"Marshmallon's Monster Effect."
Kira explained to Lua with a light chuckle.
"After this face-down Defense Position card is attacked, the player attacking it takes 1,000 points of damage."
Lua said, "What? There's something like that?"
The Glasses Student beside him said, "That's not right. Even so, the monster should still be destroyed by battle."
"Marshmallon cannot be destroyed by battle," Kira said.
Lua said, "Huh!? It can't be destroyed by battle? Then Recorder's consecutive attack effect is meaningless, isn't it?"
Kira said, "And I activate my Set Card, the Trap Card 'Card of Sacrifice.'
If the combined ATK of all monsters on my Field is lower than the ATK of the opponent's monster with the lowest ATK, draw two cards from the Deck." (Original effect)
Lua said, "Marshmallon's ATK is lower than Recorder's."
The tiny Marshmallon puffed out its chest, as though it were proud of having low ATK.
"That's right," Kira said. "Therefore, I draw two cards from the Deck.
However, during the turn I activate this card, I cannot Normal Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon any monsters."
Lua said unhappily, "Fine, then I End Turn."
In the original work, Yusei had commented that at this stage, Lua was usually immersed in his own duels. He rarely considered his opponent's tactics or responses, only taking pride in his own combo.
While this showed his love for dueling, Yusei said he would not get far like that. A duel ought to be an interaction between both sides, a clash of strategies and tactics.
That theory still made sense in this era, but Kira felt that might not necessarily be true in the more distant future.
After all, in the modern Yu-Gi-Oh! era, everyone with a meta Deck could spend five minutes comboing off against a wall, and by the