YGO EQG Ω Zenith - Episode 030

"**The Hardships of Life**" is the 30th episode.

## Featured Duel: Sunset Shimmer vs. Skystar

The duel is continued from the last episode.

**Turn 5: Skystar**

He then activates the effect of "Amphridite" to discard one card and change the Attribute of all monsters Sunset controls to WATER. "Amphridite" attacks "Sunset Unicorn". The effect of "Amphridite" activates, increasing its ATK by 200 for every monster in Skystar's GY ("Amphridite": 3000 → 3400/2500). Sunset activates her face-down "Interception" to redirect the attack to "Daydream", destroying it instead (Sunset: 3300 → 2200 LP).

**Turn 6: Sunset**

Sunset draws. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Corona Paladin Squlder" to shuffle she just drew and draw one card ("Solar Flare Phoenix"). She then Pendulum Summons "Solar Flare Phoenix" (2500/2100) from her hand in Attack Position and "Corona Guardian Protegetal" (500/2800) from her hand in Defense Position. She then activates "Flame Enforcer". Now once per turn, she can target two FIRE monsters, increase the ATK of one targeted monster by half the ATK of the other and prevent the other from attacking this turn. She then activates its effect to target "Solar Flare Phoenix" and "Sunset Unicorn" ("Solar Flare Phoenix": 2500 → 3400/2100). "Solar Flare Phoenix" attacks and destroys "Amphridite" (Skystar: 2900 → 2500 LP). Since "Amphridite" was destroyed by battle, its effect activates, allowing Skystar to revive "Rhodos, the Atlantean Princess" (1600/800) in Attack Position. Since a WATER monster was destroyed by battle, Skystar activates her face-down "Atlantean Salvage" to draw one card for every Level 4 or lower WATER monster in his GY. There are currently three, so she draws three cards. She then switches "Sunset Unicorn" to Defense Position.

**Turn 7: Skystar**

Skystar draws. She then Normal Summons "Atlantean Field Medic" (1200/1200) in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Rhodos" to Tribute itself and "Field Medic" and Special Summon another copy of "Amphridite" (3000/2500) from her Deck in Attack Position. Since "Field Medic" was Tributed to activate the effect of a WATER monster, its effect activates, increasing Skystar's LP by 200 for every WATER monster in her GY (Skystar: 2500 → 4100 LP). She then activates "Salvage" to add two WATER monsters with 1500 or less ATK from her GY to her hand. She adds "Neptabyss, the Atlantean Prince" and "Field Medic". She then activates "Monster Reincarnation" to discard "Field Medic" and add "Amphridite" from her GY to her hand. "Amphridite" attacks "Solar Flare Phoenix". The effect of "Amphridite" activates ("Amphridite": 3000 → 3600/2500). "Amphridite" then destroys "Solar Flare Phoenix" (Sunset: 2200 → 1100 LP).

**Turn 8: Sunset**

Sunset draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Solar Flare Phoenix" (2500/2100) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. Since "Solar Flare Phoenix" was Special Summoned while Sunset has 2000 or less LP, its effect activates, doubling Sunset's LP (Sunset: 1100 → 2200 LP). She then activates "Wildfire Draw" to draw until she has five cards in her hand and take 300 damage for each one. She draws five cards (Sunset: 2200 → 700 LP). She then Normal Summons "Sun Ray Salamander" (100/100) in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 7 "Solar Flare Phoenix" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Sun Ray Salamander" in order to Synchro Summon "Solar Phoenix Rebirth" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Flame Enforcer" to target "Solar Phoenix Rebirth" and "Protegetal" ("Solar Flare Phoenix": 3000 → 3250/2500). She then activates "Solar Flare" to increase the ATK of "Solar Phoenix Rebirth" by 1000 ("Solar Phoenix Rebirth": 3250 → 4250/2500). "Solar Phoenix Rebirth" attacks and destroys "Amphridite" (Skystar: 4100 → 2850 LP). The effect of "Rhodos" activates, reviving "Rhodos" (1600/800) in Attack Position. "Sunset Unicorn" attacks and destroys "Rhodos" (Skystar: 2850 → 2650 LP). She then Sets three cards.

**Turn 9: Skystar**

Skystar draws. She then activates "Pot of Greed" to draw two cards. She then activates the effect of the "Field Medic" in her GY, banishing it to revive "Rhodos" (1600/800) in Attack Position. She then Normal Summons "Atlantean Marksman" (1400/0) in Attack Position. She then activates the effect of "Rhodos" to Tribute itself and "Field Medic" and revive "Amphridite" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. She then activates "Ascension from the Abyss" to pay half his LP (Skystar: 2650 → 1325) and add "Zenith Dragon of Bottomless Oceans Fabulaqua" from her Deck to her hand. She then Tributes "Amphridite" and discards another copy from her hand in order to Special Summon "Fabulaqua" (?/?) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Fabulaqua", its ATK and DEF become equal to the combined ATK and DEF of the monsters used to summon it ("Fabulaqua": ? → 6000/? → 5000). Since "Fabulaqua" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, returning all Spells and Traps Sunset controls to her hand and Special Summon one monster from Skystar's GY with their effects negated for each one returned. Six were returned ("Rocket Smasher", "Squlder", "Flame Enforcer" and the three face-downs), so she Special Summons "Rhodos" (1600/800), "Dragoons" (1800/0), "Attack Squad" (1400/0) and "Marksman" (1400/0) in Attack Position. "Fabulaqua" attacks "Rebirth", but Sunset activates the effect of "Protegetal" to redirect the attack to itself, destroying it instead. "Dragoons" attacks "Sunset Unicorn", destroying both monsters in a Double KO. On Skystar's End Phase, the effect of "Fabulaqua" banishes itself and "Amphridite" is Special Summoned (3000/2500) in Attack Position. At the same time, the four monsters return to the GY via the effect of "Fabulaqua".

**Turn 10: Sunset**

Sunset draws. She then activates the effect of "Rebirth" to increase her LP by 1000 (Sunset: 700 → 1700 LP). She then activates "Monster Reborn" to revive "Sun Ray Salamander" (100/100) in Attack Position. She then Normal Summons "Corona Beast Sun Heart Lion Cub" (800/800) in Attack Position. She then Pendulum Summons "Solar Flare Phoenix" (2500/2100) and "Sunset Unicorn" (1800/1300) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. The effect of "Solar Flare Phoenix" activates (Sunset: 1700 → 3400 LP). She then activates the effect of "Sunset Unicorn" to reduce the Level of "Sun Heart Lion Cub" by 1 and treat it as a Tuner monster. She then double tunes Level 1 Tuner monsters "Sun Ray Salamander" and "Sun Heart Lion Cub" with the Level 8 "Rebirth" in order to Synchro Summon "Solar Monarch - Friendship Phoenix" (3500/3000) in Attack Position. Since "Friendship Phoenix" was Special Summoned, its effect activates, increasing Sunset's LP to 4000 (Sunset: 3400 → 4000 LP). She then activates "Flame Enforcer" and activates its effect to target "Solar Flare Phoenix" and "Friendship Phoenix" ("Friendship Phoenix": 3500 → 4750/3000). She then activates the second effect of "Friendship Phoenix" to reduce her LP to 100 (Sunset: 4000 → 100 LP) and increase its ATK by the same amount ("Friendship Phoenix": 4750 → 8650/3000). "Friendship Phoenix" attacks and destroys "Amphridite" (Skystar: 1325 → 0 LP).