This is a historic occasion for LCCG - our very first Duel Coverage Article! Our Duelists today were myself, piloting Plant Synchro, and LeoMence, who was using an Antennae Deck.
Leo wins the die roll and opts to start. He sets one card to each row and passes play over.
Ash sets one monster and two cards to his backrow and ends his turn.
Leo draws to 5 cards in-hand and activates Spell Search, discarding 1 card to add a Level 4 or lower Spellcaster to his hand, giving him his Antennae Inventor. He summons Inventor and activates its effect, adding a Machine Antennae to his hand - Antennae Preservationalist. He sets a card to his backrow and attacks Ash's face-down monster. Ash responds with Soul Spark Attack, attempting to destroy his monster and Leo's Inventor to get a draw, but Leo chains his Hostile Negotiation! Soul Spark fizzles without doing anything and Leo's Inventor smashes the set Nightglown Blossom.
Leo then flips up his face-down Keeper of the Arsenal and Overlays his monsters to Xyz Summon his RT-67 Gadgetron. This ends his turn.
Ash draws to 4 cards, and flips up his set Twister of Rejection, bouncing Gadgetron back to its Extra Deck. Next he Normal Summon Rilfsak and pokes away 1150 of Leo's Life Points, inflicting the first damage of the Duel. Ash follows this with a Set Spell/Trap and ends his turn.
Leo draws and sets a card to his backrow and Normal Summons Antennae Preservationalist, and then Special Summons Antennae Radar. Using Radars effect, he changes Preservationalist to Defense Position to destroy Ash's lone backrow, but the Scrap Destruction is chained! Ash gives up 1500 LP to try and destroy Antennae Preservationalist, but Leo continues the chain with Emergency Broadcast! His Trap returns Preservationalist safely to his hand and wipes out Rilfsak to boot, allowing Radar a free swipe, dropping Ash down to 5800 Life Points.
Ash draws and summons Iele, then uses Plant Attraction to add another from his deck to his hand! He sets a card to his backrow and Iele attacks over Radar to bring Leo down to 6550.
Leo draws to 3 cards in hand and 1 S/T set. He summons Antennae Preservationalist and attacks Iele, but Ash discards Iele from his hand to boost his other ones ATK by 1000! The Antennae falls and costs Leo a further 800 Life Points, but Leo revives his Antennae with Isis' Last Wish, also boosting Preservationalist's ATK to 1700. Leo then passes play to Ash.
Ash draws, and his only move for the turn is to switch his on-field Iele to Defence Position.
Leo sets a card to his backrow, and runs over Iele, though this triggers the effect of the other in the Grave, allowing it to return to Ash's hand. He then ends his turn.
Ash summons Verdant Dryad and attacks Antennae Preservationalist, discarding Iele to raise its ATK to 2400, but Leo responds with Soul Spark Attack destroying both Dryad and his Antenna, and then drawing because of it.
Leo draws for his turn, sets 2 cards to his backrow to join the other, and Summons another Antennae Preservationalist, which attacks safely to bring Ash down to 4600 LP.
Ash draws and activates his face-down Junk Salvage, paying 1000 LP to activate it. Leo chains Hostile Negotiation to try and negate it, but Ash discards another copy of Junk Salvage to see the original go through! Ash then returns his Nightglown Blossom and both Iele's to his hand via the effect of Junk Salvage.
Next, Ash Normal Summons Phoenixian Flytrap, and uses its effect to discard Blossom and destroy Antennae Preservationalist. Flytrap's direct attack goes on without a hitch, dropping Leo to 4750.
Leo activates a Junk Salvage of his own, going down to 3750 to return Radar, Inventor and Keeper of the Arsenal from his Graveyard to his hand. He Normal Summons the Inventor and uses its effect to bring an Antennae Preservationalist from his Deck to his hand, before ending his turn.
Ash draws and then Normal Summon Blooming Flower of Hope, a level 1 Tuner which gains 1 Level for each Plant in its owners Graveyard. He then used Flytrap's effect again, discarding Iele to destroy Leo's face-down Swift Storm. Blossom started at Level 5, and then used its effect, banishing Nightglown Blossom to Special Summon 1 "Flower Bud Token" which copied Blossoms' Level (1), also reducing Hope to Level 4 due to less Plants in the Grave. Ash then Tuned his 3 monsters to Synchro Summon the devastating Ghora End Dragon! Flytrap's secondary effect activated on hitting the Graveyard, returning the Banished Blossom to the Graveyard. Ghora End Dragon then attacked Antennae Inventor and destroyed it, reducing Leo's LP from 3750 to 2050. That concluded Ash's turn.
Leo simply drew and set a monster, before passing play back.
Ghora attacked and destroyed the set monster.
Leo Normal Summoned Antennae Preservationalist and ended.
Ghora End attacked, but Leo activated Emergency Broadcast to return his Antennae to hand and destroy Ghora, but the Synchro monster negated the effect by moving to Defence Position. During his Main Phase 2, Ash manually returned Ghora End Dragon to Attack Position before ending his turn.
Leo set 1 monster and ended his turn.
Ash drew and activated Amiable Bounty - by banishing 2 S/T's in his Graveyard (namely 2 Junk Salvage's) he could Special Summon a Level 4 or lower Plant from his Deck. He pulled out Verdant Dryad and used it's effect, discarding Hostile Negotiation from his hand to Special Summon Rilfsak from his Grave. He then Synchro Summoned Phoenixian Plant Fighter using Dryad and Rilfsak, and attacked the face-down monster with his Fighter. For good measure, he discarded Iele to boost it's ATK by 1000, letting his monster Pierce Keeper of the Arsenal 3400 to 1900, dealing 1500 damage and clearing the way for Ghora End Dragon to seal the victory!
Ash is forced to fight through a number of strong backrows and advantage gaining cards to eventually put his combo cards together and finish strongly with a pair of Synchro monsters!
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