My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 459 - 388: Hand Trap Trend Goes Global (5K)

The Second Mythical World can be said to be the Soul Card World with the most high-end combat power and the strongest top-level power among the thirty-three Soul Card Worlds.

However, while there are many Life Card Masters who choose the Second World, very few actually make a name for themselves there. The myriad gods are high above, almost impossible to reach easily.

After Dongye Youzai returned, aside from his Soul Card remaining unchanged, his entire deck underwent a major transformation, completely becoming a different duel style.

He was thoroughly familiar with his deck, hardly pausing at all, and the coordination between cards was exceptionally smooth, as if he didn’t need to think about it.

Under such a setup, any opening from the opponent is like a candle in the night, completely inescapable. No matter how quickly you cancel the moment, you cannot escape Dongye Youzai’s eyes.

An opening? What card is it?

Dongye Youzai wondered in his heart.

Could it be a Follower Card that activates effects from the hand?

Hand trap type Follower Cards, Dongye Youzai had encountered before, but generally very few Life Card Masters would choose to include them in their decks.

It’s not because there are no hand traps, but because there are too few useful ones. Life Card Duels have a mandatory limit of one per Follower Card. If you add one hand trap and draw it at the start, the probability is just too small, drawing it later means it’s a dead card in hand, so few Life Card Masters add them.

Dongye Youzai quickly made a decision—he needed to lure out Tan Song’s hand traps.

So he quickly adjusted his expansion plan, delaying the timing for summoning the final stage, first using other powerful followers to bait out Tan Song’s hand traps.

Finally, when Dongye Youzai summoned a twelve-star Sword Master Ghost, Tan Song made a move.

"When you successfully summon a Follower, activate the effect of [Immortal Sect Mansion·Alchemy Boy] from my hand, discard it from my hand to activate, negate the effect of your summoned Follower and bounce it back to the deck."

Alchemy Boy’s effect directly targeted Sword Master Ghost.

Dongye Youzai grinned with a knowing expression: "Hmph! You fell for it!"

Dongye Youzai drew out a card and declared, "Pay 8 Soul Points, activate from my hand, Spell Card [Swordman’s Heroic Passion]! Once per turn, I can select one [Sword Master] follower from either my deck or graveyard to banish, then Special Summon one [Sword Master] follower from my deck, and if the banished follower was one I summoned this turn, I can ignore any summoning conditions for this Special Summon!!!"

Dongye Youzai, as if swinging a sword, flung the Spell Card from his hand.

The card to be banished was, of course, the Sword Master Ghost that had just been bounced back to the deck by Tan Song’s hand trap.

Then according to the effect of [Swordman’s Heroic Passion], he could Special Summon a [Sword Master] follower from the deck, ignoring any conditions.

The one he would summon, of course, was his strongest Sword Master!

Wait!

Dongye Youzai felt a twinge in his heart.

Another opening?

"At this moment," Tan Song laughed heartily, drawing another Life Card from his hand, "activate the effect of [Fairy Qingyue Xu Xiazi] from my hand! When the opponent activates a Special Summon effect, I can discard it from my hand to activate, and negate that summon."

Dongye Youzai gritted his teeth.

Two hand traps, he didn’t expect that. Are hand trap Follower Cards now so easily obtained?

Moreover, Tan Song drew two hand traps at the start, his luck was indeed quite good.

To this, Dongye Youzai also had to concede.

He had considered stuffing hand traps into his deck, but really couldn’t find hand traps compatible with his deck and finally gave up on the idea.

Fortunately, although Dongye Youzai was interrupted from making the crucial final stage summon, he didn’t think he had lost yet. Since the preliminaries, he had encountered similar situations a few times, ended his turn after setting two cards.

By now, Dongye Youzai was certain that stuffing hand traps into decks had become a trend among Huaxia Life Card Masters. The recent Huaxia Life Card Masters he encountered always managed to pull out one or two hand traps.

Some Life Card Masters forcibly stuffed hand traps, which did cause Dongye Youzai some interference for a time. However, after surviving the uncomfortable early phase of being interrupted, the disadvantage of stuffing a deck with many hand traps unrelated to the main strategy would show, with many critical moments drawing cards that had no use for the current situation.

However, if a Life Card Master integrates hand traps into their deck which are compatible with their main strategy, it’s a completely different scenario.

Just like Tan Song, the two Follower Cards he discarded at the start successfully interrupted Dongye Youzai’s expansion and then entered Tan Song’s turn, they instantly became Tan Song’s graveyard resources, available for repeated use.

"Have you noticed?" Xinyuan Tanchun looked at the culprit beside him, "Since you debuted, the domestic use rate of hand traps has significantly increased."

Xinyuan Tanchun’s words were not mere flattery. In fact, Shen Sui’s victories in matches benefitted many, being a hand trap is indeed the best means to deal with an opponent’s first-turn expansion, directly disrupting the opponent’s strategy with a single hand trap, is definitely profitable.

As a result, this trend began to spread in Huaxia’s professional matches.

However, due to the rarity of Follower Cards with appropriate hand trap effects, this play style is still more common among high-end players.

"It’s just the way the environment is." Shen Sui spoke truthfully.

The hand trap era arrived with the explosive expansion era; a card disrupting the opponent’s first-turn expansion is extremely profitable.

However, if the environment continues to develop to a point where even five hand traps in hand cannot stop the opponent’s expansion, then the hand trap era will quickly pass, because by then, adding hand traps to a deck will be meaningless. It would be better to leave space for other cards, and then it will soon enter another era of mutual explosions.

However, in Life Card Duels, this phenomenon may not be as easily changeable; eras do not change just like that.

Life Cards in duels are not something some consortium can arbitrarily print out; they are randomly dropped in the Soul Card World. How can the environment change so quickly?