The smoking black pebble on the corner of the desk ended up as Yūki's paperweight for his deck adjustment sheet.
As a souvenir of Little Red's first activation of her "Ice-Type Effect," it proved surprisingly practical. At least the fan could no longer blow his draft paper away.
The Thunder Dragon and Vampire builds went through revision after revision on that same sheet.
After Thunder Dragondark, Thunder Dragonroar, and Thunder Dragon Fusion were added to complete the Thunder Dragon Deck, its resource loop finally ran smoothly.
With the unfinished version, the boss monsters often lay in the Extra Deck while his hand and Graveyard each did their own thing, neither able to get the other moving.
Things were different now.
Whatever needed discarding got discarded, and whatever needed banishing got banished. Thunder Dragonroar handled retrieval, Thunder Dragondark called everyone back, and Thunder Dragon Fusion could even crawl out of the Graveyard on its own to find follow-up plays.
The whole family had clearly defined jobs, with death being no excuse to miss work.
The Vampire Deck had more problems.
With the core Yūgong Feiyue had left behind, Puppet Master's Zombie components, and the newly drawn Dhampir Vampire Bram and Vampire Domain crammed in, it looked like it had everything on paper. In actual testing, the various undead in the deck nearly held an internal meeting first.
Yūki spent three nights cutting and adding cards before they barely reached a consensus.
The Graveyard could serve as a second hand.
So could the opponent's Graveyard.
Once the deck adjustments were complete, Kaiba Land gained a frequent playtester.
The name Fujiwara Yūki lit up on the Main Hall's matchmaking screen every few days.
The first duelist to run into the complete Thunder Dragon Deck was excited.
"I heard you use several completely different