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

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

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

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

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

Always lovely to see your new ideas for DM.

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

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

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

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

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

Nice and pretty card sharing! Thanks!

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

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

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

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

Go get them Atem!

i will watch your career with great interest

love the way you presented this brother!

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

Let's go Cross Sheep! We love the content

very decent profile as always

so hekkIng excited

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

just your average Matchie banger 🔥

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

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

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

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

Let's goooooooo get it bro

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

Finally, playable dark magician

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

yhus bout to go crazy

good luck

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

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

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

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

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

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

Miss you lil bro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New video❤❤❤❤❤

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

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

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

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

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

I think soul servant can be cut down to 2z

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

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

Based

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

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

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

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

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

How are we getting to shaddoll set up again?

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

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

😀

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

Is there no way to throw branded in as well?

side deck?

Plethora. Ple-Thor-uh 😅

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

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

Good luck dingleberry, you'll need it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🗑

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