“Tell me about the deck I am facing,” Xêvioso said as he shuffled his deck.
“Yana organized a deck of beings of the multiverse that are Yellow aligned for this. This enchanted deck only generates cards when I flip them so I don’t know every card that it contains, but I have an idea of what’s inside. I recommend that we flip each card from the top of the deck rather than gridding them all to start, we will both have time to familiarize ourselves with them that way.”
Xêvioso agreed. We used Bludonian rules but modified them for two players.
“Roll for first,” I said and I used a D20 conjured from my blue magic just as he did his yellow magic. I rolled 9. He rolled 18. He flipped the first card into the Smiting Grid.
“The Sankofa,” he said as the card became imbued with yellow magic. He placed it in the corner slot of the grid at his right side. “I’m glad to have that out. It comes in handy as things heat up.”
I flipped a Giovanni from a universe the Smiting Chamber numbered IV114 where he was struck by lightning while trying to fix an antenna on the roof of Dr. Thomas Eakran’s home that camouflaged to be invisible, and could change into a spaceship to launch into the cosmos. When he was struck by lightning, Giovanni had a gold watch on a chain hanging from his neck, a gift from Eakran that was made of sophisticated technology to shield him from the tracking sensors of the hostile invading force that had landed on Earth with the intent of conquering it. There was so much force and energy in the lightning strike that the failsafe in the watch activated; Eakran had installed it to monitor Giovanni’s vitals and it took various shapes, like a swiss army knife, to provide whatever assistance Giovanni might need. The gold watch suffused his body to trap the lightning and prevent it from killing him. When all was said and done, Giovanni became the Golden Lightning God, able to surround himself in a golden exo-skeleton and to shoot lightning from reserves in his body.
I placed my card on the centerline of the grid.
We flipped and arranged cards until many of the rows between us were filled before the first attacks were launched. Among Xêvioso’s cards on the grid were:
- Epa
- Thunder
- The Ewim
- Yellow Cloth
- Ra
- The Golden Stool
- Ayelala
- Dongola Horse
- Inkanyamba
- Alekwu Time Keeper
And mine included:
- Tot, the Halfyn Heir – Universe HV33
- Omega Neutralizer – Universe 432
- Daekwon’s Weather Manipulator – Universe HIII33
- Wendy, Secretary to the Nexus of Bromeran – Universe IV32
- Emperor Jophiel of the Milky Way Galaxy – Universe 531
- Righteous Fury of Desperation Jackson – Universe IV96
- Thursday Blessings – Universe 251
- Daekwonalus, Son of Metion – Universe III121
- Clay Franklin, Master of Kazi Arcana – Universe HV23
- The Trial of Lêgba – Universe 465
The Trial of Lêgba is an awesome card against Lêgba, but against a deck containing only yellow cards, it is useless. It prevents the use of any black Veve, and no black colored cards can attack the player who plays it. It is from a universe where an iteration of Lêgba rose to prominence on Earth. He becomes the ruler of a nation and because of his actions, Earth is destroyed. Xêvioso jails the real Lêgba and puts him on trial at the behest of the Mother-Father. Xêvioso strips Lêgba of all of his magic and when he is found guilty of abusing his powers, Xêvioso executes him.
I had many heavy hitters and I was able to get rid of many of Xêvioso’s most powerful cards, but the Time Keepers card started to devastate my board. When exhausted along with the Veve 3, the Alekwu Time Keepers puts a D8 counter on the card of Xêvioso’s choice with a D12 or below Health dice. The counters tick down at the start of his turn and the longer the game went, the more of my attackers left the grid.
The game was very close, I had a good number of attackers with a D20 health, but Xêvioso used all of his gold resources to buff up his attackers and he won in the end.
“This is not a bad deck at all. I would gladly lead any of these beings into battle against our unknown enemy. I think they would benefit from the resources at my disposal as well, your deck is lacking support cards that mine have in abundance so that tips the scale in my favor.”
I left the deck for Xêvioso to study so he could amass his yellow army.
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