Who let him play Yu-Gi-Oh!

“What!?”

Becas is just beginning to get excited.

He couldn't activate any card effects, so his invincible strongest shield and holy defense were useless.

In addition, although in the Duel Kingdom period, cartoon monsters all had the ability to flexibly avoid the opponent's attacks and could not be touched, as they entered the Duel City and the duel rules were slowly standardized by the Kaiba Group, this early non-standardized effect was also abolished.

So when Pegasus later returned for a limited-time cameo in the theatrical version and GX animation, you can see that under modern rules his cartoon monster had lost its invincible resistance and was instead modified to be able to directly attack the opponent.

Of course, in order to make up for the weakening caused by the version change, Bekas is not without countermeasures.

The new card "Cartoon Kingdom" that just appeared in the GX animation is his enhancement of the lost resistance of cartoon monsters.

"Then the effect of 'Cartoon Kingdom'!" Pegasus shouted, "When a Cartoon monster on your field is about to be destroyed by battle, you can instead remove the top card of your deck from play, and destroy that monster in battle instead!" (Original effect)

This effect has the same activation cost as its effect, and has been modified compared to the actual card.

When the Cartoon Kingdom in the animation is activated, five cards need to be removed from the top of the deck, and one card is also removed from the top of the deck when it is broken.

When activated after the card is solid, three cards are removed from the "inside" of the top deck. When it is activated, one card is also removed from the "inside" of the top deck.

Don’t underestimate the word “inside”. In today’s Yu-Gi-Oh, although not everyone can use the excluded cards as hand cards, there are still many decks that can do this - for many decks that are good at playing the excluded card system, the excluded cards are like going home, almost the same as the hand cards, or it should be said that it is more convenient than having them in the hand.

But inside-out exclusion is different. The inside-out exclusion means that the back side is facing up. In the rules of Yu-Gi-Oh, inside-out with the back side facing up is in an "undeterminable" state.

The type of card in the face-down state cannot be determined, so there is almost no way to recover it. And even if this card has an effect that is "triggered when banished", most similar effects cannot be triggered when it is banished face-down.

In other words, for many decks, banishing a card face-up may be like going home, but the face-down state is equivalent to truly eliminating the card from the game.

Jonouchi warned, "But when the Fierce Demon Dragon, Black Demon Dragon attacks, no card effects, including magic effects, can be activated!"

Prevent the other party from trying to talk nonsense.

"But it's just 'cannot be activated', not all card effects are invalid."

Beckas fought back plausibly.

"The effect of 'Cartoon Kingdom' is a continuous effect. It can be used continuously without being activated, so it is not affected by the effect of Black Demon Dragon.

Therefore, I send a card from the top of my deck to remove it, instead of destroying the 'Cartoon Black Magician Girl' in battle!"

Becas drew a card from the top of the deck and placed it on the table next to him to indicate that it was excluded. The Thunder Flame blasted out by the Black Demon Dragon with all its strength hit the cartoon magician Lolita. Under the background of the lightning, the little face of the magician Lolita turned pale with fear and she dared not move.

But the transparent barrier released by the Cartoon Kingdom blocked all the lightning and black flames for her.

"But the only thing that's ineffective is destruction," Jonouchi shouted, "combat damage is still applicable!"

[Becas, LP4000→LP2800]

After being knocked back two steps by the black flames and lightning, Becas' face turned red and white, and he snorted after he stood firm.

"Not bad, Jonouchi Boy."

But before he could finish, Jonouchi clicked his tongue twice, shook his fingers proudly and chuckled.

"You don't think that the evolved Black Demon Dragon is only this good, do you?"

"What?" Becas's face changed again.

"The subsequent effect of the Fierce Demon Dragon and the Black Demon Dragon is activated!"

Jonouchi shouted loudly.

"At the end of the Battle Phase when this Fusion Summoned card battles, you can target a Red-Eyes Normal Monster in your Graveyard!

Return that monster to the deck, and inflict damage to your opponent equal to the original attack power of the selected monster!"

Becas: “!!!”

Becas' eyes widened, and his condition at this moment was probably what is commonly known as "pupil earthquake".

Because he is really square.

The red-eyed monster in the cemetery, isn't it?

"Yes, I returned the Red-Eyes Black Dragon that I just fused to the graveyard to my deck!"

Jonouchi pulled out the Red-Eyes Black Dragon from the graveyard, which automatically withdrew into his hand.

At the same time, the Black Demon Dragon on the field roared, and a dragon shadow separated from its body. The translucent Red-Eyes image quickly seemed to burn all over, as if the flames attached to the black dragon's body, turning into a ferocious burning fire dragon!

"Give Pegasus the attack power of your Red-Eyes Black Dragon, which is 2400 points of damage!"

The Black Demon Dragon raised its head and roared, and its burning red eyes blasted out like a cannonball. The flames engulfed Bekas completely, and even his elegant red suit seemed to be burning.

“Aaaaaa——”

Having lost his gentlemanly elegance and composure, Beckas cried out in pain.

[Becas, LP2800→LP400]

"What's up, Inka bastard!"

The city is proud.

"Now do you understand how powerful my friendship with the game is?"

He was very disgusted with Becas's behavior as a designer for printing exclusive cards and exclusive rules for him. After so many years of being slapped in the face, he felt quite good now.

"Cover a card, and the turn is over." Jonouchi said.

Becas's body was staggering, as if he had finally managed to stand firm.

He was panting heavily, and reached out his hand to unconsciously rub his hair that had been blown into a mess, and it took him a long time to recover.

Then he raised his head and squinted his eyes to look at Jonouchi.

"You really look different, Jonouchi Boy."

Becas no longer spoke in the joking tone he had used before.

It seems like he is really serious about it.

Although Jonouchi never mentioned it to anyone, he actually practiced it over the years.

Yes, he no longer participated in any competitions and was not active in the dueling world. But this did not mean that he had completely given up dueling.

Instead, he had a dream, or a wish.

That is to get rid of the title of God of Gamblers!

Even today, even if many people mention his various glorious deeds such as making it to the top four of Duel City, competing with the three mythical gods, and defeating the Doma Swordsman, they will still summarize it as "shitty luck".

And he found it difficult to refute it except to say "luck is also a part of strength". Because many of his key battles really depended on dice and coins.

But now he wants to change!

He wanted to prove that he, Cheng Daozi, was not just lucky.

Even without dice and coins, he is still a legendary duelist!