Dark Magician YCS Preparations | Test Hands
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2023
- Hello! Please let me know what you think of the video and let me know if you have any changes or recommendations you advise. Let me know what you would change. Thank You and have a wonderful day!
Hey man, if you can make DM as competitive as possible even if it’s not a pure DM deck, go for it. This is an interesting deck and if you can make to finals and be top, that’d be amazing. A definite representation for us DM players ✊🏽 rooting for ya.
Let's goooo! Love those test hands and combo tutorials. Keep it up
Appreciate the kind words on every video! Support means the world my friend!
Congratulations bro, as a Dark Magician user I'm happy too. Extraordinary
Love the video!
Love the video man!!!!
Awesome explanations! You seem like you're gonna do great by the time you attend the YCS!
Thank You so much! Appreciate the comment!
Now I understand how you use the shadoll monsters, my biggest wonder in the last video. Pls keep this up! :D
This is a cool deck that I tested out verbatim, the problem I ended up having with it was just too many dead hands, especially going first. Multiple bricks, 6 near-useless board breakers, the conditional nature of Duality, and a few packages that don't always have ways to work with each other left things feeling clunky more often than I wanted, even before interruptions. Currently experimenting with a few tweaks, the best-feeling one so far has been bumping the card count up to 45 (which I just generally think is a solid idea for bricky decks) and including 1 Aluber and 3 Branded Opening. Seeing Branded Fusion way more often doesn't totally un-clunk the deck (it's still DM at the end of the day), but it feels a lot better. Shedding the triangle and cutting down to a single DM is definitely the play though, as bad as it feels lol
I agree. The next step is figuring out how to get this deck more consistent. I have a few suggestions including yours, and we’ll see where those take me!
I appreciate the comment! Thank you :)
Godspeed match man
Great job, Matchie! Looking forward to seeing more theorycraft and card tweaks. Love the interactions and combos you’re coming up with. DM4LIFE!
Appreciate the kind words! Means a lot!
@@MatchieYGO Also I'm mad at you for making me buy Cartesia's. I've been testing the deck list and love it too much 😁Keep it up ❤
@@joeseidon HAHAHA Sorry! Yugioh is expensive, but I’m so glad you’re enjoying the list! I’m loving it too!
Love seeing the test hands. Coincidentally, just this week I started experimenting with a DM list that includes Mysterion. He can be nice against decks like Spright. It's helpful to have a spellcaster+dragon fusion option as well for those times when you're otherwise bricked on a dragon and something like Rod.
Very interesting! Yeah, mysterion caught my eye very quickly, I’ll be definitely trying him out! Thanks for the comment!
that's exactly what i wanted to see ❤️❤️🔥
not having any spell or trap feels so weird I'm not gonna lie 😂
but being able to fix a very bad looking hand and make a nice end board is actually crazy
I love it
I'm so excited to see more of these ❤️☺️
don't be afraid of making a longer video ❤️
Appreciate the kind words my friend! Can’t wait to record more content in the future!
You are creating the blueprint for DM players everywhere. I myself have this very dream. I hope you succeed bro.
Thank you so much! This means so much to me :)
Good Video Friend nice and clean audio
MY MAN! Thanks for the comment, means so much to me!
Thanks for the test hand! Been trying your version the past week on YGOPRO and the hardest thing I have trouble is keeping Winda alive during a battle phase.
Thats definitely the choke point of the list. It's hardest matchup is kashtira because they can out the winda with 1 NS, that being said having winda apply that pressure is sometimes enough for you the generate enough advantage to take control of the game. Im also looking at more ways to make the list more optimal myself. Always trying to improve
@MatchieYGO Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully the new structure deck for DM will provide the support we need.
This deck is very interesting, my God... I really liked its mechanics and I'm going to build it just like your friend. Thanks 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thank you for your kind words! Hope you enjoy!
@@MatchieYGO Yes, keep making more videos!!
Cheers gorgeous ❤️
GO! DARK MAGICIAN
Yo dude I just found your channel and your videos were dope! You have inspired me as I was taking a break from it! Now I want to do something similar but with my favorite deck!
You have no idea how happy that makes me! Glad I can help :)
@@MatchieYGO I also have a CZcams channel I would like to do content like this, but only if that’s okay with you I don’t want to steal your thunder because this is a great idea!
Maybe we could colab in the future!
@@Zaphiakel go for it! I strive to inspire, not hate on people who take inspo from my content :)
@@MatchieYGO I’ll make sure I shout you out and give you all the credit! Hopefully get you some new subs
@@Zaphiakel I’ll make sure to send a sub your way :)
Good vid! you should make a vid where we see deck in action cause hand test seems good. And would recommend to add luluwalilith it really helps
It's in the works! Thank you for the comment, means a lot :)
Let’s go
Wow cartesia is sooo good I wouldn’t be surprised if her or granguignol gets hit later down the line
She's the MVP for sure! what a crazy card. The synergy she has with DM is really nice.
Let's go Matchie! Ever since I saw your decklist vid and got your explanation of the cards I've been playing around with the deck in EDOpro and it's a ton of fun! You've earned a subscriber bro and I'm gonna cheer you on with every DM video you make all the way up to YCS! Can't wait for your updated deck list
So happy you're enjoying the list! ultimately, thats all i could ask for! Thank you for the comment and support! It means a lot.
I feel like Winda + Dragoon on the opponent's turn, is stronger than Dragoon + Mirrorjade on the opponent's turn with no discard for Dragoon until they play a spell. Although the follow up can be better with the second option. You also have to fit Luluwalilith! You're right, Granguignol doing nothing in the GY really sucks, although it is a target for Duality's draw and there's not many others.
I dissagree, winda+dragoon w 2 discards is easy to play thru with kashtira bc they can just summon any kash and attack over winda and then all you have left is 2 drgoon negates while mirrorjade can be pretty good if they like theosis you can banish the target or birth even
appreciate the comment! The beautiful thing is that you have both options of winda and the mirror jade lines of play available and can be flexed depending on what matchup youre in. YES! very excited to test Lulu
im also doing a deep dive into making dark magician good ! haha this is tight xD
i run dark magician buster blader branded haha
the fact your already figuring out bystials are rough in this deck haha i dont run the bystials but i agree on building for a predominant heavy go second stuff like dark ruler thrust talents raigeki duster, haha i love being able to thrust into talent, raigeky duster or dark ruler haha ists pretty much like grab whatever blowout you want xD
when you do test hand you should die roll a d20 for for a chance at getting handtrapped, lol like if you roll 1=your play gets ashed or 2 it goes through no issue, 3 is droll, what if you cant be drolled then it misses and you play around droll for the remainder of the hand ( its how i test around hand traps lol i hate how i test a deck to the moon and back with hands and its incredible but the n when real duels happen i get ashed or drolled in spots i realize i should have figured out work arounds on
I like how the boss monsters of this deck are still all spellcaster monsters. Staying true to the Dark Magician style.
Secret village is a cool tech card. I used to play it as a small engine in my shaddoll invoked deck. I'd play village and 3 metaverse to side into when going first and it would get lots of free wins.
Agreed! Village in the side deck has won me so many games by itself!
This is really helpful. As a strictly DM player the lines of play for branded aren't something I'm as familiar with, wondering if you could do a few more of these showcasing the interactions with some of the other branded cards? Specifically branded fusion. Coming from Ritual DM, I like that this version of the deck seems to always have gas, but sometimes it can be overwhelming to a non branded player knowing which lines to go down. Really liking this direction though!
Noted my friend! Hopefully in the near future I’ll put a video together for you and anyone else with the same questions.
Thanks for the support ! Means a lot
@@MatchieYGO Thank you! Every video I’m finding does their combos with Quem and some of the other new branded cards. So to learn your intentions with this iteration is a bit hard without your direct input. Your response is appreciated, looking forward to more content!
Have tried to make it with svareclaw
On the last hand you coulda drew a card for the dark magicians effect also
599 let's gooo. Good work my Dude. Sad to see that this the way to go and say goodbye to the triangle but it's probably the way to go. Too many cards needed to setup. One interruption at the right spot and you'll end with almost nothing
I think I'm gonna run shaddoll package in my deck because I currently don't have cart or bystials but am running nadir servant for if I get ashed on branded fusion so having options with duality and schism
Nadir Servent is definitely a great place to start. I played nadir servent with DM for a very long time, It's really strong, especially going 2nd.
Good Luck!!! I hope you can make moor cool videos like these here!!
Thank you for the kind words! More videos is the plan :)
Hoping, praying, begging Konami to unban dragoon on MD, so i can play this when these cards come out. Deck looks super fun!
He delivers!!!!!
Appreciate the kind words!
Is there a budget replacement for cartesia
Hey Matchie, interesting stuff! Quick question about 3:50, is there any reason you can't use duality's effect for the draw by pitching timaeus off of schism? It seems you could just go ahead and shuffle back timaeus and the magnamhut that's already in the gy for the draw 1, no? And actually, it seems better that way than pitching Mag (on top of the point you mentioned about wanting to keep mag for the interrupt), since you don't have many good light targets you'd want to banish, i.e., you want to get cartesia back to hand, and granguignol could potentially use its second effect in gy, so if you can avoid shuffling either back that would be better I would think. Thanks again for the awesome video!
Thanks for the question :) it’s because I need a dark in grave to resolve schism :) so it needed to be mag! But good eye, that was def a play, I needed another dark though :)!
Thanks for watching my friend
@@MatchieYGO Ah right, I got a bit fixated on the play at hand and totally forgot about the end board you were going for lol.
If you don't mind another question, I saw in your more recent video that you felt the bystials were underperforming for you; do you think you'll be cutting them altogether from the list, and if so, would you strictly want to maintain those extra deck slots for other side deck options (i.e., defensive style cards like ttt, village, etc.,) or would you hypothetically consider putting in more engine cards if you had some. I guess I'm asking more generally what you feel is the right/minimum number of cards slots you want to reserve in a 40 card deck for those defensive style side deck cards. I'm labbing my own branded dm build that runs a bit more heavy on branded tech (opening, branded in red, etc.), and was experimenting to what extent I can incorporate additional engine cards you use without sacrificing on existing combo pieces I use.
@@LizerdWizard excellent question. A lot of that and more will be answered in a video I’m working on in the future.
It’s going to be a lengthy response so Ima just narrow it down: Bystials are only as good as the format let’s them, I’ve moved them all to the side deck as I feel they are way more dominant there (siding them in into matchups that really maximize their value) - with how dm is fundamentally, the deck needs cards that do a lot on their own, and Bystials are either crazy or bricks… no inbetween in this current format. As of writing this comment, I think they are a must in the side, but not strong enough to have a main deck slot.
Cards like TTTc ect, have been put in the main, I’ll be going over everything in the near future :)
@@MatchieYGO Looking forward to it 😎
Dragoon winda doesn’t really match up well rn though..
Vs Runick LTS there are loads of outs with the runick spells and non engine - often on evenly and tactics which beats/outs dragoon
Vs Kash SS fenrir cooks you
I also think that these boards are really weak to meta trends such as DRNM, TTT’s and arise
Thank you so much for the comment! I definitely agree with the list having a poor matchup into Runick… THAT being said there are a few things to note. Firstly, Dragoon is very strong against Kash… the winda is definelty not a treat to those decks in particular, however it applies enough pressure to exhausted their resources.
As for Runick, there are side deck options that just win the game outright (Secret Village).
You’re absolutely right about DRNM AND TTT. The Only argument I have to your comments on DRNM and TTT, is that those cards destroy so many end boards on their own not even including my list. Every deck has that FTK card it loses too (ash-branded, Evenly/Duster - Lab, Book of eclipes/ Destruction cards - Kash ect.
It’s a pick your poison format for sure.
But I love this interaction! Critiques like this only make the list better!
I appreciate your comment!
What made you go away from the runick engine especially with it being so successful and popular recently for more branded?
Thanks for the comment!
The Runick stuff is still incredible. However, I’m opting to go for a more oppressive playstyle with this list. where as runick is more gas. I just feel when trading interactions 1 for 1, DM significantly lacks engine to win those matchups, so rather than playing a deck that focuses on 1 for 1 interactions, I think the “meta call” is to break boards, and oppress my opponent with Cards like dragoon, winda, village, Bystials ect applying pressure after breaking their boards.
Runick may very well make a comeback in the near future if my theory doesn’t work as intended, I think both versions of the deck are very strong.
can i run 2 of the red fusion dragon in extra deck, the one you fusion into mirrorjade or to make winda play
How did it go?
Decklist please?
I finally got some time to test out this deck. It bricks... a lot. Trying to get dragoon, winda, granguignol out on turn one/two is very resource intensive... at least for a DM deck. It's not the first time I've tried dragoon with winda however this version seems much better. Honestly, we can take the bystials out. They don't help us to either extend or interrupt opponent plays. What to replace it with? No idea but bystials feel clunky.
Agreed. I swapped the Bystials out for my last run at locals and it feels much better. This list does have issues with bricking, y but that’s the nature of the deck,
Thanks for commenting! Means a lot!
This is good but you need to add ways to stop spell cards from going off because that is dragoon's only weakness. I don't know how you would fit it in though.
Secret village is in the side deck… unfortunately there is only so much the deck can prepare for.
@MatchieYGO if you can add a spell/trap negate that wasn't a monster without increasing your chance to brick, I think it would really up your game. Only relying on spellcaster feels like gambling haha
This is the same deck from the last video right?
Feels like you need a little bit of luck to draw into the cards you need, I wanna test this deck coz it looks fun ngl, but I might add 2 pots of prosperity, draw power is always a win lol
The idea of this video was to show how to play through really awkward hands and still have ways to build a board. Normally the deck doesn’t brick as much (obviously there are instances) however the deck does and can play comfortably with its plethora of 1-2 card combos
Could you provide the link to this deck profile please? :) because I would like to learn and play Dark Magician in this kind of way.
It’s on my channel, the video was posted 5 days before this one :)
Thanks for watching !
@@MatchieYGO Thank you so much for letting me know :) I wish you the best of luck in your quest to top YCS.
I work on deck this days i have big probleme with shifter / droll / and bystials ... do u think aboit it ? and Virus and gozen 😢
In a game like yugioh you can not play around every interaction, it’s impossible. The best thing you can do is try to give yourself the best chance to win.
For dimension shifter, although it turns off a lot of our deck, we can skill kind of play through it and set up dragoon via branded fusion.
Droll is def a tough card to play around… just accept you might lose when your opp plays it
And gozen, your deck has lines as to getting to dragoon under gozen in which case that’s pretty strong.
Virus is An FTK. Against Every deck if it hits. ThTs just a card you can’t prep for. Is what it is
Hello
Where is the deck list for this variant ??
Check the video I uploaded right before this one :)
is magikuriboh a good card for dm decks?
At high level play/ events/ locals ect, I highly do not recommend playing that card.
If you’re playing super casually against your friends at home, it has cute interactions, but nothing more than that.
deck list?
It’s on my channel (I’ll Top a YCS With Dark Magician | Deck list) hope this helps :)
How many cards in deck?
There's 40 and 14 in the extra (those last 3 extra deck monsters.not included yet). His decklist was the previous video
Its not really a Dark Magician deck its just a Branded Deck with Dark Magician in it
7 branded cards Vs 15 DM cards in the main?
Interested as to why you think that, especially since I didn’t resolve branded fusion once in this video.
Thanks for watching though. Means a lot
Lulu *WA* lilith
Americans being able to read their own language 🫡🇺🇸
Not American, but thanks for the tip XD I’ll make sure to pronounce it properly going forward! Thanks