YGO EQG Shadow Gates - Episode 026

"**Total Annihilation**" is the 26th episode of the series and 73rd overall.

The tournament continues and Twilight duels against Shadow. Who will win?

(We're already past the halfway mark of this series. Yes. There's 50 episode.)

## Featured Duel: Twilight Sparkle vs. Shadow

**Turn 1: Shadow**

Shadow draws. He then activates "Shadow-Mech Breaker" (Left 3) and "Shadow-Mech Scooter" (Right 9) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Shadow-Mech Star Shuttle" (3000/3000) and "Shadow-Mech Fortress" (3500/2000) from his hand in Attack Position. He then overlays his two Level 8 monsters to Xyz Summon "Shadow-Mech Xyz Bot" (3000/1500) in Attack Position.

**Turn 2: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then activates "Magi-Beast Midnight Owl" (Left 2) and "Magi-Beast Mystic Dracokid" (Right 6) in her Pendulum Zones. She then Pendulum Summons "Terra Charmer" (1200/1800) from her hand in Attack Position. She then Normal Summons "Flame Burst Magician" (1300/600) in Attack Position. Since "Flame Burst Magician" was Normal Summoned, its effect activates, inflicting 800 damage to Shadow (Shadow 4000 → 3200). She then tunes the Level 4 Tuner monster "Terra Charmer" with the Level 3 "Flame Burst Magician" in order to Synchro Summon "Twilight Sorcerer" (2100/2800) in Attack Position.

She then activates its effect to add a random "Spellbook" Spell Card from her Deck to her hand ("Spellbook of Eternity"). She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Midnight Owl" to discard "Eternity" and add "Spellbook of Power" from her Deck to her hand. She then activates "Power" to increase the ATK of "Twilight Sorcerer" by 1000 ("Twilight Sorcerer": 2100 → 3100/2800). Due to the effect of "Twilight Sorcerer", it gains 100 ATK for every "Spellbook" card in Twilight's Graveyard. There are currently two ("Twilight Sorcerer": 3100 → 3300/2800). "Twilight Sorcerer" attacks and destroys "Xyz Bot", but Shadow finds and activates the Action Card "Shush" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0, increase his LP by the Battle Damage he would have taken (Shadow 3200 → 3500) and inflict damage to Twilight equal to the same amount (Twilight 4000 → 3700). Since "Twilight Sorcerer" destroyed a monster by battle, the effect of "Power" activates, allowing Twilight to add an unknown "Spellbook" card from her Deck to her hand.

**Turn 3: Shadow**

Shadow draws. He then finds and activates the Action Card "Blind Check Out" to look at the top five cards of his Deck and Special Summon all monsters among them, but he will take 300 damage for each one. All other cards are returned to his Deck. He finds two (Shadow 3500 → 2900). He Special Summons "Shadow-Mech Racer" (1500/1200) and "Shadow-Mech Medibot" (1600/1400) in Attack Position. He then Pendulum Summons "Star Shuttle" (3000/3000) from his Extra Deck in Attack Position. He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Breaker" to fuse "Racer" with "Medibot" in order to Fusion Summon "Shadow-Mech Fusion Bot" (3200/1300) in Attack Position. He then equips "Fusion Bot" with "Cyber-Sabre", increasing its ATK by 1000 ("Fusion Bot": 3200 → 4200/1300). Twilight activates her face-down "Spellbinding Circle" to prevent "Fusion Bot" from attacking or changing its battle position. "Star Shuttle" attacks and destroys "Twilight Sorcerer" (Twilight 3700 → 3000).

**Turn 4: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then finds and activates the Action Card "Blind Check Out" to look at the top five cards of his Deck and Special Summon all monsters among them, but he will take 300 damage for each one. All other cards are returned to his Deck. She finds two (Twilight 3000 → 2400). She Special Summons "Star Charmer" (300/300) and "Spirit Chanter" (500/300) in Attack Position. She then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Midnight Owl" to discard one card and add "Spellbook of Rebirth" from her Deck to her hand. She then activates "Spellbook of Rebirth" to revive "Twilight Sorcerer" (2100 → 2400/2800) in Attack Position. She then tunes the Level 1 Tuner monster "Star Charmer" with the Level 2 "Spirit Chanter" in order to Synchro Summon "Celestial Charmer" (1200/600) in Attack Position. Since "Celestial Charmer" was Synchro Summoned, its effect activates, allowing Twilight to draw one card. If it's a "Spellbook" card, then the ATK of the strongest monster Shadow controls by 500. She draws "Spellbook of Master" ("Fusion Bot": 4200 → 3700/1300). She then tunes the Level 7 "Twilight Sorcerer" with the Level 3 Synchro Tuner monster "Celestial Charmer" in order to Accel Synchro Summon "Celestial Body Magician" (3500/3000) in Attack Position. She then activates "Spellbook of Masters" to reveal the "Spellbook Restock" in her hand and activate the effect of the "Power" in her GY, increasing the ATK of "Celestial Body Magician" by 1000 ("Celestial Body Magician": 3500 → 4500/3000). She then activates the effect of "Celestial Body Magician" to look at the top five cards of her Deck. If she finds any "Spellbook" Spell Cards among them, then "Celestial Body Magician" can attack that many times. She finds two, so "Celestial Body Magician" attacks twice this turn. "Celestial Body Magician" attacks and destroys both "Star Shuttle" and "Fusion Bot" (Shadow 3500 → 2000 → 1200). Since "Cyber-Sabre" was sent to the Graveyard, its effect activates, allowing Shadow to add a Level 4 or lower monster from his Deck to his hand. The effect of "Power" activates, allowing Twilight to add "Spellbook of Illusions" from her Deck to her hand. She then Sets a card.

**Turn 5: Shadow**

Shadow draws. He then Pendulum Summons "Star Shuttle" (3000/3000) from his Extra Deck and "Shadow-Mech Rover" (1500/2000) from his hand in Attack Position. He then Normal Summons "Doom Cycle" (1200/700) in Attack Position. He then tunes the Level 5 "Rover" with the Level 3 Tuner monster "Doom Cycle" in order to Synchro Summon "Shadow-Mech Synchro Bot" (3100/1400) in Attack Position. "Synchro Bot" attacks "Celestial Body Magician", but Twilight activates the effect of "Celestial Body Magician" to banish itself and negate the attack. "Star Shuttle" attacks directly, but Twilight activates her face-down "Spellbook of Illusions" to Special Summon three "Spellbook Tokens" (0/0) in Defense Position. A replay occurs and "Star Shuttle" attacks and destroys a "Spellbook Token". On Shadow's End Phase, Celestial Body Magician" (3500/3000) returns to the field in Attack Position.

**Turn 6: Twilight**

Twilight draws. She then activates the effect of "Celestial Body Magician" to look at the top five cards of her Deck. She finds three, so "Celestial Body Magician" attacks three times. "Celestial Body Magician" attacks and destroys "Star Shuttle" and "Synchro Bot" (Shadow 1200 → 700 → 300). "Celestial Body Magician" attacks directly, but Shadow finds and activates the Action Card "Trigger Trap" to activate "Shadow-Mech Guard" from his Deck, banishing "Racer", "Rover" and "Medibot" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0 and add "Shadow-Mech Total Annihilation Ritual" and "Shadow-Mech Annihilator" from his Deck to his hand.

**Turn 7: Shadow**

Shadow draws. He then activates "Shadow-Mech Total Annihilation Ritual" to return "Xyz Bot", "Fusion Bot" and "Synchro Bot" from his GY to his Extra Deck and Ritual Summon "Shadow-Mech Annihilator" (5000/5000) in Attack Position. He then activates "Limiter Removal" to double the ATK of "Annihilator" until the End Phase ("Annihilator": 5000 → 10000/5000). "Annihilator" attacks "Celestial Body Magician", but Twilight activates the effect of "Celestial Body Magician" to banish itself and negate the attack, but Shadow activates the effect of "Annihilator" to send "Synchro Bot" from his Extra Deck to the GY and negate that effect (as the sent monster is the same Monster Type as "Celestial Body Magician"). "Annihilator" then destroys "Celestial Body Magician" (Twilight 2800 → 0).

## Trivia

* The design of "Shadow-Mech Annihilater" is based on Unicron from Transformers, which makes sense as the "Shadow-Mech" monsters are based on Transformers.