"My turn. Draw."
"I activate ’Pot of Greed’ to draw two cards."
Kaiba drew his cards.
"Worms, huh? This is getting interesting.
Then let me show you the form of the strongest Light Dragon!"
He discarded one card to the graveyard and played another.
"I activate ’The Melody of Awakening Dragon’!
Discard a card; add up to two Dragon monsters with 3000 or more ATK and 2500 or less DEF from your Deck to your hand!"
The deck’s search function activated, popping out two cards.
"Add ’Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon’ and ’Blue-Eyes White Dragon’ to my hand!"
"Ah, finally showing your hand," Luca wasn’t surprised. "That legendary dragon unique to Seto Kaiba..."
"’Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon’ can be Special Summoned by revealing ’Blue-Eyes White Dragon’ in hand."
Kaiba raised his card high, and dazzling white light erupted from it.
"Appear! Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon!"
A brilliant silver arc streaked across the sky like a meteor. The dazzling white dragon of light appeared, spinning amidst the gathered stars!
[Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, ATK 3000]
"Just as the reports said, Alternative White Dragon has appeared," Luca narrowed his eyes.
"Such an easy summoning condition, plus the ability to destroy a monster once per turn without triggering flip effects—it truly is a terrifying card.
With Alternative White Dragon, you can remove Yagan without triggering its effect, right?"
Kaiba said nothing.
"But unfortunately, it’s not that easy," Luca declared, "I activate my set card—Trap Card ’Trap of Darkness’!
If my LP is 3000 or less, I pay 1000 LP and banish a Normal Trap from my graveyard to gain its effect!"
[Luca, LP 1800 → LP 800]
"He’s going to copy the Trap’s effect... Oh no!" Mokuba realized.
"That’s right—I’ll gain the effect of ’W Nebula Meteorite’!"
The meteorite of Alien Worm invasion slammed down again, bringing a deafening roar. His three set monsters flipped over in succession.
"’W Nebula Meteorite’ effect: flip all facedown monsters to face-up Defense Position," Luca called out. "Yagan, Xex, Apocalypse, all flip!"
[Worm Apocalypse, DEF 200]
[Worm Yagan, DEF 1800]
[Worm Xex, DEF 1000]
"No need to explain Xex’s effect: when flipped, return an opponent’s monster to their hand!
’Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon’—back to your hand!"
Before it could even unleash its power, Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon turned into white light and returned to Kaiba’s hand.
"Then comes Apocalypse’s effect: when flipped, destroy a Spell/Trap on the field.
I’ll destroy your last set card!"
Kaiba’s remaining backrow was destroyed by the Worm’s attack. It was revealed to be the Spell Card "Polymerization."
"Puhahaha, so your face-down was Polymerization... classic, President."
Luca said.
"Anyway, this puts you in a tough spot. Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon’s special summon can only be used once per turn, right?
And even if you still have ’Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon’ in hand, you can’t activate it. That card can Special Summon itself when a monster is destroyed—a strong backup plan.
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