YCS Preparations | How To Play Dark Magician 

0:53 Blazing Cartesia + Duality 5:08 Rod + Souls + Duality 8:11 Rod + Souls + Branded Fusion 1 10:52 Rod+ Souls + Branded Fusion 2

i dont want to throw any shade to other dm players cus i think anyone playing this deck seriously is goated, but i think you might currently be the best dm player rn. great meta calls great deckbuilding and actually doing good so far in events to back it up. congrats man fr your a beast

i want to be honest, this is by far the strongest build ive seen in a while and i am glad that you did a combo tutorial, would be very cool if do some more variaty of decks, some non meta decks like cyber dragon as example. i like the way how you try to improve the deck and that could really help some players like me. who not really into meta. i was just lucky that i play DM and found your channel. it is just an idea of mine, but as i said, having someone like you that gives more non meta decks a chance would be sick..

Been struggling to find new branded dark magician combos but now you helped so much can’t explain how excited I am to see you top an event with this I’ll be watching the whole time!!

Thanks for the insights! So helpful

Dude you have got to keep us all updated I cant wait to hear how you do!

Thank you for the explanation and insight on the combos for the deck.

Bruh, this deck is crazy. I'm so excited for you! Definitely like the idea of both a test-hands video and a full match breakdown video. Keep up the great work, King!

This is the best video I've ever seen so far of dm deck strategies. Thank you King. Altho I'm gonna need to change a lil bit much my deck. lol.

Been waiting for this vid. Thanks. Love the deck

This was definitely super helpful, this is far superior to the Insight Package by a landslide 🧙‍♂️

The last combo, I knew exactly what play you were gonna do to see if you could draw into your starters or engine cards with the dark magicians lol really love this deck man.

Doggie, I have a million things I want to say but to sum it all up; Thank You! Wanted to play a dark magician deck so badly and you’ve paved the way for us all!! Will be shouting you out once the deck is complete! Subbed and hoping to see you TOP with this artwork💯🔥🤙

I’m getting crazy with those test hands and combo. Bro you literally make me proud of playing dm this deck profile is so damn good. I wish I could get all those cards to test it at locals ! Great video as always, you roxx bro love your content 🔥 Top YCS baby lets gooo 🚀🚀

Couldn’t be more happy about seeing the real life Yami yugi here 😂 loving the videos man! Would love to see some more live duel replays! 🔥

Good stuff!

Definitely thought process and side deck analysis on full matches over individual games, the cool thing I like about your content it's than it's not just netdecking but actual analysis of why certain interactions work, keep it up man.

i subbed, you better not disappoint 🎉

Great video fam! I'm learning this deck to be more competitive at locals! Thank you!

Ive been really enjoying this build as of late vs my previous dragoon turbo build (credit to Loza). I hope you do an updated build going into the new format next year.

Thx by the DM content :) ...#bestwishes...also health 🎉

Godspeed match man

something small with the duality rod souls line is you can make a possibly stronger field if they dont negate timaeus by making mysterion, then when you use their banish effect you can duality out the mysterion for dragoon and get another interaction. you wont have branded fusion on followup but i feel like yugioh is a bit too fast to worry about that as much, plus duality will still be giving you a draw next turn so its unlikely that you cant play. i think both combos are great ofc its more matchup dependent but just a small thing about duality with mysterion that i think is nice

I recently found your channel! Vancouver BC? If so we are kinda close! Lol I’ve learned a few things from you. DM is my fav monster and seeing it being used like this blew my mind away! Keep it up 👍🏼

As a fellow Dark Magician player I'm proud of your work. I ended up mixing dark magician with witchcrafters 😅 I'm rooting for you

would love to see full match breakdowns with your thoughts as you were making the plays 🙏

Been watching all of your videos since i also have a dark magician deck.Prove to the society that DM can reach high levels even though it is outdated

Wow, watching this video made me feel like a fool. i cannot tell you how many times i have wasted duality and rods search for another soul servant for next turn missing the secrets play. just did like 5 test hands and have made easily the dragoon winda village boards or dragoon winda and droll etc. Actually crazy how you think of these lines of play. Love the vids im hoping we get actual gameplay soon!

Can’t wait to see it at ycs

I am interested in your results Might be because I've been on Master Duel, but I've found a lot of value in Magician of Chaos and running two ritual spells (Advanced R Art and Chaos Form) along with Magician Combination. The Ritual Spells either give you Illusion on board for a monster negate, or serve as hand/discard fodder that you replenish with Prep. Tested 2 Manju 2 Rod It gives you another omni negate which combos very well with Salvation, and MoC is a soft once per turn which is very abusable with Eternal Soul, and can give you an extra 2-3 interruptions every turn. That's without Circle, which I put down to 1 and never looked back. I also do not understand why people don't play Mahad. There's so much hand Manipulation now that I don't see it ever not being good, it's also a LIGHT Spellcaster that makes SS better. Imo the decks identity also revolves around SS and draw power. Great videos here, good job.

Love to get the full deck list

Hey @MatchieYGO I'm currently saving up to buy all the cards and playing test hands in Dueling Nexus. I'm a new player in general and I never played DM before. I really enjoy your content, so thanks! Request: Could you make a video about "non optimal" hands? Example: Schism Village Ash Branded Fusion Illusion of Chaos Knowing the full combos is really helpfull but I think to master the deck, all of us need to learn how to make the best out of non optimal hands.

I was wondering what your play would be for when you draw into dark magician for your starting hand with a souls in hand. Is the dark magician a dead draw?

Phenomenal video as always, Matchie. Now here's a question you got me thinking about with this one. I take your point about 2- and 3-card combos being more common than one might think because of how many cards in the deck search combo pieces. But, it does seem that the duel-defining plays hinge on 3 card combos. How well are you doing against Labrynth, since it reliably rips cards out of your hand even on turn 1 and your deck list has no negation hand traps? You could potentially be getting hand twice before you leave your draw phase. Also, how well are you playing through Ash Blossom when it negates something other than Rod? How resilient is the deck against Runick?

Again a great vid with really good in depth bread and butter combos of the deck!! Would like to see a Test hand vid with thought process what you can do what the options are for plays cause im always learning something new what i didnt think about. KEEP VID COMING! 😁

Hiya brother, need some advice. So at my locals because of oppressive Secret village is, a lot lot more people have starting using more spellcasters, so I’m finding it to be a dead card at this point, any recommendations on what I could switch it for? I was thinking maybe summon limit, or the field spell that limits you to 3 summons per turn or it ends your turn

In the last test hand combo, how did you send shaddoll schism to the grave and add branded fusion?

You’re doing great man!! Is there a way you can fit the adventure package in there. Or a least a way to bounce cards back to hand, deck or extra deck?

Great deck! Love seeing dm seeing competitive. Also was wondering if there is any room in the deck to maybe incorporate the illusionist/chimera engine for added benefits to the deck?

You and I are best friends now my son. X

I played dm for 4 years ever since dark magical circle and eternal soul entered the game way back then. It was my first deck I ever picked up, with love and influence from the anime. 5 years total if we're taking master duel into account. This is the first time I've come across your channel. And.. I respect the way this deck is built. I haven't seen anything like it, uses a lot of new cards and such. My only issue is that it uses a heavy branded engine. Something im not familiar with, but worth experimenting. For how im used to playing the deck I fear it conflicts a lot with the 2 engines its trying to combine. However, I do appreciated there is someone out there who still wants to make this deck work, as I've given up starting a few months ago. If we're playing branded cards to mix with this I feel playing branded by itself can do just fine, without dm cards. While I do disagree with the list/gameplan, I still do enjoy seeing any form of love for dark magician.

I currently don't count the Duality card, is there any card you recommend to replace them? Thank you.🤙🏼

I’m late but the combo is fire😎🔥u made my day king

Great work man :) is there any chance we could get the deck list so we can understanding and maybe do our own version of it or come up with other ideas?

Anyway, instead of playing Winda I play Hido, the supreme Magical Force. Albion, the Sanctfire Dragon summons it on the opponent's field locking him entirely on summoning.

Duuuuude your so clever

was thinking of building this deck is MD but Dragoon is banned, any other suggestions for this deck or should i find a different list that is more suitable without Dragoon?

Top combos 🙌 just checking on Magicians’ Souls - doesn’t its effect force you to put DM in the grave first? So it can still be hit by bystials?

Do you have a deck list for this build?

Can I activate eff of Timaeus the united dragon to sumnon dragoon, use it and Dark magician as material. I see use use Duality to summon Albion then summon dragoon later. And I am wondering that the first way is wrong or not?

It's not related but I have to ask: you use two sleeves, the top transparent one I didn't find any online. Which brand is it?

just traded for 2 copies of Cartesia today already had the shadoll stuff, but it was random, now its more consistent i am keeping the circle and eternal soul tho i do miss my ritual DM build, but it plays into all the hand traps

im curious, what are you thoughts on potentially teching Bond Between Teacher and Student? Quickplay boardwipe with Dark Burning Magic seems pretty good

Have you considered Guiding Quem? I've been using her, and while our decklists are slightly different, I've found her to be pretty damn good as another way for me to get the 2nd Blazing out of the deck.

Can I ask what bystial interaction(s) are you referring to? Opponent has a chance to respond when Souls effect to send ? Can’t they banish DM?

Hey, great video! Got a quick question, on the 2nd combo, how were you able to use timaeus effect to fuse dark magician and albion after being sent to the GY by duality?

Hi can u share or send me your decklist please ! It would be so cool ! Thank u and good job !

is there a deck list for this

Hey man loving the deck build! I have a question, what if you have all the cards except cartesea, is the deck still playable?

I've been following your journey and I love your passion and calculations building this deck. Also, great combos, really!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Please, do not take this as a critic to your deck or combos, at all. This is more of an observation of the sad current state of the DM deck. Take notice of how the first and second to last combo are practically all Branded and practically don't need DM for anything rather than material to make Dragoon. It's more of a Branded deck with a small Winda engine and a bigger Dragoon turbo engine. Again, this is not a critic of your build or way of playing, at the contrary, probably this is the best way of using DM in a deck. But it is simply how sad I feel that the deck is practically an engine inside a better deck like Branded. DM needs good support urgently. 😢

What is the background music ?? 🙏🏽

6:50 How does Timaeus still resolve despite having been sent to the graveyard? Doesn't this stop its effect from resolving? Thank you for the great videos!

Great build! I have a question: does the Bystials hurt the deck? what could you do to counter them if they try to banish D.M?

To answer your question at 25:14, all of it!😅😂

Do you have a Deck list i can look at? Im a current DM player, and would love to switch to this build but i dont see a deck list anywhere, is it possible to get one?

Im curious about the instances of imperm/veiler being activated against timaeus. Can the opponant not activate those cards in response to timaeus' summon? Or does the summon and effect happen in the same chain per se?

what if they banish your dark magician with called by and dd crow and you cant keep recycling dm like you plan to do

nice video... you are the trully dark magician player of players(?) jajaja

Wish dark dragoon was not banned on masterdu el

Hey! May i ask what sleeves you use?

Do you have your deck list written down somewhere? It is a bit hard pausing the video to write down the card names

take a shot every time he says "copy" for no reason

Can you give me this recipe for DM, i loved it¡¡¡¡ THANKS ^^

i encounter i have problems vs floowandereeze with this deck, can give a tip in this particular match?

Lol for some reason I thought Dragoon was banned in the tcg, man. Dark Magician is too dope not to play, hopefully it continues on getting support.

All I need is Cartesia lol

Nice dark magician deck! Oh win con is dragoon and winda 😂

Why would you want to have two dragoons out? Wouldn't you want to save one is you lost one? Also I play a deck very similar to this but with the buster blader package, end board is secret village with dragoon, mirrorjade and buster blader (fusion with buster dragon) with cartesia in hand.

Learn to play this deck step 1 know how to play branded step 2 add dark magician cards

Deck list ?

deck liste pls?

i need the deck profile pls

Too bad your first combo dies to a super poly 😢 but I guess that’s the whole deck

I'm wondering if chain material would go good with this deck or brick it. I'm trying to put a fun deck together that summons 3 dragoons with fusion gate and chain material but no matter what I try it's Bricky; the problems getting them out on the first turn cus I have to run things like makyura or temple of the kings plus three dark magicians. I stopped playing for over a decade and I have only got back into the game on and off since 2020 so there's a huge gap in my card knowledge...... Also, as much as I would have liked to play more we couldn't because of China so I haven't kept up with the current meta and am still running my danger deck lol... (say why, and it's censors, so I just say who's at fault; F---them, most of them are liars and racists anyways)