My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 572 - 426: Alice’s Puppet-Making Plan (4K)

Chapter 572: Chapter 426: Alice’s Puppet-Making Plan (4K)

Dawn Savior?

No! It’s my Duel Savior!

Damn it!

Alice, you’re really hard to blame!

[Alice begins practicing the use of the Dawn Sacred Artifact.]

[The power of the Dawn Sacred Artifact triggers an avalanche.]

...

Alright, Shen Sui takes back that last comment.

Sometimes, Alice, you shouldn’t go too far.

Fortunately, Alice had the foresight not to practice using the Dawn Sacred Artifact near the Giant tribe. Otherwise, the entire tribe would have been destroyed by her, which would be too ironic.

For the rest of the time, Alice focused on learning to control her newfound power as best as she could.

After Shen Sui told her about the special trial arranged by Qishala for her on Dragon Island, Alice trained even harder.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Shen Sui temporarily set aside his previous construction ideas and began experimenting with building a card deck centered around the new [Dawn Savior Alice].

The moment Shen Sui saw this card, his first instinct was to build a graveyard deck, as her main effect was perfect for filling the graveyard, and it was specifically for piling follower cards, which was truly touching.

But when it comes to playing a graveyard deck, the ②③ effects are somewhat contradictory.

To summon the Dawn Savior, I have to cut down my deck until its number is less than 5. But in the process, aren’t the resources I want to fill into the graveyard already in the graveyard? Then why am I summoning the Dawn Savior? Wouldn’t that just swap my deck with the graveyard?

Therefore, to truly leverage Dawn Savior’s power with a graveyard deck, the best method is to use life points to special summon.

In Shen Sui’s hand, what deck is best suited as the mainstay for a graveyard deck?

Without a doubt, it’s the [Puppet] deck.

Although it doesn’t currently have powerful resources jumping from the graveyard to the field, it already has a lot of grave effect follower cards.

Cursed Puppet and Substitute Puppet are both extremely powerful grave effect follower cards.

It’s precisely because puppets have such good grave effects that [Cursed Puppet Natasha], a follower card that fills three and outputs one, is listed on the planned top list.

Most importantly, within the puppet framework, there is a follower card very suitable to pair with [Dawn Savior Alice], and that is [Self-destructive Puppet].

[Self-destructive Puppet], as the name implies, is meant to self-destruct.

Although, under Alice’s design style, it’s a very cute puppet, like a Gothic Lolita stepping out from a fairy tale, its effect is very aggressive.

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Card Name: [Self-destructive Puppet]

Type: Follower Card

Star Level: 8 Stars

Effect: When this follower is summoned or special summoned successfully, you can discard a hand card and pay half of your life value to inflict X points of damage to the opponent. If the discarded hand card is a [Puppet] Life Card, you can return this follower on the field to your hand. (X is the number of life value points you paid / 2)

Spirit Value: 100

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A simple, brutal life-for-damage effect, yet it reveals a beauty of the same simplicity and brutality.

This is actually Shen Sui’s modified version.

The original effect directly dealt 3000 points of damage to the opponent, but it had a once-per-turn limitation.

Shen Sui continuously adjusted the values, and the ultimate goal was to remove its once-per-turn limitation.

As everyone knows, in Yu-Gi-Oh!, many ancient cards are powerful because they have no once-per-turn or even same card name once-per-turn limitations, and in the hands of the vast gaming community, these cards are often played recklessly.

At that time, Shen Sui made these changes with the intention to build a burn-life OTK deck. Although the single card [Heart of the Holy Mother] could deal 7000 points of direct damage with some life cards, if a deck runs solely around this one card, the risk is simply too great.

Although theoretically, after Shen Sui’s operations, the maximum damage output potential of [Self-destructive Puppet] decreased, if paired with some life-recovering life cards, it remains a very strong card in a match.

Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if the yield is lower, what’s important is to keep control in your own hands. As long as it’s still my turn, I can keep using [Self-destructive Puppet] to blast your health.

And now, it’s time to showcase the value of having no once-per-turn limit.

Although [Self-destructive Puppet] is not the perfect card to summon Dawn Savior, it is currently the most suitable means.

Of course, actively reducing your own life value to below 100 is quite risky. If the opponent hits you with a Fireball Technique or some direct damage type spell card, you’ll be toast.

However, the number of followers in the [Puppet] framework is still too few, so Shen Sui once again set his sights on the Dueling Device.

["Making puppets again?" Alice said with slight surprise when she received your message.]

[You proposed the idea of having Alice craft all four source powers into corresponding puppets.]

["This way, won’t your Magic Guidebook have four powerful summons?" you said enticingly.]

[Alice thought what you said made a lot of sense.]

The flaw of the puppet deck lies in its lack of strong and stable enacts.

Although Holy Artifact Puppet is very strong, the two conditions for its enactment are too harsh, making it hard to enact simply.

Qishala, although powerful and stable, ultimately doesn’t fit the puppet framework. If a mainstay deck relies on off-axis followers to finish a match every time, it proves that this deck is still not strong enough. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The four source powers are the foundational forces on the Dawn Continent, and the puppets Alice crafts with these four source powers surely won’t be weak.

Once these four puppets are all successfully crafted, the endgame for this puppet framework will be in sight.

Of course, it’s likely that Alice alone won’t be able to complete this task, and even Shen Sui might not be able to meet his own conditions perfectly, so outside assistance will be needed.

Who has the most experience in crafting items?

Vivian!

Shen Sui stroked his chin, calculating the time.

In not too long, Vivian will be back, perfectly in time.

However, there’s another extremely important thing that needs to be instructed to Alice, Shen Sui thought very seriously.

["Huh? All the puppets need to be designed to look like pretty girls?" Alice blinked curiously, "Why?"]

["Of course, because they look good!" you said as a matter of course, "Just do it the way you did before."]

Actually, even if Shen Sui didn’t say it, the puppets Alice crafted were always very pretty girls. Even the three types of miniature puppets were modeled after the Elemental Empresses, resembling little fairies with wings from a fantasy world. They all shared the same cute appearance.

What distinguished them were the tools they held in their hands.

[Miniature Eavesdropping Puppet] held a stethoscope like a country doctor.

[Miniature Parasite Puppet] held a syringe.

[Miniature Tracking Puppet] held a telescope.

[Alice felt very puzzled by your special instruction.]

[After thinking for a long time, she finally thought of a very frightening possibility.]

["Could it be because you’ve been seeing the puppets around me for so long," Alice exclaimed in horror, "Have you developed some inappropriate feelings towards the puppets?"]

"..." Shen Sui felt speechless when he saw this line.

Can’t you think of it in a more positive way?

[You plan to deny it.]

["Then how about I design these puppets to look like Sister Vivian and the others?" Alice said happily, "Twilight Puppet will be Sister Vivian, Daylight Puppet will be styled like Sister Freymia, Star Night Puppet will look like Sister Qishala, and Dawn Puppet will mimic Sister Martina!"]

Shen Sui initially wanted to refuse.

But as soon as he imagined what these figures would look like as puppets, he couldn’t bring himself to object.

After all... with real-life characters as references, at least Alice’s puppets shouldn’t turn out too ugly.

I’m not interested in seeing them as puppets!