I'm Going To Play Dark Magician At YCS | Deck Profile

[@MatchieYGO]

I’m well aware YCS Niagara is October 12-13th, I just set myself a deadline for my last video Before the YCS. During my last stream we built the foundation for the Dark Magician deck I'm going to be playing at YCS Niagara Falls.

[@Manuelbacon40]

Insane considering the format we are heading into

[@ElementalHEROTyler]

Yoooo I'm going to that one too, it'll be my first tournament

[@EverythingWithEyesOfBlue]

Yo! I'm a yugituber in the making, you can check out my build with Dark Magician and if you like it, you can make a video about it and help each other! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqmbiJ6ZrsmfqtE

[@godsmithofchaos]

Wanna go together possibly that day? Or meet up at the YCS?

[@MatchieYGO]

@@godsmithofchaosI’ll be going with a group from my locals. But I’m down to meet up there! Sounds exciting :)

[@aspiringgirl4422]

Dont underestimate the idea of playing one copy of Instant Fusion. Summon Winda for free body to immediately Link off or something. Then end on Selene and use her quick effect to summon back Winda on the opponent's turn. Something to think about as an extra line of play. Also instant fusion for Millenium Eyes is always great.

[@MatchieYGO]

This is SUACE!!! Im going to look into it! Thank you

[@aspiringgirl4422]

@@MatchieYGO I'm also an Endymion fan, and that's a line of play for the deck. A lot of people forget Selene is very versatile, especially with her being a quick effect. She doesn't exist just to make Accesscode. So yeah, just another line of play you can work with.

[@Alche__]

the toy box engine synergy with souls is awesome! Great deck profile.

[@aspiringgirl4422]

@@Alche__ I'm playing the Souls/Illusion engine in Endymion and play Toy Box because of how good it is

[@GrizlyWizard]

Of all the DM decks you've built, this is by far the most interesting. I'll always love Branded/DM, but this new deck might be the most versatile DM variant so far. Can't wait to see it in action.

[@NorthSouthNZ]

Hey, Matchie. This deck cooks! I have been playing around with your decklist for the past 2 weeks. I've made the following changes. (Sorry for the novel lol) X3 Preparation of Rights and X2 Illusion of Chaos. Getting 3 Spells into the grave is key for Selene to link climb early, so Prep helps. This ratio gives you 2 extra copies of Illusion too. Prep also helps bait Ash. We NEED Souls to resolve. 1 less Diabellstar. Spoils makes the one copy recur from Grave - Diabellstar is not critical enough to the overall Deck plan. x1 Secret Village - this card straight up wins certain duels. x1 Chicken Game, draw 1 and then draw another by sending it on Souls if needed. Can be turned off with Secret, or even Toy Box. x1 Terraforming. Search Secret mostly, occassionally Chicken Game - also helps count towards x3 Spells in grave for Selene. No secrets of dark magic. The deck wants to set up Chaos Angel, Winda, Luluwalilith & Apallousa. NOT Master of Chaos, Secrets is bricky. Plus Timaeus already makes Dragoon Because of extra cards I have chosen, no Ash. Can be risky not having it, but Ash also enables opponent's Talents. Extra Deck x1 Ravenous Crocodragon Arcethys. Lvl 9 Synchro to make off Shaddoll Winda and Cartesia. Cartesia is always in the hand after sending Apkallone so a Lvl 9 Synchro should be non-negotiable as a follow up play. Having Winda on your field turn 2 can shut down your plays. Remember that you can summon Winda again from Toy Tank 2nd turn. x1 Psychic End Punisher - Lvl 11 Synchro to make from one of the lvl 4 Tuners and Diabellstar. It's a rare need, but a hard to kill body for when your opening hand is janky. Or an easy to make body on level 2 - Especially with Cartesia reccursion. x1 Bagooska. Easy Rank 4 to stall with if you don't have all combo pieces opening hand. No Daigusto Emeral. If I have Timaeus is hand, I just summon Dark Magician from the grave using Selene to make Dragoon. No Artemis. Selene counts as the Light link for Accesscode. If rod into Artemis is your best turn 1 play, you've already lost.

[@MatchieYGO]

I love hearing that! Thanks for the support! Means the world to me :) And I love the suggestions! I’ll look into them! Thank you :)

[@aspiringgirl4422]

"I'm taking Dark Magician to YCS Niagara" What a fucking legend. Subbed.

[@galarianslowpoke]

Hype!! After the livestream I tried building a Toy Box variant on my own, and think using Wyvernberster / Black Dragon / Chaos Valkyria is also worth considering. Definitely doesn’t seem as gas as playing Cartesia / Quem, but Spheres remains a busted card and in exchange they open up a looot of ED space for more versatile techs in the event you don’t get to the full Toy Box combo (I believe they’re also better to draw if you get handtrapped early, and cut a ‘brick’ in Schism). Valkyria is your second search target you can get to by reviving Soldier with Tank, and can dump your DM card of choice (DMG/Mahad/Mana) for an extra draw off of Soul Servant. These also justify adding Chaos Space, which can also search IOC. TLDR my thought is if you exchange Cartesia lines for infinite link fodder, should you be able to win anyways without committing as much cards to a line of play that only resolves if you’re already in a strong position? Also, I think Chicken Game is too free to not include, even if you go above 40-card’s a free draw that’s also a free send for Souls/Diabel/Droplet send and a free Spell for Selene. BUT these are all just thoughts and def wanna thank you for always bringing new ideas to this deck-looking forward to future developments!

[@MatchieYGO]

So many interesting ideas in this comment! Thank you so much! Ima really put this to the teat! I’ll let you know what I think of ! Thank you

[@galarianslowpoke]

@@MatchieYGO ayy glad you felt there was stuff worth considering!! eager to hear your thoughts and looking forward to more updates in the coming weeks. 🫡

[@elizraaoi962]

Always lovely to see your new ideas for DM.

[@rez-1270]

Livestream was fun building this deck along with you great ideas i think there is more sause to add but 90% of list seems solid to stay.

[@MatchieYGO]

Thanks for the endless support! You’re an absolute legend

[@CartoonistP]

ive been on a quest to craft the perfect stun deck this video really resonated with me. good luck on your deck quest friend :)

[@nehsgnoy5304]

Nice and pretty card sharing! Thanks!

[@nickching3128]

Awesome! Cant wait to see some game play with this list :)

[@nehsgnoy5304]

Hope DM get good new cards soon, so we won’t need to always depend other engine.

[@LeosAlloy94]

Please make some replays and combo videos. I NEED to see this deck in action.

[@MatchieYGO]

Soon!

[@jaystapes3086]

I've been running a DM deck with the toy engine but my light monster is mirrorsword knight and I have a small branded chimera package in the deck. It feels like such a yugi deck when you have Chimera and DM on field.

[@MatchieYGO]

That’s really interesting! Let me know how it does :)

[@clumpomeat]

Really excited for this series! Gonna be going to YCS niagara falls as well hopefully. Im trying to fuse Tenpai into other decks (Blue-Eyes, Resonater/RDA, Fire King) but havent been having much luck 😅 I know I should just play pure but its kinda boring and just awful going first. I dunno. Maybe its cope.

[@MatchieYGO]

That’s awesome! Hopefully I’ll see you there :)

[@wiewio8035]

Bro if i will ever see a DM deck top a big event, im gonna lose my mind and shet myself in that order exacly. You got my subscription

[@MatchieYGO]

Legend!

[@dodoandfriendsofficial]

Hell yeah, i was wondering how mahad was gonna work from that teaser image earlier.

[@MatchieYGO]

You legend! Mahad is really nice in this list

[@FingersCrossed]

love the way you presented this brother!

[@MatchieYGO]

You legend! Thank you man :) means a lot

[@FingersCrossed]

@@MatchieYGO if you ever fancy a little collab 🤷‍♂️ a bit or red eyes vs DM you know where I am 😉 P.s I think we both know who would win 🙄

[@MatchieYGO]

@@FingersCrossed I’m so down to get slapped by red-eyes! Let’s do it!

[@Meme-pg5tw]

i will watch your career with great interest

[@thecaptainatlas]

You're inspiring me to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh. Stop that. 😂 Jk, great stuff man! Likely going to pick these cards up because its so interesting!

[@MatchieYGO]

Hahhaha the current format is a rough one to jump into, but I love the game. And I’ll to encourage anyone to jump back in! I am happy to hear that though, makes me day reading comments like this lol!

[@aspiringgirl4422]

Toy box can enable a rank 4 play, maybe Abyss Dweller to disrupt Snake Eyes

[@MatchieYGO]

I’ve considered it, the extra deck is just too tight

[@Ninomann12]

U gotta make space man abyss dweller will outperform for ycs nothing but grave decks coming up

[@connormacleod1490]

Go get them Atem!

[@Kageyami1994]

Thanks for the shoutout Matchie! Keep up the great work and let's keep cooking 🔥(Kageyami)

[@Jerome4tification]

Can you do a test hand hand video? Im curious as to what the end board looks like.

[@MatchieYGO]

Expect one early next week! :)

[@francoisnofl5940]

I'm absolutely not a DM player. Like, I don't know why there's no Circles in the list x) But I watched the entire video. That's true Deck profile. There's thoughts behind them, and full ( almost ) explanations. Very well presented. Maybe though filming and talking should not be done separately, because it creates weird times when you either accelerate or slow down the pace. From a competitive view, this list is quite good. But you already know that 10 staples is not enough. That's the difference between meta and the others.. With only 10 spots, maybe you should fully commit to board breakers. You don't want to cut Droplet because of synergy to play more HT's. TTT and Enemy controller are kinda good and versatile this format. It steals Apo's, It makes you dodge stuff and your normal summons .. And board breakers are way better to draw when you go 2nd. You don't want to see HT's. Yeah sure it's better to draw HT's when you go 1st, but do you want to facilitate going 1st or going 2nd ? Maybe you don't 3 Droplets, 3 TTT, 3 E-con, 1 Called by. 3 Imperm, 2 TTT, 2 E-con, 3 Droplet ? Multiple TTT is horrible. Those are my ideas. Good luck !

[@MatchieYGO]

Thank you so much for the comment! I have so many videos we’re I discuss why I’ve moved away from Circle and ES, so I won’t get into that. But I do love the suggestion on TTT, On my live stream I went into some of those options, still trying to find the best way to optimize the non-engine :)

[@thefonzpart]

Incredible list! I’ll have to try it out One critique I would say is to include Bagooska instead of Daigusto Emeral Emeral is classic, but Bagooska might be able to win games alone if you get hand trapped

[@MatchieYGO]

Thank you so much! A week ago I would’ve 100% agreed with you, but after a lot of testing having Daigusto Em to bring DM back feels pretty decent in the grind game or if you open Timaeus you just make a dragoon. I think we need a way to bring DM back that’s not Selene But I love the way you think.

[@thefonzpart]

@@MatchieYGO that’s so interesting! I’ll have to try it out

[@faresgdc]

Hi Matchie, great video, wish you luck at YCS!!!, I'm building a DM deck either, and try to build this Magicians' souls and Magician's restage combo. I think could work because Restage can SS Magicians' Souls from GY and then let you send restage to GY to draw a card and trigger's restage effect to add a continuous spell to your hand like Magician's right hand, that gives you the ability to negate superpoly as example, i'm trying to build around it, because i think have synergy with the toy box engine too, I wouldn't mind if you help me to develop this idea!!!

[@MatchieYGO]

Thank you so much for the kind words! Means a lot! Yeah, restate is a cheeky tech option to maximize magician souls, but I do think there are a few decent applications with it, my only concern is when you open it without souls or a way to magician souls, then it gets really cloggy in the hand (from my experience). But I do like the theory

[@jams836]

Let's go Cross Sheep! We love the content

[@DiverseStyle]

Today at locals, I played against someone who took your build I'm certain was card-for-card, and I was just thinking to myself, "Ey yo, you ain't slick, I watch Matchie" lmao

[@MatchieYGO]

@@DiverseStyle LOOOOL I love to hear that! Thanks for the support! I hope you beat them! Much love :)

[@ZackShearman]

Awesome list the toy box engine is going to open DM up to a lot of new things!! Glad to see ya back after the break. Keep up the great work!!

[@MatchieYGO]

Thank you! Much love

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Personally im not so sure about this list, it looks decent on paper but only time will tell how far it will go. I dont want to be that guy who questions a deck when it hasn't had the chance to prove its worth yet. Let me knows how it works out for ya.

[@MatchieYGO]

Criticism makes for better deck building. I think the deck does need work, but it did have a very impressive showing at my first locals run with it

[@sasa_sasa4359]

Awesome list and ideas! Could we see some duels involving this deck?

[@MatchieYGO]

@@sasa_sasa4359 soon :)

[@thewrestler2412]

How can I replace the diabellstar engine since I don't have it and don't want to spend the money to have it ?

[@limfoongchien]

Dark magician girl + toy monster can make chaos angel easily. Sometimes i’ll consider adding more bricks like apprentice, where soul discard apprentice to special summon itself, toy soldier search cartesia/quem, tank release itself to special summon apprentice from GY, apprentice search for DM. Summon cartesia/quem so that cartesia can make a fusion summon

[@MatchieYGO]

There are other ways you can make chaos angle too, mahad, rod, DM rod… Apprentice is interesting, but I’d only consider apprentice if I’m playing DM at more than 1. It’s an interesting conversation though

[@Rose_Tinted1]

I feel the largest problem here, especially at a YCS level, is going to be playing around or through droll & lock. As a long time dark world player, they will have it, and you need to prepare for it in more ways than 'draw the called by. I honestly feel finding space for a crossout package is what the deck needs to go smoothly

[@fraternovaeres]

Droll will be a problem and Ghost Ogre will be a problem, since Toy Box's effect is an ignition effect, not an activation effect.

[@MatchieYGO]

That’s something that we’ll have to analyze in the coming months, I do agree with you though, every deck is good uninterrupted lol. We need to find the most optimal ways to play through multiple interruptions and cards like droll, ogre, ect.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Crossout designator x3 then add 1 copy of the most problematic cards you don't want to deal with.

[@eliasakkerman4597]

Upcoming format will probably have more boardbreakers then HT

[@fraternovaeres]

@@eliasakkerman4597 people have been saying that for months. I don't think it's realistic when the top decks have so many ways to float and build such layered defenses.

[@nopeno-s5r]

Finally, playable dark magician

[@MerryHaven]

just your average Matchie banger 🔥

[@Redfield1128]

Hope you can also make a DM deck for ocg players, we don’t have access to Dragoon sadly 😢

[@abdokhaled8114]

very decent profile as always

[@Xelxa93]

so here is my question but what if any part of the diabellstar engine specifically witch or wanted get hit on the next ban list to like 1 copy each or something like that would that specific engine for the deck still be playable at that point if that comes to fruition plus i would expect konami to hit that and the snake eyes especially after nats for said ban list as is in some way shape or form also if this does happen with said ban list what would you put as i guess the replacement cards in said deck if again they do decide to hit those cards in that way for whenever we do get the next ban list

[@MatchieYGO]

Honestly. We can only use and prep with what we know is legal now. When and If the engine does get hit, then we’ll need to revisit the list and adjust accordingly. I’m not a fan of prepping for hypothetical post banlist, (example, I’ve expected sanctifier dragon to be hit on the last 2 ban lists, but here we are lol)

[@Xelxa93]

@@MatchieYGO thats a fair statement but i could honestly see at the same time after nats some of these cards in question would get hit but i do understand where you coming from

[@ulugvarnal6061]

Which cards would you switch if you'd put Dogmatika package instead of Diabellstar package (including extra deck if necessary). Thanks 😁

[@MatchieYGO]

Play more hand traps, or try finding another engine to fit in there. Maybe up the number of cartiesa’s ? Or if there is another engine that pitches for cost

[@ulugvarnal6061]

@@MatchieYGO thanks :)

[@ASPYGO]

yhus bout to go crazy

[@GaryOaksEgo]

I’m convinced I played vs you on omega last night cause there’s no one anyone else plays this deck lol

[@MatchieYGO]

@@GaryOaksEgo I’m on vacation, so no way it was me! But I hope you won lol XD

[@bavarianhero]

The toy machine I didn’t expect but that’s the juice you get to use against the meta. Do you think there will ever be card of demise at 3? That card helped me for days when I build my DM deck back in the day.

[@MatchieYGO]

I think card of Demise is a bit too powerful to be at 3, but that would be crazy lol

[@RTU130]

Miss you lil bro

[@Knight_Shadow777]

Let's goooooooo get it bro

[@kevinxiong5385]

Bro, I am trying Toy Box, but the only issue is that you literally have 3 extra bricks (Toy Tank, Toy Soldier, and Barrier Statue of Light) with your 3 bricks already. I don't want to get rid of DMG... but I might just do that and go Mahad only. Also, I am surprised you just didn't go calamity lock with toy soldier. But I like your version of the deck much more. I was thinking of using white wood, but Diabellestar seems a lot better honestly.

[@MatchieYGO]

I think toy tank is the only brick, I don’t hate toy soldier as a normal summon. But I do love the advantage the deck generates, it’s solid

[@alexanderspassov4759]

Couple of things: Dont play handtraps in this. A single handtrap dosent stop any combo nowadays, you may as well be hand-ripping yourself. Handtraps should only ever be played in decks with 12/13+ slots for non engine. You NEED to open multiples to be effective with them. I would HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend just playing additional breakers/equalizers in DRNM and possibly Evenly Matched. 2ndly but Primoredials will be coming a day before that YCS event so they should be on your radar if you really are interested in testing as much as possible for DM before the YCS.

[@MatchieYGO]

I think this is a great conversation. I’m in total agreement with you on this topic 99% of the time. This is the odd time, where my theory goes against this idea, I’d like to explain: 1: I don’t think Board breakers are equalizers right now, taking a look at the best decks. With exception of Voiceless; Branded, Snake-eyes, Tempai, all don’t care about board breakers. Evenly and dark ruler, sure they can deal with the board in front of you, but a deck like snake eyes, most of their interactions don’t come form the field, both snake eyes and branded is going to kill you in the grind game anyways, and cards like Evenly, DRNM, ect, don’t give you the chance to game. Tempai is a going 2nd deck where they won’t let you even activate your board breakers. 2 sure cards like DRNM, Evenly, all those options slaughter other matchups, but those matchups are also weak to ash, Imperm, and we do have droplet for that aswell. In addition we have the engine to break through most boards IMO. 3 I don’t think trying to stop a combo compeltyl is ever plausible, the idea of ash, imp is to slow them down enough to a point where you stand a chance of dealing with them. 4 finally, going first and drawing so many cards, I’d rather draw into ash, Imperm rather than DRNM, evenly. That being said, to your point. I do 100% agree that adding more handtraps to the list is going to be beneficial and something I’m planning on exploring.

[@MatchieYGO]

Gona split up comments lol: The Primo- archetype, Ima def explore, I think it’s got huge potential and I’m very excited! Just wanted to begin the series, and begin discussions :) Thank you so much for the comment and all the work you’ve done for the community in the discord! Much love man!

[@alexanderspassov4759]

@@MatchieYGO Hmm Im gonna have to push back against that. I think all these strategies that you listed have a swimmingly good time playing through a single Ash or Imperm. I have not played much against Tenpai to know for certain if that is the case but I did used to play Voiceless quite a bit. DRNM and Evenly were merely just suggestions, perhaps there is something else that may fit better because I absolutely agree with you that boardbreakers dont single handedly deal with meta boards. But then again the same can be said in the case of a single Ash or Imperm. As a whole I forsee a DRNM or evenly doing more to cripple a board state against those deck then Ash/Imperm. As always testing and definte results are ideal but this is just theory atm. Perhaps its a case of both of us being right and there being no objectively right answer.

[@alexanderspassov4759]

@@MatchieYGO For sure! This may be the 1st Toy Box list Ive seen that looks good as I had mostly written it off. I quite like the Diabell engine in particular instead of tunnel visioning into Souls turbo. Ive been extensively testing the Primoredials this past week and still getting comfortable with them and testing different ideas. There is absolutely a lot to love about them and should be highly considered by Dark Magician enjoyers. In laymen terms, comapred to Toy Box I would say that Primoredials feel more consistent and cohesive as a strategy paired with DM whereas Toy Box has a much higher ceiling. For ex in my DM Primoredial lists I have room for 13 non engine. Its a good time finally to be a DM player!

[@MatchieYGO]

@@alexanderspassov4759 oh for sure, I love discussions like this. Criticism always pushes theory forward. Can’t thank you enough for the comment. Like I said, I think you’re idea is right almost 100% in most situations. It’s the idea that, these decks, letting them go uninterrupted and setting up a board, follow up, it doesn’t matter if you leave them with 0 cards on the field, they’ll just beat you on the follow up, I’m not more so concerned with using ash or Imperm to stop their combo, im more so thinking about letting them establish a board, with limited follow up, and then trying to let my engine take care of the rest. Is that ideal? most def not, but the other option of letting them do everything they want to uninterrupted, on turn 3 we are cooked mater what we clear and or set up. (This example is obviously for snake-eyes and branded specifically) I don’t think there is even an argument for other decks in the format, board breakers, are prob just as good if not a bit better than HT’s (if played in low numbers) but I think we can deal with other decks in the format a bit more comfortably

[@matmontani]

Great video Matchie! Starting a thread here, because I have been struggling to find a solution. Can anyone come up with a 2 card Souls + Toy Box combo that can put up a negate before 5 summons and then keep going? I've been trying with Apo but haven't been successful. Having a way to do that would be huge for this variant I feel because any combos that fully utilize the Toy Box cards play head long into hand traps, specifically Nibiru. Thanks DM community!

[@nopeno-s5r]

I don't think this is very possible. You're already at 3 summons after resolving souls and pitching the toys, so to make appo at 5 summons would require normalling quem then making 4 mat appo, which leaves you with 0 plays

[@MatchieYGO]

appo on summon 5 does work, but you need extenders in hand to play after… Another option is making SP, so that if your opponent does have nib, you can dodge nib with some of your board. Still need to work on a few lines, but I’m sure there are ways to do it

[@keewee_5]

i may be a bit new to tcg but i think ash and imperm are weak with droplet in main. i'd play evenly or tactics, helps going second, but also sets up droplet going first great decklist though. cant wait for the tins for diabellstar cuz im poor

[@MasterDecoy1W]

I got into Master Duel and am trying to learn by playing. From my cursory glance, Yugioh doesn't seem conducive to learning from the ground up. I'd like to take a top-down approach of: Pick a deck*, get authoritative instruction on how to play it, follow instructions. In this way I hope to learn by doing and I figure "the meta" won't matter until I rank up too much. Do you have any advice for how to adapt this to MD based on the missing cards and altered banned/restricted list? I had originally ignored this video when I realized MD didn't have Toy Box, but we just got it and I was excited to assist in your work to put Dark Magician over, only to find we also don't have RED Dragoon. Also WANTED is limited to 1. Are these back-breaking changes or can I compensate in some way? *I usually just pick based on aesthetics, and I couldn't resist the appeal of a dedicated Dark Magician fan trying to make it work.

[@ezjaz5305]

Awesome video! Quick question, is there a budget option to playing this list without the sinful spoils package? I was looking to make the list for my brother and those cards are way out of price range and the shop we play at doesn't allow proxies.

[@nehsgnoy5304]

I think soul servant can be cut down to 2z

[@BiggiestayHoopin23]

Would you consider the primoredial cards when they come out in Rage of the Abyss?

[@MatchieYGO]

We’ll be looking through them in the future, I’m excited, I think they have potential

[@BiggiestayHoopin23]

I do too! Especially since we have only seen 5 cards so far. Keep up the great work man love the videos!

[@maxhigh-omnitcg8463]

I've been testing with this exact list and it's a little bricky? or well, not exactly bricky but I'll end up drawing into cards that would be useful with toybox or some other ones but that on their own don't do much. I also don't exacty like soul servant here, it doesn't really do much, same for rod. Or like sometimes I'll just draw the 1of's that you search mid combo or just toy box with no access to the backrow removal. I also never really seem to find a use to secrets of dark magic. There's a handful of cards here that kind feel here just to fill out the deck. Even with the test hand video it doesn't really seem to help. You really need both Souls and Box or else you bust.

[@maxhigh-omnitcg8463]

It feels really luck dependent and the ratios are a little weird. I often draw into both diabellstar and wanted at the same time and that just gets me no where. Toy soldier as a normal summon is also kind of useless. It grabs the toy box to set tank but then what? It only really works if you draw the quem alongside toy soldier to have something to summon off of the tank.

[@zifixgaming2343]

i play dm toy without the diabelstar engine at my locals and i got tottaly washed XD i got bystial my toy solidier 2 times :( (love your content btw)

[@MatchieYGO]

It happens lol! I just had a fantastic locals run myself! I’m super excited to see where the deck goes from here

[@zifixgaming2343]

Yeah same, keep up the good work! Let finally see dm in a deck list on yugioh meta😂

[@Dkdude9892]

will the primordial stuff be out by then? I think primordial dark magician might be pretty great

[@Dkdude9892]

literally coming out the day before. You should highly, highly consider the primordial engine

[@MatchieYGO]

100% we’ll be looking at it in future videos, I think the engine has huge potential, im excited for it :)

[@JMW10o0o]

good luck

[@LOZA-DM]

Based Matchie vid! Keen to play toy box Dm irl Might steal your list 😉

[@MatchieYGO]

Hahaha! Much love! Can’t wait to see what you cook up! So excited for the DM community!

[@EverythingWithEyesOfBlue]

I need a Dark Magician community KZbinr for a collaboration, are you available?

[@MatchieYGO]

@@EverythingWithEyesOfBluehow do I reach you ? Might be interested

[@EverythingWithEyesOfBlue]

@@MatchieYGO I have made the deck as good as it gets, but haven't uploaded the update yet. I posted here my discord name, I cannot see it now. Weird.

[@aasstopmotionstudio9740]

Yo, is it possible if you could make a video on making the best possible red eyes deck? I’m guessing it’s just Red eyes D link but It’s often neglected so could u give it a try?

[@generalistvibe3279]

I hear ya. But I think if you swap the DM cards for a Snake-Eye engine it would be even more optimized!

[@MatchieYGO]

Definitely would be more optimal, but then I’d be lying in my title. can’t have that

[@merricksilverwolf5366]

That's is one interesting build, on another note, will the deck profit from the new Dork Magician in Infinite Forbidden?

[@MatchieYGO]

I don’t think. That’s more of a card to helps shining sarcophagus

[@lifedeather]

Based

[@thunderstar2889]

Can you explain the snake eye card in this list? Like what level 1 fire are you summoning?

[@MatchieYGO]

@@thunderstar2889 it was an error, in the deck profile I use Sinful Spoils of Doom.

[@babulink26]

How do I join the discord! Been following for a while but not sure how to play the small shaddoll package you have had over the past lists!

[@bmoney7909]

Why did you change your mind on Ash Blossom? When triple tactics is so prevalent?

[@MatchieYGO]

Felt like the hand trap being always live is a bit better, as if you draw into it going first, it feels very strong. Debated on playing effect Veiler, but ash hit more decks. TTT is still a great option.

[@Light-ps5yf]

New video❤❤❤❤❤

[@thevengefulone3948]

respectfully, why did you chose not to run the light barrier statue? that card going first can win some games outright, especially with toy box's effect to destroy an attacking monster

[@MatchieYGO]

100% barrier statue is a viable option, I just felt like winda does the same thing, but also allows you to establish a better board with quem / Cartesia. Obviously it’s more steps, but the flexibility schism has felt really nice. I do like and have been testing barrier statue too. It’s solid

[@jamespolk6146]

Just wait until Fiendsmith comes out. That tells you why Barrier Statue of the Heavens will become super useless because Fiendsmith are LIGHT monsters.

[@p1kari53]

is there an error in the finished decklist? Because you said you are playin the sinful spoils of doom not the original

[@MatchieYGO]

Yes, that was an error, play sinful spoils of doom. My bad lol

[@kuuroh4584]

What about Duality? Did you take it off because it wasn't consistent enough or we don't need it in this deck variation?

[@MatchieYGO]

@@kuuroh4584 we don’t need it in this decks variation, it doesn’t come up enough. It works Infinitely better in the DM branded lists I’ve posted in the past

[@212thvermillion7]

Awesome list, gonna try it / similar at locals. One thing i didnt get is, in the screenshot with the whole main deck, why did u add a original sinful spoils? u dont have any lvl 1 fire to summon? wouldnt silvera be better option for the case that u can only summon diabellstar and the rest of the hand is brick?

[@nopeno-s5r]

It was an error, use spoils of doom

[@MatchieYGO]

That’s a mistake, the card you should be using is Sinful Spoils of Doom (it’s in the actual deck profile haha) my bad.

[@212thvermillion7]

@@MatchieYGO doom makes very much sense, missed that during the vid, ty what about maybe removing 1 imperm for 1 silvera? searchable, and negates any card on field for ever, not til end of turn

[@NercoFear]

Quick questen if you dont hvae s:p little knight what card is worth running insted of her ?

[@MatchieYGO]

I.P masq is good, and then a card like Unicorn ? Maybe

[@filexgreene4111]

How are we getting to shaddoll set up again?

[@MatchieYGO]

Grang send apko, apko grab schism… schism fuses apko + to make winda on opp’s turn :)

[@dominicnguyen8628]

I'm confused on El Shaddoll Apkallone and Shaddoll Schism how can you summon Apkallone when there are no Shaddoll monsters in the main. Am I missing something?

[@fraternovaeres]

Cartesia summons Granguignol, Granguignol sends Apkallone from the extra deck to the graveyard, Apkallone activates to search Shaddoll Schism and discard a card, Schism fusion summons Winda by banishing Apkallone and one dark monster such as Magician's Rod. You never summon Apkallone in a list like this.

[@TheDavethepally]

So DM is not the win condition? Is this cause there is no way to power him up anymore or cause these other cards are so much better? I have been out of the game for a very long time so I am a little confused.

[@piggywiggychaunchy3948]

You basically make dm into fusions like Dark Cavalry and Red eyes dark dragoon and protect him with other spells and monsters until turn three in which you can clear up the field.

[@koraptenshi8709]

question here: are the toy cards sent by droplet considered monsters or spells? So we know our opponent cannot react with monster effects

[@MatchieYGO]

They would be sent as monsters :)

[@nehsgnoy5304]

1 DM seems dangerous. If it was banished then done 😢

[@pnwpyro2252]

Is secret village of the spellcasters not a viable card in modern Yu-Gi-Oh

[@MatchieYGO]

It’s decent, probably a side deck option at best IMO

[@ameijinshun]

How do u get the shaddoll fusions out with only the shaddoll trap?

[@MatchieYGO]

Cartesia and any dark gets you there (I have a vidoe on my channel that goes into how that interaction works)

[@AW-gj4ji]

Is there no way to throw branded in as well?

[@MatchieYGO]

Not with how tight the extra deck is, I wish though :(

[@AW-gj4ji]

@@MatchieYGO you’re right, I tried to play test it yesterday with my brother. Time for them to extend the extra deck to 20 cards 🤣. Im actually considering watching you play at the YCS. Good luck at that tournament!

[@AW-gj4ji]

@@MatchieYGO I was actually looking through the white woods cards. Do you think it would be a cheaper alternative and potentially stronger than Diabellstar?

[@IKamen-z8o]

Idk what's the point of playing only 6 hts. Every deck can play through 1 hand trap like fully 90% of the time and chances are you ain't drawing both. Hts are great when you can play 12+ so that you can draw 2 or more but usually board breakers are better when you can only fit 9.

[@IKamen-z8o]

You can look at what dink kha bui did with chimera illusion deck not too long ago

[@MatchieYGO]

@@IKamen-z8o totally a fair point and something I’ve been trying to work around. My theory is: 12 hand traps would obviously be ideal, but even then, you play 12 hand traps becusse you have 1 card starters, in this list majority of the deck is 2 card starters which doesn’t make sense to clog the main deck with HT’s assuming you don’t have enough engine to help. To which the argument is “just play breakers” well the problem with breakers is that you’re letting snake eyes play completely uninterrupted, and the idea is that if you open 2+ breakers, youre gona be able to clear the board but you won’t be able to kill them that turn. And if you don’t win that turn, uninterrupted snake eyes or whatever, will kill you on the follow up. The idea of just the ash and Imperm (disregarding droplet) isn’t to stop them completely, because that’s just not possible. IF we can utilizes 1 hand trap to maybe stop a line, or hinder follow up, that’s enough for me, because then engine can kind of compete. Something we need to remember, is that we are playing a less then rouge deck. That being said, sometimes it’s completely fair to gamble on the idea that 1 ash or 1 Imperm is enough if the opp didn’t open optimally. Majority of the time, if you do open 3 hand traps in a deck like this, you need to make sure your 2 card combo is able to play, and if your opp has that hand trap… unlucky I guess. Now all that is in regards to snake eyes. For rouge strats and tier 2-3 decks, yeah I think 3-6 HT’s + droplets can be enough. HOWEVER!!! You make great points, and I have been working on a way to fit more HT’s in the build, trying to play the 9 + Droplets. The point you made of drawing into other HT’s is nice

[@IKamen-z8o]

@@MatchieYGO Idealy yeah you do want 1 card combos but swordsoul and virtual world were both 2 card combo decks at their peek and they still played 12. I don't have time to get over other points you made so if you wanna theorise the deckbuilding aspect hit me up on discord IvantheNibiru#1759

[@MatchieYGO]

@@IKamen-z8o I’ll reach out this weekend if I end up working on the list! Thanks

[@IKamen-z8o]

@@MatchieYGO hey bro just a reminder to hit me up I'm free tomorrow

[@HiddenHero3123]

I would also add dark magical circle, and maybe eternal soul. Just great cards to mix with dark magician and give you a kind of unbreakable board with eternal soul, magical circle, and dark magician the dragon knight

[@goldenONX]

problem is that he is not playing the dragon knight with how extremely tight the extra deck is. Only deck where dragon knight has a place I'd say is branded dark magician (I play that myself). Soul and Circle just require too much setup to be activated and when soul leaves the field you're done for. Also even if you have Soul, Circle and Dragon Knight on the field, Dragon Knight is not that hard to swing over in this current format.

[@MatchieYGO]

Thanks for the suggestion, I’m personally not a fan of DMC and ES, it feels awful when you open parts of it and can’t get to the rest of the pieces, and when you do see them, it’s so much set up for 1 banish. Isn’t worth it when you put everything else into perspective.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Eternal Soul is more of a determent than a help and soul is only useful for DM turbo. Think he made right call not to run them in this type of DM deck

[@lovesickherox]

side deck?

[@MatchieYGO]

Next video we’ll go over it

[@felipedelaluna]

😀

[@AverageInternetCitizen]

Good luck dingleberry, you'll need it.

[@JonahXVII]

Plethora. Ple-Thor-uh 😅

[@StormStyle]

Thank you!! I was looking for this comment! Pref-lah?!?!

[@KHuyPh]

@MatchieYGO could you explain your reasoning for going with Ash Blossom. I remember during your Livestream you were pretty adamant about not using Ash because it's so punishable in this format when you use it. What changed?

[@MatchieYGO]

I’ll explain it on my next live and or video, it’s a lot of theory that went into the decision lol. Long story short, hand traps are a little too good right now, and being punished is a risk worth taking

[@sauregurke9218]

Wouldnt this be more like a magicians soul deck instead of a dm deck? 🤔

[@yu-gi-ohmeta385]

ehhhh.. why do u have Original Sinful Spoils when you have no Level 1 FIRE monsters ?? I would recommend these, 1- Cut Diabellastar to 1 - Wanted to 2 (you don't relay much on them, cus they just extenders) 2- Add instead 3 Drolls 3- Cut Soul Servant to 2, add 1 Sinful Supervision instead and of course I would assume Sinful spoils of Doom is instead of the Original Sinful Spoils 4- Droplet to 2 and add instead 1 Prepration so u can have 4 Illusion of Chaos which leads to souls each turn 5- REPLACE the Daigusto with Dweller (this will help you in pretty much all duels) I played this deck before and the worst thing about it, if you don't open with souls the Toy box is just dead card.

[@nopeno-s5r]

Sooooo, you're saying that the biggest problem is toy box being dead, while also saying to cut down on diabellstar, a card that makes toybox not dead 🤔

[@MatchieYGO]

That was an error, we’re playing Sinful spoils of doom :) Thanks for the other suggestions, Ima look into them!

[@StormStyle]

Pef-lah……

[@PFagioli]

Highly recommend getting rid of that mumbling voice in the background.

[@MatchieYGO]

It’s part of the music (free) :( I’ll try finding a new track to play in the background! Thanks for the suggestion

[@Wortigon2000]

Calling this a Dark magician deck is a stretch. It's the Magician's Souls/Soul Servant engine, with the complimentary Mahad and Timaeus to make it less of a brick in themselves; strapped on top of a Toy engine, and a diabellstar combo. But no Dark Magic Circle? No Eternal Soul? No Magician's Navigation? come on... (Okay, maybe not Magician's Navigation, if you only play 1 copy of DM himself.) Dark Magician as an archetype is really big, and has so many cards, that I find it hard to make ANY deck with them, that'd fit the 40 card size, even if I only include a handful of handtraps other than the Dark Magician engine. (I also go for Ash and Inperm for handtraps most of the time as well, sometimes with the occassional Veiler, as it's also a target for Seleene, if I want to climb into Accesscode.

[@giuli766]

I think i missed the part where you explain how you're going to play "Dark magician" at YCS...

[@OGGangsterOfGames]

toy box sucks your better off running diabellstar it dues the same thing toy box is better in flufflals yall need to stop trashing up dm

[@latinrey07]

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[@johnboona4048]

Nah you ain't gonna win with that need Snake Eyes or something