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The Deity Ice Butteryfly and the Shapeshifting Stuffy - Cards of Power #73 | A Bedtime Adventure · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, we're finally headed back to the Cards of
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  Speaker 1: Power universe to continue the deity-level tournament. And in order
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  Speaker 1: to do that, we're going to need a couple listener ideas.
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  Speaker 1: So let's see what we have in the vault here.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Martin. My name is McKenna and I'm from Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: And I want a story about the cards of power.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a big stuffy that can shapeshift into any
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  Speaker 2: stuffy and shoot tiny stuffies out of its hands. And
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  Speaker 2: can we battle it? And I love your podcast. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, McKenna. That's a very interesting idea. Maybe if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have stuffies. I might have to bring
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  Speaker 1: back a stuffy character of my own. Anyway, let's check
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  Speaker 1: out one more idea I think here.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Piper and I have a story suggestion
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  Speaker 3: for the Cards of Power universe where you battle a
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  Speaker 3: deity level butterfly with ice powers and Magnus almost loses
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  Speaker 3: but at the last second, he wins. Thank you, I
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  Speaker 3: love your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: All right, a deity-level ice butterfly. Why not, people? Why not? Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you like the Cards of Power, then you're probably
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  Speaker 1: going to love the Cards of Power card game with
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  Speaker 1: Cards of Power cards and Cards of Power battle and
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing that my friend Roro and I
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  Speaker 1: are making. mostly him. He's doing most of the work, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: But I am really excited because it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: out to purchase before too long. And yeah, if you
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  Speaker 1: like Cards of Power, it might be something you want
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  Speaker 1: to check out. In other news, I've been playing around
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  Speaker 1: with creating some graphic novels, or at least comics, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm starting off with the Spaceship series. I've put
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  Speaker 1: up Probably three chapters so far. You can check out
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  Speaker 1: the first couple for free on Patreon. I think you
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  Speaker 1: just need a free membership. And you can go check
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  Speaker 1: those out and read them and let me know what
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  Speaker 1: you think. To be fully transparent, they are AI-assisted in
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  Speaker 1: their creation because I'm not an artist in any way.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we've come up with a pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: product that I like a lot. So please check them out.
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  Speaker 1: Give me your feedback, let me know what you think. Uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But now, it's that time again. Time to get as
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  Speaker 1: comfy as you can in that bed, close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
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  Speaker 1: You wake up inside your hotel room on the combat planet,
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  Speaker 1: and for once, Magnus is already awake. He's sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the end of the bed beside someone you almost forgot about.
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr., the stuffed dragon that can turn into a,
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  Speaker 1: you know, space dragon, of course. Good morning, Magnus says.
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  Speaker 1: You planning on sleeping through the whole tournament or what? Uh, no,
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  Speaker 1: you respond, sitting up and rubbing your eyes. How did
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  Speaker 1: you get out of the card core? Last thing I remember,
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  Speaker 1: you were knocked out.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't going to sit around waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: to let me out. I got out on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Do we even have a match today? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they invented computers, Magnus responds. Good point. You
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  Speaker 1: get out of bed... Get dressed and head downstairs with
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  Speaker 1: Magnus floating beside you. Max Jr. stays sitting on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: of course. You figure you'll come back for him if
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  Speaker 1: you need him. Unlike most of your other magical creatures,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't really fit in a card core because, well,
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  Speaker 1: because he's not a card. His other form is a stuffy.
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  Speaker 1: As usual, you stop for some breakfast first The hotel
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  Speaker 1: has pretty much everything you could possibly want, including foods
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  Speaker 1: from Earth for some reason, and a thousand things you've
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  Speaker 1: never seen before. Some of it very odd colors. You
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  Speaker 1: grab a little bit of this and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that, eat as quickly as you can, and walk
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  Speaker 1: over toward one of the tournament computers. You scan your
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  Speaker 1: identification card. The screen lights up. Competitor identified. Then another
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  Speaker 1: message appears. Next match, final match before quarterfinals. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize we were that far already. Magnus floats closer
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  Speaker 1: to the screen. Well, obviously we are. We've been winning. Because, well,
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  Speaker 1: you have me. The screen changes again. Your next opponent
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  Speaker 1: is McKenna. Huh, you say. I wonder what she's like.
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  Speaker 1: Almost immediately, another message appears. Would you like to search
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  Speaker 1: for competitor profile McKenna? You stare at the screen. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: you can do that? Yes. Yes. Have I always been
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  Speaker 1: able to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, search for her profile. The screen flashes for a
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  Speaker 1: moment before a picture appears of a girl standing in
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  Speaker 1: front of a huge, snowy mountain. Beside the picture is
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of information. Apparently, McKenna comes from a
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  Speaker 1: distant planet where Most of the northern regions are covered
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  Speaker 1: in mountains, forests, snow, and ice. Looking through some of
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  Speaker 1: the pictures, it kind of reminds you of Alaska, only
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  Speaker 1: with much bigger mountains and some strange animals walking around
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  Speaker 1: in the background. Apparently, McKenna grew up exploring the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: around her home and started collecting cards pretty much as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she was old enough. Huh. You say as
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  Speaker 1: you continue reading. According to her profile, McKenna's known for
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  Speaker 1: collecting creatures that are beautiful, cute, or just interesting to
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  Speaker 1: look at. Magnus starts laughing. This is gonna be easy.
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  Speaker 1: You look over at him. What? Cute creatures? Beautiful creatures?
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  Speaker 1: We're in a deity tournament. Magnus, you literally lost to
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  Speaker 1: a tiny guinea pig yesterday. Magnus immediately stops laughing. That
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  Speaker 1: was different. How was it different? The guinea pig was
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  Speaker 1: very powerful. Exactly. Magnus crosses his little arms. Fine, keep reading.
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  Speaker 1: You scroll further down. There aren't exact descriptions of McKenna's cards. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: tournament competitors aren't allowed to see that information before a match,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some general statistics. She seems to use
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  Speaker 1: transformation-type creatures quite often, and she also has a large
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  Speaker 1: number of ice cards, which makes sense considering where she
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  Speaker 1: comes from and, well, how long it looks like the
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  Speaker 1: winters are there.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: You say.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: I might have an idea. You turn away from the
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  Speaker 1: computer and head back towards the elevator. Where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: Magnus asks. Back to the room. You say. Why? To
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  Speaker 1: get Max Jr. Magnus looks confused. The stuffed dragon? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If she likes transformation creatures and cute-looking cards, Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: might be a good match. Plus, I've barely used him
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  Speaker 1: since we captured him, and from what I remember, he
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  Speaker 1: turns into a pretty awesome space dragon. Magna shrugs. Fine
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  Speaker 1: by me. Saves my energy for later. You return to
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  Speaker 1: your room and find Max Jr. sitting exactly where you
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  Speaker 1: left him. You reach down and pick up the stuffed dragon.
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  Speaker 1: Alright Max, let's see what you can actually do in
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  Speaker 1: a tournament. You place him under one arm and head
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  Speaker 1: back downstairs. Before long, you, Magnus, and Max Jr. are outside.
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  Speaker 1: You activate your magic wing card. Two huge glowing wings
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  Speaker 1: appear out of your back and lift you into the air.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus flies beside you as you head toward the main
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  Speaker 1: tournament area. From above, you can see thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: moving toward the building. Apparently, being the final match before
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  Speaker 1: their quarterfinals is a pretty big deal. You land beside
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  Speaker 1: the competitor entrance and release your wings. A security robot
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  Speaker 1: scans your identification. Competitor confirmed. Please proceed to changing room
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  Speaker 1: number two. Well, that's different than the last few matches.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they've upped security. You walk down the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and enter the changing room. There's really not much to
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  Speaker 1: do inside except, well, wait.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: You sit down on one of the benches with Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: beside you. Magnus floats around the room. You nervous? he asks.
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  Speaker 1: A little. Don't be. Worst case scenario, Max Jr. loses
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  Speaker 1: and then I destroy everything. That's basically your plan for
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  Speaker 1: every battle, you respond. Well, it's a good plan. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can respond again, the large doors at the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the room begin to open. The sound of
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  Speaker 1: the crowd pours inside. Guess that's us, you say. You
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  Speaker 1: grab Max Jr. and walk out into the arena. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: and thousands of spectators fill the stands behind a special
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  Speaker 1: force field, of course. Floating cameras move through the air,
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  Speaker 1: following you as you walk toward the center. On the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the arena, another door opens, and a
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  Speaker 1: girl walks in. You immediately recognize her from the profile picture.
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  Speaker 2: McKenna.
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  Speaker 1: She walks toward the center of the arena and gives
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  Speaker 1: you a little wave. You wave back. A referee floats
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  Speaker 1: down between the two of you. Welcome, competitors. This is
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  Speaker 1: the final match before the quarterfinal round, as I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you both know. As always, each competitor may select three
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  Speaker 1: magical creature cards. Only one creature may be active at
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  Speaker 1: a time. Defeating an opponent's creature earns one point. The
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  Speaker 1: first competitor to earn two points wins the match and
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  Speaker 1: advances to the quarterfinals. You nod. McKenna does the same. Now,
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  Speaker 1: today's random selection is determined that McKenna will reveal her
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  Speaker 1: first creature first. All right, McKenna says. Then says. You
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  Speaker 1: both make your way to your own protected competitor's circles.
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  Speaker 1: Force fields light up around you, and McKenna's card core
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  Speaker 1: begins to glow. Blue energy spirals around in the air
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  Speaker 1: and begins forming something on the ground. At first, you
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  Speaker 1: think it's a bear. Then it gets bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 1: and bigger, until standing in front of McKenna is an
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  Speaker 1: enormous stuffed bear, probably thirty feet tall. It has soft-looking
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  Speaker 1: brown fur, huge padded feet, a stitched mouth, and two
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  Speaker 1: big button-like eyes. Magnus looks at you. A stuffy? Don't,
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  Speaker 1: you say. but it's literally a stuffy. The referee turns
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  Speaker 1: toward you. Please select your first creature. You look down
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  Speaker 1: at Max Jr. Well, buddy, I guess this is exactly
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  Speaker 1: why I brought you. You place the little stuffed dragon
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and activate your card core. Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: begins to glow. For a second, there's a giant stuffed
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  Speaker 1: bear on one side of the arena and a tiny
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  Speaker 1: stuffed dragon on the other. The crowd actually starts laughing. Then,
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. transforms. His little stuffed body explodes outward into
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  Speaker 1: blue energy. The energy expands and expands again. until a
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  Speaker 1: gigantic dragon forms in its place. Max Jr. 's wings
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  Speaker 1: stretch across the arena, his armored body shines under the
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  Speaker 1: stadium lights, energy builds inside the weapons built into his body,
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  Speaker 1: and a glowing shield appears around him. The crowd immediately
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  Speaker 1: stops laughing. Okay, Magnus says. That was actually kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: Across the arena, McKenna smiles. Oh, I like that one.
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  Speaker 1: The referee floats upward inside the protective shield. Competitors ready?
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  Speaker 1: You nod. McKenna nods. Three, two, one, begin.
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  Speaker 2: Begin.
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. doesn't waste any time. Energy builds inside his
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  Speaker 1: mouth until he unleashes a gigantic laser across the arena.
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  Speaker 1: The beam strikes the stuffed bear directly in the chest.
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  Speaker 1: For a second, you think the battle might already be over.
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  Speaker 1: When the bear's body squishes inward, its arms stretch, its
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  Speaker 1: legs shrink, and suddenly the giant bear transforms into an
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  Speaker 1: enormous stuffed eagle. The eagle spreads its wings and shoots
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  Speaker 1: into the air. Okay, you say, so that's the transformation part.
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. blasts after it. The two creatures fly around
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  Speaker 1: the arena. The stuffy eagle, surprisingly fast, is Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: fires laser after laser. One hits the eagle's wings. Stuffing
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  Speaker 1: explodes out of it. Got you, you yell. Except the
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  Speaker 1: creature doesn't fall. Instead, its body transforms again. Its wings disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Its body stretches longer and longer until it becomes a gigantic, stuffed, Snake.
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  Speaker 1: The snake drops out of the sky directly on top
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  Speaker 1: of Max Jr. It wraps around his wings, then around
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  Speaker 1: his body. Max Jr. 's energy shield flashes. Shield strength, 87%.
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  Speaker 1: A robotic voice announces from somewhere inside him. That's not good,
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  Speaker 1: you say? Max Jr. spins through the air, trying to
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  Speaker 1: throw the stuffed snake off. He flies straight toward the
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  Speaker 1: ground and pulls up at the last possible second. The
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  Speaker 1: snake smashes into the floor and its grip loosens. Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: twists free and unleashes another laser directly into it. The
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  Speaker 1: laser burns a huge hole through the stuffed creature. And
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, stuffing floats everywhere. Yes, you yell. But
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  Speaker 1: then all of that loose stuffing suddenly begins moving. Little
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  Speaker 1: arms appear. Little legs. Little button eyes. What the... Dozens
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  Speaker 1: of tiny stuffed animals form out of the loose stuffing.
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  Speaker 1: Tiny bears... Tiny dinosaurs, tiny dogs, tiny sharks with little
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  Speaker 1: stuffed fins that look super cute but also kind of dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: And every single one of them turns toward Max Jr. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Magnus says, that's probably not good. The tiny stuffed ants.
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  Speaker 1: animals launch themselves into the air. Max Jr. fires another laser,
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  Speaker 1: vaporizing a whole line of them, but there are way
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  Speaker 1: too many. They begin landing all over his body. Little
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  Speaker 1: stuffed bears grab onto his wings. Tiny stuffed dinosaurs bite
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  Speaker 1: at his legs. A stuffed octopus wraps itself around his head.
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  Speaker 1: Shield strength, 62%. Max Jr. shakes himself violently, throwing a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of creatures away and firing lasers at others.
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  Speaker 1: But the giant stuffy isn't done. Its damaged snake body
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  Speaker 1: suddenly starts to reform. It grows larger and wider, sprouting
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  Speaker 1: eight enormous arms until it becomes a gigantic stuffed octopus.
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  Speaker 1: A cute one, but gigantic and scary at the same
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  Speaker 1: time somehow. The octopus launches itself upward and wraps around
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. from behind. Shield strength, 41%. Max Jr. lets
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  Speaker 1: out a roar and activates every laser he has. Energy
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  Speaker 1: fires in all directions. Several of the octopus's arms are
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  Speaker 1: blasted apart. Hundreds of the little stuffies are destroyed and
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  Speaker 1: dissolved into energy. He's actually doing pretty well, Magnus says. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's going to be enough.
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. breaks one arm free, then another. He opens
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  Speaker 1: his mouth and blasts the giant stuffy directly in the
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  Speaker 1: face with a powerful laser. The stuffy explodes backward and
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  Speaker 1: smashes into the ground. For just a second, you think
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. might have done it. But as Max Jr.
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  Speaker 1: turns toward you, You see almost 20 tiny stuffed animals
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  Speaker 1: clinging to his back. They all suddenly begin pulling. His
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  Speaker 1: wings get dragged backward. More miniature stuffies leap up from
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  Speaker 1: the ground and pile onto him. Shield strength, 18%. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: the giant stuffie gets back up. This time it transforms
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  Speaker 1: into an enormous stuffed gorilla. The gorilla charges forward, jumps
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  Speaker 1: into the air, and slams both fists down directly onto
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  Speaker 1: Max Jr. His shield flashes once. Shield strength 0%. The
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  Speaker 1: shield disappears. Max Jr. tries to fire another laser. but
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  Speaker 1: one of the little stuffies has wrapped itself around his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: The gorilla grabs him by the tail, swings him around
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  Speaker 1: in a gigantic circle, and slams him into the ground,
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  Speaker 1: then picks him up and slams him into the ground again,
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  Speaker 1: again and again and again. Eventually, Max Jr. transforms into
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  Speaker 1: blue energy. and shoots back towards you, reforming itself into
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  Speaker 1: a little stuffy that you're now holding in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: One point awarded to McKenna, the referee announces. You look
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  Speaker 1: down at the little stuffy. Good job, buddy, you say.
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  Speaker 1: You definitely didn't make that easy, and I think you've
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  Speaker 1: worn him out a lot. Across the arena, the giant
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  Speaker 1: stuffy doesn't look nearly as good as it did before.
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  Speaker 1: One of its arms is almost completely missing, and it
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  Speaker 1: looks kind of saggy, like it's, well, lost most of
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  Speaker 1: its stuffing. There's several holes in its body and burn
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  Speaker 1: marks all over it as well. Magnus floats forward.' My turn,'
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  Speaker 1: he says. Sure, I could always get Dominic. Kid, that
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  Speaker 1: thing barely survived Max Jr. I've got this. Magnus flies
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  Speaker 1: into the arena and begins to glow. He grows larger
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  Speaker 1: and larger, moving through each of his forms until he
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  Speaker 1: reaches his deity-level form. A powerful black dragon, with veins
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  Speaker 1: of pure sunlight energy flowing throughout his body. The referee
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  Speaker 1: raises a hand. Round two begins. Magnus immediately opens his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: A blast of pure white heat shoots across the arena.
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  Speaker 1: The stuffy transforms into some sort of gigantic stuffed salamander
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  Speaker 1: and rolls out of the way, but the side of
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  Speaker 1: its body still catches fire. It rolls across the ground
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  Speaker 1: and transforms again, this time into a stuffed whale. Magnus stops.
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  Speaker 1: A whale? Seriously? The stuffy opens its mouth and sprays
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  Speaker 1: a huge blast of water. It hits Magnus directly and
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  Speaker 1: sends him sliding backward. Oh, come on! Magnus shakes the
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  Speaker 1: water off, then he stops. You can almost see him thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of shooting fire again, he reaches out with his
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  Speaker 1: elemental powers and takes control of the water from the
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  Speaker 1: lake nearby. the little artificial one that's always in the arena.
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  Speaker 1: The water forms into little streams and rises into the air.
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  Speaker 1: It swirls around the giant stuffed whale and splashes into
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  Speaker 1: its fabric, soaking every part of the thing. The creature
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  Speaker 1: transforms back into a bear and tries to move, only...
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  Speaker 1: It seems much slower. Magnus continues to pump water into
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  Speaker 1: the stuffed creature. It becomes heavier and heavier until it
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  Speaker 1: can barely lift its arms. And then Magnus pulls every
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  Speaker 1: bit of heat out of the arena in an instant.
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  Speaker 1: The air goes cold. The remaining water in the lake freezes,
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  Speaker 1: and so does the big stuffy, along with all of
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  Speaker 1: the little stuffies spread throughout the arena. Try shapeshifting now,
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  Speaker 1: Magnus says. The creature starts to try to change shape,
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  Speaker 1: but the frozen lair just cracks. Magnus stomps one foot,
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  Speaker 1: and a huge stone pillar shoots out of the ground
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  Speaker 1: underneath the frozen stuffy, launching it into the air. Magnus
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  Speaker 1: flies after it, spins around, and slams his tail directly
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  Speaker 1: into the creature. The frozen stuffy explodes into ice, stuffing,
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  Speaker 1: and blue energy. The energy shoots across the arena, and
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  Speaker 1: returns to McKenna's card core. One point awarded. Score tied.
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  Speaker 1: One to one. Magnus lands and looks over at you. See? Strategy.
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  Speaker 1: You laugh. Yeah, I'm actually kind of impressed. McKenna smiles
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  Speaker 1: from across the arena. That was pretty good. But the
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  Speaker 1: next one is my favorite. Her card core glows. A
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  Speaker 1: tiny blue card appears. It transforms into energy, spins across
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  Speaker 1: the arena, and takes shape. At first, you can barely
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  Speaker 1: see what it is. A butterfly. A small, beautiful blue butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus stares at it. No, seriously? The butterfly begins to grow. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: of course. It grows larger and larger until its wings
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  Speaker 1: stretch almost across the entire arena. The wings look like
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  Speaker 1: they're made of translucent blue ice with glowing snowflake patterns
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  Speaker 1: moving in them every time the butterfly flaps its wings
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  Speaker 1: snow begins to fall the temperature drops almost instantly deity
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  Speaker 1: ice butterfly mckenna says magnus looks back at you Why
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  Speaker 1: are all the cute things so dangerous around here? The
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  Speaker 1: referee raises a hand. Final round, begin! Magnus fires first.
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  Speaker 1: A beam of solar fire blasts toward the butterfly. The
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  Speaker 1: butterfly spreads its wings. The fire hits Icey's surface and
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  Speaker 1: explodes into steam. Then, the butterfly flaps. The steam freezes
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  Speaker 1: and thousands of tiny ice pieces shoot back toward Magnus.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus covers his face with his wing as the ice
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  Speaker 1: slams into him. He fires another blast and the same
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  Speaker 1: thing happens. Stop doing that, you yell. Yeah, I figured
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  Speaker 1: that out. The butterfly circles around him. releasing sparkling blue
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  Speaker 1: powder from its wings. Wherever the powder touches Magnus, ice
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  Speaker 1: begins to form, first on his tail, then his legs,
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  Speaker 1: then the tips of his wings. Magnus heats his body
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  Speaker 1: and melts it off, but every time he does, the
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  Speaker 1: butterfly just creates more. Soon, the entire arena is covered
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  Speaker 1: in a swirling blizzard. You can barely see anything. Magnus
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  Speaker 1: reaches out with his wind powers and blasts the snow away.
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  Speaker 1: For a second, the butterfly is exposed. Magnus uses the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to send a huge bolt of lightning straight towards it.
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  Speaker 1: The lightning hits one wing. Cracks appear. Yes, Magnus says,
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  Speaker 1: but the butterfly spins through the air and suddenly creates
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  Speaker 1: a gigantic wall of ice around Magnus. More and more
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  Speaker 1: layers form. Within seconds, Magnus is trapped inside a huge
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  Speaker 1: crystal cocoon made of ice. He tries to heat up.
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  Speaker 1: The ice melts slightly, but instantly refreezes. The crowd gets louder.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus' glowing veins begin to dim. Something strange is happening
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  Speaker 1: to him. He continues to try to heat up, but
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  Speaker 1: somehow the ice seems to be absorbing the heat. You
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  Speaker 1: see little Toad, of light moving from the ice cocoon
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  Speaker 1: over to the butterfly. Is he absorbing the power somehow,
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  Speaker 1: you wonder? Magnus' veins grow dimmer and dimmer and dimmer. Then,
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  Speaker 1: just when you think all is lost inside the ice,
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  Speaker 1: His eyes open, glowing brighter than the sun itself. The
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  Speaker 1: glow in his veins becomes brighter. Instead of creating a
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  Speaker 1: huge blast of heat, Magnus focuses everything he has into
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  Speaker 1: one tiny beam of energy that shoots directly from his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: A thin line of concentrated sunlight shoots out of the
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  Speaker 1: ice cocoon and hits the butterfly's wing. Magnus moves the
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  Speaker 1: beam across the ice, breaking little chunks of it apart.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the cocoon's broken, he breaks free. An
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  Speaker 1: explosion of light shoots out in all directions, creating what
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  Speaker 1: looks like a miniature sun. The sun rises up higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher, glows brighter and brighter, and once again, Magnus
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  Speaker 1: focuses all of the energy into a tiny little pinprick
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  Speaker 1: of light and shoots it at the butterfly, slicing from
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  Speaker 1: the bottom all the way up to the top. The
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  Speaker 1: concentrated blast slices right through the creature, and immediately it
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  Speaker 1: transforms into blue energy and shoots back into McKenna's card core.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd cheers. The referee announces you as the winner.
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  Speaker 1: and the force fields disappear. McKenna, with her head down,
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  Speaker 1: walks across the arena and meets you at the center.
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  Speaker 1: She reaches out her hand. That was pretty amazing, she says.
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  Speaker 1: You shake her hand. Your creatures are awesome. That butterfly
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  Speaker 1: almost took out Magnus. And that stuffed animal thing was
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  Speaker 1: crazy powerful. Thanks, McKenna says. But obviously they weren't as
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  Speaker 1: powerful as your dragon. Not many people are, you respond.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd continues to cheer as you walk back out
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  Speaker 1: of the arena and into the little change room. Magnus
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  Speaker 1: shrinks back down to his dragonling form and follows behind you.
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  Speaker 1: The two of you immediately head out down the hall,
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  Speaker 1: out the competitor's entrance, and take to the air using
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  Speaker 1: your magic wing card. As you often do, you fly
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  Speaker 1: directly to the hotel balcony and land. You open the
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  Speaker 1: outer door using your key card and the two of
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  Speaker 1: you immediately crash onto the bed. You turn off the lights,
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  Speaker 1: close your eyes, and slowly you allow yourself to fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: With each breath, you release a little bit of tension
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  Speaker 1: from your muscles, from your arms, your legs, your shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: your neck, And with each breath, you sink down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit deeper into the mattress. And your mind begins
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  Speaker 1: to wander off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
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  Speaker 1: and new matches to come. Good night, everyone. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You you you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. you Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. you