Towers House Show: The Phantom Mirror

The Next Step was hosted privately on the N:Era server on Tuesday January 18th, 2022.

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Opening Event: Lanius versus Ahmond

Stakes: Winner got a point.

Midcard Event: Whysp and Starladust versus Lilu and Rosod

Stakes: Winner got a point.

Main Event:

Cyras versus Vyonaw- Cyras.

Stakes: Winner got a point.

Pre-Show
Before the show was Lazarus' Lounge.

Results and Summary
Lanius versus Ahmond- Ahmond

Whysp and Starladust versus Lilu and Rosod - Whysp and Starladust by DQ.

Cyras versus Vyonaw- Cyras.

Featured Games
Lanius versus Ahmond

Turn 1: Ahmond

Ahmond plays Frozen Tower, gaining 6 Ice Tower. Ahmond pays 4 Tower (6 - 2) for Emperor of Penguins.

Emperor of Penguins

4/1

Beast-Bird

5000/3000.

Ability: If this card is defeated, the other Fighter is Frozen.

Ahmond Instants a card. Ahmond gains a Tower (2 - 3).

Turn 2: Lanius

Lanius plays Shock Tower, and gains 6 Tower (0 - 6). Lanius plays, “Shocker Jackal”

Shocker Jackal

5/2

Beast-Jackal

1000/6000

Ability: This Fighter can attack your opponent even if they have Fighters.

Lanius plays “Swap of Skills.”

Swap of Skills

Magiccraft Card

Swap the Strength and Shield of 1 Fighter until the end of the turn.

Shocker Jackal’s stats are swapped and Lanius attacks Ahmond. (Ahmond: 60000 - 54000). Lanius Instants and ends her turn. Shocker Jackal’s stats are back at normal, while Lanius gains 2 Tower. (1 - 3).

Turn 3: Ahmond

Ahmond plays Burning Tower, gaining 6 Tower (0 - 6). Ahmond plays “Pastry Master Chef”.

Pastry Master Chef

6/2

4000/2000

Ability: If this Fighter defeats another Fighter, draw a card.

Ahmond plays “Thief’s Spell”, and plays Swap of Skills as her own card, swapping Shock Jackal’s stats. Ahmond attacks with Master Chef. (Lanius: 60000 - 57000). Ahmond draws a card, but Lanius plays her Instant, “Veil of Return.”

Veil of Return

3 Tower

Ability: All Fighters defeated by battle are shuffled instead of put in discard.

Therefore, Lanius shuffles Shocker Jackal back.

Ahmond attacks with Penguin. (Lanius: 57000 - 52000).

Ahmond gains Tower. (Ice: 3 - 4)(Fire: 0 - 2).

Turn 4: Lanius

Lanius plays the Magiccraft card “Mirage of Return”.

Mirage of Return

Magiccraft Card:

If a Fighter returns into the stack, gain 5000 SP.

Lanius plays Shock Tower (3 - 9), before playing another Shocker Jackal (9 - 4). She attacks with Shocker Jackal. (Ahmond: 54000 - 53000).

Lanius Instants a card.

Lanius has no cards in hand. She gains 2 more Tower. (4 - 6).

Turn 5: Ahmond

Ahmond has four cards in hand. Ahmond plays Burning Tower (2 - 8), then plays Fervor, which will give Pastry Chef Strength equal to his Shield by paying 3 Tower. (8 - 5).

Chef: 4000 - 6000.

Ahmond reveals another Fervor, stating how Sciencecraft Cards can be played twice a turn. (6000 - 8000). Ahmond attacks with Chef. (Lanius: 52000 - 50000). Lanius shuffles Shock Jackal, and gains 5000 SP (Lanius: 50000 - 55000). Ahmond attacks with Emperor of Penguins. (Lanius: 55000 - 50000). Ahmond draws a card with Chef. She already has an Instant, so she ends her turn. She gains Tower.

(Ice: 4 - 5).

(Fire: 2 - 4).

Ahmond: 1 Instant, two cards in hand.

Turn 6: Lanius

Lanius plays Shockphantom Bird. (6 - 0).

Shockphantom Bird:

6/2

6000/2000

Ability: Search 1 Shock Tower from discard.

Lanius gets a Shock Tower which she plays (0 - 6).

Lanius attacks Emperor of Penguins with her Shockphantom. (Ahmond: 53000 - 51000). Emperor of Penguins is shuffled back in the stack. (Lanius: 55000 - 60000).

Lanius ends her turn. (Lightning Tower: 6 - 8).

Turn 7: Ahmond

Ahmond plays Frozen Tower (5 - 11). Ahmond attacks with Pastry Chef. (Lanius: 60000 - 54000). Ahmond draws a card. However, Lanius plays her last Instant: Truth of Return.

Truth of Return

Magiccraft Card

Ability: If you have both Veil of Return and Mirage of Return in play, if a card is put in the stack, search that card.

Which means, Lanius gets back Shockphantom. (54000 - 59000).

Ahmond ends her turn.

Fire Tower: 4 - 6

Turn 8: Lanius

Lanius plays Shockphantom (8 - 2), gets back her Shock Tower, and plays Shock Tower (2 - 8). She attacks Pastry Chef.

Ahmond: 51000 - 47000.

Lanius ends her turn. (8 - 10).

Turn 9: Ahmond

Ahmond reveals her instant, “Burning Draw”

Sciencecraft Card

3 Fire Tower (6 - 3).

Ability: Draw a card for each turn this card was in play.

Ahmond draws five cards.

Ahmond plays Double Tower, and two Burn Towers. (3 - 9 - 15).

She plays Glacier Knight. (11 - 1).

Glacier Knight

10/3

9000/8000

Ability: All other Fighters are Frozen as soon as this card enters play.

Then she plays Lava Wyvern.

7/3

7000/5000

Ability: Pay 3 Tower, then discard 1 Fighter on either side of play.

Then she plays Fire Imp.

3/1

3000/3000

Ability: If this card enters discard, both players take 3000 damage.

Ahmond’s Fire Tower: 15 - 8 - 5.

She pays another 3 (5 - 2), and discards both Imp and Shockphantom. But Shockphantom was not discarded by battle, so Shockphantom will not return. Fire Imp damages both (Ahmond: 51000 - 48000)(Lanius: 64000 - 61000). Ahmond attacks with both (Lanius: 61000 - 52000 - 45000).

Ahmond ends her turn. Ice Tower: 1 - 4

Fire Tower: 2 - 5.

Ahmond still has one card in hand.

Turn 10: Lanius

Lanius passes.

Turn 11: Ahmond

Ahmond attacks with both of her Fighters. (Lanius: 45000 - 37000 - 30000).

Ahmond gains Tower.

Fire: 5 - 8.

Ice: 4 - 7.

Turn 12: Lanius

Lanius plays Shocker Jackal. (10 - 4).

Lanius Instants.

Lanius ends her turn. (4 - 6).

Turn 13: Ahmond

Ahmond attacks with Glacier Knight, but Lanius plays “Absorbing Shockwaves.”

Sciencecraft Card:

5 Lightning

Ability: Absorb the Strengths of your opponent’s Fighters.

Glacier Knight: 9000 - 0.

Lava Wyvern: 7000 - 0.

Shock Jackal: 1000 - 17000.

Ahmond Instants.

Ahmond gains Tower:

Ice tower: 7 - 10.

Fire Tower: 8 - 11

Turn 14: Lanius

Lanius taunts Ahmond for not playing Wyvern’s ability. She plays Shock Tower (0 - 6), and attacks with Jackal. Ahmond reveals she tricked her with “Reverser” which will reverse the damage, but Lanius plays, “Super Reverse.”

Super Reverse

Sciencecraft

3 Lightning Tower

If you would take damage, instead your Fighter gains that damage as Strength and Shield.

Jackal: 17000/6000 - 34000/23000

Turn 15: Ahmond

Ahmond plays another Fire Imp. 11 - 8. And another. 8 - 5. And she plays Glacial Dragon.

10/4

10000/5000

Ability: Each Ice Fighter can attack twice.

Ahmond pays 3 Fire (5 - 2), and pops both Imp and Shock Jackal. (Ahmond: 48000 - 45000)(Lanius: 30000 - 27000). She attacks with everything. (Lanius: 27000 - 18000 - 9000 - 0).

Whysp and Starladust versus Rosod and Lilu

Turn 1: Whysp

Whysp plays Ash Tower, and discards 3 cards for 18 Fire Tower. He pays 7 Fire Tower for Lava Wyvern, then pays 8 for Volcanic Hellbreath.

Volcanic Hellbreath.

8/4

9000/5000

Ability: 3 Fire Tower - Inflict 5000 damage.

Whysp pays 3 Fire Tower and inflicts 5000 damage at Rosod. (Rosod: 30000 - 25000). This breaks Rosod’s ability for tagging out.

Whysp’s Fire Tower: 3 - 6 - 10.

Turn 2: Rosod

Rosod plays Psychosis Tower, gaining Psychic Tower equal with the Tower her opponent received last turn (0 - 18).

Rosod plays Sheep Herder.

Sheep Herder

6/2

6000/3000

Ability: Discard 1 card, and Call 1 Psychic-Element Fighter from your Stack in your backrow.

Rosod discards a card, and she plays Abrakadabra Magician.

Abrakadabra Magician

8/2

7000/6000

Ability: Gain 3000 Soul Points each turn for each Psychic-Element Fighter.

7 Psychic Tower: Take control of 1 of your opponent’s Fighters.

Rosod pays 7 for Volcanic Hellbreath. She plays the ability of Abrakadabra (Rosod: 25000 - 31000), and then she combination calls with Abrakadabra and Hellbreath for Fiery Temperament.

Fiery Temperament

12/2/2

10000/11000

Ability: Your opponent cannot play Instants. If this Fighter battles, your opponent discards a card and takes 5000 damage.

Fiery Temperament attacks and defeats Wyvern (Whysper: 30000 - 25000), then he must discard with Temperament’s ability (Whysper: 25000 - 20000). Then Rosod attacks with Sheep Herder. (Whysper: 20000 - 14000). Rosod ends her turn.

Psychic Tower: 0 - 2 - 4

Fire Tower: 0 - 2

Turn 3: Whysp

Whysp cannot tag out. Whysp plays Revive. (10 - 3). Rosod expects he’ll bring back Volcanic Hellbreath, but Whysp reveals she actually discarded a different Fighter from his hand, and he brings back Phantom Slime.

Phantom Slime

Dark

10/3

X000/X000

Ability: This Fighter gains Strength equal with the Shield + 1000 of a Fighter this card battles, and also gains Shield equal with their Strength + 1000.

Whysp attacks with Phantom Slime, and defeats Fiery Temperament.

(Rosod: 31000 - 30000).

Whysp: Dark Tower: 0 - 3.

Turn 4: Rosod

Rosod tags out for Lilu.

Turn 4: Lilu

Lilu plays Earth Tower, gaining 6 Earth Tower (0 - 6). Lilu pays 6 for Sprout Dragon.

Sprout Dragon

Earth

6/2

6000/3000

Ability: 2 Earth Tower: You can discard 1 card, but all of your Fighters gain 3000 Strength.

Rosod intercepts, allowing Lilu and Rosod, Sprout Dragon, and Sheep Herder, for Combination Call.

Gaia the Avenger

10/2/2

12000/9000

Ability: This Fighter may battle twice a turn.

Lilu Instants and ends.

Earth Tower: 0  - 2

Psychic Tower: 4 - 6

Fire Tower: 2.

Turn 5: Whysp

Whysp tags out for Starladust.

Turn 5: Starladust

Starladust plays Double Tower, and plays two Shine Towers (0 - 6 - 12). She plays “Phantom Angel”.

Phantom Angel

10/4

1000/10000

Ability: If this card is in play, the opponent cannot battle other Fighters.

Whysp intercepts, as Starladust and Whysp fuse Slime and Phantom Angel together.

They Tag Team Call Phantom Core.

Phantom Core

1 Phantom Angel + 1 Phantom Slime

Gives 3 Dark Tower and 4 Light Tower.

1000/10000

Ability: After this card is Called, your opponent cannot play Support cards until the end of their next two turns. This card’s gains Strength equal twice the other Fighter’s Shield this card fights. This card cannot be defeated by battle.

Starladust battles with Phantom Core. 1000 - 19000. Phantom Core defeats Gaia. (Lilu: 30000 - 19000). Lilu cannot tag out. Starladust Instants and ends her turn.

Starladust’s Tower:

3 Dark - 6 Dark

2 Light - 6 Light.

Turn 6: Lilu

Lilu plays Earth Tower and passes. (2 - 8).

Turn 7: Starladust

Starladust tags out for Whysp.

Turn 7: Whysp

Phantom Core attacks Lilu.

Lilu: 19000 - 18000.

Whysp ends his turn.

Dark Tower: 6 - 9.

Light Tower: 6 - 10.

Turn 8: Lilu

Lilu plays Earth Tower (8 - 14). Then plays “Blood Red Oak.”

Blood Red Oak

0/3

3000/9000

Ability: If this card is battled, at the end of the turn, the other Fighter loses all their Strength and Shield.

Lilu ends her turn.

Lilu: 4 - 7

(Lazarus plots.)

Turn 9: Whysp

Whyps tags in Starladust.

Starladust plays Moonlight Burst:

Sciencecraft

5 Light Tower

Ability: Double the Strength of one Light Fighter this turn.

She attacks with Phantom Core: 1000 - 19000 - 38000.

However, Lilu plays Reverser, meaning Starladust takes the damage.

Starladust: 30000 - 1000.

Vyonaw attempts giving Whysp an Instant he can Instant, Barrier, but Cyras catches him and grabs the card, but gets the team disqualified now.

Cyras versus Vyonaw

(Thief’s Spell).

Turn 1: Cyras

Cyras plays Burning Tower and gains 6 Fire Tower (0 - 6). Cyras Instants and ends her turn.

Turn 2: Vyonaw

Vyonaw plays Shade Tower and gains 6 Dark Tower (0 - 6). Vyonaw plays Sleepnir (4000/5000/5/2). Sleepnir automatically goes Sleep. Vyonaw Instants. As Sleepnir is asleep, she gains no Tower.

Turn 3: Cyras

Cyras plays Shade Tower for 6 Tower (0 - 6). Cyras plays Phoenyx.

Phoenyx:

6/2

Dark/Outlaw

Beast-Bird

5000/4000.

Ability: If you play this card, play Frozen Clock World from your Stack.

Cyras plays Frozen Clock World and chooses Dark, thus meaning all Tower is now Dark Tower.

(6 Fire - 6 Dark.)

Cyras attacks with Phoenyx, but since Phoenyx has the same Strength as Sleepnir has Shield, nothing happens.

Cyras ends her turn. Build phase, Phoenyx gives 2 Tower. (Cyras: 6 - 8.)

Turn 4: Vyonaw

Vyonaw awaken Sleepnir, who’s stats double (4000 - 8000/5000 - 10000/6 - 12/2 - 4). Light time occurs from Frozen Clock. Vyonaw plays Shade Tower, but gains 6 Light anyway (1 - 7). Vyonaw plays a Fighter, but doesn’t reveal them via their ability. (7 - 1).

Vyonaw attacks and defeats Phoenyx (Cyras: 60000 - 56000). Mystery card attacks, but Cyras plays her Instant, “Supernova”, as she has no Fighters. The Mystery Fighter is defeated, revealing Carpet Beast, and Vyonaw takes their Strength as damage. (Vyonaw: 60000 - 54000). Vyonaw plays her Instant “Soul Link”, meaning if she loses a Fighter, she may send another one from her Stack. She sends Phantom’s Hand. Vyonaw gains 4 Tower from Sleepnir (1 - 5).

Turn 5: Cyras

Frozen Clock Tower becomes Dark. Cyras draws Lava Wyvern, which she thinks of using with Clock Tower. Cyras plays Burning Tower for 6 Tower (8 - 14). Cyras plays Major Burnor.

Major Burnor.

10/4

Fire/Outlaw

Beast - Wolf

10000/4000

Ability: This card inflicts double the damage.

(14 - 4 Tower.)

Cyras plays Fervor.

Sciencecraft:

3 Fire Tower

Ability: Give 1 Fire-Element Fighter Strength equal to their Shield.

Cyras gives Major Burnor 4000 Shield, saying that Fervor can now be played with Dark Tower. (10000 - 14000). Major Burnor attacks and defeats Vyonaw’s Sleepnir. (Vyonaw: 54000 - 46000). As Cyras ends her turn, Vyonaw activates the ability of Phantom’s Hand in discard. Cyras is now Cursed, and must discard a card randomly. The card picked is Lava Wyvern. At the end of the turn she gains 4 Tower. (4 - 8).

Round one is over. Cyras has one card in hand, Frozen Clock Tower, and Major Burnor in play. She is Cursed with Phantom Hand. She has 8 Tower. Cyras has 56000 Soul Points.

Vyonaw has 5 Tower. 4 cards in hand. Nothing in play. Vyonaw has 46000 Soul Points.

Turn 6: Vyonaw

Vyonaw plays Shade Tower, gaining 6 Dark (5 - 11). She plays another Sleepnir in her backrow (11 - 6), then plays Fortress of Darkness in front (6 - 0).

Fortress of Darkness:

6/2

2000/8000

Ability: All Dark Fighters you control gain 2000 Strength each turn.

As Fortress of Darkness is in front, Cyras must attack that first before attacking in Fighters in Vyonaw’s backrow.

Vyonaw instants and ends her turn. (0 - 2).

Turn 7: Cyras

Cyras decides against Fighting with Major Burnor. Cyras Instants. (Cyras’ Tower: 8 - 12).

Turn 8: Vyonaw

Fortress activates, pumping everyone up. (2000 - 4000).(4000 - 6000). She awakens Sleepnir (6000 - 12000/5000 - 10000) and puts Sleepnir in front. Sleepnir attacks and defeats Major Burnor. (Cyras: 54000 - 48000.) Vyonaw attacks with Fortress, but Cyras plays another Supernova. (Vyonaw: 46000 - 42000), so Vyonaw plays Nature Tower. She then plays Revive. (8 - 1). Vyonaw plays Fortress of Darkness, except in backrow.

Turn 9: Cyras

Cyras plays Thief’s Spell, and she plays Revive as her own without Tower. She plays Lava Wyvern.

Lava Wyvern.

7/3

Fire/Outlaw

Dragon - Wyvern

7000/5000

Ability:

3 Fire - Discard 2 cards, one from either player.

Cyras pays 3 Tower, breaking both Frozen Clock Tower, and Vyonaw’s Sleepnir. As both enter discard, Frozen Clock Towers ability activates, playing Clock Dragon.

Clock Dragon

10/4

Dark/Justician

Metal Dragon

Strength: X000

Shield: X000.

Ability: All Xs this card has are equal to the number of turns Frozen Clock Tower existed.

7000/7000.

Cyras Instants a card, then plays Lava Wyvern. (9 - 6 Fire Tower.)

The Instant card is Evil Charity, and she pops Fortress. Cyras attacks with both of her Fighters.

(Vyonaw: 42000 - 35000 - 28000).

Cyras ends her turn. (Dark Tower: 0 - 4)(Fire Tower: 6 - 9.)

Turn 10: Vyonaw

Vyonaw plays Hope Handling, drawing 3 cards. She Instants a card, and plays Shade Tower. (1 - 7).

Turn 11: Cyras

Cyras plays Overclock (4 - 0 Dark, and 9 - 6 Fire), doubling Clock Dragon’s Strength (14000 - 28000). Cyras attacks with Clock Dragon, but Vyonaw plays “Thief’s Melody”. (7 - 2).

Thief’s Melody:

Sciencecraft

5 Dark Tower

Ability: Activate 1 Support card from your opponent’s Discard.

Vyonaw plays Supernova, defeating Clock Dragon.

(Cyras: 48000 - 20000). Cyras attacks with Wyvern (Vyonaw: 28000 - 21000), and Phantom Hand cannot curse Cyras this turn.

At the end, Cyras gains Tower. (6 - 9 Fire.)

Turn 12: Vyonaw

Vyonaw plays Shade Tower, then plays Phantasmal Queen.

7/4

Fiend

Strength: 6000

Shield: 6000.

Ability: All Dark Fighters gain 2000 Strength and Shield each of your turns.

Pay 6 Dark Tower: If this card is discarded, possess one of your opponent’s Fighters.

Phantasmal Queen attacks and defeats Lava Wyvern. (Cyras: 20000 - 18000.)

Vyonaw (1 - 5 Dark Tower.)

Turn 13: Cyras

Cyras activates Hope Handling and draws three cards. Of them, there is Final Hour. Cyras Instants.

Turn 14: Vyonaw

Vyonaw’s Phantasmal Queen gains Strength (6000/6000 - 8000/8000). Phantasmal Queen attacks Cyras (Cyras: 18000 - 10000). Vyonaw Instants and ends her turn (5 - 9).

Turn 15: Cyras

Cyras plays Burning Tower (9 - 15), and pays 10 Tower (15 - 5) for Lava Wyrm.

10000/10000

10/4

Ability: Both players take 5000 damage at the end of each turn.

Cyras plays her instant Final Hour. Now both of their Fighters battle, while they both lose Soul Points.

Cyras: 10000 - 1000.

Vyonaw: 21000 - 1000.

Both Fighters battle, with Lava Wyrm taking out Vyonaw. (Vyonaw: 1000 - 0).

Phantom Hand discards Cyras’ Evil Charity.

Next, as a card was discarded, Vyonaw activates her instant, “Phantom’s Pain”. If a Curse activates, the Cursed player takes 5000 damage. (Cyras: 1000 - 0).

Both Tie.

Trivia

 * This story is the gaming debut of Neopets characters
 * This features the first DQ.