When Cards Collider 24

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24: By Popular Demand
Edit 1: Hey, I was good at these for a while

Last Solution:

My answer here isn’t really the best answer. As such, a reader supplies the answer here. Here is the answer from Minyu Zhou (18/7/5: Memorize the name. You'll be seeing it frequently). Not many people get into it this much, but this is very entertaining (18/7/5: though some of the ruling explanations on the judge list are spectacular. See Pole Position).

1. Flip one Magician of Faith to move Back to Square One from your graveyard to your hand.

2. Equip Gravity - Axe Grarl to Mataza. Its ATK rises to 1800.

3. Play Back to Square One. Toss out Sasuke Samurai from your hand, and return Jinzo to the top of your deck.

4. With Jinzo out of the way, flip Compulsory Evacuation Device to return Giant Orc to your opponent's hand.

5. Play Monster Gate. Sacrifice your face-up Magician of Faith to summon Jinzo.

6. Flip over the second Magician of Faith to move Monster Gate back to your hand.

7. Summon Berserk Gorilla in face up-ATK mode.

8. Play Creature Swap. Give your opponent Magician of Faith. Your opponent will give you his weakest (and only) monster, which is Homunculus the Alchemic Being.

9. Just for the hell of it, and just because you can, use its effect and declare Wind.

10. Play Monster Gate and sacrifice Homunculus as a cost.

11. Chain with Serial Spell and toss out your hand (which was only Sacred Crane and Monster Reincarnation). Serial Spell only duplicates the effect, not the cost, so for the price of one Homunculus, you get to summon the remaining two monsters (and cards) from your deck. Very good for teasing your opponent. You have to win this turn, and you WILL win this turn. Whew, good thing they don't have a Waboku or Kuriboh ready to foil your plans. You will summon Guardian Grarl (legal because the axe is already on the field) and Command Knight.

12. Now, from those two Gates, you have the following monsters on the field: Jinzo, Command Knight, Mataza the Zapper, Berserk Gorilla, and Guardian Grarl. In other words, your field is chock full of monsters. Your opponent only has your Magician of Faith in ATK mode on the field.

13. All your monsters are hungry to attack, so let's begin the fun part, shall we? Attack MoF with Command Knight. By its effect, its ATK is 1600, so your opponent loses 1300 LP (11,000 LP).

14. Attack your opponent's LP directly with Jinzo. Your opponent loses 2400 LP (8600 LP left).

15. Attack your opponent's LP directly with Mataza. Thanks to Command's effect and Gravity Axe, its ATK is now 2200. So your opponent's LP becomes 6400.

16. Mataza can attack twice, so do so. Your opponent loses another 2200 LP (4200 LP).

17. Now it's Guardian Grarl's turn to have fun. Have him attack your opponent directly, dealing 2500 damage (1700 LP left).

18. At long last, it's your Gorilla's turn. They call him Berserk Gorilla for a reason. P*ssed off as hell for having waited so long, he unleashes all his fury (and anger management issues) on your opponent, dealing another 2000 damage to win (-300 LP).

Final Result: You - 100; Him - (-300)

Problem – Win the Game in One Turn:

This should be reasonably straightforward. Once you work out what you have to do, you see there is only one card that can do it. Unless of course there is a way of doing this I haven’t seen yet, which would be a shame because I didn’t really make this one that hard. If you see Berserk Gorilla and Gravekeeper’s, what do you think?

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


	Don Zaloog (face-up ATK)	Legendary Jujitsu Master (face-up DEF)	Enraged Battle Ox (face-up ATK)	Berserk Gorilla (face-up ATK)
------------------	-------------------	------------------	------------------	-----------------
Gravekeeper’s Spy (face-down DEF)				Witch of the Black Forest (face-down DEF)
	Divine Wrath (face-down)	Monster Reincarnation (face-down)	Ultimate Offering (face-up)

Your Hand:
Monster Reincarnation, Back to Square One, Double Spell, Zaborg the Thunder Monarch, Gravekeeper’s Assailant, Necrovalley, Gravekeeper’s Cannonholder

Your Life Points: 400

Your Opponent’s Life Points: 5000

Your Deck Contains the Following Cards That You Can Obtain:
Gravekeeper’s Curse, Gravekeeper’s Spear Soldier

Your Graveyard Contains:
Gravekeeper’s Chief, Ghost Knight of Jackal

Your Opponent’s Graveyard Contains:
Blessings of the Nile, Cost Down

If for any reason there is a choice that you have no control over, I expect ALL possible choices to work!

Your opponent will activate Don Zaloog’s first effect when able if you have a card in your hand. Otherwise, he will activate the second effect.

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

Ten minutes ago, I found what was horribly wrong with #22. In my hurried rush to save the puzzle (Ghost Knight Special Summons to Defense Position damn it all) I found that there is not one card in Yu-Gi-Oh to simply change the battle position of one face-up monster on your side of the field. There are tons for everything else, but not that. I wonder why. Seems an obvious card. Must be a good reason…
18/7/5: Thanks to all of you that pointed out there are a few. Sadly, the only one I ever remember is Bite Shoes (no wonder I couldn't find one).

Also, today I have a guest contributor (for good this time). People send me puzzles and BOG-US cards all of the time, but recently the first very good BOG-US card contribution came through. Joe Mello presents Heart of the Cards. I hope you like it.

Ryoga
Tripleplay97@yahoo.com

Name	Number	Type	Other	Attribute	Lv	ATK	DEF	Rarity	ID#	Text
Back to Square One	RDS-EN044	Normal		SPELL				Common	47453433	Discard 1 card from your hand. Return 1 monster on the field to the top of the owner's Deck.
Berserk Gorilla	IOC-013	Beast	Effect	EARTH	4	2000	1000	Rare	39168895	If this card is in face-up Defense Position on the field, destroy this card. The controller of this card must attack with this card when possible.
Blessings of the Nile	AST-090	Continuous		SPELL				Common	30653113	Each time card(s) are discarded from your hand to the Graveyard by the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, increase your Life Points by 1000 points.
Cost Down	DCR-053	Normal		SPELL				Ultra Rare	23265313	Discard 1 card from your hand . Downgrade all Monster Cards in your hand by 2 Levels until the End Phase of the turn this card is activated.
Divine Wrath	RDS-EN050	Counter		TRAP				Super Rare	49010598	Discard 1 card from your hand. Negate the activate and the effect of an Effect Monster and destroy the monster.
Don Zaloog	PGD-029	Warrior	Effect	DARK	4	1400	1500	Ultra Rare	26922024	When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, you can select and activate 1 of the following effects: - Select 1 card from your opponent's hand randomly and discard it to the Graveyard; - Send 2 cards from the top of your opponent's Deck to the Graveyard.
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.
Enraged Battle Ox	IOC-070	Beast-Warrior	Effect	EARTH	4	1700	1000	Rare	76909279	As long as this card remains face-up on your side of the field, when Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast-Type monsters on your side of the field attacks with an ATK that is higher than the DEF of your opponent's Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points.
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
Gravekeeper's Assailant	PGD-067	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1500	1500	Common	25262697	You can activate this card's effect only when "Necrovalley" is activate on the field. When this card attacks, you can change the battle position of 1 face-up monster on your opponent's side of the field.
Gravekeeper's Cannonholder	PGD-066	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1400	1200	Common	99877698	Offer 1 monster that includes "Gravekeeper's" in its card name on your side of the field as a Tribute to inflict 700 points of Direct Damage to your opponent's Life Points. However, you cannot offer this card or another "Gravekeeper's Cannonholder" with this card's effect. Monsters used from Tribute Summon or that are offered as Tributes due to other cards effects are excluded.
Gravekeeper's Chief	PGD-065	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	5	1900	1200	Super Rare	62473983	You can only have 1 face-up "Gravekeeper's Chief" on your side of the field at any time. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, your Graveyard is not affected by "Necrovalley". When you Tribute Summon this monster, you can Special Summon 1 monster that includes "Gravekeeper's" in its name from your Graveyard.
Gravekeeper's Curse	PGD-060	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	3	800	800	Common	50712728	When this monster is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned, inflict 500 points of Direct Damage to your opponent's Life Points.
Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier	PGD-062	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1500	1000	Common	63695531	When this card attacks with an ATK that is higher than the DEF of your opponent's Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points.
Gravekeeper's Spy	PGD-059	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1200	2000	Common	24317029	FLIP: Select 1 monster that includes "Gravekeeper's" in its card name with an ATK of 1500 or less from your Deck and Special Summon it in face-up Attack or Defense Position. The Deck is then shuffled.
Heart of the Cards	BOG-US012	Quick		SPELL				Episodically Rare	11211331	This card's effect cannot be negated by any other card. You can only activate this card when your have less Life Points than your opponent. Your opponent must laugh maniacally, thinking that you have no chance at winning and that this puny card will do nothing. Search your Deck for one card and play it free of cost or activation requirements. Then, you may choose and do one of the following: - Laugh in your opponent's face; - Give a speech about how you knew you would win because you had faith and your opponent did not (the time limit for this game is extended by 5 minutes).
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.
Monster Reincarnation	RDS-EN045	Normal		SPELL				Super Rare	74848038	Discard 1 card from your hand. Add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your hand.
Necrovalley	PGD-084	Field		SPELL				Super Rare	47355498	As long as this card remains face-up on the field, all effects of Magic, Trap, and/or Effect Monster Cards that involve Graveyards are negated and neither player can remove cards in the Graveyards from play. In addition, increase the ATK and DEF of all monsters that include "Gravekeeper's" in their card name by 500 points.
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.
Witch of the Black Forest	MRD-116	Spellcaster	Effect	DARK	4	1100	1200	Rare	78010363	(Edited) When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, select 1 monster with a DEF of 1500 or less from your Deck, show it to your opponent, and add it to your hand. Then shuffle your Deck.
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.