Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 167

'''Gratitude Duel! Cronos vs. Original Dropout Boy''' is the one hundred and sixty-seventh episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime. With graduation approaching, Dr. Crowler begins to revert to his old ways, and Jaden Yuki duels him to find out why.

Summary
Jaden and the others have finished their graduation album. When Crowler previews it, it causes him to act strange and force the students to do weird things. When he wouldn't show up to his lessons, the students chased him around to school to know why he acted so odd. He revealed to them that he didn't want any of them to leave, and thus wanted them to not take enough classes to graduate. Jaden challenges him to a duel. Crowler loses in a fashion directly recalling his first duel with Jaden, and returns to his normal self and everyone is happy, or at least Jaden will be as soon as he's finished all the work he didn't do over the last three years he skipped in favour of dueling.

Crowler's turn

 * Summons "Ancient Gear Soldier" (1300/1300) in defense position
 * Sets a card.

Jaden's turn

 * Activates "Polymerization" fusing Elemental Heroes "Avian" and "Burstinatrix" to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Flame Wingman" (2100/1200), in attack position.
 * Attacks and destroys "Ancient Gear Soldier", activating "Flame Wingman's" effect, inflicting effect damage to Crowler equal to his destroyed monster's attack points (Crowler 2700).
 * Crowler activates his face-down "Time Box", which removes "Flame Wingman" from play, since it destroyed one of Crowler's monsters this turn and also lets Crowler draw a card.
 * Summons "Elemental Hero Clayman" (800/200) in defense position.

Crowler's turn

 * Activates "Crazy Summon Gear", selecting "Clayman"; this forces Jaden to Summon "Elemental Hero Sparkman" (1600/1400) in attack position and "Elemental Hero Wildheart" in defense position from his Deck. This lets Crowler Summon the "Ancient Gear Soldier" (1300/1300) in his Graveyard and Summon two more copies from his hand and Deck.
 * Activates "Spell Gear", sending his three "Ancient Gear Soldiers" to the Graveyard and Special Summoning three "Ancient Gear Golems" (3000/3000) in their place, ignoring the summoning conditions.
 * Attacks Jaden's monsters with his three "Ancient Gear Golems", which inflict piercing damage on his defense position monsters (Jaden 200).
 * Sets a card.

Jaden's turn

 * Sends "Elemental Hero Necroshade", "Elemental Hero Neos", "Neo-Spacian Flare Scarab", "Necro Gardna" and "Hero Signal" from the top of his Deck to the Graveyard to activate "Take Over 5". During his Standby Phase, he may remove this card in the Graveyard from play to draw a card. In addition, he is immune to effects that send cards from his Deck to the Graveyard as long "Take Over 5" is the Graveyard.
 * Activates "Miracle Contact", allowing him Contact Fuse the "Neos" and "Flare Scarab" in his Graveyard to Summon "Elemental Hero Flare Neos" (2500/2000) in attack position.
 * Equips "Flare Neos" with "Instant Neo Space", allowing it to remain on the field instead of returning to his Deck at the End Phase. "Flare Neos" also gains 400 attack for ever Spell and Trap Card on the field, increasing it's attack to 3700.
 * Attacks and destroys "Ancient Gear Golem" (Crowler 2000).

Crowler's turn

 * Activates "Ancient Gear Workshop", returning the "Ancient Gear Golem" in his Graveyard to his hand.
 * Activates "Polymerization", fusing the "Ancient Gear Golem" in this hand with the two on the field to Fusion Summon "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem" (4400/3400) in attack position.
 * Attacks and destroys "Flare Neos", with Jaden removing "Necro Gardna" in his Graveyard from play to negate the attack.
 * Activates his face-down "Desperado Battle", reducing "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem's" attack by 1000 for the duration of the turn and allowing it to attack again. This also decreases "Flare Neos'" attack by 400, since "Desperado Battle" is no longer on the field (Jaden 100).
 * The effect of "Instant Neo Space" activates, Special Summoning "Elemental Hero Neos" (2500/2000).

Jaden's turn

 * Removes the "Take Over 5" in his Graveyard from play to draw a card.
 * Activates "Fifth Hope", shuffling "Avian", "Burstinatrix", "Sparkman", "Clayman" and "Wildheart" back into his Deck to draw two cards.
 * Summons "Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird" (800/600).
 * Contact Fuses "Neos" with "Air Hummingbird" to Summon "Elemental Hero Air Neos" (2500/2000) in attack position. It's attack increasing by the difference between Jaden's Life Points and Crowler's, to 4400.
 * Equips "Air Neos" with "Cyclone Wing".
 * Attacks "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem", destroying both monsters. "Cyclone Wing" lets him destroy one Spell or Trap Card on the field, he chooses "Time Box", which Summons "Flame Wingman" (2100/1200) back to the field. The effect of "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem" activates, Special Summoning "Ancient Gear Golem" (3000/3000) from the Graveyard, ignoring the Summoning conditions.
 * Activates Quick Play Spell Card "Demise of the Land", activating "Skyscraper" from his Deck.
 * Attacks "Ancient Gear Golem" with "Flame Wingman", with "Skyscraper" increasing the latter's attack by 1000 (Crowler 2000).
 * "Flame Wingman's" effect activates, inflicting damage to Crowler's Life Points equal to his destroyed monster's attack points (Crowler 0).
 * Jaden wins.