The Best Engines To Play With Dark Magician | Post Banlist 

Beanded or diabellstar. I tried every engine and nothing works as good as the branded engine. Recently the toy engine which is nice but it's not consistent with DM, the free resources are nice but needs something else. You DM engine is so bricky with dark magician girl, Timaeus,souls(all dm spells/traps)and the rod sadly is also not good anymore.

Thank You Legend! Much love!

Yes and no. Have you heard some of the suggestions? DM legit is a few good cards from being the best none broke list. What I mean by this is decks like release Tiers (let alone Ishizu), Kash, Fiendsmith, Bystial etc have crippled the game to the point they seem to want a "1card does everything" in every slot of a list. Card synergies are no longer needed because the base effects are stupid good already but then they add the synergy effect on top as a win more effect. Consistency is no longer a factor and minimum power boards are everywhere hence Appo ban and Barronne. For DM using another engine while having arguably the best 1 for 1 boss and then 4 negates to be considered as JUST OKAY sounds mental in any aspect of the core mechanics. I personally want to see SOME support but only so circle can actually draw and maybe see a battle phase once in a while. But as most already agree the power level.of the game needs to come down a lot and by proxy that "buffs" DM well all lower decks so you don't want to over buff either. It's a tough balancing act but atm the game has little design space left with the current mechanics. Too many negates exist and generic boards. Old game mechanics are bypassed so they need another revision imo starting with defence which hasn't ever changed or been buffed. For example life points or card zones.

Loza said it best, dm deck works best with less.dm support in there

It's Dark Magician. Of course there's going to be better options. Let people have their fun

Much love! Thank you! I’ll look into making a video for that :)

fr. red eyes specifically is in dire need of a structure deck or just back to back 5 card support I hope they at some point beef up the legendary dragons/knights stuff with new support which could happen soon because blue eyes now has the potential to consistently fuse with a trap card(true light, thanks to its new support). All they would need is of course a new fusion using the true light trap card, and then support to search their legendary dragon fusion spell, critias. I hope they buff them all directly by making a link 1, or some maindeck card that's able to search a legendary dragon hermos/critias/timaeus

I also agree I feel like you can easily find an alternative and replace the two BF. I will not give up on this deck ✊

really loses consistency, though 😞

I agree. Whenever I played DM branded before the new banlist, branded fusion was like a cherry on top/end phase follow-up if I didn't open with it. I mean, it's like not branded dm doesn't have cartesia, fusion deployment, and nadir servant to add Albaz to hand/field from deck/graveyard. I won't deny that branded fusion to one does hurt the deck. However, we do have alternatives. The only problem now is that we branded/dm players are going to have to try a little harder with the Branded engine. If we use multiples of albaz, we are gonna be forced to run Nadir servant and cards that send albaz to the graveyard so that branded in red becomes more viable. Possibly also cards that will let us recycle that one copy of branded fusion. In all honesty, whenever I played DM branded, I found myself fusing through cartesia far more than branded fusion.

​@@ugandansaul5811 I was going to say exactly this. Cartesia is much more useful and can also bait out veilers, which if the effect is negated then you can synchro with it and a lv8/lv7 for either psychic end punisher or luluwalilith. I also used the deck recently and it did very well, substituting 2 branded fusion won't be an issue.

Agreed. How many copies of Cartesia do you guys play btw?

And blue eyes oddly enough does the dodo chaos max lock with just one card

Appreciate the kind words! Means so much to me! I really like the new blue-eyes cards, I can definitely see some potential

I have like 2 or 3 replays I’d like to send to you if you wouldn’t mind watching them ..maybe see something you could use in them

You’re absolutely right! Honestly just overlooked it when making the video, but thank you for the reminder :)

You right, I had a different line in my head while playing through the test hand, and bailed on it! LOOOL, but you’re right tbh, that’s way more optimal

HAHAHA! I realized I messed it up, and said “nah, we’re keeping it”

That sounds kind of saucy! I’ll look into it! Thank you so much

It’s Omega ygo

@@RNO33 thank you!

Potentially, I’ll have to test it a bit

I think it's just the fact that it limits you to one summon

If you play Red-Eyes Fusion, you cannot special summon or normal summon to the turn you use it. Meaning you can ONLY set a monster and that's it. It honestly is not worth summoning a Dragoon and ending your turn.

aw damn i shouldve watched the full video, mb xD thnaks for answering tho

Pretty much what the replies already said :) it’s so strong, just a nasty draw back

He is my GOAT!