My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

You Wenqi began his turn.

After drawing a card from the deck during the draw phase, he looked at his hand, pondering how to fill the gaps and completely block his opponent’s path to achieving a special victory condition.

Although his hand traps and Gemini’s inherent defense were enough to withstand most board-clearing strategies in the world.

But over the past year, Shen Sui has introduced a myriad of new board-clearing strategies to the Life Card Duel scene.

Liberation and player effects, among others, can effectively target most followers with resistance.

If the rumors are true, the deck used by the enemy in this simulation test was constructed by Shen Sui, he likely considered such tactics, and included Life Cards able to remove Gemini from his deck.

If he truly wants to be worry-free, preventing the opponent from special summoning and stopping them from activating card effects would be best.

The latter is difficult to achieve, but using the resources at hand, You Wenqi can invalidate some of the opponent’s key Life Card effects.

This turn, he must summon [Starry Zodiac God: Heaven-Devouring Dog] from his deck, whose effect will prevent both sides from special summoning.

Although it also restricts himself, as long as the opponent cannot remove Gemini and releases the stacked [White Petal], relying on the resources on his field, he can end this duel.

You Wenqi quickly formulated his objective for this play.

First, he paid Soul Points to normally summon [Astrological Judge] from his hand to the field.

After confirming Shen Sui had no effects targeting this timing, he promptly released the just-summoned [Astrological Judge] and sent it to the graveyard.

Simultaneously, he activated Gemini’s effect and special summoned [Zodiac Traveling Star·Gemini] from the graveyard when [Astrological Judge] entered the graveyard.

"At this moment, flip the face-down card!" Shen Sui glanced at You Wenqi’s Gemini effect on the field, clearly aware of You Wenqi’s intentions with the revived Gemini, knowing this special summon couldn’t be allowed to pass, "Activate the Spell Card [Destructive Landing], which can be activated when a follower is successfully special summoned on the field, destroying the follower."

You Wenqi furrowed his brow slightly.

Although he had anticipated that the opponent’s face-down card would likely be a similar Spell Card, he had not expected Shen Sui to choose to destroy Gemini.

After losing [Astrological Judge], [Zodiac Traveling Star·Gemini]’s power takes a significant hit, especially since Gemini has already been special summoned to the field, and its maximum yield amounts to drawing three cards from the deck.

Could it be... the opponent can see Gemini’s effect?

Though reluctant, reviving Gemini was indeed a necessary step for summoning Heaven-Devouring Dog, and You Wenqi refuses to let it be interrupted here.

Thus, he was forced to use his hand trap to negate Shen Sui’s Spell Card.

After the chain resolved, You Wenqi immediately activated the effect of [Starry Zodiac God: Gemini] on the field, releasing [Zodiac Traveling Star·Gemini] from the field to special summon another [Starry Zodiac God] from the deck.

The simplicity of this summon, of course, comes at a cost.

The follower special summoned in this manner will be sent to the graveyard at the end of the turn and deal damage to the Life Card Master equal to its Spirit Value.

But You Wenqi doesn’t intend for this specially summoned follower to remain until the end of the turn.

"According to the effect, I special summon from the deck, [Starry Zodiac God: Pisces]!"

You Wenqi opened the deck and searched for Pisces.

"Pisces swims, the waves of fantasy surge, awaken, guardian of Pisces! With gentle power, guide to the shores of victory!"

Accompanied by You Wenqi’s debut chant, the Pisces Goddess elegantly appeared.

Shen Sui watched as You Wenqi swiftly picked out yet another fifteen-star follower card from the deck.

He initially thought that collecting nine Zodiac Gods was already an extraordinary feat for You Wenqi, and didn’t expect him to have hidden more strength.

No one knows how many of the twelve Zodiac Gods he has actually collected.

Nonetheless, quite a remarkable figure he is, by the count of fifteen-star follower cards, even Shen Sui may not be able to compare with him.

Thinking this, You Wenqi is moving on to the next step.

"Activate the effect of [Starry Zodiac God: Pisces], send it to the graveyard to activate it." You Wenqi opened his deck again, "Special summon a fifteen-star or lower [Starry] or [Zodiac Traveling Star] follower from the deck."

You Wenqi spoke as he quickly sifted through Life Cards in the deck.

Suddenly, a light appeared in his eyes, and a follower card emerged swiftly into his hand.

You Wenqi showed Shen Sui the card in his hand: "I choose to special summon from the deck, [Starry Zodiac God: Heaven-Devouring Dog]."

Did he directly switch to Zodiac God?

Shen Sui was shocked.

He certainly knows the effect of Heaven-Devouring Dog.

You Wenqi wielded the card in his hand as if victory in this duel was already within his grasp:

"With the might of the sky devouring, flames soar, descend, conqueror of the sky! With endless devouring, consume all obstructions and demonstrate invincible power!"

Accompanied by flames symbolizing the sun, Heaven-Devouring Dog slowly prowled onto You Wenqi’s field.