Music to Read Duels By · 11:59pm Jan 17th, 2017
Submitted for your consideration, a passage from "Duelists of the Autumn Crown" with Arc-V music. Because for those of you who don't watch it, my fic takes some inspiration from Arc-V. 
“My name is Twilight Sparkle. And I’m here to win the Autumn Crown Tournament and defeat Sunset Shimmer!” She looked back at Rarity and put her hand on her deck. Rarity gasped as a pulse of purple light flashed from Twilight’s eyes. “And I’ll show you how I’ll do it now!” She drew, sparks of light trailing in the air after her card. Without looking at it, Twilight held it in the air. “I send Ancient City Rainbow Ruins to the graveyard!”
Rarity looked around her as the stone ruins began to crumble and sink away. “You can’t! I have a Crystal Beast in play as a Spell card, so Rainbow Ruins can’t be destroyed!”
“I’m not destroying it. I’m getting rid of it. Because the rules say only one Field Spell can be in play at once.” The side slot of Twilight’s duel disk popped open. “I activate my own Field Spell, ‘Harmony Castle’!” She slipped the card into the slot and trails of light coursed over her duel disk. The ground behind Twilight split apart and a large fortress rose from the fissure. Spires and turrets of violet, blue, and pink crystal stabbed into the sky, banners hanging from window ledges displaying an eight-pointed pink star. The central doors of the castle bore the same symbol as it finished its ascent.
Rarity stared, her mouth open. “Harmony Castle…”
Across the field, Spike put a paw on Twilight’s ankle. “Twilight?” She ignored him.
“I activate Harmony Castle’s effect. I return Harmony Spirits Risus and Magnanimity in the graveyard to my deck and then I can summon any Harmony Spirit monster from the deck as long as its name is different from the two of them.” Twilight set her cards on top of her deck and pressed her finger to her disk’s display. Her deck shuffled and then ejected the chosen card. “I summon ‘Harmony Spirit Pietas’.” The rainbow-haired winged fairy descended from above Twilight, its arms crossed. (1600/800)
Twilight held out a card. “Next I activate the Equip Spell ‘Harmony Crown’. This card gives Pietas an additional 800 attack points.” Pietas roared and pumped a fist into the air as a golden spiral crown appeared on its head, a violet aura of power around it. Twilight pointed across the field. “I switch Harmony Spirit Gracia to attack mode, and then enter my battle phase. Pietas, attack Amethyst Cat!” Pietas (1600 → 2400) flapped its wings to fly into the air, and dove down, its fist held out as it came towards Amethyst Cat.
“The effect of Amber Mammoth activates! When a Crystal Beast is attacked, Amber Mammoth intercepts the blow.” The mammoth stepped in front of the cat and Pietas’ attack connected. The mammoth was punched back, trumpeting loudly.
-Rarity Life Points: 3050-
“The effect of Harmony Crown now activates. When the equipped monster destroys a monster in battle, a Harmony Spirit is added from the deck to my hand.” Twilight held out her card. “I choose this, Harmony Spirit Magia. But she won’t be here long.” Twilight tapped a button on her duel disk. “I reveal my face-down card, the Quickplay Spell ‘Harmony Textbook’. This lets me discard a Harmony Spirit from my hand to revive another one from the graveyard. By discarding Magia I revive my Harmony Spirit Honestas.” A glowing purple book appeared in front of Twilight and cracked open its pages, revealing a swirling vortexz. Honestas leapt out of it and stood next to Pietas.
“Now I activate the second effect of Harmony Castle. Once per turn when I discard a Harmony Spirit, I can summon it back from the graveyard. Magia takes the field too!” The fourth spirit, lavender-skinned with a spiral horn and long purple hair, rose up on the other side of Pietas. (1500/1300) “Finally, since I discarded a Harmony Spirit, the effect of Pietas triggers, letting it attack twice this turn!”
Applejack’s jaw dropped. “Ah don’t believe it…” The crowd’s stunned silence at Twilight’s moves began to give way to more cheers.
“Pietas, attack Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus!” Pietas once again flew up and descended into a dive bomb. Its fist slammed into Sapphire Pegasus and knocked it back. “Honestas, attack Topaz Tiger, Magia, attack Amethyst Cat, and Gracia, attack Ruby Carbuncle!” Honestas and Gracia charged the field while Magia held up its hands and fired a beam of violet magic. The magic blast struck Amethyst cat before Honestas delivered a two-handed clobber to Topaz Tiger and Gracia slammed a kick into Ruby Carbuncle’s side. Rarity turned away and raised an arm to shield herself as the three monsters took the brunt of Twilight’s assault.
-Rarity Life Points: 1350-
I think Qrow vs Winter from RWBY would've suited better but that's just me.
I like this kind of thing, so I turned on the video and started reading... and then I actually finished reading at the same time the music stoped... wow.
Writing for a duel is hard. Trust me, I have tried, and it is too long for me, but I have thought of two awesome archtypes to use though XD
And then, along came a Rainbow Dragon....