It’s always lots of fun when some of our favorite games get combined. Some past examples include helping Ouro pokevolve in AQ40, playing scrabble with Loatheb in Naxx, and rescuing Princess Peach in AQ40 (see previous posts for memory refreshing). By now, we’ve come to expect great game combinations from Blizzard. We absolutely jumped out of our cushioned gaming chairs when we approached Kalecgos and he yelled, “ARE YOU YUGIMOTO?! CUZ IT’S TIME TO D D D D DUEL!”
We were quite happy that our vast number of hours watching the cartoon and playing the yugioh card game were going to pay off in facing a formidable opponent, one whose yugioh prowess could even surpass Maximillian Pegasus or Seto Kaiba. (Ofc Kalecgos is not better than Yugi, silly reader. We play the role of Yugi, and thus we’re the best. If Kalecgos was better than us then we wouldn’t be the best and thus couldn’t be Yugi, could we? Don’t answer that.) The initial stages of the card duel were uneventful, with us playing Danny the Fierce Knight and Shieldanvil the Celtic Guardian in defense mode. Kalecgos countered with a bunch of face down magic cards and trap cards later revealed to be Arcane Buffet, Wild Magic, and Spectral Blast. We countered with Pikapan the Buster Blader in attack mode. When it came to Kalecgos’s next draw phase, he drew a card, looked at it, and began to laugh maniacally. Could it be that he had drawn his ultimate trump card? We waited in horror.
Kalecgos then laid down his newly drawn card and exclaimed, “I summon Sathrovarr the Corruptor in attack mode! What, you don’t see him? That’s because he only exists in the shadow realm! And, if you didn’t know, Yugimoto, Sathrovarr has the special ability to transport your monsters into the shadow realm a few at a time and finish them off there for eternity!!!” From then on, every turn Kalecgos would invoke Sarthrovarr’s special ability and transport 3 of our creatures into the shadow realm where they had to battle Sathrovarr, and we finally understood the true power of Kalecgos’s deck.
To make matters even worse, we hadn’t brought our three Egyptian God cards that we had won in Battle City. . .surely they would’ve turned the tide back into our favor. And what could Swords of Revealing Light possibly do to help us in the shadow realm battles? Exactly. . .nothing. Things were indeed looking grim. Then we saw our friends standing behind us, and when we looked into their eyes, they said simply, “Trust in the heart of the cards and the support of your friends.” At that moment, we knew we’d win. We played our magic card Pot of Greed which allowed us to draw 2 more cards. We drew our cards confidently. The cards we drew we had just put into our decks for reasons unknownst even to us. They were two magic cards named Spectral Realm and Spectral Exhaustion. With them we could control which of our creatures entered and left the shadow realm! In no time, Sathrovarr the Corruptor was defeated in the shadow realm, and Kalecgos acknowledged our dominion over all games (including yugioh and world of warcraft ofc).
MOM! THERE’S YUGIOH IN MY WORLD OF WARCRAFT! (Read: waiter, there’s a fly in my soup. bro, there’s pizza in my coke.) If you listen carefully to the music in Sunwell Plateau, you can hear the yugioh theme. . .at least I can. . .hush you. And we still await the pictionary encounter in WoW.