What Decks Would The Original Characters Play Today?

[@Pleia_Ds]

Red-eyes being an awkward archetype that’s still trying to find itself is the most Joey thing ever

[@tiejr]

My exact thoughts when he said it

[@johndexterzarate6663]

....The fact that red-eyes zombie dragon sit in my Eldlich deck speaks volume of its lore-wise endless potencial

[@saphcal]

@@johndexterzarate6663 this comment just made me make the weirdest connection. Red Eyes is Megaman X, and Blue Eyes is Zero from the Megaman X series.

[@arthurkurry9284]

Although I also feel like Joey would incorporate time wizard in his deck

[@chlo-rx6kr]

Like me irl

[@travisc.7231]

Oh yeah, Joey definitely loves that Elemental Hero Flame Wingman

[@silverthegrandkaiju]

Glad I ain't the only one who heard that 😂

[@elii6807]

My favorite cardo! Go! Skyscraper jounochi fire!

[@paradoxlopez3223]

lol I noticed it too

[@magicalswordsman5838]

​@@elii6807 Let's go! I'm not the only one who remember this.

[@magicalswordsman5838]

The best part about this is the fact that HERO monsters are mostly Warrior type.

[@michaelcarlton1484]

14:00 Actually, Yugi telling her to pick Dark Magician Girl is a dub-only thing. In JP, she picked her because it reminded her of the play that she and Yugi went to. (4Kids made it a dream sequence for some reason.)

[@danha3107]

can’t have the high schoolers going on a date in mY cHRistian children’s card game cartoon 😤😤😤😂

[@thanoseid2883]

plus in duel links magician girl is tea's deck so......

[@TheRibottoStudios]

@@danha3107 lol and yet that's exactly what Atem and Tea do PER YUGI playing a trick on the spirit lol. God Atem's reaction will never not be funny asf. Never mind him being all flustered just the image of him shouting at nothing is hysterical.

[@Ghostmnm]

5:28 “Shame there’s no Dark Magician Kuriboh” Magikuriboh: Am I a joke to you?

[@tonyg6715]

i came here looking for this comment. its a staple in my deck

[@loraleaburton6298]

I was about to say this I'm glad you did 😂

[@noahgibson4695]

I was thinking the same thing! I play one in my DM deck

[@leociresi4292]

Could Magikuriboh, Multiplicity work?

[@MercenaryPine9]

@@leociresi4292 If Multiply specifically mentions just “Kuriboh,” it won’t work on Magikuriboh. If it says “Kuriboh monster” or “monster with ‘Kuriboh’ in its name,” it can apply to Magikuriboh.

[@yzer9975]

I know they're not exactly modern now considering it's been almost 10 years since they last got support, but since Tristan seems to have a thing for muscly dudes with a cyber theme - Cyber Commander (who he says is his favorite card, and is in fact designed to resemble him) and Super Roboyarou - I actually think he'd enjoy playing U.A. Points in favor: -Cheap: There's not a single card in the entire set that costs more than a dollar. Even a newbie like Tristan could put a deck together fairly easily. -Straightforward: U.A. has a pretty simple game plan of special summon your attackers to attack, then special summon your defenders to defend. Even their spells and traps are relatively simple. Tristan would be able to pick it up in no time. -Potential for growth: Once Tristan gets the hang of U.A. he can move on to playing with F.A., as a natural extension of what he already knows. They even share common support cards, so he can keep the deckbuilding simple. -Thematic: Tristan is the muscle of the group, far more prone to think with his fists than his head. What better deck for the brawn to use than one based on a group of athletes?

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

I have been trying for years to figure out what Tristan would play for a fanfiction, would you be offended if I just decided that you're right and use U.A./F.A. for him?

[@mrmattsblogReal]

I was actually thinking on a Machina deck? I can see Tristan playing a Machina deck, all things considered..

[@yzer9975]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 not at all, I'd love to read a story about Tristan and his all star team

[@yzer9975]

@@mrmattsblogReal I can absolutely see Machina being thematically appropriate for Tristan, since they're machines (like Cyber Commander, for some reason) and have the whole military thing going on U.A. was just the first thing that came to mind when I thought about him as a character

[@awsometings]

I was thinking noble knights because there is one that sounds like his name Dristan

[@tyquil825]

5:27 Bro there is literally a Kuriboh for the Dark Magician Archetype with his hat and everything

[@Cybertechwerewolf]

Yeah I literally thought this. Magikuriboh

[@decoolfool4166]

He must've forgor😂. I was thinking the same but knowing this card game, it's hard to remember EVERY card.

[@GitraSilvermane]

To be fair, there is a metric butt ton of Kuribohs nowadays. Can't expect someone to remember all of them.

[@insheepsclothing5574]

What, really?

[@SuPaRn0oB]

​@@insheepsclothing5574lmfao

[@xeroxoid7967]

For Tea, i personally think she would use the Starry Knight archetype. I think aside from Dark Magician Girl, she usually used light monsters and the Boss monster is a retrain of Seiyaryu, which would be a reference to her Boss Monster from the Spin-off, Capsule Monsters.

[@drakofox1362]

Either Starry knights as her start and she would switch to Witchcrafters at the end of the series

[@xerael4659]

I thought of Agents or Heralds since she had a Fairy deck.

[@johnnyhall9154]

I was actually thinking Novox, but Starry Night seems better

[@mid7752]

​​@@xerael4659 The Starry Knight archetype is mostly fairies except for the boss monster

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Personally, I kinda like Mikanko as Téa's deck. They're themed around dancing (should be obvious why that fits her) that revolve mechanically around Equip Spells (she uses a fair amount of Equip cards during her duels relative to how much of her deck we actually saw) and preventing/redirecting damage to the player (ties into Waboku, which was pretty much the best card we saw her play), and they're all female (just because most female duelists in DM played decks that revolved around female and/or cute monsters).

[@KoniXyz]

"no dark magician Kuriboh" Magikuriboh: Am I a non-magical joke to you?

[@osielatrujillo82]

ill think he forgot

[@tobytrooper3928]

13:45 Interestingly enough, I think Konami already provided us with a rough idea for Téa’s modern deck: In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, there are occasional “Character Events” where players can unlock a new character by earning points in duels with that character. For DSOD Téa’s Character Event, she used a blend of *Witchcrafters* (another Spellcaster archetype) AND *Magician Girls* in her duels. I like to think that a pure Witchcrafter deck would be her modern choice.

[@shonenderp164]

Either them or the Starry Knight archetype

[@Arcanua]

There's also her ties to Mana, so she HAS to have Magician Girls at the very least.

[@N12015]

Honestly, I feel it was either Witchcrafter or Charmers. I've noticed that she uses a lot of flip spellcasters, like magician of faith or Fire Sorcerer (WHY?!). Do you know what kind of deck was originally built upon flip spellcasters? Indeed, the charmers, which also fit her visually.

[@JonoSSD]

Yugi would definitely go for Ishizu Tearlaments when it was a thing, because Egypt, GY effects and fusions (the only extra deck mechanic he fully understands, he still calls it "fusion deck"). He's bitching about the banlist ever since, but still topping tournaments because the deck just won't die. Kaiba would be playing Dragon Link and mocking Yugi everyday on social media since it won worlds, even though it wasn't him that played. Yugi has filed multiple restraining orders against him but the police can't do anything, the man simply has too much money, lackeys and dragon-shaped weapons to be stopped. Joey is still trying to mix Kashtira with Red-Eyes and Jinzo to this day. He swears it's gonna work any day now. Pegasus plays Toon on main but has a few alt accounts on MD where he builds whatever is meta in the current format because he's tired of losing to little kids in his own cardgame. He's been stuck on Platinum for the past 6 seasons. Marihk is currently serving multiple life sentences for 30+ murders. He alledges a _"ancient egyptian dark spirit"_ told him to do it. Upon asked what would he play today, he answered "well, Ra, of course". He expressed growing confusion when questioned if he would go for a pure variant or incorporate Kightmares in the extra deck, how he would deal with the new Master Rule and the many changes that happened since he was incarcerated like synchro, xyz, etc. He then went into a fit of rage and attacked the reporter immediately after being showed a pendulum card, needing to be restrained by the guards. The reporter recently left ICU and is okay, having sustained burns to only 75% of his body.

[@JonoSSD]

Jaden plays but mostly online, since he has no money for any of the past dozen hero support cards. His parents have repeatedly asked him to get a job and move out of their house, unsuccessfully so far. He’s currently trying to get his twitch channel off the ground, but has been stuck at 8 subscribers for over two years. Yusei asked the reporter to be left alone, hopped on his bike and then proceeded to run 16 red lights in a row, cause 3 car crashes and injury 7 people, including 2 children and a pregnant woman. Law enforcement states he’s still at large. Yuma stopped playing the game long ago, instead getting involved over the years in increasingly deranged conspiracy theory circles about _“Numbers”_ and how the world is controlled by a shadowy cabal of beings from a parallel world (whom he call “barians”). He now follows the _”NumberAnon”_ conspiracy, alleging vaccines and 5G are created by said _“barians”_ to merge their world with our own and destroy the Astral World (we believe this to be a reference to heaven). Yuya had a rough couple of years with a failing comedian career, getting canceled online after people dug up some old racist jokes he made on twitter and MR4 making all his decks completely useless, eventually falling off the grid for a while. He currently lives in Japan and owns at least 3 different Electrumite dakimakuras. Yusaku still plays cyberse decks, but yugioh has taken a backseat to his hacking activities. After joining Anonymous, he had to move 10+ times and is wanted in over 100 countries for cybercrimes. He says he still enjoys some Master Duel from time to time, usually to mess with people’s connection and gain access to the opponent’s computer _“because Konami’s code is as lazy as its game design”_ (Cardgame News Online Inc. stresses this is the opinion of an interviewed third party and not the company).

[@user-fh7mu6sw3l]

Damn you really thought this out

[@videogamesarecool9280]

holy shit, this is so good!

[@jeanahto0_808]

This is gooooood🤣

[@b3h8t1n]

😂 love it

[@inkromancer_studios]

Gonna throw in some hot takes for modern decks: -Bones would use a Wight deck, with an ace of Zombie Master and Boss of King of Skull Servants replacing his old King of Ghosts. (Keeps the emphasis on the "King" card) -Marik/Yami Marik would use the "Unchained" archetype symbolizing how he has broken away from the 'shackles' of his family heritage while keeping with his 'watch the world burn' mentality. - Esparoba would obviously use psychic type monsters. With Jinzo haphazardly thrown in because why tf not. -Arcana I would give an Invoker deck, or a deck centered around Crowley. Emphesising a magician who is in way over his head. Lastly for the hottest of takes: Joey and Serenity would BOTH use Dragon Maids, but play completely different. Serenity focuses on using the human forms almost exclusively because she's inexperienced and because "They look cute." Joey plays the deck to its full capacity because "Dragons are awesome!" But in shocking twist/reveal in some episode later down the line we learn that Joey's boss monster is House Dragonmaid, and Serenity has a copy of 5-headed dragon.

[@david000rafael]

That Dragonmaid idea is really creative

[@sardinee4564]

joey would play cool cards not some gay shit.

[@Iceclaw77]

The Marik Unchained deck idea is actually genius holy shit. It also works because of how Yami Marik was set free after the chain holding him back a.k.a. Odion was knocked out.

[@saphcal]

@@sardinee4564 you obviously dont know joey if you think he aint all about that "gay shit". also how juvenile throwing around "gay" like its a bad thing. dragonmaids ARE "cool cards".

[@TheWhiteDragonEmperor]

@@Iceclaw77 yeah i was hoping the video would be about what more modern decks the characters would play, like tea might use witchcrafters or kieth using musketeers etc.

[@DragoSonicMile]

Jaden Yuki: "Hey! Flame Wingman is my monster! Not his!" Joey Wheeler: ... "Where the heck did you come from?"

[@Honest-King]

"I understood that refrence" with steve roger gif

[@saphcal]

"the future!"

[@wynnmorningstar9660]

lol! 🤣

[@leociresi4292]

Yuma:”Hey, what about me?”

[@bradleyharris774]

Knowing Kaiba, he'd probably come up with a Retrain of the Virus Cards to work with LIGHT monsters. Also, since Kaiba is all about moving towards the future, he'd definitely run Synchro and Link monsters in his Extra Deck.

[@MarioMastar]

Blue eyes already has great synchro set up as the eyes of blue cards are all tuners to help get Azure Eyes out. It still retains it's high risk, high reward beat down effects with more ways than ever to get those powerful 3K beatsticks on the field and use them for tempo with the fusion and synchros, or go into some nice Rank 8s for interesting strategy shifting. Though they're not going to let Blue eyes fall by the wayside. it's literally one of the mascot cards.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

6:01 - I suspect that he'd play Blue-Eyes Branded, as opposed to pure Blue-Eyes. Remember that Seto had a subtheme of board-breaking tied to his Virus cards (which you did mention, me big stupid), which the Branded/Albaz cards could cover easily. 7:35 - I actually think Joey would play Dinomorphia. His playstyle leans towards a mix of high-risk high-reward, aggression, and Traps on a level that would make Fred Jones jealous, all of which are covered by Dinomorbs. 13:03 - I mean, there are several one-time characters that get lumped in with Tristan and Serenity before you put Téa in there, she had more current on-screen duels than Granddad. 14:20 - Mikanko. It's an archetype that revolves mechanically around Equip Spells (Téa plays a high number of Equip Spells relative to the number of _her_ cards we actually saw her play) and preventing/redirecting damage that would be dealt to her (could tie into Waboku, which was pretty much the best card she played in either of her duels), and is aesthetically themed around female dancers (which connects to both her passion for dance, and the tendency to assign female/cute monsters to female characters at the time). Feels like a thematic fit for Téa to me. 15:15 - Transcendosaur actually retrained a monster or two that Rex plays, so mixing those with Evol _could_ work. Dinomorphia wouldn't, because Rex plays Caveman Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@Ravencore_]

Your Tea pick is amazingly on point

[@thanoseid2883]

your not thinking thematically.

[@Solitude2500]

I can see Yugi using Spellbooks with Dark Magician and Kaiba using Dragon Rulers with Blue-eyes.

[@serenatranspride774]

Atem has MagiKuriboh from the set Dimension Force.

[@shaolinshefgaming400]

Fuck it Yugi/Atem plays the Kuriboh archetype lol

[@Jaycutler709]

My faithful companion.... DARK....KURBIBOH(!)

[@leociresi4292]

Also Kuribabalon

[@BMTEnjoyer160]

Good question Kaiba would do “Blue” Eyes

[@0predaking0]

I play my third blue eyes white dragon. . . . . . And a Charizard XD

[@BMTEnjoyer160]

@@0predaking0Whites Blue Dragon

[@johngentley5015]

@@0predaking0i play polymerization, come on out: Blue Eyes Charizard Dragon

[@TOXSGhost]

Green eyes white dragon

[@DIESEL-SAVES-LIVES]

Blue eyes Kaiba dragon

[@OjamaYellow]

I love this kind of videos 16:00 Rex has retrains of two-headed king rex. I think he would use ultimate tyranno as he has black tyranno 20:05 Bonz: zombie world deck there is also another pumpkin named Jack-o-boran; also Bandit Keith had support in 2018 You skipped the Big Five

[@magemaster724]

I made a Dark Magician Slifer deck with the trap card of sanctity that reborns Slifer ... and it has some nice synergy: apprentice illusion discarding slifer to be revived with the deck, the true name can call your card right when you know your top deck card with dark magical circle or illusion of chaos (which returns a card to the top of your deck), also soul servant giving you up to 4 draws buffs Slifer. I think Atem could play something like this ... though I could imagine he would maybe mix DM with buster blader ... or with BLS for the fusions between them .. or maybe he just adapts to the situation and just mixes as he thinks fits best for the current duel. as for Joey, I personally think he could also use a mix of red-eyes and flame swordsman as red-eyes slash dragon is a common card in it, time wizard of tomorrow could also fit in as a target for poly. I mean in the anime he kinda used several red-eyes archetype cards: in orichalcos he had lord of the red and paladin of dark dragon ... so I think he would not abandon him for flame swordsman. Also for Pegasus: toon kingdom and eye of illusion are anime cards Pegasus actually used that got printed. And as for Keith: he got that tiny support wave that did not only contain desperado barrel dragon, but also other cards focusing on dark machines like heavy metal raiders or BM-4 Blast Spider.

[@TheLawliet10]

So here's my take on the main crew specifically: Yugi- I definitely agree that he should finish up with his Gold Sarcophagus archetype deck, but I feel like that his end game deck. I like the idea of these guys starting with one deck and ending with another, so I'm going to say Yugi starts with either a Gaia deck or a Face Cards deck, then as his journey helps him grow he can pick up more of a Gold Sarc deck. Atem- He has multiple decks, and chooses them based on his intuition (ie what the Millennium Puzzle deems best), that way we can have BLS, Dark Magician, Gaia, Egyptian Gods, Face Cards, etc... But for the final duel I'd say have him play an Egyptian God deck and have him leave the others as mementos to Yugi. Kaiba- You hit the nail on the head, full on agree with him just having a Blue-Eyes deck that he adjust for the situation. Joey- I like the idea of him starting out with the Flame (wingman) Swordsman deck, but after the first episode. Have Yugi be the one who helps him make the deck, and have all the gambling cards in there as well. Have him win Rex's Red-Eyes in Duelist Kingdom, then when Battle City rolls around have the Rare Hunters steal his Flame Swordsman. That pushes Joey to make the Red-Eyes deck, and we can have Joey switch between both decks as the series continues. We can have him take more gambling cards out as he grows as a character. Tristan- Give this man a Warrior deck, specifically a Six Sams. Tristan is more brawn than brains, but have Six Sams be the one thing he knows he's able to play strategically. Plus we can have it to where during his Cyberworld Duel he can pull out Shien as his deck master and mention how it represents someone who he would 'follow into any fight'. Once he loses the helmet on Shien is destroyed and Serenity sees that the guy who Shien symbolizes to Tristan is Joey. Duke- Fully agree, give this man the most RNG heavy deck ever. Tea- I think Fairy Control works pretty well for Tea Grandpa- Grandpa passes Exodia to Yugi, so I think he'd end up playing a Rock monster deck (probably similar to the more defensive Exod deck that came out). However, once the Grand Prix comes around have him get a new Exodia deck with the new support. The explanation could be a combination of his old buddy Prof. Hawkins finding some new ruins in Egypt pertaining to Exodia, and Pegasus made the cards as a way to apologize to Grandpa for stealing his soul.

[@chriscanway4247]

You have the best ideas so far and I wish this was made to a series!

[@Powerangerguy2]

Rex Raptor got some modern Two Headed King Rex Support, and the extra deck retrains of some of his vanilla monsters that are often paired the with Transcend Dino’s

[@MarioMastar]

Looking SO forward to them being released in Duel LInks one day. I love dinosaurs for the card art, but don't like how despite there being 3 users of Dino monsters, it's kind of hard to make them work for me. Rex is just underpowered and Tyranno kind of has the same endboard, just a different way of getting it. Jim is solid, but mostly uses fossil cards. I did see the modern Two headed king rex upgrades and I LOVE the artwork for them! The kind of stomping Rex was bragging out!

[@Powerangerguy2]

@@MarioMastar there is a 4th Dino duelist in the form of Go Onizuka (George Gore in the English dub) he initially plays Gouki’s and then moves on to Dinowrestlers in season 2 of the V-Rains anime

[@wakkaseta8351]

Honestly, Rex would be set with just the Dino structure deck that came out a few years ago.

[@dingbat3440]

I think Valon would've played a PSY-Frame deck. They're like an official / spiritual successor to the Armor cards, even though they aren't a super modern archetype now.

[@thanoseid2883]

true.

[@tsovinar2287]

Seeker would totally play a Mystic Mine Exodia stall deck

[@gredora]

Seeker would play Jeff's Exodia list.

[@tarikkash4282]

@@gredora Seeker, what a random sounding name!

[@DarkSymphony777]

​@@tarikkash4282 well he actually doesn't have a name, just called rare hunter. People gave him the name seeker due to his strategy revolving around seeking exodia

​@@DarkSymphony777a couple of games call him Seeker too. I think the Dark Duel Stories game in the US calls him that.

[@DarkSymphony777]

@ I know that. Just Wait is that why people call him seeker

[@fireblaze5032]

Different take but whenever I saw Serenity use St. Joan I always felt like she could rock a. Noble/Infernoble Knight deck with the aces being the Isoele (forgot how to spell) Link 2 and the Fire attribute synchros. I could symbolize how she wants to follow in Joey's footsteps by using those fire warrior type cards but mainly use the female warriors cause she thinks they look cute For Weevil I agree to put in the modern retrains of his aces but i think he could rock a Beetrooper deck as a base first then incorporate his modern aces For Raphael I could see him play Morphtronics with Power tool dragon being his ace (yes I know it belongs to Leo from 5ds) mostly cause of his whole equip spells with certain monsters For Valon, I see him utilizing a Meklord deck. Based on his armor cards that he used against Joey, Meklords pretty much do the exact same thing For Dartz, I see him using an Odd Entity based deck with the Jormungandh (? I don't know how to spell) xyz Monster as his ace to mimic Geh

[@filipvadas7602]

I feel like Atem would play a *mostly* Dark Magician focused deck ,as well as Magikuriboh, and that he would slot in some Egyptian God support in there to be lore accurate

[@TLBreezy]

joey definitely implementing psychic rover, and probably head judge and anything else that gambles, lucky punch, etc

[@cmrobbins88]

For Tristan he could probably use some sort of Thunder Deck since in the Capsule Monsters spin-off he had Thunder Kid (Kaminarikazou in the original card name) and Thunder Dragon as his monsters.

[@RedTheWeeb]

yeah that was my argument for tea to play starry knight/dragon deck as well since she uses the orginal version of the dragon

[@cyberdragoon1432]

Or following up on the machine soldiers theme, Machina

[@darkwolf9637]

I could also see kaiba playing some of the bystial cards especially since his main rival played a mostly dark attribute deck, and they still fit the dragon theme

[@attackonyugioh92]

@7:17 I've had good success with mixing blue eyes with viruses with that dark attribute field spell, and field barrier/borg blocker

[@Ctrybpkm]

Something I just thought of is something to act as a kinda fix to the Guardian deck would be give them a field spell that has an effect that it acts as all Guardian Equip spells so you could actually summon the guardian monsters, then give it like two other effects to help the deck. Maybe an effect for Eatos control or an effect for Dreadscythe beat down

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

One of the problems with the classic characters decks is that a lot of them played a hodgepodge of different cards that would grow to become their own archetypes, with few of said archetypes having any crossover support, let alone enough to make one play said archetypes together… Meanwhile they also had a bunch of monsters that were just outright left in the dust altogether, like most of their non-effect monsters… Let’s take, say Dark Magician and The Magnet Warriors… I could make a “Dark Magna-cian” super archetype with the sub-effect (This card is always treated as a “Magnet Warrior” and “Dark Magician” card). As for those normal and flip monsters and the whole tribute summoning thing, I have an idea for a support card for that: _Summoner Magician_ (EARTH) Level 4 Pendulum Scales: 0 _If you Normal or Flip Summon a monster: You can increase or decrease this card’s Pendulum Scale by that monster’s level/rank. Immediately after this card is first placed in your pendulum zone: The following effects are applied for the rest of the duel (You can only use this pendulum effect of “Summoner Magician” once per duel):_ ⚪️You can Normal Summon/Set an additional Normal, flip or Gemini monster per turn. ⚪️Your Normal, Gemini and Flip monsters can be normal summoned/set with 1 less tribute. ⚪️Gemini, Flip, and Nom-effect monsters you control can make an additional attack per battle phase, and also, if they attack a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. Magician/Pendulum/Flip/Effect _FLIP: You can normal summon/set 1 level 6 or lower Non-effect, Gemini or Flip monster from your hand, deck or GY._ _This card’s Normal/Flip summon cannot be negated. If you normal or flip summon any number of monsters: You can special summon this card from your hand or pendulum zone. If a Normal/Flip summoned, non-effect, Gemini or Flip monster you control would be destroyed, you can discard a card instead. You can apply each of the following effects of “Summoner Magician” once per turn:_ ⚪️If this card you control would be removed from the field, you can place it into your pendulum zone instead. ⚪️If you summon a Gemini, Flip or non-effect monster: Draw 1 card. ⚪️You can tribute 1 Special summoned monster you control: Add to your hand (from your deck or GY) or shuffle into your deck (From your hand or GY) 1 monster you possess that cannot be special summoned. ATK/1500 DEF/1500

[@MarioMastar]

Rex Raptor is gonna be eating good though, you see those new Two headed dragon upgrades that came out in the OCG? I think the OGs really needed some of that TLC like Mai getting upgraded Harpies like Cyber Slash harpy to help keep them relevant in an evolving game. and while Pumpkin King is a terrible boss monster even by the standards back then, Zombie decks have seen a lot of good support so Bonz might eat good too.

[@willnack5315]

I have actually come up with a concept for an Panik themed archetype call “Veil of Shadows.” It’s main theme is being able to summon level 5 Dark Fiend Normal Monsters without cost, the retrains of his icon monsters all have abilities which make them also count as normal monsters while the retrained field spell is face-up on the field. This field spell also recreates Panik’s iconic tactic by letting set you fiends in face-down ATTACK position and each time you set a card you can rearrange your field. HOWEVER, should your field spell leave the field for any reason, it takes ALL you set cards down with it (we all know what this references)! I have also come up with a Signature Attack variant of Summoned Skull which shares its iconic DM series ability involving electricity mixing with water and magnets, which I call “Summoned Skull - Lightning Strike.” Also, you can put Red-Eyes in a Flame Swordsman deck, since it could stand having an extra dragon in it for one of its fusion monsters and as some extra power! BTW, what about Rebecca and Lumis and Umbra? Shouldn’t they get some proper support too?

[@ivanbluecool]

I was thinking how a modern version of og yugioh would be like with theme decks and I can see a lot of ways they can fix or update decks. Gx needs work too. Not as much but just a little bit of tune ups to be great. 5ds through vrains are fine with the end game decks. Yusei already has effect veiler so he's one step ahead.

[@maxwaltham5853]

Hang on if Yusei had effect veiler then where's the episode where his opponent rage quits turn 1 after he breaks their combo.

[@ivanbluecool]

@@maxwaltham5853 yusei needed more work to use it right. And extra copies. Honestly why doesn't he have extra copies of this card? Isn't it a tuner? It could combo well into his deck by using it'd effect to negate a card and then revive it to make a synchro tuner

[@EnbyOccultist]

@@ivanbluecool Yugioh characters have the bad habit of only running 1 copy of most of their cards so the writers have more space to have them constantly pull random stuff out

[@ivanbluecool]

@@EnbyOccultist aside kaiba and Zane but kaiba only has the blue eyes rather than a balanced deck. Zane did this best overall by having multiple cyber dragon and spell cards in his deck. Jessie is probably the worst having 7 monsters in his deck.

[@dudono1744]

@@maxwaltham5853 That's kinda his first duel against Lawton.

[@RandomJD]

I absolutely love this concept of videos Like trying to make a competent almost meta deck out of anime/manga characters sounds rad

[@blazingstorms9648]

I feel like Joey could easily be an infernoble flame swordsman hybrid deck. Fire warrior type monsters based on his fiery passion, plus you can splash in the ultimate gearfried card.

[@sharkspeedo]

I think for modern day decks they would play anything that ressembles their cards archtypes, but it would be a different question if you ask which competitive deck will they play or style of play that fist their style. 1)For Kaiba he plays an OTK big tempo deck that uses dragons and have some control elements like a heavy trap deck. 2)Yugi, will play a recruiter heavy deck that revolves around merging them together to bring their ful potencial(either fusion or union heavy) with a boardbreaker like monster as his ace monster. 3)Atem he will likely play a toolbox deck, that evocates his egiptian origin, probably a ritual based deck/chaos deck 4)Joey will definitely play a fiery warrior deck that uses equip spells or equip related effects like infernobleknights, he is also like kaiba except he will use equips rather than a trap heavy deck 5)May will likely play dominant female theme deck, she often uses cards that gain better effects when they are in the precense of other archtypes related compaions 6) Bakura will play stun heavy deck filled with floodgates and a secondary win-con 7) Marik will likely play a burn deck that controls the field using a bunch of handtraps and cards that make his opponents have a painful experience

[@Leosch633]

Mystic Mine Stun would be perfect for Bakura

[@OizenX]

Duel Links gave Tea the Witchcrafter archetype. Kinda fits.

[@rednovastrum2475]

duel generation gave her madolche,they gave tristan the six sams as well

[@benallen7704]

That's funny. I gave Tristan Six Sams to grind him up in Duel Links Lol ​@@rednovastrum2475

[@thatguyinyellow2950]

The OG Yugioh characters using more modern decks is a super cool idea for a TV series! I could see a filler episode where Kiba has to duel someone to keep his company but the person he is dueling swaps Kiba's Blue eyes deck with a Dragon Maid deck so Kiba has to duel out of his element. Maybe the person he is dueling is using Kiba's deck against him and fumbles a combo which allows Kiba to make a come back. There is so much fun stuff you could do with this.

[@pn2294]

It honestly wouldn’t work. Yu-Gi-Oh! is a story first and foremost.

[@liamsanimationstudio]

7:35 I actually think Joey would use a 60 card deck with a ratio of 40 Flame Swordsman; 20 Red-Eyes (Though I'd put the Hermos cards in there somewhere). It would make even more sense if there was a hypothetical "Yu-Gi-Oh DM but with more modern decks" Reboot style thing as it could mean that Joey used a deck based around Flame Swordsman, but after receiving the Red-Eyes from Rex, he started implementing bits from the Red-Eyes archetype, and then probably adding Hermos cards because the dragon chose him and also Hermos could give more fusion potential and equip cards for beatstick strategy he'd probably play with Ultimate Flame Swordsman.

[@TheLaGangjShow]

I think it would be neat to see Atem using a Dark Magician Deck with a focus on Dark Magican’s Fusions like the one with Gaia, Curse of Dragon, Luster Soldier, Red Eyes, and a few others. He could even summon Quintint Magician that uses 5 different SpellCaster monsters.

[@RunicSigils]

Atem is supposed to be the king of games. His main deck would likely be Dark Magician + Chaos because you can slot those together pretty easily and DM itself is literally the asspull archetype meant to stack the deck and pull what you want. I could also imagine he'd have the other decks and use those against the appropriate opponents though. They showed Bastion with multiple decks at once, so why not the king of games?

[@Carlos.Rivera]

Magician of Chaos + BLS 👌

[@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec]

Dark Magician + Buster Blader. Koiba worst nightmare

[@mrbubbles6468]

No he isn’t. That’s the entire point of the Final Duel. He was never the King of games and it was always Yugi. And Yugi beat him before they even played. Same thing happens with Kaiba in the movie.

[@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec]

@@mrbubbles6468 The entire point of the final duel is “Even champions can get defeated”

[@guestb8389]

⁠@@KhanhNguyen-mh5ecNah, I'm with Mr Bubbles on this one. Even though Yugi's development was extremely rushed in the final season, it's clear that the intention was Yugi overcoming his darker self and proving he truly is the King of Games.

[@Tongarious]

So not too long ago I actually found a field spell called Heavy Metal Raiders when just randomly searching cards. It featured all of Bandit Keith's monsters and focused on dark machines which was his shtick. But outside of the barrel dragons which all only really found play in Duel Links, there isn't really a deck for him, seeing as the field spell was battle oriented maybe we'll get retrains which focus on the battle phase but otherwise not really. Odion actually has an alright deck in modern continuous trap monsters, which I made recently in MD funnily enough. The Apophis retrain actually negates on its position in the chain, so you can activate it in response to spell cards like harpies feather duster and negate that, using other cards like Statue of Anguish Pattern to destroy a card on summoning a monster from the S/T and using the two tiki (tiki curse and tiki soul) cards to add offence and defence to the deck. His "Signature" cards of temple of the kings and the mythical beast of Serket are still absolutely playable given that you're always special summoning the trap monsters anyway (with TotK allowing one on the same turn it was summoned) and both of them on the field offers the ability to summon almost any fusion. There's even some on-brand effect monsters in Qardan the Clear-Sighed and Pharaonic Advent which actually represents the end goal of the gravekeepers while allowing you to tribute their main monsters (Fairy for Ishizu, Fiend for Marik and Reptile for Odion.). There's also a lot of toolbox cards to throw in like magic planter for draw power, Angel statue - azurune for special summon negates, Imperial custom for destruction prevention and if you want to run synchros there's even a tuner in shapesister. I probably went a bit too into that but you get the idea lol.

[@jamesross4767]

There is Magikuriboh. A dark magician Kuriboh monster

[@CompleteToast]

Here's what i personally think they'd play based more on preference than anything (im assuming they would be playing these decks for a while) Not just, did they play this exact deck but more, what cards did they tend to favor and what kind of playstyle do they prefer. Yugi: Modern DM. We saw him transition more into the magician cards in dark side and with the dm support these days, i think he'd play it. Kaiba: Blue-eyes. Do i need to explain. Joey: Infernoble Knight. While yes his flame swordsman and red-eyes are iconic. How many random warriors did he play. It seems like he'd go towards more warrior based decks, maybe even six sam but i think he'd settle for infernoble. Duke: Dice deck does make enough sense for me to agree, he didn't do anything besides that. Mai: Harpy, it's like Kaiba with blue-eyes. Just makes sense. Bakura: Dark World. Fiends is what he played and i think after a time he'd find his way to dark world, it keeps with a more dark theme while being more powerful and more in control, i feel like Yami Bakura would play the Dark spirit stuff but i think Bakura would move past it. I know there are other characters who'd use this was well but i say, who cares. Multiple people can play the same deck. Grampa Moto: His OG deck. Idk he seems attached to it and it didn't seem like he cared about updating it, just wanted to play the cards he wanted to rather than having a particular deck. I just dont see him changing it. Serenity: N/a? Did she play the game outside the one time she had too? If anyone were to drop the game, it'd be her so yeah, she plays nothing. Tristan: We dont see much off him dueling but if he wanted to use humans in or with weapons attached to them, Sky Striker maybe? Seems like he'd be down with the concept. Tea: Hear me out here, herald impcantation. She primarily played fairy outside of the whole virtual world thing, and eventually fairies can either go counter fairy or herald. I think a ritual deck would be more interesting and as time went on she'd pick up the ritual support so yeah. Maybe it could go to counter fairy but i dont see it. Couldn't tell you why but it just doesn't feel right. Weevil: Lets be honest, we all know he's rocking up with the Beetroopers. They're by far the most playable insect deck in a while, and yes his great moth and all that are iconic, he was a competitive player, he'd try to find something that's on theme but stronger. Rex: Dino, probably with UCT. I dont see him passing that up. Mako: Umi control. Maybe Mermail if we wanted to be more spicy but i think umi control does make more sence in a modern context. Para & Dox: Gate Guardian. Good deck, fits well. Do thing. PegaSUS: Toon probably. Thats basically his whole personality without the relinquished stuff so it fits with the character. Bones: Modern Zombie. None ot the pumpking stuff. I say he's combing mezuki and zombie master with zombie world. Keeps on theme but is actually playable Keith: Earth Machine, mainly to tubo out gustav max. I mean he played barrel dragon, why not play the deck which makes the giant artillery trains. I can see it. Panik: Runic Stun. He's a complete asshole, so it fits. Espa Roba: Jinzo would work as a 1 of but i dont feel that'd be his main strat. Honestly something like Labrynth might work. It's a control deck which is something he seemed to prefer, plus you can't tell me he doesn't look like the kinda guy who would call lovely "mommy". Arcana: DM, but he's coping on cards. Like he seems like the kinda guy to still play mystic box and argue it's good. He's playing DM but his deck building just sucks. Izhizu: Izhizu Tear, the deck is named after her support, also doesn't seem like the kinda person to mess around so playing the most optimal way of doing this makes sense. Plus she can always see if she's gonna have good mills with the necklace so yeah. Odion: Palio, he played trap monsters before and i can see a transition to the newer and better trap monsters. Marik: Gravekeeper, he is literally a gravekeeper why would he not play this deck. The hatred is gone from him, let him play his own family. Rafael: Guardians. Do they suck, oh yeah. Will he still play them anyway. Also yes. It's like Kaiba with blue-eyes, you can't separate this man from his deck. Valon: Full armoured XYZ. He played the armour cards, why not play the new armour cards. Alister: Fire Fist, he played a fire deck and i don't think volcanic suits him so yeah, he got tenki. Dartz: Another one i can see just not playing the game anymore. He did it as a means to an end more than anything. Also idk what else he'd play cause we only saw the evil him not the normal version so yeah. No idea. Zigfried: Valkyrie probably, makes sense to me. Leo: Fairy tale kaiju. I think he'd use the actual fairy tales like snow and luna and the kaiju's are more in there as a good engine. He has the cards he wants in there already, now play the damn turtle, or if he wants another golden castle he could play edlitch, dont think it'd fit but it'd be funny.

[@echemh]

You mentioned for Bakura the new Necrofear card. What I like about Dark Necrofear and Curse Necrofear is dark removes the monsters from GY to summon while Curse brings them back so could end up looping to get multiple out.

[@Excellsion]

I mean yeah, most of them would slim down to one archetype they played, if they play multiple, but it's a bit obvious. I think it might be more fun to pick out decks that reflect the characters well that DO NOT originate from DM anime/manga cards. Does Mai play Tearlaments so she has air, land, and water ladies covered, or maybe Gusto? Does Tea play charmers cuz buddies and friendship? Does Atem play Endimion because he's a master duelist that would understand the cards with a billion words, plus spellcaster stuff? Odion Paleos, or actual Gravekeepers? Mako Atlantean / Mermail? Joey Danger, or Branded/Albaz/Bystial stuff? There's so many options.

[@DaShikuXI]

I think Eldlich would be a great fit for Odion, considering it has a bunch of trap monsters, plus the golden theme fits the whole Egyptian thing they had going on.

[@dudono1744]

Bakura would cook some shit up. He'd be on a janky FTK, alt win cons or mill or whatever he finds funny. Vaylantz might be a good pick for him.

[@johndexterzarate6663]

@@DaShikuXI his new aphophis is basically the swamp diety of golden land.

[@DaShikuXI]

@@dudono1744 Bakura coming in with the Lyrilusc/Ghostrick Angel FTK

[@gundamkaizer6947]

I can see Tea using Charmers

[@finaldarkfire]

Personally I've always loved the idea of Tea playing a Magician Girl deck, and particularly DMG being her ace/partner monster. Not only was it kinda set up in the Virtual arc, but I think it also makes for a really cool character parallel; Tea and DMG/Mana paralleling Atem and DM/Mahad. EDIT: You know I just remembered that Tea did use Seiyaryu in the Capsule Monster's filler arc, so a Starry Knight deck might fit her. It does use a lot of LIGHT Fairies.

[@StareachValcin]

Agreed.

[@SCH292]

She might gear towards Dark Magician girl theme deck. Think of those Chocolate Magician girls or other Magician related cards but at the same time not directly Dark Magician style.

[@drakofox1362]

Witchcrafters with DMG as the ace to bump her up fast

[@DaShikuXI]

I think she would lean more into cutesy fairy cards. She used cards like Petit Angel, Shining Friendship and Happy Lover. The only reason she stopped using those cards initially was because Joey and Tristan made fun of her for it. So maybe Vernuslpyh, with cards like "Thron the Disciplined Angel" thrown into the mix.

[@SCH292]

@@DaShikuXI Now that I think about your comment..I think she might run 3 different decks. 1. The Dark Magician girl theme deck. 2. Fairy deck. It will be some sort of "anti target" protection, negate, stall, defensive fairy type effect, make your opponent use up their resources to try and wipe your board but once they used up all their resources you go for OTK. 3. Everybody forgot. Maha Vailo. However Maha Vailo needs more support. This deck is all about getting Maha Vailo, other Maha Vailo related cards to the field, beef it up and try go for a battle kill.

[@floodinmon14]

Rebecca played Ruby Dragon, Sapphire Dragon, Emerald Dragon, and Diamond Head Dragon. So, you could just keep going with that these and give her Pearl Dragon, Platinum Dragon, Black & White Dragon, Black & White 2-Headed Dragon, X & Y Dragon, Sun Dragon, Moon Dragon, Shield Dragon, Sword Dragon, Scarlet Dragon, Violet Dragon, Gold Dragon, Silver Dragon, Crystal Dragon, Red Dragon, Blue Dragon, and Yellow Dragon with some modern effects. I might've missed one or 2 Pokemon Games, but I think u get the theme :D

[@erenercan1306]

Amazing😂. Give her the Dragonrulers as well, she can be trusted :). She absolutely never played broken cards like imperial order or gravity bind.

[@Vidar93]

I would also be interested in which decks yugi, yami, seto and joey and mai would play if they couldn't use their old archetypes. Just some off the top of my head that I think would work are Kaiba - Dragon Ruler Yugi - Dual Avatar Joey - Salamangreat or timelord Bakura - Vendred Yami - Monarch Mai - Fortune Lady or sky striker Bandit keith - Ancient Gear or maybe that new goblin biker Wevile - Predaplant Rex - fossil fusion or maybe dinowrestler Tristan - Spyrial Tea - Dragon maids

[@DragoRidley17]

Most of these are on point, but: - Joey would just mix modern Red-Eyes, Gearfried (who already mixes with Red-Eyes) and Flame Swordsman. They have surprising synergy. - Tea was already given a mostly modern deck. She plays Witchcrafters and Magician Girls. DMG being associated with her makes sense considering DM is associated with Yugi. - Ishizu literally used Gravekeepers in the manga to whoop Marik on the regular. Giving him GK and not her is not only disrespectful to Ishizu, but downright abusive to Marik, who ran multiple different burn decks. Just give him a modern burn deck. - Bonez whole thing was losing random monsters, then reviving them as zombies. Just give him a Zombie World deck. - Serenity and Tristan are difficult. The former ran exactly one iconic card, and the latter has used so many different decks over the years, but mostly centered around warriors or beast warriors.

[@thunderstarchampion]

The cool thing is there are still scripted duels at some events with the voice actors maintaining their roles. They're fun, and update the characters decks with modern sets

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Honestly be cool to see what kinds of decks Tea and Tristan would use. Tea would probably use a Dark Magican Girl style deck given her attachment to the card itself while Tristan might use some kind of Machine style deck since he seemed to have a preference towards Machine like monsters such as Cyber Commander and Super Roboyaro

[@DaShikuXI]

Machina would be a perfect fit for Tristan.

[@rodaivantis6843]

Could give Teá a The Agents of/ Hyperion deck. Serenity's St. Joan is linked to the DarkLords, Noble knights, and Gaurdian decks, so maybe a retrain fusion of those decks. Could Give Odion the Mythical Beast Deck.

[@jerrywil7012]

Little late to comment, but since she wasn't mentioned, I think that Tea Gardner would have a Magician Girl focused deck. 1. Because it matches her signature cards in Duel Links 2. Because the Dark Magician Girl seemed to be the monster she had to closest bond with in the anime

[@MasterArchfiend]

DSOD Tea in Duel Links has ties to the Witchcrafter archetype which I feel fits. Tristan I personally associate with the Scrap archetype. His Duel Links voice lines are all over the place, but a lot of the monsters he has lines for are EARTH monsters, he's a mechanic and rides a motorcycle which in my head just lead to Scrap. There's probably something better, especially since the archetype is already tied to another character, Toru from Over the Nexus, and the only other option that I feel fits him, Battleguard, is already associated with not one, but two Arc V characters. He does have a thing for the Super Robo series too, so I guess any EARTH deck with a duality theme, two monsters that rely on each other, would work for him. Serenity....shouldn't be allowed near a deck. At all. My man Tristan keeps getting dumped on after he took the L for her sheer illiteracy. She was the one making all of the massive misplays that Tristan had to cover for while Duke was just looking out for himself and she needed her Deck Master to step in and go "Okay, listen up stupid" just to turn things around. Rex did get retrains. His Two-Headed King Rex got some cards. Though Evol works for him since his deck was evolution themed, not as much as Tyranno's deck, but still. Bonz, I once more refer to Duel Links where they tied him to Ghostrick which I feel fits his mischievous nature, especially in Battle City with him scaring people. Bandit Keith literally got a whole batch of retrains all supported by the field spell Heavy Metal Raiders, which basically means just play DARK Machine monsters. Panik needs retrain, but Lair of Darkness is close enough in my opinion. Arkana is admittedly hard, but I feel like he would run a different series of support for Dark Magician than Atem. Same archetype, but there are enough cards that you can build two very different decks. Have him focus on Ritual while Atem is Fusion and Xyz, for example.

[@nebbynetwork2089]

I imagine mai would still play her harpee deck since there are powerful link monsters and synchro monsters there is even a harpee maximum monster

[@leociresi4292]

Elegant Egotist, make one Harpy Lady 3x

[@KudoTsurugi]

Maybe, to spin-off Téa using Dark Magician Girl, you could give her the Fruit Magician Girls. As for Tristan, he could use the Robot archetype(Super Roboyarou, Robolady, etc) since he also used that in the Virtual World arc

[@drakofox1362]

I gave Tristan monarchs all old school no extra deck for some reason it works well with him

[@7StarKarma]

I’d give Rex a King Rex/Dino fusion deck. There’s new King Rex cards, and a few generic dinosaur fusions like Horned Saurus and Gigantizowler that can use the Two Headed King Rex as fusion materials too. Fits with his theme.

[@BandannaBread]

Serenity - I could see Serenity playing Archlords or even Darklords tbh Tristen - He could probably use Machina tbh Tea - I could see Agents for Tea tbh Bonz - Zombie World works(?) Keith - There are a lot of Dark Machine/Coin Flips cards he could use tbh Panik - He's very tricky. He just really used Fiends. You'd have to grab some Dark Fiend Deck like Dark Lair, but I don't see too much else tbh. Arcana - I think he just needs custom Dark Magician archetype tbh (Could use the name Dark Sorcerer or Dark Illusionist. I know the first is used, but I'm sure the second is too lol. Either way, i think they could be good). Otherwise, Dark Magicians but the most jank version of it. Maybe a Ritual focused deck? Ishizu - She could use general Earth Fairy monsters. Vernaslyph's are good, but I don't know how well they fit. Odion - He really just needs new cards made, preferably an archetype that focused on Temple of the Kings and the scorpion. Maybe a false Ra Fusion monster that is Summoned with Temple of the Kings? Marik - Gravekeeper's fit Marik pretty well tbh, but not Yami Marik. He has a more pain focused deck tbh, so you'd probably have to use Burn or something. Ra works too, of course. Rebecca - We didn't see a lot that was specifically her tbh. At least her first deck was focused on Milling and buffing her monsters through it (Tearlaments would fit this strategy lol). There isn't really anything that specifically fits her though. Waking the Dragons - They all need custom decks tbh. Like Orechalcos Soldiers (Alister), Orechalcos Guardians (Raphael), Orechalcos Arsenal (Valon), Sins of the Orechalcos (Dartz), etc They could each have their Custom Seal Cards, and Dartz could have a playstyle where he builds up Orechalcos rings like he did in the anime.

[@tomcourtney432]

Perhaps a bit of a stretch, but I really feel like Teá would play a Starry Knight deck. In the Capsule Monsters mini series, Seiyaryu was basically her ace monster and they're almost all fairy monsters so it tracks with decks she's played before

[@yorelyoung6407]

Yes, relinquished can be made an engine. You just need enough space for 8 to 10 cards. It might be slightly inconsistent but We can make it work.

[@aceclover758]

Made? It is an engine/archetype

[@leociresi4292]

Also 1000, Millennium Eyes Restrict

[@yorelyoung6407]

@@aceclover758 That is what I meant, obviously.

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

I agree with a lot of these. For characters that have dueled less though, here's what I'd go with... admittedly, some of my choices are based on more than just the anime. Serenity: Dogmatika. I know, it sounds dumb, but here's the thing... a lot of her cards lean towards having some sort of religious subtext. (The Forgiving Maiden is a nun, St. Joan refers to Joan of Arc being a saint, Witch of the Black Forest leans towards Wicca, Goddess of the Third Eye, etc.). Dogmatika is an archetype built around nods to religion. That's hers. Tristan: The guy seems to really prefer Normal Monsters. Even when you look to the video games, most of his decks are just filled with them. I'd have to say Phantasm Spiral. It's the only deck that comes to mind that really works to any degree that is built around using Normals. Tea: With her generally mixing Fairies and Spellcasters, she would definitely need her own unique archetype. Something like Fortune Ladies (which are Spellcasters but also have "Fortune Fairies" that aren't Fairy type), would be cool to see despite it already being an anime archetype. Also, incorporating her whole thing with Yugi, maybe something that's both Light and Dark attribute. I'm thinking something around Dawn and Dusk, like you have Dawn Fairies and Dusk Witches that synergize together somehow. Weevil: Inzektors. Sorry, gotta disagree on that one, it's Inzektors. He uses them in Duel Links, they've had almost zero appearances in the anime or manga. That's the one. Bonz: Similar to Weevil, look to Duel Links. He uses Ghostricks. Again, no anime or manga appearances, and even works thematically because of how sneaky and underhanded he tried to be. Ghostricks are it. Panik: The temptation to just say "Dark World" is SO real. It is THE Dark Fiend deck. The only uses it's seen in the anime or manga were from Duel Spirits in GX. However, they don't fit his whole "I want to torture people" vibe though, he would definitely use a control deck. So, some sort of deck that's Dark Fiends, that use a control strategy. Ooh, "Shadowshield". There's your archetype name. Rebecca: The video games really leaned towards a Nurse Burn style of deck where she gained life and it dealt damage, which she did also use the in the Grand Championship arc of the anime, so it makes sense. An updated take on that could work, or maybe Aroma with some burn elements (and possibly new archetype support that leans into such a playstyle). That'd be nifty.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Personally, I think Téa plays Mikanko, Weevil plays Giant Ballpark with his retrains, and Bonz plays Skull Servant.

[@Realdeal958]

Since you say Serenitys cards have a religious subtext maybe Exosisters could also work for her?

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Mikanko isn't a bad choice, but I think it's a bit too wide ranging of an archetype for her. She tends to stick to Fairies and Spellcasters that are either Light or Dark. Mikanko doesn't have many of any of that. Bonz using Skull Servants wouldn't make a ton of sense... he never used them. Doesn't use them in Duel Links either, because in that game he uses Ghostricks. Weevil using Giant Ballpark is... something. He's meant to be the Japanese National Champion though, so i think a modern deck for him would lean a bit more towards a fast, cohesive strategy that implements Insects and could compete in the meta... but not be so good that he could get a top rank in World's. Inzektors seem like they'd be a good fit for that, and also, he uses them in Duel Links.

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

@@Realdeal958 I suppose they could. I went with Dogmatika because that archetype has a wider range of religious references, like her cards did. By comparison, Exosister is really just "Girls that are cute nuns/priestesses", which feels less close to what the theme of Serenity's cards.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy personally, I think Mikanko is a pretty good fit for Téa. My thinking is: 1) Equip Spell focus. Téa plays a high number of Equip Spells relative to the amount of her deck that we actually saw, and they tended to be important to her strategy (they helped her overpower Mai's Harpie Lady, and Maha Vailo was honestly stronger in her deck than the two characters that had the physical card). Equip Spells are also a key card type in Mikanko. 2) Ability to buy back Equip Spells. Mikanko have in-archetype ways to retrieve their Equip Spells from the GY, which is the effect of Téa's Magician of Faith (the card that she identifies with/gets her soul stuck in during Bakura's debut). 3) Damage prevention/redirection. Waboku might as well be Téa's _real_ ace card, and the Mikanko archetype use similar effects as their main strategy/gimmick. 4) Dance lore/theme. The spells have a lot of names referencing dance steps, and Téa is consistently shown to have an interest in dance. 5) They're female. Because every female duelist except Ishizu had at least a few female/cute monsters in DM. That's my opinion anyway, though I get that I'm probably in the minority on this one.

[@gamester512]

I feel like Atem may actually lean into Aleister the Invoker, particularly with how flexible Aleister the Invoker is within his archetype, via his ability to screw with the opponent's board all while recycling himself and the other Invoked cards back into the Deck/Hand. Or, alternatively, he might run a hybrid deck of Dark Magician and Archfiends. With Kaiba, I could actually see him using a Blue-Eyes deck mixed with Fallen of Albaz and his associated support, as Albaz would give Kaiba a great way to get rid of opposing Dragons, while also giving Kaiba access to even more Dragon type Fusion monsters. Plus, Albaz himself is a Dark attribute monster, which would also open things up for Kaiba to still utilize his various Virus cards. For Bonz, I actually think a Skull Servant deck would fit him perfectly (his name _is_ "Bonz" after all!). Possibly with him also slipping something like Doomking Balerdroch into his deck as an extra boss monster in addition to King of the Skull Servants. Panik would probably work with an Archfiend deck if Atem wasn't already using Archfiend cards, or he could certainly play a Dark World deck.

[@Straven93]

Feel like the biggest issue with panik playing dark worlds or archfiends is the fact that they are two deck played by GX character in Titian for archfiends and Bronz for Dark worlds.

[@doom9128]

Yooooo, I feel like nobody's talking about the chaos archetype. Cards like chaos angel, chaos archfiend, chaos mirage dragon and stuff definitely feels like something Atem would play. The only thing missing would be a modern day chaos black luster soldier. I mean considering the millenium puzzle is supposed to be a unity b/w light and darkness I feel like the chaos archetype would def be something he'd run. Also when is my best boy Bakura gonna get retrains 😭. I need an actual prominent good zorc card and some of those diabound kernel retrains.

[@azurequill3851]

Has no one thought that Panik would just use Lair of Darkness? It fits him perfectly

[@DarkSymphony777]

so for fun out of inspiration for this video. i made a hypothetical St.Joan deck for serenity Maiden of St.Joan LV4 LIGHT Fairy 850/2000 If this card is summoned, add 1 "St.Joan" Card from your deck to your hand. If you would fusion summon a LIGHT or EARTH Fusion monster, you can banish this card as material instead. Shaman of St.Joan LV4 EARTH Fairy 1100/1200 If this card is used as material for a LIGHT or EARTH Fusion monster, add 1 LIGHT or EARTH fairy monster from your deck to your hand, but you cannot activate monster effects for the rest of the turn, except LIGHT and EARTH fairy monsters. you can banish this card from your GY and target 1 "St.Joan" Fusion monster. Double it's ATK until the end phase. Preist of St.Joan LV4 LIGHT Fairy 1200/1000 If this card is sent to the GY; send 1 EARTH and 1 LIGHT fairy monster from your deck to the GY: Special Summon 1 "St.Joan" monster from your extra Deck (this is treated as a fusion Summon) if your opponent would activate a card or effect that targets a "St.Joan" card you control, banish this card; negate the activation and if you do; banish that card; then if you control a "St.Joan" fusion monster, banish all copies of that card from your opponents deck. you can only use each effect once per turn. St.Joan the Sanctifying LV8 LIGHT Fairy Fusion 2800/2000 1 LIGHT monster + 1 EARTH monster Once per Chain, if your opponent activates a monster effect in the hand or GY; add 1 LIGHT or EARTH fairy monster from your deck to the hand; and if it was the same LV as the effect of the monster activated; shuffle that card into the deck; then send the card you added to the GY. Once, If a card or effect resolves while this card is on the field; negate that effect, then "St.Joan" monsters are unaffected by your opponents card of that same type while this card is on the field. St.Joan the Purifying LV8 EARTH Fairy Fusion 2800/2000 1 LIGHT monster + 1 EARTH Monster Once per Chain, if a monster on the field activates a effect, Special Summon 1 LIGHT or EARTH Fairy monster from your hand or GY and if it's the same LV as the monster who activated their effect; return that card to the hand. Once, if a spell or trap is activated; you can negate that activation and if you do; shuffle that card into the deck; then Special Summon 1 "St.Joan" monster from your hand, deck or extra deck. Cathedral of St.Joan Field Spell If this card is activated you can add 1 "St.Joan" card from your deck to the hand. You opponent cannot respond to the summon or activation of your non-fusion "St. Joan" Monsters summons or effects. Once per turn if you control a EARTH or LIGHT Fusion monster; negate all of your opponents monsters or Spell/Traps they control; and if they control copies in their GY with the same name as a negated card;banish it. Call of St.Joan Quick-Play Spell Fusion Summon 1 EARTH or LIGHT Fusion monster by fusing monsters in your hand or field as material. If this card is activated in Response of a monsters effect; negate that effect; then use that monster a material for a fusion monster; and if you do treat that monster as a EARTH or LIGHT monster. you can only use this effect once per turn. Crucifixion of St.Joan Continuous Trap While this card is face up, your EARTH and LIGHT Fusion monsters inflcit piercing damage; also when they battle, your opponent cannot activate cards of effects until the end of the damage step; you can send this face-up card to the GY and one LIGHT or EARTH monster. Special Summon 1 "St.Joan" monster from your GY or extra deck (this is treated as a Fusion Summon)

[@amartin2484]

I could see Tea playing a Synchro Chaos deck. It's a mix of light and dark fairies,fiends,and a splash of spellcasters.

[@WillRennar]

8:09 "Adoration for the Flame Wingman" Joey Wheeler confirmed Elemental HERO player. XD

[@MegaPokefan97]

Marik DID use Gravekeepers against Pegasus while visiting Nashville, Tennessee

[@MeronSuikadoge]

Where is this stated?

[@Saimlordy]

​@@MeronSuikadoge The voice actor duel

[@golsitito4492]

The funny thing is that without plot armor, the original decks would be more like starters than competitive

[@cullenlatham2366]

If we go the duel links route, they interpreted DSOD Tea as magician girls and/or witchcrafters, and at the time of her first release, witchcrafters were meta viable for the format. I also question the bakura choice, since his initial fiend deck was clearly the influence of the ring. Bakura the innocent didnt really participate in duels outside of shadow game shenanigans and overpowering just long enough to concede. We dont need to narrow every character down to a single archetype, either. Mai could easily run both a harpy and a amazoness deck depending on her opponent, and she was shown to be competent enough to imply the ability to consider different decks for different scenarios.

[@ToasterCorgiGaming]

Since Tea used Fairy monsters in her duel vs Mai in Duelist Kingdom, and in the Capsule Monsters Arc she had Seiyaryu (Surprising, isn't it?), clearly she'd use the Starry Knight Archetype. With the Fairy deck focus and Seiyaryu retrain as it's boss, it makes sense.

[@leociresi4292]

Then, her Rare card would be Stardust Dragon

[@ToasterCorgiGaming]

@@leociresi4292 How?

[@SowaraAkther1]

A very unique idea. Love the concept and hope you do this for GX. Especially with people like Sryus.

[@Cerbleur07]

It would be impossible for Chumley and Syrus, Koalas have gotten nothing and Syrus Vehiclroids are awful.

[@SowaraAkther1]

Knowing TGS anime, he would just make Sryus a whole new deck for him.

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

​​@@Cerbleur07 Konami would probably release even more boomer support for all these old decks if the anime got a reboot, they need to collect the boomer tax.

[@elteller5306]

​@@Cerbleur07 they can work with Speedroids tho

[@pn2294]

That wouldn’t make sense because they already have archetypes.

[@anonluxor470]

Okay now you making me feel old dude and I'm 27 years old

[@scbetton]

Red eyes archetype literally fits Joey's gimmicks throughout the years when he did combos with his red eyes

[@mung01re]

Joey used Red-Eyes because he _won_ a Red-Eyes. His deck was never built around it.

[@scbetton]

@@mung01re not the point. Joey still made combos with his red eyes. Paradox brothers and bandit Keith. And Joey took it as a challenge to go through battle city when he lost his red eyes. Clearly it's a central part of his deck. If Joey had to build a deck today it would be around his red eyes.

[@scbetton]

@@mung01re that's like saying yugi wouldn't build his deck around dark magician because he had other combos in his deck.

[@leociresi4292]

New archetype, Ruby Eyes Onyx Dragon

[@magicfoogieA]

The closest to a Joey-built Red-Eyes strategy would probably be Red Eyes Slash Dragon since it at least tries to synergize with his favorite archetype -- Warriors. I will die on the hill that Gearfried The Red-Eyed Iron Knight, Red-Eyes Fang with Chain, and Red-Eyes Slash Dragon were cards meant to fit in a modern Joey deck regardless if Flame Swordsman remained his main archetype.

[@KingChiggy]

Honestly I always associated the Battleguards with Tristan. I know there were some cards added to that group but that didn't make it a full on deck. I could see Tea using the Magician Girls thinking along the lines that Yugi helped her become a better duelist and after upgrading his deck gave her the Magician Girls to use as her own thing. Considering how she was there 90% of the time just to cheer on Yugi and Atem I feel like it makes sense for her to use cards that are associated with them For Rex I can see him at least using the retrains of the Two-Headed King Rex as well as the more generic dinosaur support and possibly having Transcendasaurus as his boss monster Weevil could use Beetroopers Pegasus would run two separate decks. His toon deck would be like his public deck, its the deck that he would use when doing like sponsored events and stuff and would be the cards that are associated with him in the public eye to make him and his company seem more kid friendly, but if he ever gets backed into a corner or has to duel outside the public eye (mostly in more dire situations) he'd switch over to the Millennium-Eyes deck. Honestly for the canon of the show (and since no one else had heard of Relinquished back in the day) I could see in universe him never circulating these cards making it a one of a kind deck he uses to just destroy people with.

[@Ravencore_]

I'd give Tea a Vylon deck mostly cause it's a fairy deck that uses equipt spells. For Bonz I'd give him the modern equivalent of the Zombie World deck as that's his main card he used against Joey when they played in duelist kingdom. The idea of a "smoke and mirrors" field spell for Arcana that let's him switch out spells and traps on the field and let's the opponent guess what's where. Like playing hide the lady.

[@Jameshart-dw9zr]

the kaiba dragonmaid joke hitted so well. very creative 👍

[@leociresi4292]

Kaiba Modern archetype, Sapphire Eges Argentium Dragon

[@dominiklange8382]

Serenity feels like a Nobel/Infernoble Knight player, Tea iirc had a Darklord burn deck in the most recent games

[@TheDragonaf1]

Technically would the World Championship voice actor duels be semi-cannon with the updated decks (using new summoning methods e.g. Dan green used XYZ).

[@shinystarmiestudios4179]

In one of my fanfic duels I had Serenity Wheeler use a Light Attribute deck.

[@TheMongral]

Something I think that fits best for Marik having both a "Slime Deck" and a Non-Gravekeeper deck is the fact that, as you point out in other videos, with "Revival Jam" being Marik's "Ace Monster", this showcases something that most people don't really talk about, and that's Repetition across Duels. Across the Series, characters typically aim for new cards to showcase more of the game, to show off more cool combos, but every character has cards that show up frequently in their decks, these typically being their Ace or Boss monsters, even when Kaiba has Obelisk as his win condition, he still finds a way to pull out his Blue Eyes for instance. In the duels that we see from Marik himself, his Revival Jam combo is the only one he repeats across the duels we see involving him. Strings, under his direct control, uses it, and then he, himself, uses it both against Mai and Yugi. It's literally the only card combo in his deck that always shows up in the duels featuring him or one of his direct minions (I don't really count the Joey duel in this because that one was clearly meant to not be a serious duel, he just wanted to torment Yugi). I think it's safe to say that his sister would get the Gravekeeper deck (which would be more fitting since Marik is the one who originally abandoned that lifestyle), while Marik would get the Slime deck.

[@TheDad779]

I love this concept! Though, I wish you would turn it into a series. A lot of the answers here were “ well, I guess he’d have a modernized X deck “. It would be very cool to have a series where you actually develop the modern decks. These people might have.

[@TheCrankyTechnician]

Atem is playing 10000% DM, it's his eternal servant. If, for some reason not, he could very well play "Horus". Fits thematically and could be mixed with other Egyptian themed cards

[@protopawn]

I feel Joey would absolutely play the new Flame Swordsman deck with the exception of having a small splash of Red-Eyes in the form of adding Slash Dragon due the synergy with warriors it has. Tea would probably play a Magician Girl deck like in Duel links.

[@DenkouYari]

Serenity wheeler I could see playing GemKnights. It meets both the established criteria of being a fusion based deck that has boss monsters being lady knights. Tea Gardner is definitely harder, but I could see her maybe doing dream mirror. Shes always been victim of dark events but held out the positive attitude through it all, so playing a bit of light and dark aspects in her deck makes sense to me. Tristan......oh boy. Maybe Tristan would play Zoodiac? Boss monster is a monkey right? Or he'd play too many vanilla monster with old school slow tribute summoning mechanics. He was never really that good, so it makes sense his deck would not keep up with more modern decks.

[@FirstBorn-kz4bf]

Personally, i think the pharoah would use a slifer deck with dark magician engine, ive seen those in master duel and theyre cool, fits him and checks all the bases

[@raelak7850]

I don't know anything about Serenity's showing, but based on what you said, I could see Serenity actually using exosister. Thematically related to the fusion monster, but with a full archetype support. Tea I could see using a magician girl deck

[@BlackHedgehog]

All this video has made me want is a modern retelling of the original series but specifically Duelist Kingdom (think Digimon Adventure 2020). I'd love to see them have a better structured retelling. Which would allow a retelling to like the original have anime-only cards to help some of the cards that don't fit the main archetypes. As for Tea/Anzu ... she seems to get Fairy decks in games so ... makes sense.

[@markjeurelguardiano3302]

Joey.. i just recall his battle against valor using amored deck. The orichalcos arc.

[@Arcanua]

While you made the Dragonmaid joke for Kaiba idk why I think that would be a Mokuba deck when he finally decides to duel. Or some dragon type deck at least that ideally could even synergize with Seto's. But I think him having Dragonmaids would be a bit funny but I also think he seriously might. It kinda reminds me of Zigfried and his brother with the themeing.

[@theifysnightmare1316]

Id recon Tea/Anzu would mainly be Fairy cards, due to when you dule against her in games shes genrualy given a fairy deck, and with her heavy reliance on strong friendships that would suit her. I recon Joey/Junouchi would defiantly be Flame Swordsman, woth a little luck thrown in, but from what i know the REBD is a bit unknown to what they want to be. Bakurabi always thought would be Fiend based, but the spirit bord would definatly be a good choice too I always thought Ishizu would be the Gravekeeper deck and Serenity would probably fit like a lightsworn?? Kaina would DEFINATLY be a dragon maid one through

[@KINFIN123]

Tossing out some suggestions. Serenity only ever had the one duel so making an identity for her would be tough but I feel like she might play something like Sky Strikers since her one common thread was strong independent women. Tristian’s whole thing was always macho man cards so I feel like he might adopt the Fur Hire archetype. It’s not that out there since he did have lava battle guard in duelist kingdom And for Tea, I feel like she might go the magician girl route or since her goal was always to become a professional dancer, maybe she does something related to that? I know Nekroz has those Dance Princesses, not sure if there are better options there

[@TheCrashunderride]

Tea could play something like a trickstar deck. Something about like dancing/performing

[@ajw7199]

I really would like a nother show that's set between GX and 5Ds about Yugis son which also introduces a new archetype call the light magicians for tea and maybe we see synchro cards introduced. Or maybe a Dungeon dice monsters show with Duke as the main character

[@anthonym7322]

I also think another ideal deck that could fit Joey now in modern day, is a Gearfried-based because that top is one of his other favorite Warrior monsters. I think Tristan should have a Battleguard-based deck. Tea should have a Magician Girl-based deck. I think Yugi (not Atem) should have a Silent Magician/Swordsman LV deck, Gadget XYZ or a Magnet Warrior deck. Bandit Keith should have a Barrel Dragon-based deck or Machine King-based deck Bonz should have a Wight-based or Ghostrick-based deck. I think Ishizu would be better off with a Gravekeeper deck imo

[@foreverdiscipletv7856]

Yugi - You sound right Atem - Definitely the dark magician/eternal soul stuff Téa - I was thinking counter fairies here Joey - Flameswordsman ya, you got this or maybe even Infernoble/Noble Knights Tristian - No idea lol Mai - definitely harpie's nothing else matters Duke - Anything with Orgoth in it Serenity - Aromage's maybe? Or maybe give her Counter Fairies and give Tea Witchcrafters Kaiba - Blue eyes nothing else matters ahaha Pegasus - I was thinking probably Toons right? Or maybe even Prank-Kids? Bakura - The Dark Spirit Cards + Destiny Board Weevil - Maybe Inzectors? Wasn't there an insect deck with a fancy Link 4? Bones - Pumpkin + basic zombie stuff; I could see him evolving to use Mayakashi or Shiranui Bandit Keith - dark machines I think; not sure what else is there Panick - eh ya dark world or maybe even archfiends Espa Roba - Jinzo has a couple renditions so shove all of them in there Arkana - Dark Magician but minus the Eye of Timaeus, so less Eternal Soul more magic cylinder / magical hats Ishizu - Exchange of Spirit Keldo and all those Earth Fairies Marik - Gravekeepers!! We were robbed from seeing him use this in the anime Odeon - There are a bunch of trap monsters, like shapesisters and stuff things like that The Waking the Dragon Characters - I never watched this one so idk

[@Stefan_Gerards]

"Yu-Gi-Oh came out over two decades ago" thanks Sam, feeling old now 😭

[@hamzagamalelgamal]

There are lots of retrains for Rex's ace (Twin Headed King Rex)

[@tevinhoward4419]

Tea would love the xyz monster legendary magician girl for her extra deck

[@SleepyDullahan]

I've always been fond of Gazelle, Berfomet and Chimera so I always put an illusion engine in my Yugi decks in master dual. Just Gazelle, King of Mythical Claws, Big-Wing Berfomet, Chimera Fusion, The three fusion monsters, Nightmare Apprentice and Nightmare Magician. It's kind of nice pulling Chimera the Illusion Beast on unsuspecting Opponents for the three hit beat down, course it only really works in slower matches or atleast I'm only good enough to make it work in slower matches.

[@lordofninjas1]

I think these are fair decks to give the characters. For Atem the only change I'd really make is maybe give him some Buster Blader cards along with his Dark Magician archetype, he does play Dark Paladin and IIRC there are some Buster Blader cards that work for both Buster Blader and Dark Magician or whatever. He could maybe have like Dark Cavalry too to kinda tie back with his Gaia cards while also still doing a Dark Magician Archetype. For characters like Tea and Tristan that don't really have specific retrains and such I would go with whatever they're most known for and try to revolve it around their aces/boss monsters. For Tea it would be Fairies, not necessarily Counter Fairies, just Fairies in general, with cards revolving around like Petit Angel and Sanctuary in the Sky or whatever that card was she had and stuff like that. For Tristan I think he'd have like a robotic warrior deck, so like cyborgs or monsters that are part robotic and part organic, mixed with the Battleguard Archetype cause he does use the cards in the Anime and does give Joey Lava Battleguard I think and uses many cyborg cards like Cyber Commander and the Robolady/Roboyarou cards. Rex would be Dinosaurs revolving around Twin-Headed King Rex and Serpent Knight Dragon. Just different things like that. For characters that have multiple Archetypes they could fit into, like Atem or Joey or Mai, I would say maybe they could have a deck of each of their Archetypes, like Mai would have a Harpie deck and a separate Amazoness deck or Joey would have a Red-Eyes deck and a separate Warrior/Beast-Warrior deck. Bastion from GX has shown that having multiple decks is legal, so it could work.

[@stonalisa3729]

Why not keep Buster Blader with Yugi

[@lordofninjas1]

@@stonalisa3729 sorry if there was some confusion with what I said, yes, I agree that Yugi should keep Buster Blader, I just referred to him as the Pharaoh's name, Atem.