For our next feature match we have Akis Pappas, a very solid pro player with a number of achievements versus 2009 national champion and also very solid pro player Nikos Boulmpasakos. Akis is using Six Samurai and Nikos is using Frognarchs as seen in the previous feature match. Will Nikos win again or will Akis get his six samurai combos going before Nikos could manage to do anything? Let's find out!
Boulmpasakos wins the dice roll and will go first.
Initial hand of Pappas: Six Samurai United, Upstart Goblin, The Six Samurai – Yaichi, Dark Hole, Double-Edged Technique
Boulmpasakos drew for his turn and passed.
Pappas drew Kageki and activated Upstart to draw Royal Oppression. He normal summoned Kageki but when he tried to use his effect Boulmpasakos discarded Effect Veiler to stop him. He then tried to attack directly but Battle Fader ended the battle phase. He set 2 spell or traps to end.
Boulmpasakos tributed Fader for Caius and removed United. Then run over Kageki for 2200 damage and ended his turn.
Pappas drew Mirror, set it and passed.
Boulmpasakos attacked with Caius but Mirror Force destroyed it. In main phase 2 he used Foolish Burial to send Treeborn Forg to his graveyard and set another monster to end his turn.
Pappas drew Kagemusha and set Yaichi before passing.
Boulmpasakos summons Treeborn in his standby phase and then tributes both of his monsters for Archlord Kristya (the set monster was Fishborg Blaster). Kristya destroyed Yaichi and play was back to Pappas.
He drew Double-Edged Technique. He set it after checking his synchros and passed again.
Kristya made another direct attack and play was back to Pappas.
He drew Magatama and then activated Dark Hole to send Kristya top of deck. He followed up with Double-Edged, special summoning Kageki and Yaichi. He normal summoned Kagemusha and after attacking with everything for 3400 damage he synchro summoned Scrap Dragon. He then used the second Double-Edged to synchro summon Shi En.
Boulmpasakos brought back Treeborn and discarded Kristya to special summon Fishborg, but Pappas flipped oppression to negate it. Pappas had 2200 life points left. Boulmpasakos pressed on discarding Genex Ally Birdman for Fishborg but Pappas negated it again. Another discard (Lightning Vortex) and Pappas let the summon pass this time. However, Boulmpasakos tributed both of his monsters for Light and Darkness Dragon! LADD traded with Scrap Dragon and then brought back Kristya to attack and destroy Shi En.
Pappas used Signal on his turn to take a Kagemusha from his deck and then set it, but Light and Darkness destroyed it next and when he drew for his next turn he immediately scooped.
Boulmpasakos leads with 1-0 with the help of Kristya and Light and Darkness Dragon! After some quick side decking we move on to the next duel.
Initial hand of Pappas: Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Legendary Six Samurai – Kageki, Shien's Smoke Signal, Upstart Goblin, Smashing Ground.
Pappas opted to play first in the second duel and drew Rivarly of Warlords. He activated the Signal to add Kagemusha to his hand, then used Upstart Goblin and drew Reinforcements of the Army. He normal summoned Kageki, special summoned Kagemusha and then tuned them for Shi En. He set Rivarly and ended his turn.
Boulmpasakos set a monster and passed back.
Pappas drew Kagemusha. Shi En attacked into Treeborn Frog and passed back.
In his standby phase Boulmpasakos brought back Treeborn but Pappas flipped Rivarly! He tributed the frog to set a monster and passed.
Pappas drew Kizan. He activated Reinforcements to add Hand of the Six Samurai to his hand and then normal summon it. He special summoned Kizan and tribute the latter to destroy the face down Dark Dust Spirit of his opponent. He attacked with both of his monsters before ending his turn.
Boulmpasakos normal summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh. He was unsure for the rulings of Rivarly and concluded his turn by running over the Hand.
Pappas drew Dimensional Prison. Shi En destroyed Rai-Oh and play was back to Boulmpasakos.
He brought Treeborn Frog back to his field, then after some more discussion about Rivarly rulings he activated Puppet Plant to take control of Shi En. The official ruling was requesedt which was that the move was legal and Boulmpasakos could select between which monster to destroy. Shi En was sent to the graveyard and he set another monster before passing.(at this point Nikos admited that he should have asked for the ruling clarification earlier and that this mistake costed him the game)
Pappas drew Grandmaster of the Six Samurai and special summoned it, after normal summoning Kagemusha. Grandmaster destroyed the set Fishborg Blaster and ended his turn.
Boulmpasakos set another monster.
Pappas drew Gateway and attacked the set monster which was another Treeborn.
Boulmpasakos passed without making any plays.
Pappas drew Monster Reborn. He activated Gateway, used Reborn on Kageki and synchro summoned Shi En. He used the counters from the Gateway to add Kizan from his deck and special summon it. Kizan destroyed Treeborn but the rest of the attacks were stopped by Battle Fader. However, he used his Smashing Ground in main phase 2 to get rid of the fiend monster.
Boulmpasakos brought back Treeborn and passed.
Pappas drew Kageki and normal summoned it. He used 2 counters from the Gateway to boost Shi En, Kageki destroyed Treeborn, Kizan attacked for 2100 damage to drop Boulmpasakos to 2200 life points. Boulmpasakos special summoned Tragoedia, but Shi En was bigger and cleared the way for Grandmaster for a direct attack. Pappas miscalculated and should have used the last 2 remaining bushido counters on the Gateway to secure his victory in this round. However that did not matter as one turn later the duel is over!
Pappas brings the match to equal grounds again! After some quick side decking we move on to a third duel.
Initial hand of Pappas: Six Samurai United, Rivarly of Warlords, Reinforcements of the Army, Book of Moon and Shien's Smoke Signal.
Boulmpasakos kicked off things with a set card in each zone.
Pappas drew Dimensional Prison. He used Signal and Reinforcements to add Kageki and Kagemusha to his hand. Then he activated United and attempted to normal summon Kageki but its effect was stopped again by Effect Veiler. He set 3 spells or traps to end his turn.
Boulmpasakos drew and in his standby phase Pappas flipped again Rivarly! However, Boulmpasakos used Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy it. He tributed his face down Fishborg but targetted Book of Moon which Pappas chained to turn him face down. He punched the table clearly disappointed.
On his turn Pappas normal summoned Kagemusha but Boulmpasakos responded with Torrential Tribute to clear the field. He send United to draw Gorz and Double-Edged Technique and send the second card to his backrow.
Boulmpasakos normal summoned Treeborn Frog and attacked for 100 damage. In main phase 2 he special summoned Fishborg by discarding another Fishborg, synchro summoned Formula Synchron in defense position and drew a card.
Pappas drew Grandmaster. He activated Double-Edged to special summon Kageki and Kagemusha, then special summoned Grandmaster and synchro summoned Naturia Landoise. He entered the battle phase and almost accidentally attacked Formula with Kageki first neglecting the fact that he had no attack boost at the moment. Landoise destroyed the Formula and Kageki attacked directly for 200 damage. Boulmpasakos special summoned Tragoedia. In the end phase Kageki was destroyed and inflicted 200 burn damage to Pappas, due to the effect of Double-Edged Technique.
Boulmpasakos brought back Treeborn Frog. He discarded Ronintoadin for the effect of Fishborg Blaster and synchro summoned another formula. Pappas discarded a spell card to negate the effect and destroy the Formula. He followed up by removing Treeborn Frog to special summon Ronintoadin and tribute both his monsters to summon Archlord Kristya. He entered the battle phase but Kristya attacked into Dimensional Prison!
Pappas drew Six Samurai United and attacked directly with Landoise before passing
Boulmpasakos passed back.
Pappas drew Kizan and attacked directly with Landoise again.
Boulmpasakos set a monster and ended.
Pappas normal summoned Kizan, Landoise attacked the face down Puppet Plant and Kizan attacked directly.
Boulmpasakos set a spell or trap and passed.
On the following turn Pappas attacked directly with Kizan and Landoise to win the third duel!
Pappas wins 2-1 the game after drawing into crucial cards from his side deck!
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