Even though this list does look similar to what we played in the past, I do still think its the most optimal way to play in a very hand trap heavy format. I do have a lot of things that I’d like to change about the list starting with card ratios, but we take things 1 day at a time. if you have any recommendations or changes, I read everything so please let me know! Thank You and Have a great day!

The Dark Paladin playmat makes me happy. My favorite YuGiOh monster to date

Amazing deckprofile with good combos, thanks for sharing! I love DM-Branded, they have great synergy!

Hey, I have been practicing with the Dark Magician deck and some variants, and I really like your insights, everything is well thought out. I tried one of your lists and it felt really good. Keep up the good work, best DM deck I have tried so far, you are a really exceptional player and deck builder =)

This is awesome I was expecting less dark magician cards

F***in love it! Such a well thought out list with clear purpose and intention for each card / ratio, as always: well done good sir.

This cookery is fire man! Imma have to pick up some Branded cards one day. Good stuff!

My dawgs a legend

Hope to see some gameplay from this deck in the next video!

This is awesome man, love these vids

Okay this cross out play is CRAZY

crossout to banish DM off the back of branded fusion is BUSTED

Great video! Will you post a combo video?

Those sleeves are EPIC!!!!

Hi! First of all thank you very much for your video(s)! Do you think that, after the April’s Banlist, this is still the best way to play DM? Could you please do an in-depth combo video? Thanks in advance!

Quem raises the decks ceiling. She can facilitate double mirrorjades consistently. I think you should run branded opening because it’ll let you special summon Quem or Aluber from deck and provides protection from destruction effects for your fusions. Another potential addition is Albion the shrouded dragon, he can foolish any branded spell/trap or albaz. It opens lines to recover BraFu from the gy with branded retribution. Also it helps to get Cartesia on the field to dodge imperm and veiler on potential choke points. Branded is a deck that thrives when ran with 45+ cards. I think your deck would actually improve by running a more comprehensive branded engine and boosting the card count.

Crossout play is so pro i have never thought about it Good job King👑

Thats cool. With a lot of Spellcasters, maybe run one copy of Magicians Defense in your side or main deck. As long as one Spellcaster is on your field, you will take half damage. Also when its sent to the grave, you get to bring a Spellcaster back from your grave. So either your opponent would get annoyed and try to get rid of it, or you can flip it over so you can use Souls to remove it. To recycle your Cartesia or whatever you like. Also, from the vid, you get to draw 2 from Servant because DM and DMG are in your grave.

Bruh try running Shaddoll Fusion package in the side since you already have them in the extra deck. It blows out Fire but is just a great board breaker in general. Banish 3 cards from opponents grave, pop a spell/trap and negate a face-up monster with 1 card 🤯. I’m cooking a DM/Buster Blader Build that utilizes a lot of the same cards with the Buster Welp as the normal instead of Rod. Then just siding out the whole Buster Blader package for board breakers going second it’s wild. Can post the list tonight if interested.

Thanks for the awesome video Matchie! Can anyone help me better understand that if we chain Duality/Secrets/Cartesia to avoid the Imperm effect negation on Albion, is the Imperm unable to resolve because the Albion is no longer a face-up target and is instead in the graveyard? Is this still the case if the opponent responds with something like a Dragoon negate instead of an Imperm?

The cross out play reminds me of when I played Bystial branded I used to cross Bystial with regained of the field for a draw

Where did you get dark paladin playmat? looks dope

I’m curious if we find another option for SP since literally every Deck profile is playing him. I don’t have another option but I think since we’re playing a deck that basically counters a lot of stuff that’s hot rn but sp throws the vibe off a little lmao. I’m still hyped to see some action in the stream. Let’s gettit 🔥

Amazing list. With the shadoll package in side, what would you swap it in for?? Definitely wanting to trial this list

Nice vid, btw im curious why do all DM players still play DMG as the second name? ever since the release of chaos angel for me mahad has been the staple second name, unlike dmg it can actually summon itself on draw, its used to miss timing in past versions of DM with cards like allure and upstart but all the magical hero support works perfectly with mahad, souls, dark magicians and servant all draw without any after effect. it can be searched with illusion and stacked on top to then draw it with souls etc summon itself then use servant to draw 2, and best of all it allows rod later game to be a 1 card combo into full power chaos angel. Rod Search servant, use servant stack mahad, use servant in gy eff to draw 1 assuming a DM is in play, summon mahad and make chaos angel :D

ive had more luck with my ritual dm than fusion dm, recently won locals last week, vs heroes, gate guardian, and snake eyes almost won again the next day, vs snake eyes, crusadia, had to leave last round not the best list, but it randomly works, it also doesnt work, but when it does, its fun

Got a questen what card can one play insted of sp little knight?

I don't think the runick variant is that bad tbh. I think if you up the count from 15 to 17, you gain a lot more consistency in the draws for it, and it works better with souls. You can cut down on some of the dm engine. I'm doing some testing now but would love to show you a diff version of the runick DM branded list and see what you think

I've always wondered what sleeves do you use and where do you get them?

Does this deck do good against baron de fleur

If i cant afford sp little knight and triple tactic thrust…. Which cards can i use in place of them?

I don’t know where all the negative comments coming from but I think u guys misunderstand the whole process of the deck. Literally matchie kept all the DM cards from his first video (but 1 servant ig) Point of the deck is to not have a pure dm deck, but have dm cards and it’s engine in the deck to keep up with meta decks and even top with it at ycs. To you guys who that wanna have a pure dm deck that works in this meta with eternal and circle as one of the many bricks that this deck would have if we don’t combine the dm engine with another, good luck and no offense but u guys with the wrong guy then. Matchie the combo potential u just offered with playing many cards that was at 3, as 2 and replacing other cards with it is crazy, u been doin a good job. I don’t think I gotta repeat other fellas what u just did with cross out is krazy etc. Keep goin 🤝🏽🫶🏽

How viable is this version of the deck in Master Duel? I've in thinking of trying it but I'm not sure if I want to spend all my UR essence. Have anyone tried it?

LETS GOOOOOOO

Have you considered building a DM deck for MD to achieve a master's rank?

Commenters going IN right now LOL Some people gotta chill on specifics and just take the fact that decks sometimes need other cards to actually work and... WIN lol

Branded fusion and servant is dragon master knight and eternal soul. Not a terrible board.

I was about to critisize you for acting like you came up with all of this on your own, because your list seemed to be a damn near identical copy to a profile I saw featured on HakunaMyData, and you weren't giving them credit. But then I realized it was yours 💀

For the ones complaining and saying is it a Dm Deck? Yes, it is because the number of Dm cards is more than the number of branded cards in the main deck. Based on CADT rules, this is a Dm Deck with a branded engine. Dm archetype has been shafted with poor support. That's why we use different engines to improve our decks. Take meta deck Snake Eyes they use fire king cards in the deck which is a engine to help improve gameplay. Get off your high horse and adapt

so its basicly branded at this point

This deck seems too bricky having to play 3 engines. I would rather integrate a small kashtira core instead like how theyre doing in master duel. Fenrir, unicorn, and birth are too busted to not be playing them.

I fucking love you beautiful boi x

So nothing new really imo best version of DM for a while now, the side deck was really interesting for DM but you see these cards more and more as side decks. To compete in the power creep format we keep getting we need better 1 card starters and in archtype links to help the deck along with stong spell cards thats a lot what i dont see coming anytime soon

If you're only playing one copy of dark magician is it really a dark magician deck tho...

the best way is to not play it at all

"i'm going to top with dark magician!" "So anyway, here's my branded deck"

This is basically shaddoll branded. All of the dark magician cards are either in the gy or the only monster that is somewhat dark magician on the end board is dragoon. This is a poor showing of a dark magician deck, this only shows that you cannot make a dark magician deck in the year 2024.

This deck is all kinds of hodgepodge. If you're going to play Dark Magician, for the love of God man, play Dark Magician. The entire point of the deck is to mill out Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. That's it. That should be your entire and only focus when deck building. Get out Dark Magician and get out Dark Magician girl as fast and as efficiently as possible. The entire deck goes into overdrive after that. Salvation is 2 bodies a turn for links or w/e you may need them for, combination is a soft once p/ turn omni, soul servant is a draw 2, then there's always the good ol circle banish. Access to any one of these puts you in a really good spot provided you get out DM and DMG. There's an art to running multiple engines. The magic is not the ideas behind the engines, but how well they are balanced. The purpose of the 2nd engine is to facilitate the plays of the 1st engine. The Branded package here is too heavy for DM support, yet not enough to play Branded. I have no clue why Shaddoll is there, but there's not enough to play Shaddoll. There's not enough Dark Magician there. Its horribly balanced across all 3 counts. The only reason Branded works so well in Dark Magician is b/c its the 2nd burial of DM/DMG (on top of Souls) and it gives you access to the boss fusions all in one card. All you need is 3 Branded Fusion and 1 (maybe 2) Albaz. You're not trying to play Branded, you are using it to support DM. With brafu @ 3, there's no reason to play Dogmatika or Shadoll or any of that stuff. Cut out all the crap. Add your DM spells/traps back in. Add in your non engine. Tune the Extra and the Side. Best of luck to you.