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Tenjo Hikari carefully stored the card using a stand, wearing windproof goggles, and looked at the card.
The card image depicted a blue-haired girl with a giant mechanical puppet fish.
El Shaddoll Apkallone!
The core of breaking through the Shaddoll Series' backfield, and a super single card for searching and recycling!
When this card is Special Summoned, its effect can negate the effect of a target card permanently, and when sent to the Graveyard, you can add 1 Shaddoll card from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand card.
Although as a cost, you must discard 1 hand card afterward. But since it's an effect rather than a cost, it can trigger the effects of Shaddoll, so it's not a big deal.
This effect, like other Shaddoll Extra Monsters, triggers when sent to the Graveyard, so it can be used with some cards that send cards from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard to search for Shaddoll spell·trap.
With the addition of this card, Tenjo Hikari's deck can naturally be re-selected.
It can use the deck comprising Shaddoll, Dogmatika, and Alist as the main body, the "Shaddoll-Dogmatika-Invocation" deck.
However—
Tenjo Hikari touched his chin.
The best way to develop Shaddoll-Dogmatika-Invocation is to Normal Summon Alist, transform into the Light Attribute Magistus Moon Maiden, and then directly use the Invocation Magic to Fusion Summon Invoked Mechaba, combining interference and escort. Then, using the effects of the Dogmatika axis, Special Summon the Dogmatika Monster or send Apkallone from the Extra Deck to search Shaddoll spell·trap.
But the reality faced by Tenjo Hikari is that in this world, Link Summon can't be used, so naturally, there is no "Magistus Moon Maiden" option available.
Moreover, when Tenjo Hikari thought carefully, he discovered another path—
When playing cards, one always needs to draw analogies or create inventions, selecting the most suitable cards based on existing ones.
After Tenjo Hikari's careful research, he suddenly realized.
It seems that, compared to the classic Shaddoll-Dogmatika-Invocation deck, the deck built primarily with Shaddoll and Gem-Knight, the "Gemstone Shaddoll" is more suitable for him now.
This surprised him a bit.
If it had been before coming to this world, being asked to build a deck with Gem-Knight and Shaddoll, it would have been a headache.
But now, the existence of cards like Gem-Knight Nehus and Gem-Knight Dispersion made Tenjo Hikari realize that Shaddoll and Gem-Knight actually match pretty well.
More importantly—
The duel with Masumi Kotsu and the others did not go entirely unrewarded.
On that day, the card "Gem-Knight Quartz" began to gradually condense, so Tenjo Hikari deliberately channeled all Duel Energy into this card.
No matter when, the basic idea of Yu Gi Oh's "competitive" play is to build your own deck based on the "environment."
An example is the deck formed during the initial rampant "Tearlaments Lament" in Yu Gi Oh's competitive environment, a lesser-known, later disappeared specialized deck for sisters — the Exosister, which was themed on "changing the opponent's graveyard triggers special effects" and "banishing the opponent's cards," once became an "anti-Tear general," but its own endgame wasn't strong and could easily collapse by just eating a field-clearing card, versus the invincible, three-dimensional Tearlaments Lament, it fell far short.
But it was precisely this card deck's characteristics that allowed it to appear in that environment.
Similarly—
Certainly, "El Shaddoll Shekhinaga," this Earth Attribute Shaddoll, isn't particularly powerful, The combination of Gem-Knight and Shaddoll may also seem strange, but an important point is that in this dimension's duels, the main body used is "Synchro Summon," which makes Midrash and Shekhinaga, and even Divine Knight Crystal particularly powerful, very suitable for the current environment.
Especially Divine Knight Crystal, if facing someone using Pendulum Summon, and the opponent doesn't recognize Divine Knight Crystal's effect, it can effectively blow up 5 cards with just a single-card action, just thinking about it feels exhilarating.
With this line of thinking as the main, Tenjo Hikari constructed another deck, the current "Gemstone Shaddoll" deck.
He touched his chin.
On the Shaddoll part, the two decks are actually quite similar.
The remaining parts can be substituted, exchanged, or even added to the inclusion of other series' cards, which can be tested to see which deck runs more smoothly.
Of course, besides this, Tenjo Hikari actually has another "urgent task."
That is, Apkallone's fusion condition is "2 Shaddoll Monsters with different attributes," but among the low-level monsters in Tenjo Hikari's hand card, only the LV 9 Crystal Captain "Helshaddoll Hollow" is Fire Attribute, the rest are all Dark Attribute, in order to fuse Apkallone either he must use Crystal Captain, or first fuse a God Shaddoll of a different attribute, followed by fusion.
Doing so is somewhat slightly unprofitable.
So, Tenjo Hikari will have to think about creating "Reeshaddoll Wendi" and "Naelshaddoll Ariel" from scratch.
Tenjo Hikari scratched the back of his head.
These two are extremely difficult to refine, but after encountering Sofia last time, upon trying again, he found matching refining is possible.
Tenjo Hikari guessed that perhaps the power he activated didn't quite match.
However, at that time, Tenjo Hikari was continuously pursuing true "Alchemy," trying to build the Metalfoes Deck, thus had no time to perform alchemy, now he could change the production direction.