YGO EQG XX - Episode 040

"**Clashing of Two Lights**" is the 40th episode of the series.

(NOTE: The sequel has come out. Now's the time to finish this story. I haven't read the story yet, but it's going to be awesome. It came out today.)

Judging by the title, you know what's gonna happen.

## Featured Duel: Twilight Sparkle vs. Starlight Glimmer

**Turn 1: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then Normal Summons "Magician's Valkyria" (1600/1800) in Defense Position. She then Sets two cards.

**Turn 2: Starlight**

Starlight draws. She then Normal Summons "Celestial Spirit Capricorn" (1600/1400) in Attack Position. "Celestial Spirit Capricorn" attacks "Magician's Valkyria". She then activates the effect of "Capricorn" to discard one card and increase its ATK by the Level of "Magician's Valkyria" x200. "Magician's Valkyria" is Level 4 ("Capricorn": 1600 → 2400/1400). Twilight activates her face-down "Negate Attack" to negate the attack and end the Battle Phase. She then activates "Celestial Star Blast" to Tribute "Capricorn" and inflict damage to Twilight equal to its Level x300. "Capricorn" is Level 4 (Twilight 4000 → 2800). She then Sets a card.

**Turn 3: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then Normal Summons "Pyro Charmer" (1300/1200) in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 4 "Magician's Valkyria" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Pyro Charmer" in order to Synchro Summon "Twilight Warlock" (2500/2100) in Attack Position. She then activates "Spellbook of Rebirth" to revve "Magician's Valkyria" (1600/1800) in Attack Position. "Twilight Warlock" attacks Starlight directly, but Starlight activates her face-down "Celestial Spirit Ophiuchus" to Special Summon itself (1700/1000) in Defense Position. A replay occurs and "Twilight Warlock" attacks and destroys "Ophiuchus". Since "Ophiuchus" was destroyed by battle, its effect activates, equipping itself to "Twilight Warlock" and reduce its ATK by 100 for every "Celestial Spirit" monster in Starlight's Graveyard during Starlight's Standby Phases. "Magician's Valkyria" attacks Starlight directly (Starlight 4000 → 2400).

**Turn 4: Starlight**

Starlight draws. During Starlight's Standby Phase, the effect of "Ophiuchus" activates ("Twilight Warlock": 2500 → 2300/2100). She then activates "Celestial Device Sextant" to revive "Celestial Spirit Gemini" (1000/1000) in Attack Position. She then Tributes "Gemini", whose effect treats itself as two Tributes for the Tribute Summon of a "Celestial Spirit" monster, in order to Tribute Summon "Celestial Spirit Leo" (2500/2200) in Attack Position. She then activates its effect to look at the top five cards of her Deck, send all "Celestial Spirits" among them to the Graveyard and shuffle the rest into her Deck. She sends two. "Leo" attacks "Magician's Valkyria". This activates the effect of "Leo", increasing its ATK by 200 for every "Celestial Spirit" monster in her Graveyard. There are currently four ("Leo": 2500 → 3300/2200). "Leo" then destroys "Magician's Valkyria" (Twilight 2800 → 1100). Since a Spellcaster-Type monster was destroyed by battle, Twilight activates her face-down "Magician's Wisdom" to add a Spellcaster-Type monster from her Deck to her hand whose Level is equal to or less than that of "Twilight Warlock", meaning Level 7 or lower. She adds "Timebreaker Magician". She then Sets a card.

**Turn 5: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then activates "Magical Mallet" to shuffle three cards in her hand into her Deck and draw two cards. She then activates "Timebreaker Magician" (Left 2) and "Magi-Beast Mystic Dracoteen" (Right 8) in her Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Magi-Beast Twilight Unicorn" (1800/1300) and "Shadow Charmer" (1200/700) from her hand in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 4 "Twilight Unicorn" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Shadow Charmer" in order to Synchro Summon "Twilight Alicorn" (2600/1900) in Attack Position. She then equips "Twilight Alicorn" with "Magic Tome of Starswirl", increasing its ATK by 100 for every "Spellbook" card in Twilight's Graveyard. There are currently two ("Twilight Alicorn": 2600 → 2800/1900). She then activates its second effect to send "Spellbook of Secrets" and activate its effect, allowing Twilight to add "Spellbook of Collection" from her Deck to her hand ("Twilight Alicorn": 2800 → 2900/1900). She then activates "Spellbook of Collection" to draw one card for every "Spellbook" card in her Graveyard. There are currently three, so she draws three cards ("Twilight Alicorn": 2900 → 3000/1900). She then activates the effect of "Twilight Alicorn" to banish one "Spellbook" card from her Graveyard and increase its ATK by 1000 ("Twilight Alicorn": 3000 → 2900 → 3900/1900). "Twilight Alicorn" attacks and destroys "Leo" ("Leo": 2500 → 3300/2200) (Starlight 2800 → 1800). Since a "Celestial Spirit" monster was destroyed by battle, Starlight activates her face-down "Starlight Ride" to Special Summon up to two monsters from her Deck whose total Levels equal to that of the destroyed monster. She Special Summons "Celestial Spirit Cancer" (600/1600) and "Celestial Spirit Libra" (900/900) in Attack Position. Since "Libra" was Special Summoned in Attack Position, its effect activates, transferring its DEF to its ATK ("Libra": 900 → 1800/900 → 0). "Twilight Warlock" attacks and destroys "Cancer", whose effect halves all Battle Damage involving itself (Starlight 1800 → 950).

**Turn 6: Starlight**

Starlight draws. On Starlight's Standby Phase, the effect of "Ophiuchus" activates ("Twilight": 2300 → 1700/2100). She then activates "Card Revival" to force both players to declare one card type and excavate the top card of their Decks until they draw a card that isn't the same type as the declared card type. All cards excavated of the same card type are sent to the Graveyard and that player gains 200 Life Points for each one. Starlight declares Monster while Twilight declares Spell (To power up "Twilight Alicorn"). Twilight excavated three "Spellbook" cards and "Flame Burst Magician" (Twilight 1100 → 1700) ("Twilight Alicorn": 2900 → 3200/1900). Starlight excavates "Celestial Spirit Scorpio", "Celestial Spirit Aquarius", "Celestial Spirit Aries", "Celestial Spirit Virgo", "Celestial Spirit Taurus" and a Spell Card (Starlight 950 → 1950). She then activates "Paralysing Light" to Tribute "Libra" and prevent "Twilight Alicorn" from attacking nor activating its effects until the End Phase of the next turn. Since Starlight has twelve "Celestial Spirit" monsters in her Graveyard, she bansihes them in order to Special Summon "Celestial Spirit Draco Starlight" (4000/4000) in Attack Position. "Draco Starlight" attacks "Twilight Warlock", but Twilight activates her face-down "Moondancing Guardian Scholar Saltalunam" to Special Summon itself (1000/2500) in Defense Position. Twilight then activates its effect to Tribute "Twilight Warlock" and add "Spellbook of Revival" from her Deck to her hand. A replay occurs and "Draco Starlight" attacks and destroys "Saltalunam". Since "Draco Starlight" destroyed a monster by battle, its effect activates, inflicting damage to Twilight for every banished "Celestial Spirit" monster x100. Twelve are banished (Twilight 1700 → 500). She then Sets a card.

**Turn 7: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then Pendulum Summons "Twilight Warlock" (2500/2100) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position. Starlight activates her face-down "Prism Prison" to prevent "Twilight Warlock" from attacking, activating its effects nor being Tributed. She then activates "Twilight School of Friendship" (Appropriately named). Now once per turn, she can discard one monster and Special Summon up to two monsters from her hand or Deck whose combined Levels equal to that of the discarded monster's Level. She uses its effect to discard "Flame Burst Magician" and Special Summon "Trunade Magician" (600/400) and "Royal Charmer" (100/100) from her Deck in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 7 "Twilight Alicorn" and the Level 2 "Trunade Magician" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Royal Charmer" in order to Synchro Summon "Alicorn Princess Twilight Ascension" (3300/3000) in Attack Position. She then activates its effect to banish one "Spellbook" card from her Graveyard and add "Magic Tome of Starswirl" from her Graveyard to her hand. She then equips "Twilight Ascension" with "Magic Tome of Starswirl" ("Twilight Ascension": 3500 → 3800/3000). "Twilight Ascension" attacks "Draco Starlight". This activates the second effect of "Twilight School of Friendship", increasing "Twilight Ascension's" ATK by that of another monster Twilight controls, in this case, "Twilight Warlock" ("Twilight Ascension": 3800 → 6300/3000). "Twilight Ascension" then destroys "Draco Starlight" (Starlight 1950 → 0).

## Trivia

* The reason why "Twilight School of Friendship" was appropriately named is because of these two reasons.
	+ In MLP FiM, by Season 4 and onward, Twilight is the Princess of Friendship.
	+ In Season 8 of MLP FiM, Twilight created a school to teach friendship of the same name.