In this episode at the Studio Slooh Battlements, I put two teams of returning artists through what I’m calling the Exodia challenge—because yes, I’m stealing the concept from my favorite trading card game, Yu-Gi-Oh. The idea is simple and evil: draw a live model piece by piece, and if your team “collects” all the parts into one coherent figure, you basically win by survival. It’s like assembling Exodia… except we made it six parts, not five, because we added the torso. We do six rounds, 15 minutes each. Every round is a head-to-head where one artist from team blue and one from team orange draws a specific body section: head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg. Each artist has to contribute twice, but nobody can go back-to-back. To make it spicier, everyone is locked to one material for the entire competition—black colored pencil, ballpoint pen, or a classic Ticonderoga—and the teams have to choose who gets what. The real suffering comes from the rule that makes this whole thing work: you cannot watch your teammates draw. You walk up completely blind, no planning, no measuring, no “fixing” what the last person did. Ten minutes of strategy is all you get before the madness starts, and after that it’s pure fresh eyes and chaos.