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kaga and zuikaku (kantai collection and 1 more) drawn by takaman_(gaffe)

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    Duel Masters with Kaga ZUI!

    Don't allow loops.

    Duel Masters term for a recursion engine, i.e. combination of cards that, once started (usually by paying some initial cost), allows a player to 'draw' (or put back into hand) and play cards for free, and also recurses into itself to allow drawing of the same (already played) cards to continue the loop, letting the player repeat (a) particular effect(s) ad infinitum.

    The term can also refer to a deck built to take advantage of this combo.

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    NNescio
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    Oh_My said:

    >translation request

    rip

    Slysheen said:

    I'm tired just looking at it.

    Aaaaand into the pool it goes.

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    Frawnkenstein said:

    The match had been concluded before it even began

    FJH said:

    Kaga, let Zuikaku have a turn, okay?

    Well, the first card Kaga played requires 5 Mana, so some number of turns has passed. Looks like it takes some (albeit overcomplicated and a bit contrived) effort to set up the combo too, I think, so it's not like one of those 'First Turn Kill' bullshit from Yugioh.

    (Admittedly, I've never played Duel Masters. I just looked up some of the rules and the first few cards played.)

    Edit: So the gist of it is that Kaga has a bunch of cards that let her draw more cards, or move cards from the discard zone ("graveyard") back into her hand, or play cards for 'free' (under a certain cost) from her hand or from said discard zone. She uses this to summon two key creatures (Alephtina & Marshall Crawler) and fill her hand with extra cards. She uses Marshall Crawler to put 5 cards from her hand down as shields (they sort of work like life [points]/HP in this game), bringing her shield count to 10, which apparently triggers Alephtina's instant win condition.

    (I said apparently because I'm not sure of the order of resolution here, because it hinges on the instant win condition being triggered before Marshall Crawler's effect is complete, since the player is required to move an equivalent number of shield cards back into his hand after putting the extra shield cards down [in effect swapping instead adding].)

    Updated by NNescio

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