This duel had been full of surprises.
Yet the final result had somehow seemed inevitable.
Lydia Emerson had once had a chance—her closest brush with victory.
But whether it was regret or unwillingness, the result of this duel had already been decided.
The Magitech Ball frozen into a block of ice could no longer escape, and whether the duel ended now depended only on whether "Magic Phantom Beast: Glaceon" wished to shatter its Life Barrier.
"Beep—"
At last, the referee's whistle sounded.
"Magic Phantom Beast: Glaceon" did not deliberately stall. After successfully freezing the Red Magic Guidance Ball, it immediately launched an attack on its Life Barrier.
The Red Magic Guidance Ball's Life Barrier shattered on the spot, and the referee declared Dark Dimon the winner!
Only after the match ended and the audience paused to reflect did they suddenly realize what might have happened at the very beginning of the duel.
Thus, murmurs of discussion quietly rose amid the cheers.
Drawing a dead hand at the start was nothing new to any duelist who regularly competed on stage.
During deck construction, duelists would use various synergies to reduce the odds of drawing a dead hand as much as possible. But as long as a deck contained too many high-star Magic Spirit Cards, or Magic, Item, and Arcana Cards that could not work together, such situations were unavoidable.
However, the odds of that happening were extremely low. Not only would the duelist themselves fail to anticipate it, even their opponent would not expect it.
That meant that as long as a duelist remained calm after drawing a dead hand, they could buy themselves some time at the beginning—because their opponent might not realize it either.
That was precisely what had happened to Dark Dimon.
Of course, some attack-oriented duelists