My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 398 - 368: Beast Taming Calamity: Spirit-Devouring Storm
However, in contrast, there are very few suppression-type hand traps in the competition to counter explosive plays. Many players’ strategies are basically counter-exploding against explosion, but if the opponent takes the first move to set up the field, it’s greatly impactful to try a counter-explosion yourself, hence the terrifying first move win rate.
Many people say that duels between master Life Card Masters, after excluding deck restraints, are essentially a coin toss game. Whoever gets the first move is likely to win the duel.
"They’re useful, but there are too few useful hand traps," An Hai said succinctly.
In the real world, with such a prosperous development of Life Card Duels, not everyone is a fool. Which powerful Life Card Master doesn’t know the usefulness of hand traps when countering first move explosions?
Yet, such hand traps are extremely rare, even rarer than fifteen-star Follower Cards.
It’s not just about the rarity. If you manage to get one, and you put it into a deck composed of forty Life Cards, what are the odds of drawing it in your starting hand?
So, it’s not that Life Card Masters in this world don’t understand the importance of hand traps, but they simply can’t acquire enough of them, nor can they afford to stuff more than three into a deck to ensure the draw probability for a first move.
After all, Life Cards in these duels can’t be printed or copied. It’s incredibly difficult to continuously acquire several similar-effect Life Cards that can be activated from the hand during the opponent’s turn.
An Hai simply explained his views on hand traps, while Tan Song cheerfully added a few words: "Even Shen Sui, who popularized hand traps, only has about three in his deck. Those that can be effective during the opponent’s first move round are probably only the lava fairy and the Sinful Saintess. That guy’s just lucky, drawing them in every crucial match."
While the commentary booth was discussing the importance of hand traps, Vivian’s first move setup was almost complete.
Similar to the last duel, Vivian’s end field was still the advanced form of her Soul Card: [Fantasy Beast: Imaginary Spirit Dragon].
1. Send at least three other [Fantasy Beast] followers to the graveyard, then perform form transformation without paying costs.
2. Acquire the effects of the Follower Cards sent to the graveyard due to its form transformation.
3. As long as it’s on the field, when the opponent’s follower activates an effect, you can activate this; if the Spirit Value of the effect-activating follower is higher than the player’s Life Value, nullify that effect.
4. Once per turn, you can target one follower on the opponent’s field and banish it. This effect can also be activated in the opponent’s turn.
Shen Sui quickly recited the effects of the Imaginary Spirit Dragon in his mind.
The three followers that Vivian sent to the graveyard as materials were: [Fantasy Beast: Jade], [Fantasy Beast: Stripping Rain], and [Fantasy Beast: Ma Liang’s Brush].
[Fantasy Beast: Jade]: This follower cannot be destroyed in battle.
[Fantasy Beast: Stripping Rain]: Once per duel, after this follower’s battle resolution, you can activate; nullify the effect of the battle target, and this follower gains an effect of the battle target.
[Fantasy Beast: Ma Liang’s Brush]: During your End Phase, discard all hand cards to activate; select a [Fantasy Beast] Follower Card from your deck and discard it. Until your next turn begins, this follower gains the effect of the discarded follower.
Shen Sui experienced the power of the Imaginary Spirit Dragon in the last duel.
The summoning requirement for this form isn’t too stringent within Beast Taming Class decks, as they can often easily gather three materials.
But to truly exploit its effects, the requirements for materials are extremely high.
Acquiring the effects of materials is a very powerful effect. If the materials are premium, then the Imaginary Spirit Dragon alone is equivalent to an army.
Shen Sui currently had that kind of feeling.
Even though Vivian’s end field had only one Imaginary Spirit Dragon, Shen Sui felt like he was facing five high-power followers.
However, it seems Vivian hasn’t learned from last duel’s lesson, huh?
Why dare add battle destruction resistance to the Imaginary Spirit Dragon, did she forget her defeat by Qishala?
Shen Sui pondered suspiciously.
But the next moment, he understood.
This time, the effect Vivian fed to the Imaginary Spirit Dragon is essentially meant to guard against Qishala.
As long as it survives Qishala’s first turn, after absorbing the Star Abyss White Dragon’s effect through Stripping Rain, the Imaginary Spirit Dragon can start the onslaught.
And that Ma Liang’s Brush effect was even more outrageous.
Some followers are weak not because their effects are weak, but because they don’t have corresponding effects to complement them. Ma Liang’s Brush completely resolves this, perfectly integrating another follower’s effect into the Imaginary Spirit Dragon, allowing it to strike in invincible form.
It’s like Guan Yu’s special skill of using the red card as ’kill’, which becomes a divine skill in the hands of other generals.
"An Wei’s classic Imaginary Spirit Dragon end field," Canglan said, "Let’s see what materials she used?"
"Jade, Stripping Rain, and Ma Liang’s Brush..." Canglan marveled, "This is pretty much the strongest skill set in her deck, right?"
An Hai also breathed a sigh of relief at this point. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
His sister, when deploying this skill set, basically never loses.
An Hai’s mouth lifted in a rare, genuine smile: "With this combination of the Imaginary Spirit Dragon, she basically never loses."
