YGO EQG Shadow Gates - Episode 006

"**Dueltaining Work**" is the 6th episode of the series and 53rd overall.

The tournament continues and Applejack's older brother, Big Mac duels against the dueltainer named Cheese Sandwich, who owns the Deck that started Pendulum Summoning, the Performapals.

## Featured Duel

### Timber Spruce vs. Cloak N' Daggers

Timber controls "Dark Timber Wolf" (2400/2000) in Attack Position and 1000 Life Points while Cloak controls a face-down ("Dark Ambush") and 2100 Life Points.

**Turn ?: Timber**

"Dark Timber Wolf" attacks Cloak directly, but Cloak activates his face-down "Dark Ambush" to negate the attack and destroy "Dark Timber Wolf" by paying 500 LP (Cloak 2100 → 1600).

**Turn ?: Cloak**

Cloak draws. He then Normal Summons "Dark Assailant" (1200/1200) in Attack Position. "Dark Assailant" attacks Timber directly (Timber 1000 → 0).

### Big Mac vs. Cheese Sandwich

**Turn 1: Big Mac**

Big Mac draws. He then activates "Graceful Charity" to draw three cards and discard two cards ("Mecha Worker Max Axe" and "Mecha Worker Saw Cutter"). He then Normal Summons "Mecha Worker Grand Hammer" (1800/100) in Attack Position. He then activates its effect to Special Summon "Max Axe" (1600/1400) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. He then Sets a card.

**Turn 2: Cheese**

Cheese draws. He then activates "Performapal Monkeyboard" (Left 1) and "Performapal Toucannon" (Right 9) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Performapal Jestar" (300/300), "Performapal Buggler" (1900/300) and "Performapal Swordfish" (600/600) from his hand in Attack Position. He then activates the effect of "Jestar" to roll a die and multiply its ATK and DEF by the result. He gets a 5 ("Jestar": 300 → 1500/300 → 1500). He then activates the effect of "Swordfish" to reduce the ATK and DEF of all monsters Big Mac controls by 600 ("Grand Hammer": 1800 → 1200/100 → 0; "Max Axe": 1600 → 1000/1400 → 800). "Buggler" attacks "Grand Hammer", but Big Mac activates his face-down "Scrap-Iron Scarecrow" to negate the attack and reset itself face-down. "Jestar" attacks "Grand Hammer", but Big Mac finds and activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack. He then activates "Costume Change" to switch "Jestar" and "Swordfish" to Defense Position.

**Turn 3: Big Mac**

Big Mac draws. He then activates "Mecha Toolbox" to add "Mecha Tool Power Drill" and "Mecha Tool Lightning Buzzsaw" from his Deck to his hand. He then equips "Grand Hammer" with "Power Drill" via its effect. Now whenever the equipped monster attacks a Defense Position monster, that monster is destroyed immediately without applying damage calculation. He then equips "Max Axe" with "Lightning Buzzsaw" via its own effect, increasing its ATK by 500 ("Max Axe": 1600 → 2100/1400). He then activates the effect of "Max Axe" to halve the ATK of "Buggler" ("Buggler": 1900 → 950/300). "Max Axe" attacks and destroys "Buggler" (Cheese 4000 → 2850). "Grand Hammer" attacks "Swordfish". The effect of "Power Drill" activates, destroying "Swordfish" immediately without applying damage calculation.

**Turn 4: Cheese**

Cheese draws. He then activates the effect of "Jestar" and gets a 3 ("Jestar": 300 → 900/300 → 900). He then activates "Performapal Understudy" to banish all monsters in his Graveyard and add 1 "Performapal" Pendulum monster from his Deck to his hand for each monster banished. He banishes "Buggler" and "Swordfish" and add "Performapal Fire Mufflerlion" and "Performapal Laugh Maker". He then Pendulum Summons "Fire Mufflerlion" (800/800) and "Laugh Maker" (2500/2000) from his hand in Attack Position.

"Laugh Maker" attacks "Grand Hammer", but Big Mac activates his face-down "Scrap-Iron Scarecrow" to negate the attack, but Cheese finds and activates the Action Card "Vanishing Act" to negate the activation of "Scrap-Iron Scarecrow" and place it on the bottom of Big Mac's Deck. As a monster on the field gained ATK, the effect of "Laugh Maker" activates, increasing its ATK by 1000 for each monster until the end of this turn's Battle Phase (Laugh Maker: 2500 → 3500/2000). "Laugh Maker" then destroys "Grand Hammer" (Big Mac 4000 → 2300).

He then activates the effect of "Fire Mufflerlion" to increse the ATK of "Laugh Maker" by 200 and allow it to attack again at the cost of not allowing "Fire Mufflerlion" to attack ("Laugh Maker": 3500 → 3700/2000). "Laugh Maker" attacks and destroys "Max Axe" (Big Mac 2300 → 700). "Jestar" attacks Big Mac directly, but Big Mac activates the effect of the "Saw Cutter" in his Graveyard, banishing it to halve the Battle Damage (Big Mac 700 → 250).

**Turn 5: Big Mac**

Big Mac draws. He then activates "Pot of Greed" to draw two cards. He then activates "Blue Mecha Mechanic" (Left 2) and "Red Mecha Mechanic" (Right 5) in his Pendulum Zones. He then Pendulum Summons "Mecha Worker Screw Driver" (1500/1200) from his hand in Attack Position. He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Blue Mecha Mechanic" to revive "Grand Hammer" in Attack Position with 0 ATK and DEF (0/0). He then activates the Pendulum Effect of "Red Mecha Mechanic" to fuse "Grand Hammer" with "Screw Driver" in order to Fusion Summon "Advanced Mecha Worker Cyber Handyman" (2600/2100) in Attack Position. He then activates its effect to add "Scrap Summon" from his Deck to his hand. He then activates "Scrap Summon" to pay half of his LP (Big Mac 250 → 125) and Special Summon "Power Drill" and "Lightning Buzzsaw" from his Graveyard in Attack Position with 0 ATK and DEF (0/0) (0/0). He then activates "Polymerization" to fuse "Power Drill" with "Lightning Buzzsaw" in order to Fusion Summon "Advanced Mecha Tool Drill Saw" (1000/1000) in Attack Position. He then activates its effect to equip itself to "Cyber Handyman", increasing its ATK by 1000 ("Cyber Handyman": 2600 → 3600/2100). "Cyber Handyman" attacks and destroys "Jestar" (Cheese 2850 → 0).