Modern Yami Yugi Deck Profile - 2024 - Dark Magician

[@eternalmusic101]

The king is back

[@lancas23-cv9vk]

Fr fr

[@UltimateD755]

He cute

[@SenpaiYGO]

A Wise Man Once Said… “It’s Time To Duel!”

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

You forgot the stuttering. It's time to d-d-d-d-d-duel!!!

[@victoraponte-jh5ke]

Man this was awesome! I missed your videos so much, thank you so so so very much for this, really helped me get through my day. 😊

[@SpellCommander91]

Man, that makes me happy to hear! Hope everything's alright! Should be a lot more videos throughout the rest of the year!

[@whambamduel]

Working on this deck was so much fun! Some cards I forgot to include in the honorable mentions were the Quarter Century collector's cards like Magicians of Bonds and Unity and Paladins of Bonds and Unity, as well as Chronicle Magician and Chronicle Sorceress, but none of those cards are very good anyways, so it's no big deal. I basically tried to smash as many pieces of archetypes built from the cards in Yami Yugi's deck together as possible in a way that still comes out coherent. One card that definitely helps tie things together is Super Soldier Synthesis, as it works with so many different combinations of monsters in the deck-- It works with Frequency & The Magician Girls or Summoned Skull, Buster Whelp and any of the numerous Level 7 DARKs, and Dragon Buster and any of the Level 7 LIGHTs, such as Gaia or Reflection of Endymion. Sadly the Buster Blader retrain isn't always treated as the original, so the old one turns out to be the better way to go. I was really happy to squeeze a couple Summoned Skulls into this deck, as they're some of my personal favorites from his gallery of monsters, although if Magi Magi Magician Gal ever DOES get a TCG release, she's taking the spot of Archfiend's Ascent in a HEARTBEAT. I can hardly wait to get the Jaden deck up, followed by the other protagonists. If anyone has any criticisms or ideas about the deck, feel free to direct them at me!

[@benjaminseelking9483]

Have to say, you did extremely well with THAT Approach, this Deck looks like so much Fun to play. Also, if you Guys want or need more Ideas, how about Decks f or the Godcards, that push their potential to the absolute maximum, for the Pharao, Kaiba and Marik respectivly.

[@whambamduel]

​@benjaminseelking9483 oh believe me, when it comes to ideas, I am absolutely brimming with em. I can't wait for all of em to go from paper to video :)

[@wolfamon95]

If requests are allowed, I'd love to see a deck profile themed around little Yugi with things like the Silents, Gandora, the Gadgets, and/or the Magnets, and maybe a Block Dragon thrown in to reference Block Man. Along with more Summoned Skull, of course, because why not. Or it could just be a fancy Shining Sarcophagus deck. I don't mind as long as little Yugi is getting the acknowledgement he deserves.

[@jksanrio]

I always enjoy these modern character deck videos! Thanks!

[@LucasMacedoAlbuquerque]

I'm so happy that you're back

[@SpellCommander91]

And I’m so happy you’re happy!

[@gabriellacar]

I honestly hate to be that guy, but I honestly think Yugi Muto (not Atem) would use a deck that combines the Shining Sarcophagus with the Toy archetypes. He also would use the Silent Swordsman/Magicisn cards.

[@whambamduel]

Oh absolutely, but this was meant to operate as a deck that would be played by the two duelists before they separated, if the series was set today.

[@nickolaswalker5907]

Might as well throw in the Fruit Magician Girls too.

[@nekanandrade121]

@@nickolaswalker5907”you plan to defeat me with FRUIT!”

[@The31stSurvivor]

I love that I randomly decided to see what you uploaded any new deck profiles and you have like 8 new videos lol stoked!

[@TreFKennedy]

Not having the Red Eyes Dragoon is WILD

[@RyogaHabiki]

Great Video. I think I have most if not all those cards, so now I'm tempted to build the deck IRL I can't wait for your Judai/Jaden video as I love HERO cards.

[@Specsboy1999]

4:01 - 5:33 As an Endymion Pendelum player, I feel so validated to see them in this deck (plus their link at 17:24 - 17:26 & 18:28-18:48)

[@christianthrasher8677]

The avatar of the Yu-Gi-Oh community has returned

[@incarnation_of_immortality3422]

Woow… I didn’t think I’d see you again. A Suprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@nekanandrade121]

It never occurred to me to use Buster dragon for my current yugi deck in Master Duel. His main cards would use XYZ, Link, fusion, and ritual but I had a hard time finding which synchro monster he would use. Now I guess he would go with a Buster blader archetype for his synchro summon. Good job on the video. I truly enjoyed it

[@sideswipeproductions5825]

HE’S BACK HE’S ALIVE!!! SPELL COMANDER IS HERE

[@dagothurik1815]

When the fans needed him most…he returned

[@Driger1792]

Welcome Back!!! Need more of these

[@whambamduel]

Oh believe me, more are on the way :)

[@borislibaque1558]

This is a great deck layout. Yugi is my favourite protagonist in the many yu gi oh series and I love the way his deck is so diverse. I would've prefered the magnet warriors to the endemions to be honest, as they were my favourite trio he ran and used them to defeat the egyptian gods, but I think you're right that he would at least try the endemions, its totally his style. The bigger thing missing is his really powerful spell and trap cards with were replaced by support for his boss monsters. Cards like Mirror Force, Swords of Revealing Light, Card of Sanctity, Magic Cylinder, Monster Reborn, Card Destruction. Some cards I can see cutting, like Magical Hats, but the idea behind his deck of combing his spells with his monsters to overcome the odds was a big part of the drama in his duels. He was a smart guy and insanely lucky so I feel like he would still want cards like Double Spell to regain tempo and some i win the game card that he's building towards, like the Difusion Wave Motion he used against Kaiba in battle city or Ragnarok that he used against Marik. He is adaptive but totally has a game plan he builds towards, even creating infinfite loops from time to time.

[@lordbrilliam396]

Man I've missed your videos, I'm so glad you're making them again!

[@SpellCommander91]

Thanks! It’s good to be back!

[@Rabidragon9241]

The king has returned

[@genryu13]

I'd like to see a modern Chazz Princeton deck, which could be a blend of his anime and manga decks, especially since they just released some more of his manga deck support and retrains.

[@whambamduel]

Oh he is absolutely on the list for once we get to the rival characters :)

[@RFDN0]

@@whambamduel GX in general had a bad issues of dumping rivals. Chaz was arguably the best treated of them but He was used as a punching bag to hype up other characters. He got his moments of success but they were entirely removed from the main plot come the beginning of season 2 until arguably season 4 if season 4 even counts for him being connected to the main plot. Season 1 was Chaz or Zane as the main rival Season 2 was Aster who was under used Season 3 was Jesse who took more of the best friend role Season 4 really didn't have a rival

[@Chief-Remeldian-Olympus]

I would remove the pendulum monsters to keep the deck more traditional but everything else find.

[@Jaymane217]

I definitely thought I’d see Arcanite Magician and Supreme Arcanite magician in here. I think they’d definitely be Yugi’s signature in 5ds and definitely pair well with this deck overall.

[@SpellCommander91]

They were very much considered, but unfortunately ended up on the cutting room floor.

[@kaocri]

Amazing video man! Happy to subscribe to your yugi channel!

[@PrincePakiso]

Welcome back ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Up next maximum summon

[@CreaturesOfTheMarsh]

It’d be cool to see the Yugi/Yami decks after they split. Maybe Yugi gets Magician of Dark Illusion and Apprentice Illusion Magician whereas Yami gets the Palladium Oracle Mahad/Mana cards?

[@mr.sharpback5106]

I’m new here but hope to see more vids, I was struggling trying to make a dmg deck work but I give up on it and now I’m gonna just build this deck to have for fun. New subscriber and looking forward to future vids man, take care.

[@RejectedHeroesMedia]

Just found ur channel very great deck profile can’t wait to try this out

[@GrandMasterShein]

This is super well thought out. I wish there was room for his iconic mirror force and magic cylinder too just for nostalgia sake 🥲

[@benjaminseelking9483]

Great to see you back

[@Wortigon2000]

That'd be a Dark Magician/Gaia/Black Luster Soldier/Arcana Knight/Buster Blader/Endimion deck, with some Slifer splashed in? That's about 5 too many archetypes for 1 deck.

[@SilentVGC]

Not if you have plot armor and the heart of the cards XD

[@MrWallyworld41]

So, the idea here is something I've been doing for fun and the idea is that you are using retrains of a characters monsters to modernize their deck. So, if we think about this in relation to actual modern Yugioh, the idea is to construct these in such a way that you make little engines out of these cards, and of course staples to get you there. It's challenging and fun.

[@rubytrix0]

Welcome back spell!

[@SpellCommander91]

Thanks! It's good to be back!

[@rubytrix0]

@@SpellCommander91 any ideas for the next video?

[@jericmagnaye2705]

​@@SpellCommander91 I wanna see Kaiba's updated deck

[@jovanmitrovic7136]

Thank you for this video i want see more Videos about anime Charakters in modern Deck like this format

[@Zayelion]

Great deck! I feel like there is a lore conflict with all the pen-spellcasters. Endymion's group is a good pick art wise.

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

HE'S BAAAAACK *(in agent stone's voice from sonic movie 2)*

[@SpellCommander91]

Could use a little mushroom!

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

@@SpellCommander91 lol XD

[@Ben10fan]

Ive become addicted to these vids

[@Itsmainduece1]

MY GLORIOUS KING HAS RETURNED

[@lassegrotkjr6326]

Wow i have never been first on a KZbin video before, this i gotta remember.

[@kingrogers7740]

This was a dope video, right on

[@Koresh5610]

And i am stil waiting for the Summoned Skull + Dark Magician Fusion ^^"

[@00Dann99]

Oh man that would be such an awesome card, I dont even care if its bad.

[@MidoriNatsume]

I like to think that in a Duel Monster Remake Yugi keeps around 20 decks, each with it's own iconic archetype, and that's why people can't beat him, he's too flexible and prepared to play with any deck he gets his hand on.

[@frazzianimations9027]

HE BACK!!!! Let him cook!!!

[@saljpal3]

I want to see a sequel series with the original cast using modern decks so bad. 😬

[@thunderclapzsolt1735]

1: I want to see a functional version of this deck using these cards. 2: Can you do a modern profile for Seto Kaiba using his different archetypes as well?

[@SpellCommander91]

Heck yeah I can! Already working on Kaiba and the rivals.

[@thunderclapzsolt1735]

@@SpellCommander91 thank you so much. I appreciate you and your awesome content.

[@adamduffy2829]

heck yeah he's back baby!!!

[@alesaenz]

Cool analysis 👍😎

[@Eatos_17]

This feels more like an Atem deck. 😉 You should do another video for little Yugi, too, please. 👌🏼

[@SpellCommander91]

We're working on a Little Yugi deck and a post DM Atem deck. This one was more focused on Yugi and the Pharoah still dueling together, but modernized.

[@Rabidragon9241]

I feel like the yugi vs grandpa duel is a good feature of their modern versions

[@christians8821]

I feel that Yami yugi would probably also run spell card: Monster reborn, just because it is a retrain of monster reborn which is a quick play like spells were in battle city

[@TheMax107]

We really need a new dark palidin

[@larhyperhair]

Dichotomy over prosperity or desires genuinely shocked me XD i guess its fitting cause yugi uses all sorts of monster types

[@larhyperhair]

also i hat3e to be a complainer but why even include a tuner monster if youre not gonna give him any synchro monsters? i like the idea of yugi using every summoning mechanic, even if its just to summon something like arcanite magician or whatevs, but lets at least give him a GOOD tuner like Harmonizing Magician or the windwitches

[@lucianoapodaca8174]

@@larhyperhair i believe he would have used night's end sorcerer

[@francrovettobisso8692]

He is back!

[@Skywolfhd20]

welcome back my dude

[@DragoSonicMile]

"Heart of the cards, guide me!"

[@nickdoyal169]

Sweet man nice 👌

[@hades4134]

The return of the king

[@rayhayes7701]

The Endymion archetype is an interesting choice. Never thought about them being used by Atem

[@whambamduel]

He's the only one who would be able to use their immense card effects to the fullest

[@SirJorb]

As far as little Yugi is concerned (not Yami Yugi), I'd love to see him run an Adamacipator deck, as an homage to his Grandpa's history as an explorer.

[@whambamduel]

That's a fascinating take! They could even be run alongside the Magnet Warriors and Sentry Soldier of stone! Sadly, if little yuges doesn't get the Shining Sarcophagus deck, I'm pretty sure the comments will roast spellcommander and myself alive.

[@diegobrando2086]

The king hath returned!!!

[@mattthiel3703]

I'm surprised you left out Palladium Oracle Mahad. It calls back to Yami's Egyptian Heritage plus it pairs well with the Dark Magician and even brings out the Dark Magician if Mahad is destroyed.

[@shadowgaming1820]

Are you going to continue your gx rewrite series

[@kenblazewargame4707]

Let the man cool off he got things too. Do i want to see it absolutely but let him get his stuff done

[@DKdusk]

Please continue with the others characters, i cant wait to see what you bring. Also i like to think that Yami Yugi would play the ilusion arcthype

[@whambamduel]

@@DKdusk more characters are on the way The unfortunate thing about the Illusion/chimera archetype is that they just don't have much synergy with Yugi's other archetypes. Also, considering how their decks were portrayed in the Manga, the Illusion series is definitely more of Pegasus' thing for when he gets more serious after Toon World is destroyed. I could easily see Pegasus playing Illusions along with cards like Relinquished and Thousand-Eyes restrict

[@chiragasnani3437]

Glad to see you're back with a new video! Any updates on the yugioh inspired ttrpg you were working on?

[@SpellCommander91]

I've done a lot of work on it and have a friend doing artwork for it. I'm hoping to have something to show in the early new year.

[@yu-gi-ohcasual6294]

Could you make a modern Arkana deck profile? His Dark Magician is my favorite art and I'm curious to see how you adapt his strategy to the current day.

[@islammez3226]

Welcome back bro l think you right about modern yugi deck and l want a vidéo about yusie too

[@whambamduel]

We're going through each of the protagonists first and foremost, so Yusei will be right after Jaden

[@jtanimeandnerd101]

Pretty sure everyone's said this, but I still feel like saying it too. Sorry to be this kind of complainer, but Pot of Greed should not be in the ban list. It was better off as a limited 1. It just lets you draw 2 cards. It doesn't always help. I should know. I've used Pot of Greed multiple times, and even when I get cards that help, I've lost more duels with it than i've won. It's not an overpowered card. It feels like they just did that because they wanted a change in duel flow, but it's just ridiculous. Talk about an overreaction.

[@kaelt9264]

maybe a slight errata that banishes the card after use so it cant be cycled from the grave could return it to limited

[@djspit8929]

​@@kaelt9264or a "once per duel" effect, plenty of cards with that.

[@dantegallardo1974]

LET'S GOOO YOU'RE BACKKKK

[@nickolaswalker5907]

If you’re doing more deck profiles in the future, can you do Yugi Muto’s deck? I’ll even give you two archetypes to start with: Shining Sarcophagus and the Fruit Magician Girls.

[@SpellCommander91]

Not 100% sure when, but Yugi’s deck post DM is definitely on the docket.

[@koraptenshi8709]

He's back!!!!!!!

[@nivgaming1255]

Have a happy new year from Jerusalem, my man. Wish you the best. What are the ratios of this deck tho?

[@whambamduel]

@nivgaming1255 since these are creative character deck profiles that aren't meant to be competitive, unless stated otherwise, every card in this deck is played at a single copy.

[@nivgaming1255]

@@whambamduel I know, but I'm asking to figure out how to use it in a fanfic since making my own dark Magician deck is a pain

[@dastandardgaming2948]

Has there been any updates on duel of destiny?

[@SpellCommander91]

Yup! Made a lot of progress on it. Hoping to unveil early in the new year.

[@Tnk_Tech_Reviews]

Nice vidro man

[@JoeUchiha-gs5ru]

I like this deck list

[@starscorpia4005]

Nice video, also still looking forward to an eventual duel of destiny update

[@SpellCommander91]

Man oh man, I can't wait to share that soon!

[@shalomtedla3419]

Welcome back

[@mikebottomlesspitdunham2954]

I think that he'd use Magician of Chaos and Magician of Black Chaos MAX as well as the 4 Skilled Magicians and Summoned Skull's Synchro, Fusion, and Ritual Forms(using Contract with the Abyss for all his Dark Attribute Ritual Monsters to avoid going too much), and Mahad and Mana as well.

[@_racoon_7778]

Can you do a modern zane deck? Id really love to see my hero's deck in modern times

[@SpellCommander91]

We're working on a new one, but I do have a 2021 deck profile for Zane if you wanna check that out - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJu0hah8dt96q9E

[@MrEffectfilms]

It's been too long my dude! 😁

[@TokuBoyStudios]

I think you should do VRAINS versions of Yuma and Yuya's decks

[@SpellCommander91]

Yuya's deck is coming and has some nice Link Support. We do have an updated Yuma deck, but no Links in that first one.

[@thedarknight307]

ngl I would love for you to do one for Little Yugi instead(Obviously the Gold Sarcophagus) but maybe spice it up too

[@Bdog-ee3ib]

What would his speed duel deck look like

[@animefan-zeroanimefan-zero380]

4:06 I highly doubt that Atem would actually use the Endymion archetype. If anything, I’m surprised u didn’t put in the Egyptian God cards n support since Atem earned all three to use as the King of Duels.

[@GoranAkuto]

yo please do an Arcana deck profile! he was the only other character who mained dark magician. I'd love to see him back to get revenge on his ultimate nemesis Yugi/Atem and brother dark magician player

[@larhyperhair]

I know it would not be totally authentic to Yugi but i think the new illusion stuff with gazelle would be kind of incredible as just, Yami Yugi's new deck. and then have baby yugi play gold sarc of light.

[@donovansmith841]

Would you please do a deck profile for little yugi?

[@SpellCommander91]

It's on the list! Probably between doing the main rivals and the main best friends.

[@leonw8514]

Would love a Deck Profile for Chazz or Alexis

[@KageNoTenshi]

Trying to make an ocg deck with dragoon, but I can’t get it anywhere near how easy blue eyes can summon magia

[@jmsgamer5939]

Literally the thing I've been trying to do is to figure out which one of all of the archetypes Yugi spawned works together, I've been trying to synchronize every deck possible, the only one that has worked in my opinion is Boots up gadgets walking alongside shining sarcophagus if you use the battery trap card you can equip Trio Gadget activate the spell boot up order, you can summon Gadget Trio and begin The Shining sarcophagus play, other than that I'm trying to see all of these archetypes work together in some way, the goal isn't to be competitive but to make them work, some of these archetypes aren't even full on decks, Chimera and Buster Blader is an example

[@whambamduel]

Oh trust me, it was no easy feat. I really wanted to include the new Chimera cards, but they just don't fit with Dark Magician, Gaia, Buster Blader, Black Luster Soldier, Face Card Knights, and Slifer in any easy way. On top of that, to play them, you gotta play Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl, which are just completely unrelated to anything else in the deck. As for the Gadget Support and Shining Sarcophagus, those would be better for a Solo Yugi Muto deck-- this deck aims to try to capture the spirit of Yami Yugi, which is to say both Yugi and Atem from before they separated in one modern deck.

[@jmsgamer5939]

@@whambamduel I'm not going to lie I have always preferred little Yugi's style of dueling then yami, that's why I really love The Shining sarcophagus cards, but even that they still having a hard time combining with any of the little Yugi cards, electromagnetic Warriors is something I'm trying to experiment with, but I really suck at the electromagnetic Warriors because I have no idea how to extend plays alongside shining sarcophagus, I'm considering running double summon in most of these decks

[@whambamduel]

@@jmsgamer5939 We'll get a little Yugi deck out eventually, we just wanted to kick off the new series with the both of them as one, since they were both the main protag of DM.

[@malcolmvictor4945]

Can you do a Kaiba blues modern deck

[@vennervirta]

You should also do for side characters, like Joey Wheeler, Aki Izayoi and Alexis Rhodes (maybe not for Chazz and Crow, would be too long)

[@ShadowKillerX]

Nice Now we need Yusei and Yusaku

[@777gers]

It's been decade o built modern Yugi deck and I love how Konami modernized old cards like Egyptian god etch I trying upgrade it and built countless deck design including joey and Kaiba 😅

[@brandonkdrummer]

I wonder how well this would do in a real duel.

[@jp-fk5ke]

Is their a yugi deck that could be made using all the summon methods. Synchro, Links, and XYZ. I always thought a way that they could bring even more fans into the show and introduce them to all the crazy gaming mechanics is to do a reboot series with similar story beats but have the show slowly bring in all the summoning method. Also givng Tea and Tristan dueling decks too

[@SpellCommander91]

Have you been spying on my project board?

[@Nightwolf247]

Advanced ritual art is good for the deck ??

[@damorion69]

Broooo, how you can not include the Quintet Magician?!

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

I am honestly disappointed you didn't use any of the new Illusion cards including the Gazelle cards (also Illusion Magician)

[@whambamduel]

The new illusion monsters have next to no synergy with the Dark Magician archetype, especially the Chimera cards. I wanted to include them, but they simply had to take a backseat to all of Yami Yugi's better known archetypes that *can* have synergy with each other. Additionally, I personally associate the Illusion monsters, and especially the Nightmare series with Pegasus, as I think it'd be cool for Pegasus to face Yami Yugi with nightmare corruptions of his ace monsters when he's getting more serious after Toon World is destroyed. But even though the Illusion-type monsters didn't make it, we still have Magician of Dark Illusion, Aprrentice Illusion Magician, and Ebon Illusion Magician.

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

@@whambamduel yeah, I guess that's fair. Would still love to see a concept of what an Illusion only Atem deck would look like. I think they did it in the most recent Live Duel, I am pretty sure

[@whambamduel]

@@hamzagamalelgamal Honestly, considering the millennium archetype and its functionality as Exodia support, it feels like the main illusion-wielding Muto would be Yugi's grandpa.

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

@@whambamduel maybe

[@sebiscool838]

So are you back for good now

[@SpellCommander91]

Well, at least until I decide to make another movie like an idiot.

[@sebiscool838]

@@SpellCommander91 yeah well good luck don't do anything stupid

[@sebiscool838]

Have you done the Yugipro yet

[@marcelo2169]

You're back!! Please make an Yuya 2024 deck.

[@SpellCommander91]

Already written and scheduled to release October 29th!

[@PendulumBlade]

​@@SpellCommander91HELL YEAH!

[@marcelo2169]

@@SpellCommander91 thanks my man, subscribed!

[@joshyoumans9037]

I want to see this in master duel