Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 018

"Chaos Xyz Change! The Light of Hope: Hope Ray" is the eighteenth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. It first aired in Japan on August 8, 2011.

Featured Duel: Yuma Tsukumo vs. Jin
Duel continues from the previous episode.

Yuma's turn

Yuma Normal Summons "Kuribolt" (300/200) and activates its effect, detaching the two Overlay Units ("Green Shaman" and "Orange Shaman") from "Number 16: Ruler of Color - Shock Ruler" and Special Summoning two "Kuribolt Tokens" (300/200) in Attack Position. Yuma activates "Bolt Edge", removing both "Kuribolt Tokens" to Special Summon two Level 4 monsters from his Deck - "Ganbara Knight (0/1800) and "Shadow Lizard" (1100/1500) in Attack Position, with their ATKs reduced to 0. Yuma overlays his two Level 4 monsters to Xyz Summon "Number 39: Utopia" (2500/2000) in Attack Position. "Utopia" attacks and destroys "Shock Ruler" (Jin 4000 → 3800) and "Kuribolt" attacks directly (Jin 3800 → 3500). Yuma Sets two cards.

Jin's turn

Jin Special Summons "Rainbow Shaman" from his hand via its own effect as Yuma controls an Xyz Monster. He activates "Xyz Plant", which moved to his Monster Card Zone (0/0) as a monster with the same Level as Rainbow Shaman. He overlays his two Level 7 monsters to Xyz Summon "Number 11: Big Eye". Jin activates the effect, of "Big Eye", detaching an Overlay Unit to take control of "Utopia", though "Big Eye" may not attack this turn in exchange. "Utopia" attacks and destroys "Kuribolt" (Yuma 3500 → 1300) and Jin Sets a card.

Yuma's turn

Yuma draws "Dododo Warrior", but Jin activates "Dance of Forbidden Summon", stopping Yuma from Summoning monsters from his hand for two turns.

Jin's turn

"Big Eye" attacks directly, but Yuma activates his face-down "Hope Block", discarding "Dododo Warrior", reducing the Battle Damage by its ATK (Yuma 1300 → 1000). "Utopia" attacks directly, but Yuma activates his face-down "Xyz Wait", reducing the ATK of "Utopia", by 800 for each Xyz Material attached to it, to 900 until the End Phase (Yuma 1000 → 100). Jin activates the Continuous Spell Card, "Dance of Prevent Reborn", prevent Yuma from Special Summoning monsters from his Graveyard.

Yuma's turn

Yuma activates "Come Back," giving control of "Utopia" back to Yuma. He overlays "Utopia" with its Overlay Units to Xyz Summon "Chaos Number 39: Utopia Ray". He activates its effect, detaching all of its Xyz Materials to increase Utopia Ray's ATK by 500 for each one (Utopia Ray's ATK:2500 → 4000), and decrease the ATK of "Big Eye" by 1000 for each one (Big Eye's ATK:2600 → 0). "Utopia Ray" attacks and destroys "Big Eye" (Jin: 3500 → 0).

Featured cards
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.