Island, Sacred Garunix, High Kirin
Next up, this hand:
At first glance, this hand can look pretty bad - no Legendary Fire King Ponix, no Fire King Courtier Ulcanix, and no Fire King Sanctuary which means no Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings.
How do we play here?
Well, it's Kirin's time to shine. We haven't really looked at his Quick Effect in practice besides mentioning it can be used to dodge targeting negation, but it can do so much more. Let's see it in action.
- Activate Fire King Island and place it in the Field Zone.
- Activate Fire King Island's effect.
- Chain Fire King High Avatar Kirin's Quick Effect, to destroy Sacred Fire King Garunix in our hand, and Special Summon itself.
- Island resolves - destroy Kirin to add Legendary Fire King Ponix.
- A Chain forms:
- CL1: Sacred Garunix's effect to Special Summon itself from GY.
- CL2: Kirin's effect to Special Summon Ponix from hand.
- A second Chain forms:
- CL1: Sacred Garunix's effect to destroy Fire King Avatar Arvata from Deck.
- CL2: Ponix's effect to search Fire King Sanctuary.
- Activate Arvata's effect to Special Summon Kirin from GY.
- Activate Fire King Sanctuary.
Does this board look familiar? We turned this hand into the same result as Step 8 of the 1.5-card Ponix combo. We can now go into Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf and Relinquished Anima to retrieve Kirin from GY, then Link into Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames, revive a monster, and Link into Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale.
We have all our usual interruptions, and the hand we started with looked completely different from what we were used to so far! Isn't Kirin awesome?