Chapter 37. I:P Masquerena! Outrageous Quick-Effect Link into Knightmare?
By this point, after seeing all of this.
Yuma Tsukumo had already lost count of how many powerful key cards the Dark Magician strategy had.
Whether it was support from the monsters themselves.
Or support from Spells and Traps.
They had already brought far, far too many upgrades to the Dark Magician strategy.
It was just a pity.
The core still revolved around the vanilla Dark Magician.
That ultimately was a drawback.
The three-card starter concept.
Still had not changed.
.....
In the VRAINS world.
What came next was the Link-related cards that Dark Magician could run.
Yusaku Fujiki, Theodore Hamilton, and the others already had their own understandings and ideas about Dark Magician.
Next, for them.
They were only curious about the Link options Dark Magician could include.
"It's time."
"Link connections should give Dark Magician quite a boost."
"I'm really curious."
"With Links, what else can Dark Magician put in?"
Theodore Hamilton narrowed his eyes at the VR screen.
Beside him, Yusaku Fujiki remained silent.
Because the final segment—the ending video for Dark Magician—had already started playing.
...
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "Alright, having gone through the Extra Deck cards you can consider running."
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "Next is the Link side of things."
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "As everyone knows, Link is the simplest Summoning method and also the one with the fewest requirements."
"Any Deck can connect immediately."
"For Link choices in Dark Magician."
"It's mainly about generic board-breaking."
"First up are these two cards, which are relatively important generic inclusions."
"The first is—[I:P Masquerena]!!!"
[Card Name: I:P Masquerena (Link-2)]
[Attribute: DARK]
[Type: Cyberse]
[ATK: 800]
[Link Arrows: [↙][↘]]
[Materials: 2 non-Link Monsters]
[You can only use this card's (1) effect once per turn.]
[(1): During your opponent's Main Phase (Quick Effect): Immediately after this effect resolves, Link Summon 1 Link Monster using monsters you control, including this card.]
[(2): A Link Monster that used this card as material cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.]
With the details of this Summoning method appearing again—the Link Monster information.
Duelists in the other worlds quickly showed grave expressions.
Because this card.
Obviously had basically nothing to do with Dark Magician.
Then what was the use of this card.
Why put it into a Dark Magician build.
With doubts swirling, duelists not from the Link world were baffled.
But in the VRAINS world.
All the Link duelists were already petrified on the spot.
After reading this card's effect.
Their first reaction was—
Spell Speed 2.
Yes.
It was actually a monster that could Link during the opponent's turn with a Quick Effect.
And even more outrageous.
A Link Monster that used this card as material.
Would also gain protection from being destroyed by the opponent's effects.
Even Yusaku Fujiki's eyes went wide at this card.
Because the value of this card was sky-high.
Before Yusaku and the others could burst into discussion.
The video creator had already begun explaining.
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "There's not much to say about I:P—basically any Deck that plays Links runs this."
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "Its application in Dark Magician is also simple."
30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "For example, if we have [Magician's Rod] and [Magicians' Souls] on the field, once those two have done their jobs they're just utility pieces."
"We simply Link those two into I:P."
"Then, on the opponent's turn."
"If we have [Eternal Soul], we can revive Dark Magician and pair it with [Dark Magical Circle] to banish 1 of the opponent's cards."
"After banishing, if the opponent keeps developing their board."
"We can then use Dark Magician and I:P to perform a Quick-Effect Link."
"I'm immediately going to connect with a Quick-Effect Link."
"At that point you can make a Link-3."
"So what do we make."
"I recommend this generic Link-3."
"...."
[Card Name: Knightmare Unicorn (Link-3)]
[Attribute: DARK]
[Type: Fiend]
[ATK: 2200]
[Link Arrows: [←][→][↓]]
[Materials: 2+ monsters with different names]
[You can only use this card's (1) effect once per turn.]
[(1): If this card is Link Summoned: You can discard 1 card, then target 1 card on the field; shuffle it into the Deck. If this card was co-linked when this effect was activated, you can draw 1 card.]
[(2): While co-linked "Knightmare" monsters are on the field, during your Draw Phase draw 1 card for each different name among those "Knightmare" monsters, instead of just 1 card.]
Quick-Effect Link.
Knightmare Unicorn.
Discard to shuffle back.
No.
In one smooth sequence.
Dark Magician's disruption on the opponent's turn was actually not small at all.
Of course.
What shocked the six worlds the most.
Wasn't this "shuffle-back to answer boards" Knightmare Unicorn.
It was still that earlier I:P.
....
In the VRAINS world.
Yusaku Fujiki, Theodore Hamilton, and Varis all fell silent.
The three of them had already realized I:P's absurdity the moment they saw it.
But when they actually watched the Dark Magician line play out in the video.
They still found it hard to believe.
A Quick-Effect Link into a Link-3 on the opponent's turn.
How many turnarounds could this bring to a Duel.
Only those of them who play Links would know.
And only they truly understood just how high I:P's value was.
"I'm stunned. I'm really stunned."
"Accelerated Link connection."
"This really exists?"
"Did I read that wrong? Was that truly during the opponent's turn?"
Skye Zaizen swallowed hard, her bright eyes blinking rapidly.
As if wondering whether she had watched too many shorts and gotten dazed.
"No, that's real."
"Never in my life did I expect."
"That accelerated Link could actually exist in the world."
"A Quick-Effect Link on the opponent's turn."
"That disruption is terrifying, especially at the very end of the opponent's turn."
Go Onizuka clenched his teeth.
He could confirm that what they had just seen.
Was indeed the opponent's turn.
He hadn't misseen.
This was—an accelerated Link.
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