My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

"Normal summon." Shen Sui paid the Soul Points, summoning Alice in the form of [Pirate Queen Hozerville].

"Activate the effect of [Pirate Queen Hozerville]. When she is normally summoned, destroy all other cards on my field." Shen Sui shouted, "Until the end of this turn, negate the effects of all cards on your side..."

"It’s useless," Haral said coldly, "As long as [Black Emperor Haralz] is on the field, the effects on the Black Emperor’s followers are negated."

Although Haral negated Shen Sui’s effects on his cards, the Undead Soldiers on Shen Sui’s field were all destroyed due to Hozerville’s cost.

This cleared the trash from Shen Sui’s field.

But the plan to disrupt Haral’s field by transforming Alice into the Destroyer of the Earth seemed out of reach.

Shen Sui immediately altered his strategy.

Meanwhile, as Shen Sui continued to pay Soul Points, Haral used the Black Emperor’s effect to randomly draw cards from his deck without pause. Watching Haral’s hand fill with Life Cards, Shen Sui felt compelled to act.

Shen Sui directly revealed the [Puppet] follower in his hand.

"Pay Soul Points, normal summon, [Cursed Puppet Natasha]."

At this moment, Shen Sui finally saw a clear and definite timing. When he summoned Alice earlier, he sensed its existence; now it was even clearer.

Indeed, the opponent surely had a timing chain for this moment.

Haral made no moves, allowing Shen Sui to continue his play.

[Puppet] graveyard setup often involves liberation through summoning. In other duels, this is naturally not a problem, but now Haral has a Black Emperor on the field.

Every liberation is undoubtedly allowing Haral to draw.

But without doing this, the Puppet Card Set cannot expand effectively.

Clearly, Haral must have foreseen something in the future to create such targeted Life Cards against Puppets.

"When your follower enters the graveyard due to liberation." Just as Shen Sui piled the Cursed Puppet into the grave, Haral suddenly spoke, "Activate my field’s [Marshal of the Black Emperor] effect to banish the follower."

He aims to disrupt my rhythm!

Once the Cursed Puppet is banished, it’s absolutely unacceptable for Shen Sui.

Without hesitation, Shen Sui illuminated Alice on the field.

"When you activate a card effect, activate my field’s Alice’s form [Unbindable Alice] effect to negate your card effect, then transform Alice into that form!"

[Unbindable Alice] emerged alongside Alice’s jailbreak laughter.

But accompanying this laughter was Haral’s as well.

"This is the moment I’ve been waiting for!" Haral laughed triumphantly, "I told you, all your future has been seen by me!"

"Activate [Marshal of the Black Emperor] effect: when the opponent performs form transformation, discard all hand cards. Disable half the number of your multi-form followers’ forms until the end of the duel."

What?

Shen Sui was shocked.

The effect seemed tailor-made for the situation, extremely targeted.

Although Shen Sui felt relatively calm upon hearing this effect, trusting the numerous forms of Alice.

But when Haral discarded all his hand cards and began reciting the forms to be forbidden, cold sweat slid down Shen Sui’s forehead.

Haral had drawn six cards during his turn, plus his original five, totaling eleven. By halving and rounding up, he instantly disabled six forms of Alice.

This was not the most crucial point, as Alice holds much more than just six forms, yet it was critical when Haral announced the forms without even looking at Alice’s available forms.

Evidently, he was fully informed about Alice’s situation.

The disabled forms included key ones like [Daylight Divine Selection Alice], even the complementary set forms like [Puppet Maker Alice] were forbidden.

"Activate my field’s effect of [Queen of the Black Emperor]: when a Life Card enters the graveyard during the opponent’s turn, return these Life Cards to the deck."

Haral directly shuffled the Life Cards sent to the grave back into his deck.

Having experienced dozens of duels, Haral was intensely familiar with Shen Sui’s tactics; he understood Shen Sui’s cunning inside out.

After dozens of failures, Haral finally realized that to defeat Shen Sui, he must eliminate all possibilities.

And Alice is the source of all his possibilities.

By disabling all forms of Alice, Shen Sui’s chances to create new strategies are greatly diminished.

However, forms are the core resource of Soul Cards, the essence of what makes Soul Cards significant. The cost of disabling the forms of a Soul Card is unimaginable.

With this in mind, Haral crafted this Black Emperor deck specifically around this concept, yet even so, it remains extraordinarily challenging to target Alice.