Dark Worlds Explained in 36 Minutes [Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Analysis] 

The saving grace bestowed upon the old Dark World monsters by the old card game design was not only the lack of a once per turn in any of them, but also the decision of making all their effects mandatory, therefore completely dodging the crippling curse that is missing the timing.

Konami: Introduces a new Fusion boss monster to Dark World. Also Konami: Completely misses the PERFECT opportunity to make "Colorless, Chaos King of Dark World" real.

“Can we please get away from the wet book?!” Dark World Library: NOT SO FAST

Dark World was the deck that got me into playing Yugioh more seriously. I'm so glad they are getting more support.

I’m just surprised that they made a Fusion boss monster for Dark World, and didn’t try to reference Colorless; the unseen Dark Lord fusion god from GX.

22:42 ah yes the fiend level, always a fan favorite.

Me during 2018: I hope this hero deck I made can compete with the meta My opponent on darkworld FTK: you lost long before you put the deck on the table

I remember seeing this archetype for the first time in high school. I pulled a Gold and a Scar from the same pack. My mind went wild from the designs and I just had to build the deck. Sadly I never pulled anything else besides gateway and a trap so I just started building what would be my main deck for years until I retired after college: Aliens. Now, I've finally managed to track down the new structure deck and bought 3 copies. I couldn't be happier to finally have the deck that captured my imagination all those years ago in my hands. Today, I got back into yugioh,

My gf loves demonic aesthetic in arts, when she started to get into YGO via Master Duel (she knew about it but didn't play) she asked me if there's any Fiend deck I'd recommend to try. Ended up giving her Dark World and she likes it, especially Grapha. She's not a very skilled Duelist right now and needs to learn a lot more, but with Dark World as a deck of choice I think she'd eventually be better.

My favorite set up with these going first is to fusion summon overlord Grapha with Ascension by discarding Grapha and Snoww. Then when the snow triggers If they try to ash the snow search (for punishment) you can quick affect turn it into a discard for Silva to snipe them down to two cards. Then set punishment and return silva for Grapha and pass. If they do anything you can snipe them down to zero and you have game on board after they are forced to end the turn.

22:42 yes nova my favorite level is fiend, but sometimes I feel like being level dragon

“Original level is fiend” Konami misprinted cards again. We’ll need an emergency ban list

22:42 Original Level fiend ah yes

Literally my favorite archetype. Am so very happy

As someone who played the deck for years, Dangers are pretty helpful, but are too luck reliant. I still use them since there’s no other consistent engines to get the deck going as efficiently as they do.

I rocked dark worlds back in the day. Have not played yugioh in almost 10 years, still gnna buy the remaster.

I definitely appreciate this Archetype for helping me learn the difference between "discard for cost" and "discard as an effect"

When I got back into the game in my Navy days, my buddy used this deck, and it was a big road block for me, mainly because my deck was just some of his spare cards. But eventually I refined my deck enough to the point I eventually managed a win. he decked out. He couldn't attack me because of Winged Kuriboh Lv 10 and he couldn't out muscle my cards thanks to Splendid Venus, and even if he got passed those, I had the perfect battle defense of Marshmellon and Marshmellon Glasses. It was crude, but it was my first win over him, and I was proud of myself for the benchmark his Darkworld deck set for me.

This is the first time I've ever seen (even during the damage step) in a card.

I can believe ive seen the day where Ceruli is actually playable

Novaaaaaaa you're gonna make me build Dark World nooooo they sound SO FUN

That Dark World Fusion is gonna be abused by Tearlaments when it comes to TCG. Easy big body with a negate.

This brings back so many memories. This archetype was the very first structure deck I ever bought. So seeing you do this brings back happy memories. And as usual you did a great job explaining things

I just hope that someday Archfiends get some new theme dedicated cards, with a couple of retrains too. Something like what Dark World is getting.

I've got the time so I'll list the Colors each of the names reference because Why not? Ceruli = Cerulean Perl = Pearl Gren = Green Kahki = Khaki Scarr = Scarlet Broww = Brown Beiige = Beige Renge = Orange Zure = Azure Brron = Bronze Genta = Magenta Snoww = Snow Goldd = Gold Sillva = Silver Latinum = Platinum Lucent = Translucent Reign-Beaux = Rainbow Grapha = Graphite

I realize what 'Unlight' means! If you look at DarkWorld Puppet, Snow is using her powers to make the doggo into a Twilight Sworn monster! She is taking away it's light!

The music start around Gold and Silva was VERY much too loud and made it hard to hear your voice

Watched this in prep to pick up my dark world structures today, loved the overview, subbed!

Fav archetype. Thanks for what you do :)

Amazing explanation and layout of dark worlds. As a dark world main i very much appreciated this sir

I had no idea until now that the Dark World monsters led to Twilightsworns. It may actually be worth doing that lore video after all. Also, there's a weird connection regarding Duel Links, in how Blair is tied to Lightsworns (through card releases), and Jaden/Supreme King is tied to Dark Worlds (through anime reasons).

From my experience running ogopogo and Bigfoot along with moth man and chupacabra give you great access to rank 8s

TFW in 2011 you drew Card Destruction and proceeded to OTK your opponent

Great video dude. Though one old school tech for the deck that I don’t think was included was The Cheerful Coffin. It’s a normal spell that lets you discard up to THREE monsters. And that’s the full effect. Another good tech is Into the Void. If you have 3 or more cards in hand you can draw 1 but then at the end phase you must discard your entire hand. One more tech that wasn’t mentioned was Extra Gate. It lets you declare a level/rank from 1-12 and then your opponent must banish a monster from their extra deck with the same level/rank but if they don’t have one you discard your entire hand. These all allow for big explosive plays as early as turn 1 or 2 to establish a big board very early on in the game.

I am so happy to see that because dark world is my favorite and oldest deck.

The fusion is a reference to the GX anime.

I run 3 in my deck, and so far people hate sill with it now especially if your first then get the continuous spell to start it off.

TY for the Dragged Down card, another way to force opponents to trigger Exos effects. If the other player won't use their GY you can side deck some that will do it for them.

What I want to know is why did they decide to keep Cobal, Excavator Of Dark Wold in Anime Jail this time around?

Speaking of Galaxy Eyes.... When's Photon Explained?

Darkworld is a deck I feel was designed to splash Raziel, Lord of Phantasms alongside Archfiends (like proper Archfiends, not those associated with RDA). With a new version to come, I can’t wait to move my spooky boi to it!

If you look closely, some Dark World have skulls as part of their heads. Sillva has an upside down skull on top of his head, Grapha has 4 draconic skulls.

The dark world archetype video is very informative. Question golden nova, does news reporter of the underworld do interview? And if so has she interviewed you?

Glad I’m watching this cause some of the effects were confusing me due to how they were written

I am excited on this one. This is one of my favorite archetypes before

22:41. Mmm, love me some fiend-level monsters

Fun fact: this archetype was directly responsible for the rule distinguishing between discarding as cost and discarding by effect. And for getting Graceful Charity banned

Very fitting for the Wave Motion Format

0:21 Don't hate the game. Hate TCG Konami 18:54 What does "Accession" even mean?

Use Silva to send cards to the deck from hand, loop cerulli until hand is empty, pop card destruction, win game

I had no idea they were named after colours until now

Unlight is a fancy way of saying darkness so her name is basically, Snoww, Darkness of Dark World

Snoww 2 effects always confused me due to the way its written. The way it says if this card is discarded by a card effect: if it was discarded to the grave by an opponent's card effect. I originally thought okay which effect is triggered lol That always confused me.

Lol Funny that everyone was under the impression that accession was incorrect. Accession has a completely different meaning from ascension and would not make sense in the context in which it is being used and why the card is officially called Dark World Accession in the TCG and not Ascension like everyone for some reason thought it would be. Also, card destruction and danger! Still slap and are still the most competitive version of Dark World.

Awe, you didnt talk about Forced Requisition as a neat tech. My favorite card to include in the deck

To be perfectly honest I never really liked the Dark World archetypes, but that was when I was a tween. Now that I'm older I might give these cards and their strategy another go around.

Finally someone who agrees with me on the subject of dangers not actually being that good in dark world. They have a high ceiling but a terrible floor. Dragged down and in archetype cards are more consistent plus dragged down can rip your opponents hand traps. I still run a *couple* danger monsters but I've been consdiering cutting them

As an old Yugioh player since 2005, I've come back in 2011, with the release of the structure deck after quitting for roughly 3 years. I dare say that I've mastered the art of DW, as it's the only deck I really played to a big extent. The support it got with the new structure deck is immense. I still do not understand the point of running Dangers. I've tried to give them a go, played different quantities etc, and I still do not understand the point of running them. They are just unnecessary clogs in the deck that has ZERO need for them. They add so much randomness that isn't needed, for effects that are not needed, and they are not even that strong to begin with anyway. Why would I wanna risk a bad discard or a general unknown result of an action for a subpar effect? People just completely miss the power of DW and what they try to achieve, especially after the latest round of support. You don't need anything else. There is a TON of discard power in the deck, 3x Gates, 3x Dealings, 3x Genta, 1x Card Destruction. Those are the guaranteed must have in the deck that let you discard on demand basically. Add Library (2x discards per turn), Accession (potentially 3 discards), maybe one Dragged Down, the other Quick-play that banishes from the GY or Charge into DW. Already having 15 cards in a 40 card deck that lets you discard, so it's almost guaranteed that you get to draw at least one of them on your starting hand. I didn't even include Corridor here. Then, you have a lot of monsters to discard that I won't list here, but it's basically roughly the remainder of the deck, with DW Brainwashing and DW Punishment. First of all, if you do not get interrupted by a hand trap, even without running Sillva (who's banned in Master Duel), you can make an unbeatable board 95% of the time (1 out of 20 times you will brick, maybe even less than that). You can board Fusion Grapha, Punishment, Brainwashing, ExtraDeck monsters like Apollousa or Hope Harbinger which would make an unbeatable board, and you can make such a board 95% of the time. I tried running Dangers, Zalamander, Zephyros. They are just clogs. They do not assist you into making rank 8s, like Heliopolis, who is an insane board removal, they do not help cycling Grapha/ReignBo either. They are just clogs. They seem like fancy tech, "oh Imma bounce my gates for Zephyros then go into rank 4s". Why bother with rank 4s? Why waste cards on rank 4s when you can go rank 8s who are just better? Even Dugares is just a waste of materials. Draw 2 discard 1 and skip the next DP is a waste. If you manage to get two level 4s on the field for him, you already do something wrong with deck building. I run pure DW, but also tried Danger variants. I never ever wanna go back to running Dangers. They are just useless. I don't know who first thought of running them, but who also thought it was good enough to make others running them, but I just don't see it.

I’ve been playing a Fluffal/Dark world monsters deck because all the edge imps are fiend monsters and toy vendor synergizes a little with DW cards (except that it’s activation doesn’t count as a card effect)

I think they could genuinely be a threat in the meta. Maybe not exactly meta themselves, but one of those t1.5 decks that you have to respect. The thing holding them back is that thet get screwed over by all the same things that Tear does, and EVERYONE is running that stuff.

According to Gogle, Unlight is a mobile game, an English (like, England English, not American) for "to get down (off a vehicle or horse)", and as the name would imply, the opposite of light (darkness, shadow, etc.). As for why Konami went with that instead of just keeping the original title of Magician (I'm guess to avoid conflict with the Magician archetype) or some synonym like Magic or Witch, that I can't tell you.

@GoldenNovaYugioh question, I’m confused about The Gates of Dark World , it says “once per turn” but then when I see people playing they’re abusing the card and using it multiple times? Can you elaborate on this? I know you mentioned you can activate another one and use it’s effect but when I see people continuously using the same card without activating a new one?

8:15 Zure- Jamie Renge - The Mountain Snoww- Cersei Parl- Varys Ceruli - Tyrion Bronn- The Mad King/Joffrey Gold - Lord Tywin Silva - Littlefinger Gren- Mace Tyrell Kahki- Arya Latinum- Ned Stark Reign beaux- Robert Beige - Bron Scar- Jon Grapha- Daenerys Lucent- Night King Genta- Davos? Colourless- Bran/The Three Eyed Raven

back in the day I used Extra Gate, one could banish any one level(1-12) monster from the extra deck and if their was no monster with the decaled level then the owner had to discard a card. The best part was it was a quick play card.

Nova how did you not make a node at colorless the dark world fusion from the anime. That was going to be summon with super polymerization.

Khaki is actually a great negate bait also hand destruction is a discard (at least in master duel)

more Lv 8 dark worlds is gonna be good since that's even more chances for a D!DW deck

Dark world and ice barrier my favorite 2 decks. Traptrix i would say it my best deck

Dark world will be great to have with my D/D/D as evil decks

you forgot to talk about mind crush the best dark world trap

34:21 "a few fun tools to keep your opponent off their A-game when going first" Handloop 4, omni negate, special summoned monsters cannot activate their effects unless they are linked, quadruple monster negate, link summon on opponents turn, spell/trap negate, skill drain, destroy cards on opponents turn when discarding to activate the omni negate To name a few

Hay when this will reach dm can't wait

Until now I didn't realize that the effects were meant to play around cards like delinquent duo

That moment when removal is better than hand loops 😱

Goldd makes it hard for your opponent to defend themselves while Sillva makes it hard for your opponent to set up their field

The new dw stuff is insane

Barrier statue of the abyss is a funky side deck tech for this deck. It almost never needs its normal summon so why not use it on a one sided lock against non dark decks. Neko mane king just ending the opponents turn if discarded with fusion grapha is also something

If you could give the normal monsters effect what would you like them to do? :) Im curious. I always curious what if every Normal monster had an effect. What if Blue eyes, Dark Magician or Red Eyes had an effect? Summoned Skull always says its treated as an Archfiend so should not that count as an effect?

The dark world monsters they are too good and buddy buddy, but Brox is cool at least.

do you have a video about blackwings ?

Now we just need a fusion or xyz version of Rainbow

Do you ever just BREATH like damn that be crazy.

My only hope for the dark world remaster structure deck. Please make the problem solving text more clear.

Dark worlds are really complicated for my small brain but I shall try to to play them anyway

I think Unlight is something akin to "the one without light."

Anyone got a sample deck list updated with the structure deck R cards?

0:25 Man it would've been cool if they just released the new dragunity structure deck instead of gutting it

Although I'm somewhat disappointed in Dark Worlds getting an extra deck monster atleast its a fusion monster in keeping with it being an archetype from the GX era. Also it is vary good support for an old archetype, now if only Red-eyes or Vendreads could get as good support one day Sigh .. if only

Gren always carries that book, so maybe there's something in that book that he sees that might cause the book to become wet. XD

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how the hierarchy of Dark World works? There's like 10 different cards claiming to be kings or lords of Dark World.

Good luck explaining the way Konami decided to word Snoww 😤

When I ran this deck I always used Scarr to search Brron.

Normal monsters should have betwene 500 to 1000 more atc and def more then efect monster of the same lvl/rank no mater what.Hard cap on efetc monster lv 4 should not excede 1500 without masiv drawback while normals should have around 2000 and make mist removals 1for1.

"It's gonna get translated to Dark World Ascension"

I went to a locals yesterday. I managed to beat two branded decks. These decks where being took to the yts in london. I'm also back to yugioh after a 10year vacation so I'm not the best player to deal with them. Traptrix has very little on dark worlds. For an structure deck it definately pushing meta if you draw a good opening hand. Defo one of the better budget metas

I'm hearing Sad Duel

Unlight means 2 times Not light; heavy. Or Darkness, shadow, the absence or opposite of light.

I was wondering how long will this deck hold up for?

Sample decklist would help

So if Goldd is discarded by your opponent does it mean that you get both effects or only the second one?