The Best Engines To Play With Dark Magician 

Hope you enjoy the video! If you'd like me to experiment with any engines you may have in mind or if you'd like me to make a more in depth video on any engines you see here, please let me know!

My man said, "God speed to you." Love it 😂😂

I'm playing Dark Magician since 2002 and i can say with all that Supports and Engines that came up im all that Years, Pure is the most Fun for me.

Somebody needed to say this, the circle soul triangle is too slow and no card should destroy your whole front row on destruction.

As someone who's been playing tellarknights competitively, I always tell my viewers that the deck needs help and can't do it alone anymore, which is why I added superheavy. So yea I deeply respect and understand you

My man is the GOAT, Diabellestar list might be fun?

I honestly love content like this

Damm you open eyes , i only thought there was only 2 different engines you can play dark magician. Dope video you gave me some good ides for playing dark magician

I wish Dragoon was playable in MD

Yo Matchie i loved the Deck Profil from YCS Vancouver! I have been testing out That build over Last Weeks with mixing in nadir Servent, Ecclesia and fleurdelis. Garura und Entys in the Extra doing some work going 1. or2. Also synergices pretty Well with Lulluwalith und Secret Village in the Main.I had to cut the books und Nib. But feels like ash und Secret Village is enough for the Main . The consistency is much better, as there are more powercard to do Some crazy stuff. Please keep going with these nice videos!🫡🫶

Yugi didn't have many dark magician cards in the show, he had cards that went with it. That's why I think it's good komoney is finally slowing down with the archetype BS and going more towards engines that work well with many decks and more staples...

Your video is clearly well thought out and well made, but it could be ultimately summarized as "just play Albaz/Runick lol"

Love the video my dude, got to try branded adventure dm, sounds super fun

Got back into the game bc of u, love the videos

This video was amazing and definitely worth watching

This is an excellent video! I’ve recently started playing locally and I’ve been struggling to keep up. I’ll definitely give some of these a try. Cheers!!

Love your videos man! Do you think you could do try and make dark magician comoetitive in master duel too??

Great video Matchie; could you make a video giving us your take on Red-Eyes engine for Dark Magician? Cheers!

Nice video! Hope u keep going in the YCS road! Imma cheer again in Indianapolis, if u participate ofc

Great video Matchie! Loving it as per usual! I've been testing Adventure in some variations of DM as well. Next up will be DM Adventure Diabellestar. Not sure if there's synergy there yet or not but could be some spice... or not! We'll see! Awesome work man keep it up!

Love how you see the engine rn

Dude I love your vids, finally was able to play with DM thanks to it. Thank you

Still love the content dude ! You have inspired me again! I wish I could edit as well as you!

keep up to great work Matchie! thanks for leading the way for us DM players!

Hmmm, very interesting stuff my dude! Maybe I'll add 1 Quem and 2 Aluber to Branded Dark Magician to see how it goes 🧙‍♂️

Bystial DM player here. Appreciate the shout-out.

Would you please share a full deck list of the DM/Branded deck? Main and extra

Trif îs currently playing Dark Magician Pendulum. Having Dark Magician on the field is very important to him.

Ahhh there he is, my handsome boi, the dm to my dmg come give Dr JamTheLad a kiss x

try shadows light on dark magician deck.. you can fusion summon more often than expected. Magicians rod always gets negated anyway.. but with shadows light you can still fusion summon, synchro, xyz, and link summon.. and an extra normal summon. So use shadow light on magician rod and special summon minerva, lightsworn maiden.. it is so versatile coz depending on situation you can go different paths.. you can synchro summon into muddymud dragon. Then you can fusion summon into dragoon, dragon knight, dark magicians, invoked caliga, etc.. skys the limit.. if you need a draw you go for dark magicians but you can go stardust charge warrior.. combo it with top share and you can use traps right away.. you can search and use anything from your deck.. with triple tactics thrust you can search shadows light and top share easily. You can use destined rivals and negate all monsters with that combo. Invoked caliga is underated too.. shadows light is so versatile you can summon mahad easily and set up to synchro summon chaos angel. Chaos archfiend with dark magician and effect veiler. Magician souls and effect veiler into formula synchron.. you can go xyz level 3s if you need negates, destroy etc. You can go link as well. But the fusion with muddy dragon is insane coz they wont expect it. Im still looking for more lines and I haven’t mention all the things i found but I felt its super good going first. Its biggest drawback us that you cant attack for that turn..

I’m thinking about diabellestarr because she is lv7 spellcasters monster and also drnm’s counter We now can use diabellestarr as a new adventure engine

You just gotta ask yourself. Do you wanna play dm like yugi or arkana?

I made “branded illusions magicians + shaddoll” Chimera, branded, dm cores & winda package that you can sub out for super poly cards/more going second cards if need. my creation is beautiful. So many starters, so many routes. Doing chimera plays, got ashed? Go branded route and so forth. Out of 7 games I only bricked I believe twice. The board I’ve ended on is Winda, dragoon, luluwal, chimera king of etc etc, Mirrorjade. With chimera fusion card set, and 3 cards in hand for draw/pop with guardian chimera. Most of the time tho is chimera of etc etc, dragoon, winda, lulu. Fixing ratios and testing took a hot minute but man was it worth.

The only way I'd ever run eternal souls is with something like defense zone and field barrier but in all the cases I looked into it's too many cards just to protect 1 trap....

Which two engines would be the easiest to smokescreen from the side deck with?

Dogmatika is top tier for ONE reason alone…”Dog Magician! Use Bark Magic Attack!”

I really like the Water Enchantress and DM can you go more in depth with it. Thanks.

I have been playing DM with a pendulum Magician engine since 2017.

100% agree with you vision of DM and also imo Branded pack works the best cause it supports and gives more strenght to DM deck. And i enjoy running a DM Slifer deck not ther best or YCS worthy but its a lot of fun! Keep up with DM vid brother!

Yeah little knight will be so good i dm if this card hits master duel, i cant stress enough how many time i ended my board on magician soul and rod on first turn.

Thank you for the Video! 😍 My favorit is the Branded Engine. What is the name of the program you use to test and create the Decks?

Let's go

Hey matchie love your content. Did you ever try to integrate mask change 2 to the deck?

i just play masterduel. we dont have dragoon. is there any way to make a similarly capable decklist without dragoon?

The most fun I had playing DM was with Branded Slifer and return of the sky god. It was super inconsistent but when it worked it was amazing.

Killer content as usual If S.P. knight is going to be so good do you still think branded is the strongest engine to with DM?

did you try dragon maid it seems good with DM

Have you thought about magicians left hand ? I find it useful in my DM deck

Hello, I really liked your Branded version that you brought to YCS, I have a pure version of Dark Magician and I would like to incorporate the Branded engine and little by little I have put it together, but for economic reasons😅 I haven't been able to get the Duality or the Granguignol 😅So I wanted to ask you what is a good option to replace those cards while I get what I need.? Thank you For your help and thank you for your content, it is very good and thank you for sharing your opinion and experiences with the DM community 🤙🏼🤙🏼

I’m working in a Dark Magician-Adventurer version, and in my opinion there is no place for Magicians Rod there, because of the Rite of aramesir. What it works for me is playing floodgates like Secrer village, or skill drain. I know branded is the strongest way to play this deck but some reason it doesn’t feel right to me, at least not fun.

I've been experimenting with a DM dragon maid deck...but I'm not adept at the game and masterduel doesn't give me access to Dragoon. 😅😅

Hey is it possible to play the Dogmatika engine with your branded fusion blazing cartesia engine together ?

What's the game you're using. I'm trying to get back to yugioh and want to test out decks.

What app / website are you playing on (in the gameplay) ?

Honestly handtraps are the worst thing you can put in a DM deck, playing it pure DM without handtraps and other potential bricks has enough recycling and effect spamming power like destruction, banishing and drawing. Most ppl I play against surrender pretty fast after 2 negates didnt stop me and I still get 2-3 fusion summons or a a full board with boss monster alongside PO Mahad. Something doesnt get competetive just bc you throw in a bunch of handtraps and negates that don't even synergize with the rest of your deck.. The DM cards are already op, the real problem lies in some decks that can't even be stopped with 5 negates and proceed to still get out their biggest boss monster. Gotta go for a massive OTK wave or its basically over no matter what you play at this point in comp

Can you show a deck list of DM branded bsytail?

MATCHIE DROPPED HAPPY MF FRIDAY!!!💫💫💫💫💫

would you play dark magician diabellstar?? you can make a video about Diabellstar dark Magician

I personally feel like you only need 1 Rod and Artemis in the extra for Road recursion.

Is it possible to run the Branded dogmatika build without Duality? Also have you tried Chimera with DM?

Where did u play that? It doesn't look like edopro or master duel 😅

Hey, what about Diabellstar rank7?

I wish Circle and Eternal Soul were more competitive, because I love them on a conceptual level. I appreciate this breakdown though, because it’s important to take our DM more seriously.

4:14 I mean if you want DM to succeed then you have limit the DM cards in your deck, most DM support isn't good enough to help it in tournaments. Apart from that I still play some of the DM support coz I'm not a competitive player haha.

What do you think about S:P Little Knight in Dark Magician?

I use windwitches in mine..... 😅

Honestly, i don't think using DM as an engine is wrong. But the one thing i disagree with is about the identity of DM being "maximize Dragoon". The deck was never about setting up interruptions either, it was more about chipping away at the opponent's board with removal while winning the advantage war in a slow grindgame using monsters and backrow that are hard to remove. In fact DM with Ethernal Soul + Dragon Knight has an excellent grindgame, even though it might not be enought by itself. The decks with the branded engine don't have this type of playstyle and look more like branded + a Dragoon turbo engine than DM to me, and i think they work more because Branded Fusion itself is busted than because of actual synergy. This is not to say the ideas you showed were not on point. In fact i think they maximize Dragoon's potential way better that pure DM ever will. It's just that if i'm going to go out of my way to play a DM deck i'd like to play with it's original playstyle, as bad as it might be. Otherwise i might as well play just Branded. But i'm just a casual player who does not care to lose some of my games, and this is just my own opinion. Sorry if i wrote an essay for you.

I know this is still a pretty new video but I saw in another comment you were still looking at agov stuff too. Would you recommend the branded engine as still being the best to pair competitively? I'm just getting back in to paper play recently and trying to figure out what to spend my money on. Thanks!

@MatchieYGO , what are you thoughts on the new dm support coming this november/december? how do you think it'll change up your strategy with the albaz and cartesia engine?

What game is this

Which Yugioh game is this? what is the name of the application ?

Konami Dropped a $1000 platinum dark magician but cant give the community some decent support……

I’m a huge Dark Magician fan and been paying the deck for years till now but I have to this you the deck doesn’t achieve much, cards are too slow, not enough combo to recover if you get handtrap. It’s a fun deck though.

what yu gi oh game series is this game?

Man, I wish this was setup for Master duel. They banned Dark Dragoon there

Am I the only one who’s confused on how to get shadolls out with 1 being in the deck engine

I been beaten top tier with dark magician budget since 2019 and people are still not happy. Definitely can't please everyone 👍

The correct answer is World Chalice.

I’m currently testing out dark magician Kashtira and I’ve won a good amount games with this build

I think you have to at least run 2 dark magicians just so you don't immediately lose to bystials

Maybe swap out DMG for Palladium Mahad.. same draws but better card. I use play odd eyes arc ped dragon as my normal dragon...with small pen package for vortex dragon

someone said to me: if dragoon unbanned, rod dont use to normal summon anymore XD

Still crazy to think not more decks focus on pumping out dragoon tbh

0:06 that's not entirely true I play DMG in my DM deck and it's fun, it works it's not for competitive play but it's a fun casual deck.

Eternal soul is a pretty bad card. Ik it was ok when it came out but losing your entire field to a cosmic cyclone makes the deck worse. Not to mention that summoning the regular dark magician from the hand or gy isnt even that good

😘 *promosm*

I think DMG is an unnecessary card. It serves no purpose, particularly in this deck. Rather, put 2 DMs in the deck. If you gonna keep DMG, I would suggest you put in Magicians combination. I would even say it's necessary if you are running DMG.