pointed out a rather silly assumption of mine. I haven’t mentioned it as I want to see how many other people never noticed, but if you don’t want to get this wrong on a technicality, I recommend that you look at the card rulings under ‘I’. Also, a summary of some of the things learned I these articles is at the bottom of the page.

Happy New Year,

Ryoga
Tripleplay97@yahoo.com

Name	#	Type	Other	Attribute	L	A	D	Rarity	ID #	Text
Book of Moon	PGD-035	Quick		SPELL				Rare	14087893	Flip 1 face-up monster on the field into face-down Defense Position.
Breaker the Magical Warrior	MFC-071	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1600	1000	Ultra Rare	71413901	When this card is successfully Normal Summoned, put 1 Spell Counter on it (max. 1). Increase the ATK of this monster by 300 points for each Spell Counter on this card. Also, you can remove 1 Spell Counter from this card to destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field.
Call of the Haunted	PSV-012	Continuous		TRAP				Ultra Rare	97077563	Select 1 monster from your Graveyard and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. When this card is destroyed or removed from the field, the summoned monster is destroyed. If the summoned monster is destroyed, this card is also destroyed.
Creature Swap	LOD-081	Normal		SPELL				Ultra Rare	31036355	Both players select 1 monster on their respective fields and switch control of them to each other. The battle positions of these cards cannot change during the turn this card is activated.
Double Spell	MFC-106	Normal		SPELL				Ultra Rare	24096228	Discard 1 Spell Card from your hand. Select 1 Spell Card from your opponent's Graveyard and activate it from the Graveyard as your Spell Card.
Final Attack Orders	DCR-045	Continuous		TRAP				Common	52503575	As long as this card remains face-up on the field, all face-up monsters on the field are changed to Attack Position and their battle position cannot be changed.
Gear Golem the Moving Fortress	AST-018	Machine	Effect	EARTH	4	800	2200	Ultra Rare	30190809	Pay 800 Life Points. During this turn, this card can attack your opponent's Life Points directly.
Ghost Knight of Jackal	AST-071	Beast-Warrior	Effect	EARTH	5	1700	1600	Ultra Rare	13386503	You can Special Summon an opponent's monster that is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard by this monster as a result of battle to your side of the field in face-up Defense Position
Hyper Hammerhead	IOC-074	Dinosaur	Effect	EARTH	4	1500	1200	Common	02671330	When this monster battles an opponent's monster, if the opponent's monster is not destroyed as a result of the battle, the opponent's monster is returned to its owner's hand at the end of the Damage Step.
Inferno Fire Blast	SOD-EN042	Normal		SPELL				Ultra Rare	52684508	Select 1 face-up "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" on your side of the field to activate this card. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equal to the original ATK of the selected "Red-Eyes B. Dragon". "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" cannot attack during the turn you use this card.
Legendary Jujitsu Master	AST-017	Rock	Effect	EARTH	3	1300	1800	Common	25773409	A monster that battle with this Defense Position card is returned to the top of the owner's Deck at the end of the Damage Step.
Magician of Faith	MRD-036	Spellcaster	Effect	LIGHT	1	300	400	Rare	31560081	(Edited) FLIP: Select 1 Spell Card from your Graveyard. Add the selected card to your hand.
Mobius the Frost Monarch	SOD-EN022	Aqua	Effect	WATER	6	2400	1000	Super Rare	04929256	When this card is Tribute Summoned successfully, you can destroy up to 2 Spell or Trap Cards on the field.
Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke	SOD-EN019	Warrior	Effect	LIGHT	4	1800	1000	Rare	04041838	If this card attacks a face-up Defense Position monster, destroy the monster with this card's effect without applying damage calculation.
Non-Spellcasting Area	DCR-043	Continuous		SPELL				Common	20065549	All face-up Monster Cards on the field, except for Effect Monsters, are unaffected by any Spell Card (excluding this card).
Offerings to the Doomed	LON-051	Quick		SPELL				Common	19230407	Destroys 1 face-up monster. Skip your next Draw Phase.
Red-Eyes B. Chick	SOD-EN017	Dragon	Effect	DARK	1	800	500	Common	36262024	Send this face-up card on your side of the field to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" from your hand.
Red-Eyes B. Dragon	LOB-070	Dragon		DARK	7	2400	2000	Ultra Rare	74677422	A ferocious dragon with a deadly attack.
Sangan	MRD-069	Fiend	Effect	DARK	3	1000	600	Rare	26202165	(Edited) When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, select 1 monster with an ATK of 1500 or less from your Deck, show it to your opponent, and add it to your hand. Then shuffle your Deck.
Shooting Star Bow - Ceal	DCR-033	Equip		SPELL				Common	95638658	A monster equipped with this card decreases its ATK by 1000 points. A monster equipped with this card can attack your opponent's Life Points directly.
The Psycho Sword	BOG-US010	Equip		SPELL				Uncommonly Rare	66466566	This card may only be equipped to a Zombie-Type monster on your side of the field. When the equipped monster destroys a monster and sends it to the Graveyard as a result of battle, select and activate one of the following effects: - Search your Deck for a Monster card with an ATK less than the destroyed monster's ATK and Special Summon it to the field. Remove it from play at the end of the turn; - Search your Deck for a Monster Card with DEF less than the destroyed monster's DEF and add it to your hand. Then shuffle your Deck. You may not Normal Summon or Set a monster during this turn.
Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce	DCR-037	Equip		SPELL				Common	21900719	You must send 1 card from your hand to your Graveyard when you activate this card. A monster equipped with this card decreases its ATK by 500 points. A monster equipped with this card can attack twice during the same Battle Phase.
Ultimate Offering	SDK-050	Continuous		TRAP				Common	80604091	At the cost of 500 Life Points per monster, a player is allowed an extra Normal Summon or Set.
Zaborg the Thunder Monarch	AST-023	Thunder	Effect	LIGHT	5	2400	1000	Super Rare	51945556	When this card is Tribute Summoned successfully, destroy 1 monster on the field.
Zero Gravity	IOC-053	Normal		TRAP				Common	83133491	Change the battle positions of all face-up monsters on you and your opponent's side of the field.
Zombyra the Dark	LON-074	Warrior	Effect	DARK	4	2100	500	Common	88472456	This card cannot attack a player directly. Each time this card destroys a monster in battle, decrease the ATK of this card by 200 points.

What Have We Learned?

Double Spell does not place a Spell Card from your opponent’s Graveyard into your hand. It activates it from the Graveyard. This is not a proper activation, and so doesn’t give Spell Counters. The card never reaches the field unless it is continuous.
Ultimate Offering can only be used during your Main Phase 1, Main Phase 2, and your opponent’s Battle Phase.
Jinzo negates traps, even if you forget that he is there.
“When this card is Tribute Summoned” means the effect triggers after the monster has been summoned, before your opponent can do anything in response. The monster disappearing does not negate the effect (normally). It does not trigger when summoned in any way other than a Tribute Summon.
Once Set, Quick-Play Spell cards are treated as Traps. Hence, keep your Quick-Play Spell cards in your hand until you are ready to end your turn. Then Set them. Then you can use them once your opponent starts his turn.

P.S. I use the singular pronoun ‘his’ out of habit, not out of a gross insult to women. Please do not take offence as none is meant. I am simply lazy.