Couple things here 1. Magician of Hope is actually a Utopia reference. Having the same stats, summoning conditions and pendulum effects 2. Astrograph and Chronograph are also referencing the dark magician and dark magician girl as well!
I would like to continue this and just say that the pendulum magicians and the dark magicians are not able to search each other by rulings so yes, I understand what time star magician says, but it cannot search dark, magician or dark, magician girl it has to be a pendulum, magician, or a pendulum dark spell This was a ruling back in when the card first released and I don’t remember why the ruling was made and if you have a problem with it, don’t blame me. I’m just a messager and no Endymion and his pendulum variance are not homages to dark magician they are separate and totally unattached.
@@artisticsmeargel it's because of the japanese names. Dark Magician's japanese name writes "Magician" phonetically as マジシャン ("majishiyan"). Magician Pendulum monsters, however, use 魔術師 which is pronounced "Majutsushi". So when your monster's effect can search 「魔術師」monsters, a 「マジシャン」monster would not be an appropriate target for it Fun fact, however: In the original japanese, Yugi would semi-often refer to dark magician as 黒の魔術師 (kuro no majutsushi) which follows the way the magician pendulums are named, but as far as I can tell, the card is never printed or shown to be written this way. fun fact number 2: This is why Astrograph Sorcerer is called a Sorcerer in the english (along with many other "sorcerer" monsters used by and/or themed to be used by yuya such as performapal smile sorcerer). Astrograph Sorcerer is actually originally "Astrograph Magician" as アストログラフ・マジシャン (Asutorogurafu Majishan). Once again, we see it is マジシャン and not 魔術師 but in this case, they caught the potential issue before it happened, and just changed the english name.
I could see astrograph being a reference to dark magician, but the only way chronograph is DMG is if timegazer magician is also a reference to DMG. To be fair, astrograph in the anime was the combined form of both stargazer and timegazer, rather than just a counterpart to stargazer, so chronograph could be seen as an apprentice, but it seems a bit of a stretch to extend that to being a reference to DMG
Magician of Hope is not actually related to Dark Magician, it's related to Utopia. Magician of Hope was released in a very specific time period; It was released when Arc-V was on air, but ALSO, a Zexal re-run was being aired simultaneously. In efforts to get fans of Zexal to watch Arc-V (since it was the series prior), they released Magician of Hope. It also shares an archetypal name with the Pendulum Magicians, which make sense. In addition, Timestar is actually a mix of Timegazer and Stargazer Magicians; key cards of the Pendulum Magician archetype, same with Xiangke. Generally speaking, the Pendulum Magicians were meant to be a support archetype to the Dimension Dragons and Z-Arc, which are shown in Chronograph and Astrograph Sorcerers, the evolved forms of Timegazer and Stargazer Magicians respectively.
Something to also note is that in the OCG, the Pendulum Magicians do not share the same archetype name with any other Magician. This is because in the OCG, cards like Black Magician use the english word for magician whilst the Pendulum Magicians use the japanese word: Majutsushi. This is also why cards like Pendulum Magician, Astrograph Magician, Chronograph Magician, and Smile Magician had their archetypes changed in the TCG to "Sorcerer" in order to prevent them from being used with cards that support the Pendulum Magician archetype.
I think he means they're related in the sense of "alternative counterparts". Kind of like how each generation of Pokemon has a distinct electric rodent
Good video, but there were a few points I wanted to bring up: -DMG had a sixth artwork in the 2022 tins (TCG) and Animation Chronicle? (OCG). [Edit: I was wrong, it was the History Archive Collection, not Animation Chronicle) -I think Magician's Valkyria and Dark Paladin are supposed to be counterparts given their similar, more jagged/sharp armor. Additionally, Dark Paladin gains 400 atk and has an effect geared towards offense while Magicians' Valkyria loses 400 atk and has an effect geared towards defense. I'd also be willing to put up Summon Sorceress as a Dark Paladin counterpart since they both have glaives instead of staves and both have +400 atk over their base counterparts. Though, I do accept it's a bit of stretch -There's Masterful Magician, Servant of the Sanctuary, the match winner card from the 2023 world championship (and I think parallel to the Blue-Eyes's Victory Dragon, akin to Legendary Dragon of White vs Legendary Magician of Dark) -Toon Dark Magician and Toon Dark Magician Girl -Dragon Master Magia depicts Magician of Black Chaos in the art. -I don't really think Timestar or Enlightenment Paladin should've been included here. They moreso belong to the Timegazer/Stargazer Magician lines. Same goes for Explosive Magician/Endymion. Endymion has a whole archetype of his own related to spell counters (the only use of spell counters in DM is Skilled Dark Magician, who is moreso part of the Skilled Magician group than DM) -The performapal cards do seemingly fit the master/apprentice dynamic and DM statline, but the visual similarity just isn't there for me and they're wind monsters. When you look at Nightmare Magician, you can just tell the monster is inspired by DM with the armor similarities. However, I am willing to accept them as homages. -Cyberse Magician I can see, but I think Cyberse Witch is a bit of a stretch. -Then there's all the monsters that are visually similar: Chaos Command Magician (which you mentioned), Breaker the Magical Warrior, Defender the Magical Knight, and Arcanite Magician. Then there's also Blast Magician and Doomstar Magician, who share some visual similarities, but that's pretty much where the parallels end. -There's also Apprentice Magician, who is wearing very similar robes to the 1st OCG artwork of DM and has a similar staff. -I totally forgot about the new DM Shining Sarcophagus retrain: Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic I think that about covers it.
Shocked you didn't mention Arcanite Magician as a synchro variant, its level 7, has a similar robe/rod and it has a flipped Dark Magical Circle in the background of the card.
I think Magician's Rod was missed? The Nightmare Magicians are actually siblings as revealed in recent lore. Going by younger versions, Skilled Black Magician could also be included alongside Warlock being an older version.
@@Arcadia_warlic I found out DM is connected to Endymion, Mythical Beast pends, & Spellbooks. DM is basically different adventures of him time traveling and mastering his magic.
2 things: 1: After hearing how many different ART works ''Dark Magician'' has: Pokemon TCG ''Pikachu'' be like: '''That's cute'' 2: ''Dark Magician Girl'' NEEDS both Ritual & Extra Deck (Fusion) SOLO cards.
Trivia: the Arkana version of Dark Magician has a different 8-digit passcode compared to any other variant of Dark Magician. As such, it is treated as a separate card in old video games where you can unlock cards by inputting the 8-digit passcode printed on the physical card. So you can have up to 6 copies of Dark Magician in your deck in some of the older video games.
The Sacred Cards is my favorite example. Is it smart to run 6 Dark Magicians? No, not at all. Doable though because of monsters like Doron, Toad Master, and Revival Jam to name a few. (to explain to those not familiar, these monsters have effects in this game and a couple others to either clone themselves or summon another monster outside the deck for free [e.g., Toad Master summons Frog the Jam])
You forgot to mention Xiangke Magician's counterpart, Xiangsheng Magician. I think my favorite is the Gagaga variants, the Palladium variants, or Apprentice Illusion Magician for their artworks. By the way, doesn't Palladium Oracle Mana look kinda like Tea Gardner? I would like to see a Blue-Eyes variant of this video.
Honestly the idea of Kazuki throwing his hands up and being like "I won't censor it" to that Magician Girl feels pretty realistic Man likely censored so many artworks he eventually got sick of it Honestly we may never know since he's no longer with us. Hmm Would it be wrong to hope maybe they one day due a Yugioh monster inspired by Kazuki to honor him? Maybe a Dark Magician variant called Creator Magician
Magi Magi Magician Girl is actually the card you’re supposed to use for Ebon Illusion’s “You can also Xyz Summon this card by using a Rank 6 Spelicaster-Type Xyz Monster you control as the Xyz Material” since MMMG is the Xyz version of DMG, as EIM is the Xyz version of DM. The only card you can use now for that effect is Norito The Moral Leader. (Also I’m surprised there aren’t MORE Rank 6 Spellcaster Xyz cards.)
what i think should have been included: Dark magician the magician of black magic. Noritoshi the Darkest Rainment (same attack, dark, spellcaster, and in similar pose as DM, looks like a ancient form. and you included Legendary magician of dark) Masterful Magician, Servant of the Sanctuary (same as above) Potentially Dragon Master Magia (since dark magician of chaos is in the art and it is a 'upgraded dark magician') Skilled Dark magician I do like the spellcasters that have similar clothing as dark magician (Breaker The magical warrior, Defender, the magical knight...pretty much spell counter cards). I always felt that it was either a "alternative universe" where Dark magician was Endymion OR that DM was either connected to or the inspiration of a magical school where the spell counter cards went.
@@jparis92100 DM is def connected because he becomes Masterful Magician of the Sanctuary and the Spell Counter theme, also, Konami tried to make Dark Magical Circle be apart of the Prophecy/Spellbooks but they changed it I believe as the card we got now.
While it isn't a direct parallel to DM/DM Girl since it's an "all female" deck but Yuuna has Celeb Rose which is obviously meant to reference the Sevens Road cards, with Celeb Rose Magician and Celeb Rose Witch cards. But there are also so many Rush Duel expansions with Sevens Road, Celeb Rose and their own Dark Magician cards.
Was there even an explanation as to why there's a red variation of the Dark Magician? Is it like a What-If Scenario, as in what if Bakura became the Dark Magician? Or is it an alternate timeline where the Dark Magician became corrupted by his own dark magic?
I'll explain the Dark Magician lore like this: DM was once Mahad who studied Dark Magic because of the Millennium Ring to balance out his ba and ka. Which you know how he ends up becoming DM after the showdown with Bakura. Sometime later, his Duel spirit trapped in the tablet is revived and travels through 5000 years of time (which every card we see in their artwork is him time traveling and mastering different forms and practices). By the time Mana becomes DMG, he travels with her through magical portals that leads them to different scenarios as you can see on all of their cards (in one time travel: he's a Dragon Knight, in another time travel: he learns about Spell Counters, in another time travel: he becomes a warrior). So yeah his lore story is basically time traveling through nearly every artwork he has. Magician Navigation is the main focus of how time travels with different spellcasters who are users of dark magic. That's why we got cards like Chronicle Magician (which he is confirmed to time travel and build a bond with BEWD), Endymion & Spellbooks (which leads him to be Masterful Magician of the Sanctuary and he does have ties to these archetypes), and much more. Arkana's/Pandora's version of DM must be something that is a Bizarro version of him. I don't know where he comes into any of it. Supposedly he's a warped version. DM is a time travel lore.
Astrograph sorcerer and Chronograph sorcerer are Homages to DM and DMG. They have the stat lines, they're dark spellcasters with levels 7 and 6 respectively and Astrograph was kinda an ace to Z-Arc, the greatest duelist of his time period and dimension.
I think OCG's upcoming set called Supreme Darkness is new Dark Magician/Dark Paladin support that's coming out this year. It would be cool to Buster Blader mentioning DM in its text and getting a new Dark Paladin retrain.
I think my favorite 3 pairs are ( mainly cause they are the ones I feel closest to due to nostalgia, aka the anime's first season and the pyramid of light movie ) : _The originals : Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl _The pyramid of light movie's new dark magician and dark magician girl inspired pair : Magician's Valkyria and Sorcerer of Dark Magic, they look like they could be the older siblings of their respective inspiration or heck even the parents of the sibling pair that is their inspiration. _Atem's best friends : Palladium Oracle Mahad and Palladium Oracle Mana. I loved the ancient Egypt arc, the story of Atem's world and his friends, as well as the monsters actually being there to some extent.
To explain Endymion, it’s the modern version of the original Dark Magician deck. In the Goat-era, DM & other Yugi boss monsters were player with a resource system called “Spell Counters” as to give Yugi a tangible playstyle for the actual game. Problem was, spell counters worker better when used fir board wipes and not summoning beaters so DM went off to have an archetype around the time archetypes were being fleshed out and spell counters just lost their boss monster. As such, they had to make their own Dark Magician and without the limitations of the OG monster, meaning it could actually have effects. Think of it as one deck that had to split off into two. So yeah, Endymion is the OG Yugi deck but allowed to update to the modern era. Explaining the vast similarities.
@mouthyschannel2474 here is to add on to your notion as well. In Rush Duel Dark Magician still uses a Spell Counter and Spell Book style of gameplay. It's a beautiful mixture of both. If you have X amount of Spell Cards in your Graveyard you can activate set effect. In which this is how Spellbooks work as well. It is a version of "Counter" without setting something on a card. This is even shown on Yugi's Gazelle Spellcounter Versions
You know what never made sense? That we never got a Dark Magician retrain that played into its normal monster flavor text _(The ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense.)_ Here’s my idea for that: _The Dark Magician of Battle_ (DARK) Level 7 Spellcaster/Effect (This card’s name is always treated as “Dark Magician”.) _You can use Spells/Traps you control as Tributes for this card’s Normal Summon/Set. Cannot be destroyed by Battle. This card can attack while in Defense Position. If it does, apply its ATK or DEF for damage calculation (Your Choice.) If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage._ ATK/2500 DEF/2100 THERE, now the card can be Normal Summoned/Set using Spells/Traps as tributes (which you can place/set on the field en masse), is immune to battle destruction (plays into the “Defense” angle), can attack while in defense position (plays up the “Attack” AND “Defense” bits), and deals Piercing Battle Damage (Plays up the “Attack” part). All while of course treating itself as the OG Dark Magician.
i'm still sad we didn't get a quintet magician girl. Like you have the magician girls to fit the requirements, and the spell, just make theboss monster
11:04 Trapeze Magician is PerforMAGE, not pal. PM not PP, Em not EM. Also, you forgot PerforMAGE Trapeze Witch. Magician of Hope is a fusion between Yuya's Pendulum 11:35 Magicians and Yuma's Utopia. 11:57 you forgot Xiangsheng Magician, Oafdragon and Nobledragon Magician, Tuning/Harmonizing Magician.
Don't know if someone mentioned it already but you missed one Dark Magician Girl artwork, the "MP22-EN268" from the 2022 Mega-Tins. Which artwork was also used for the DMG dueling accesories Binder, Sleeves, Deckbox & Playmat.
I'm Surprise that Arcanite Magician, Tempest Magician, and High Priestess of Prophecy weren't mentioned given how they all align with both Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl.
Eh... I want to chime in on the Magician of Hope. That is more of an XYZ/Pendulum Variant of Utopia rather than Dark Magician, but it kinda does look like a Dark Magician in a way
there is diabellstar the black witch, who her and snake-eyes flamberge are homages to dark magician and blue-eyes and also performage isn't a performapal lol
It’s neat how Dark Magician has no Synchro support and Blue-Eyes has no Xyz support, it would be cool if enough synchro blue-eyes and Xyz dark magician were made to form respective extra deck method focused decks
Fun fact: the anime Dark magician Girl is actually nerfed instead of 300 in the original Manga she gained 500 for every Dark magician in the graveyard the 500 is her actually inheriting his strength which is 2500
You forgot about Astrograh Sorcerer and Chronograph Sorcerer. They're also a pair of spellcasters; one with 2500 ATK and the other 2000 ATK. And I might be wrong but I think Astrograph is female, so it's the female that has higher stats than the male one this time around. Also, since Astrograph and Chronograph are upgraded versions of Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician, those could be variants of DM and DMG as well.
I’m surprised and a little sad Yusei didn’t get a junk magician somewhere. Probably would’ve been pretty cool. I think Stargazer and Timegazer Magician could fit into this. They’re just brothers instead of student teacher/siblings.
My first thought for variants were Gagaga Magician and Gagaga Girl, which don’t meet the stated level requirements; but, Gagaga Magician is originally 1 level higher than Gagaga Girl, just like the originals.
Great video! I think Breaker the magical warrior, Defender the magical knight and Blast magician would also meet your criteria, they look quite similar to og dark magician, at least, to me.
Hi TGS, great video! You forgot about one Dark Magician Girl artwork! The one 2022 Tin of the Pharaoh's Gods. It is a nice one and I believe Konami wanted to tie it in to the at-that-moment 25th Anniversary releases.
The statue idea could have been implemented seamlessly with the millenium/exodia support we got this year. When you watch the character duel at WCQ (I think) with yugi vs his grandpa, he talks of his monsters being in tablet form and breaking from their tablets.
sam i gott correct you twice now. there's no such thing as "Performapal Trapeze Magician", there is a monster called "*Performage* Trapeze Magician" though, and second correction: Magician of Hope is a Utopia omage, not a Dark Magician variant
Also, he missed Xiangsheng Magician and Arcanite Magician for the DMG Variants. Also, Timestar is almost a ZEXAL morph (by the looks of it) between the Gazers when they're trying to become the ZARC sorcerers, and Enlightenment is a different version of them.
I'd say Trapeze Magician isn't a Dark Magician reference as much as it simply lives up to the 2500 stat benchmark that DM established. Endymion is also simply a magician that uses dark magic. From what I've read of his Magister story plus the evil implications of his last starter deck support, he has a negative character arc which clashes with DM being a heroic character.
The chronicle magician cards make me feel like if the fourth blue eyes card wasn't ripped they would be in Yugi's deck and would have been alongside silent magician in the final duel
I like how Dark Magician #7 is the version that Yugi uses in the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. While not a fan of the color, it is my favorite design of him.
Breaker the magical warrior, defender the magical warrior, breaker the dark magical warrior, skilled magicians, blast magician, dark red enchanter, rapid fire magician, crusader of Endymion and alchemist of black spells deserved a mention since they resemblance Dark magician in most of their features artwork wise.
Endymion is unrelated, he just shares a similar colour scheme. Servant of Endymion is Witchcrafter Genai, not a Dark Magician Girl counterpart, the only similarity is that they're both blonde women.
Also I've always seen cyberse wizard and backup sorceress as the cyberse DM/DMG pair similar to the gagaga pair. From there, Cyberse Enchanter and Cyberse Magician would be upgrades/older versions of cyberse wizard, with the same relationship between backup secretary, backup supervisor, and cyberse witch
You forgot the Shining Sarcophagus Dark Magician. There’s also Astrograph Sorcerer, which has the same stats (except for DEF) as DM and is the ace monster of Z-ARC, and Chronograph Sorcerer has the same stats as DMG. Both Summon Supreme King Z-Arc and are evolved forms of the original Magician Pendulum Monsters that Yuya has.
fun fact in ygo 5ds luna goes to the monster world and encounters a monster that looks like miracal flipper that got cursed to be young and later transforms back into its adult form with lookes most like dark sage with is an old version of the dark magician
Alright, so, this was pretty interesting, but I think that you were stretching a bit with the Endymion and Servant of Endymion. Endymion has a similar-ish artstyle to DM, but is clearly MUCH bulkier when Dark Magician, even in Warrior form has always been very lithe, and aside from SoE and DMG both being blonde and female, I fail to see the resemblance that you do, and the biggest sticking point is the hair. SoE has long flowing locks, whereas DMG's hair has always had a bit of spikiness to it. Either way, great video.
Dragon Master Magia is a fusion of Magician of Black Chaos and Blue-eyes Ultimate so it is not entirely related to Dark Magician but I thought it deserves an honorable mention.
I have a suggestion for a video: Which Character has pulled off the most One Turn Kills? And to make it easier to figure out: For those duels where you don't see the entirety and only see it on the last turn, unless it was shown that the loser went from having 4000 Life Points down to 0, it doesn't count. They must go from the starting amount of 4000 (or 2000 in the Duelist Kingdom) to 0 in one turn
Did you do a video yet on how many of the manga/anime characters have monster/spell/trap counterparts based on them? Akin to "Kaiba Man", or artworks that looked like them, like the ones of Ishizu and Mai?
You forgot Xiangsheng Magician when you talked about Xiangke Magician, they are a duo to resemble Yuya and Yuzu as well Z-ARC and Ray, at the same time they are a reference to DM and DMG 😅 Also, the DMG version of Endymion would be Selene and Reflection of Endymion, since both have more similarities with DMG
Dragonpit & Dragonpulse Magician . . . . Each one them *"discard pendulum card"* >> the DM version *_(Dragonpit)_* pop backrow then the DMG version *_(Dragonpluse)_* discard pendulum card >> then pop face up monster . . . . Well one have 2,7K deffence and the girl one have 1,8K attack tho :') 👍👍 Btw Xiangke Magician have always partner in crime when placed as pendulum scale in Arc-V by Yuya . . . . *_"Xiangsheng Magician"_* even she's looks like archer in card artwork . . . . But the effect tho . . . . just support Pendulum / XYZ power combination . . . . It's just representative of Yuya and Yuto it self . . . .
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**Dark Magician : Into The Magiverse**
And Magiced all over those guys
I did get that Spiderverse joke,
It makes so much sense doesn't it?
If that was a legit movie, I'm watching it.
You dont get it Mahad...you dying is a CANON EVENT!
Couple things here
1. Magician of Hope is actually a Utopia reference. Having the same stats, summoning conditions and pendulum effects
2. Astrograph and Chronograph are also referencing the dark magician and dark magician girl as well!
I would like to continue this and just say that the pendulum magicians and the dark magicians are not able to search each other by rulings so yes, I understand what time star magician says, but it cannot search dark, magician or dark, magician girl it has to be a pendulum, magician, or a pendulum dark spell This was a ruling back in when the card first released and I don’t remember why the ruling was made and if you have a problem with it, don’t blame me. I’m just a messager and no Endymion and his pendulum variance are not homages to dark magician they are separate and totally unattached.
Let alone that Chronograph Sorcerer shares that same stats as the Dark Magician Girl
Time Star CAN search Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. It was the card i used to bring Sorcerer of Dark Magic to my hand@@artisticsmeargel
@@artisticsmeargel it's because of the japanese names. Dark Magician's japanese name writes "Magician" phonetically as マジシャン ("majishiyan"). Magician Pendulum monsters, however, use 魔術師 which is pronounced "Majutsushi". So when your monster's effect can search 「魔術師」monsters, a 「マジシャン」monster would not be an appropriate target for it
Fun fact, however: In the original japanese, Yugi would semi-often refer to dark magician as 黒の魔術師 (kuro no majutsushi) which follows the way the magician pendulums are named, but as far as I can tell, the card is never printed or shown to be written this way.
fun fact number 2: This is why Astrograph Sorcerer is called a Sorcerer in the english (along with many other "sorcerer" monsters used by and/or themed to be used by yuya such as performapal smile sorcerer). Astrograph Sorcerer is actually originally "Astrograph Magician" as アストログラフ・マジシャン (Asutorogurafu Majishan). Once again, we see it is マジシャン and not 魔術師 but in this case, they caught the potential issue before it happened, and just changed the english name.
I could see astrograph being a reference to dark magician, but the only way chronograph is DMG is if timegazer magician is also a reference to DMG.
To be fair, astrograph in the anime was the combined form of both stargazer and timegazer, rather than just a counterpart to stargazer, so chronograph could be seen as an apprentice, but it seems a bit of a stretch to extend that to being a reference to DMG
Since you mentioned Magician’s Robe, you forgot Magician’s Rod, which acts in a similar manner
Magician of Hope is not actually related to Dark Magician, it's related to Utopia. Magician of Hope was released in a very specific time period; It was released when Arc-V was on air, but ALSO, a Zexal re-run was being aired simultaneously. In efforts to get fans of Zexal to watch Arc-V (since it was the series prior), they released Magician of Hope. It also shares an archetypal name with the Pendulum Magicians, which make sense.
In addition, Timestar is actually a mix of Timegazer and Stargazer Magicians; key cards of the Pendulum Magician archetype, same with Xiangke.
Generally speaking, the Pendulum Magicians were meant to be a support archetype to the Dimension Dragons and Z-Arc, which are shown in Chronograph and Astrograph Sorcerers, the evolved forms of Timegazer and Stargazer Magicians respectively.
Something to also note is that in the OCG, the Pendulum Magicians do not share the same archetype name with any other Magician.
This is because in the OCG, cards like Black Magician use the english word for magician whilst the Pendulum Magicians use the japanese word: Majutsushi.
This is also why cards like Pendulum Magician, Astrograph Magician, Chronograph Magician, and Smile Magician had their archetypes changed in the TCG to "Sorcerer" in order to prevent them from being used with cards that support the Pendulum Magician archetype.
I think he means they're related in the sense of "alternative counterparts". Kind of like how each generation of Pokemon has a distinct electric rodent
I would argue the pendulum magician's are variants of Dark Magician but that's a whole different argument
Good video, but there were a few points I wanted to bring up:
-DMG had a sixth artwork in the 2022 tins (TCG) and Animation Chronicle? (OCG). [Edit: I was wrong, it was the History Archive Collection, not Animation Chronicle)
-I think Magician's Valkyria and Dark Paladin are supposed to be counterparts given their similar, more jagged/sharp armor. Additionally, Dark Paladin gains 400 atk and has an effect geared towards offense while Magicians' Valkyria loses 400 atk and has an effect geared towards defense. I'd also be willing to put up Summon Sorceress as a Dark Paladin counterpart since they both have glaives instead of staves and both have +400 atk over their base counterparts. Though, I do accept it's a bit of stretch
-There's Masterful Magician, Servant of the Sanctuary, the match winner card from the 2023 world championship (and I think parallel to the Blue-Eyes's Victory Dragon, akin to Legendary Dragon of White vs Legendary Magician of Dark)
-Toon Dark Magician and Toon Dark Magician Girl
-Dragon Master Magia depicts Magician of Black Chaos in the art.
-I don't really think Timestar or Enlightenment Paladin should've been included here. They moreso belong to the Timegazer/Stargazer Magician lines. Same goes for Explosive Magician/Endymion. Endymion has a whole archetype of his own related to spell counters (the only use of spell counters in DM is Skilled Dark Magician, who is moreso part of the Skilled Magician group than DM)
-The performapal cards do seemingly fit the master/apprentice dynamic and DM statline, but the visual similarity just isn't there for me and they're wind monsters. When you look at Nightmare Magician, you can just tell the monster is inspired by DM with the armor similarities. However, I am willing to accept them as homages.
-Cyberse Magician I can see, but I think Cyberse Witch is a bit of a stretch.
-Then there's all the monsters that are visually similar: Chaos Command Magician (which you mentioned), Breaker the Magical Warrior, Defender the Magical Knight, and Arcanite Magician. Then there's also Blast Magician and Doomstar Magician, who share some visual similarities, but that's pretty much where the parallels end.
-There's also Apprentice Magician, who is wearing very similar robes to the 1st OCG artwork of DM and has a similar staff.
-I totally forgot about the new DM Shining Sarcophagus retrain: Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic
I think that about covers it.
What about Arcanite Magician?
@@gerardootero1149 I mentioned Arcanite Magician in the third to last bullet point.
Shocked you didn't mention Arcanite Magician as a synchro variant, its level 7, has a similar robe/rod and it has a flipped Dark Magical Circle in the background of the card.
Yeah I was waiting for that
One of my favorite TH-camrs Ever, would love to see you do this for blue eyes white dragon
Save you sometime as do Red-Eyes next.
I would love Blue Eyes Variants as well as Red Eyes. Love this channel so much.
I think Magician's Rod was missed?
The Nightmare Magicians are actually siblings as revealed in recent lore.
Going by younger versions, Skilled Black Magician could also be included alongside Warlock being an older version.
@@Arcadia_warlic I found out DM is connected to Endymion, Mythical Beast pends, & Spellbooks. DM is basically different adventures of him time traveling and mastering his magic.
@@Arcadia_warlic Actually found out more info. Arkanas Red DM is basically Dark Eradicator Warlock. Not the original DM himself.
I doubt it was somehow specifically alluding to Pandora when it was released with other genetic Black Magician cards in its structure deck.
@@Arcadia_warlic Evolved form of Arkana's Dark Magician because it's burn damage effect is inspired by Arkana's card, Ectoplasm.
2 things:
1: After hearing how many different ART works ''Dark Magician'' has: Pokemon TCG ''Pikachu'' be like: '''That's cute''
2: ''Dark Magician Girl'' NEEDS both Ritual & Extra Deck (Fusion) SOLO cards.
Even the least popular Pokemon have at least 10 different art works.
Trivia: the Arkana version of Dark Magician has a different 8-digit passcode compared to any other variant of Dark Magician. As such, it is treated as a separate card in old video games where you can unlock cards by inputting the 8-digit passcode printed on the physical card. So you can have up to 6 copies of Dark Magician in your deck in some of the older video games.
The Sacred Cards is my favorite example.
Is it smart to run 6 Dark Magicians? No, not at all. Doable though because of monsters like Doron, Toad Master, and Revival Jam to name a few.
(to explain to those not familiar, these monsters have effects in this game and a couple others to either clone themselves or summon another monster outside the deck for free [e.g., Toad Master summons Frog the Jam])
You forgot to mention Xiangke Magician's counterpart, Xiangsheng Magician.
I think my favorite is the Gagaga variants, the Palladium variants, or Apprentice Illusion Magician for their artworks. By the way, doesn't Palladium Oracle Mana look kinda like Tea Gardner?
I would like to see a Blue-Eyes variant of this video.
Tea is her.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that
Honestly the idea of Kazuki throwing his hands up and being like "I won't censor it" to that Magician Girl feels pretty realistic
Man likely censored so many artworks he eventually got sick of it
Honestly we may never know since he's no longer with us.
Hmm
Would it be wrong to hope maybe they one day due a Yugioh monster inspired by Kazuki to honor him?
Maybe a Dark Magician variant called Creator Magician
I believe there will be one eventually, but long after the holoduels have become in ernest
Shocked they didn't put magi magician girl in the lost art series yet
Horakthy deck?
I feel they might do that but with Blue-Eyes, since its reported Blue-Eyes was Kazuki's favorite card
i just dont even see what needs to be censored. the art on her card seems so damn tame to me.
Magi Magi Magician Girl is actually the card you’re supposed to use for Ebon Illusion’s “You can also Xyz Summon this card by using a Rank 6 Spelicaster-Type Xyz Monster you control as the Xyz Material” since MMMG is the Xyz version of DMG, as EIM is the Xyz version of DM.
The only card you can use now for that effect is Norito The Moral Leader. (Also I’m surprised there aren’t MORE Rank 6 Spellcaster Xyz cards.)
what i think should have been included:
Dark magician the magician of black magic.
Noritoshi the Darkest Rainment (same attack, dark, spellcaster, and in similar pose as DM, looks like a ancient form. and you included Legendary magician of dark)
Masterful Magician, Servant of the Sanctuary (same as above)
Potentially Dragon Master Magia (since dark magician of chaos is in the art and it is a 'upgraded dark magician')
Skilled Dark magician
I do like the spellcasters that have similar clothing as dark magician (Breaker The magical warrior, Defender, the magical knight...pretty much spell counter cards). I always felt that it was either a "alternative universe" where Dark magician was Endymion OR that DM was either connected to or the inspiration of a magical school where the spell counter cards went.
@@jparis92100 DM is def connected because he becomes Masterful Magician of the Sanctuary and the Spell Counter theme, also, Konami tried to make Dark Magical Circle be apart of the Prophecy/Spellbooks but they changed it I believe as the card we got now.
While it isn't a direct parallel to DM/DM Girl since it's an "all female" deck but Yuuna has Celeb Rose which is obviously meant to reference the Sevens Road cards, with Celeb Rose Magician and Celeb Rose Witch cards. But there are also so many Rush Duel expansions with Sevens Road, Celeb Rose and their own Dark Magician cards.
It doesn't fit your requirements even remotely.
But Diabellastar and Snake-eyes are also loosely based on Dark Magician and Blue Eyes.
I saw those jiggle don't act like I didn't see 😂 0:35
Gaga Magican and Gagga Magican girl are part of it too.
Was there even an explanation as to why there's a red variation of the Dark Magician? Is it like a What-If Scenario, as in what if Bakura became the Dark Magician? Or is it an alternate timeline where the Dark Magician became corrupted by his own dark magic?
As far as I know no there hasn't
I'll explain the Dark Magician lore like this: DM was once Mahad who studied Dark Magic because of the Millennium Ring to balance out his ba and ka. Which you know how he ends up becoming DM after the showdown with Bakura. Sometime later, his Duel spirit trapped in the tablet is revived and travels through 5000 years of time (which every card we see in their artwork is him time traveling and mastering different forms and practices). By the time Mana becomes DMG, he travels with her through magical portals that leads them to different scenarios as you can see on all of their cards (in one time travel: he's a Dragon Knight, in another time travel: he learns about Spell Counters, in another time travel: he becomes a warrior). So yeah his lore story is basically time traveling through nearly every artwork he has. Magician Navigation is the main focus of how time travels with different spellcasters who are users of dark magic. That's why we got cards like Chronicle Magician (which he is confirmed to time travel and build a bond with BEWD), Endymion & Spellbooks (which leads him to be Masterful Magician of the Sanctuary and he does have ties to these archetypes), and much more. Arkana's/Pandora's version of DM must be something that is a Bizarro version of him. I don't know where he comes into any of it. Supposedly he's a warped version. DM is a time travel lore.
Or it's just a different dude as the monster world exists and there's a bunch of other magicians and he wanted the title?
@@anonluxor470 Blast Magician
I actually kind of like that as a "what if" scenario. What if Bakura/Diabound was able to absorb Illusion Magician or Dark Magician.
My favorite is Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic. This is one you forgot to mention.
Astrograph sorcerer and Chronograph sorcerer are Homages to DM and DMG. They have the stat lines, they're dark spellcasters with levels 7 and 6 respectively and Astrograph was kinda an ace to Z-Arc, the greatest duelist of his time period and dimension.
Didn't he forgot the dark magician in shinning sircophages
It's crazy how Dark Magician artwork have equal or even more variants than how many decks have spawned from Yugi lol. DM art goes crazy
I think OCG's upcoming set called Supreme Darkness is new Dark Magician/Dark Paladin support that's coming out this year. It would be cool to Buster Blader mentioning DM in its text and getting a new Dark Paladin retrain.
I think my favorite 3 pairs are ( mainly cause they are the ones I feel closest to due to nostalgia, aka the anime's first season and the pyramid of light movie ) :
_The originals : Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl
_The pyramid of light movie's new dark magician and dark magician girl inspired pair : Magician's Valkyria and Sorcerer of Dark Magic, they look like they could be the older siblings of their respective inspiration or heck even the parents of the sibling pair that is their inspiration.
_Atem's best friends : Palladium Oracle Mahad and Palladium Oracle Mana. I loved the ancient Egypt arc, the story of Atem's world and his friends, as well as the monsters actually being there to some extent.
I would have thought the skilled Dark Magician would have gotten a mention in this video
I'm pretty sure Endymion is the principal of the school that Dark Magician, Buster Blader, Gaia, Summoned skull and Kuriboh went to
I'm just disappointed we have very few Magician of Black Chaos Variants
To explain Endymion, it’s the modern version of the original Dark Magician deck. In the Goat-era, DM & other Yugi boss monsters were player with a resource system called “Spell Counters” as to give Yugi a tangible playstyle for the actual game. Problem was, spell counters worker better when used fir board wipes and not summoning beaters so DM went off to have an archetype around the time archetypes were being fleshed out and spell counters just lost their boss monster.
As such, they had to make their own Dark Magician and without the limitations of the OG monster, meaning it could actually have effects. Think of it as one deck that had to split off into two.
So yeah, Endymion is the OG Yugi deck but allowed to update to the modern era. Explaining the vast similarities.
Finally someone got it correct, was waiting for someone with knowledge of the game
@mouthyschannel2474 here is to add on to your notion as well. In Rush Duel Dark Magician still uses a Spell Counter and Spell Book style of gameplay. It's a beautiful mixture of both. If you have X amount of Spell Cards in your Graveyard you can activate set effect. In which this is how Spellbooks work as well. It is a version of "Counter" without setting something on a card. This is even shown on Yugi's Gazelle Spellcounter Versions
@@Xioxakura Makes me wish for some Endy GY spells now to push the viability lol
You missed the Shining Sarc version of Dark Magician, "Dark Magician the Ebon Sorcerer"
And I personally don't think the Syncro's count
You know what never made sense? That we never got a Dark Magician retrain that played into its normal monster flavor text _(The ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense.)_
Here’s my idea for that:
_The Dark Magician of Battle_ (DARK)
Level 7
Spellcaster/Effect
(This card’s name is always treated as “Dark Magician”.)
_You can use Spells/Traps you control as Tributes for this card’s Normal Summon/Set. Cannot be destroyed by Battle. This card can attack while in Defense Position. If it does, apply its ATK or DEF for damage calculation (Your Choice.) If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage._
ATK/2500 DEF/2100
THERE, now the card can be Normal Summoned/Set using Spells/Traps as tributes (which you can place/set on the field en masse), is immune to battle destruction (plays into the “Defense” angle), can attack while in defense position (plays up the “Attack” AND “Defense” bits), and deals Piercing Battle Damage (Plays up the “Attack” part). All while of course treating itself as the OG Dark Magician.
Attack (Spells: DM Attack/Dark Burning Magic) and Defense (Traps: Magic Cylinder/Mirror Force).
My favorite are the gagaga and the slient magician
i'm still sad we didn't get a quintet magician girl. Like you have the magician girls to fit the requirements, and the spell, just make theboss monster
I love the different variations of Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl. My favourites are Gagaga Magician and Gagaga Magician Girl.
11:04 Trapeze Magician is PerforMAGE, not pal. PM not PP, Em not EM. Also, you forgot PerforMAGE Trapeze Witch.
Magician of Hope is a fusion between Yuya's Pendulum
11:35 Magicians and Yuma's Utopia.
11:57 you forgot Xiangsheng Magician, Oafdragon and Nobledragon Magician, Tuning/Harmonizing Magician.
Don't know if someone mentioned it already but you missed one Dark Magician Girl artwork, the "MP22-EN268" from the 2022 Mega-Tins. Which artwork was also used for the DMG dueling accesories Binder, Sleeves, Deckbox & Playmat.
I'm Surprise that Arcanite Magician, Tempest Magician, and High Priestess of Prophecy weren't mentioned given how they all align with both Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl.
Eh... I want to chime in on the Magician of Hope. That is more of an XYZ/Pendulum Variant of Utopia rather than Dark Magician, but it kinda does look like a Dark Magician in a way
Still follows protagonist ace stats regardless.
there is diabellstar the black witch, who her and snake-eyes flamberge are homages to dark magician and blue-eyes
and also performage isn't a performapal lol
Take a drink every time he says dark magician. This is a joke please don't. 😂
It’s neat how Dark Magician has no Synchro support and Blue-Eyes has no Xyz support, it would be cool if enough synchro blue-eyes and Xyz dark magician were made to form respective extra deck method focused decks
Now Blue-Eyes has XYZ support
@@Xioxakura so that should mean dark magician should get a synchro soon
Fun fact: the anime Dark magician Girl is actually nerfed instead of 300 in the original Manga she gained 500 for every Dark magician in the graveyard the 500 is her actually inheriting his strength which is 2500
How’d you miss Diabellstar??? It’s a straight up homage to Dark magician!! Plus it’s even got an upgraded magician of black chaos form!
You forgot about Astrograh Sorcerer and Chronograph Sorcerer. They're also a pair of spellcasters; one with 2500 ATK and the other 2000 ATK. And I might be wrong but I think Astrograph is female, so it's the female that has higher stats than the male one this time around.
Also, since Astrograph and Chronograph are upgraded versions of Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician, those could be variants of DM and DMG as well.
I’m surprised and a little sad Yusei didn’t get a junk magician somewhere. Probably would’ve been pretty cool.
I think Stargazer and Timegazer Magician could fit into this. They’re just brothers instead of student teacher/siblings.
My first thought for variants were Gagaga Magician and Gagaga Girl, which don’t meet the stated level requirements; but, Gagaga Magician is originally 1 level higher than Gagaga Girl, just like the originals.
Now do how many archetypes spawned of joey and kaiba decks ❤🎉❤
Great video! I think Breaker the magical warrior, Defender the magical knight and Blast magician would also meet your criteria, they look quite similar to og dark magician, at least, to me.
Hey TGS, I love your videos. You do such a great job. Can you please do a duel analysis of the duel between Don Thousand, Nasch, and Yuma please?
Enough to make both atem and yugi blush
Hi TGS, great video! You forgot about one Dark Magician Girl artwork! The one 2022 Tin of the Pharaoh's Gods. It is a nice one and I believe Konami wanted to tie it in to the at-that-moment 25th Anniversary releases.
This is great! Would love a blue eyes version as well
The statue idea could have been implemented seamlessly with the millenium/exodia support we got this year. When you watch the character duel at WCQ (I think) with yugi vs his grandpa, he talks of his monsters being in tablet form and breaking from their tablets.
sam i gott correct you twice now. there's no such thing as "Performapal Trapeze Magician", there is a monster called "*Performage* Trapeze Magician" though, and second correction: Magician of Hope is a Utopia omage, not a Dark Magician variant
Also, he missed Xiangsheng Magician and Arcanite Magician for the DMG Variants. Also, Timestar is almost a ZEXAL morph (by the looks of it) between the Gazers when they're trying to become the ZARC sorcerers, and Enlightenment is a different version of them.
I hope they make some more dark magician girl support sometime
Dark Magician is Hyper Nostolgic, love that card but Endymion is another great card the artwork is just amazing !
I'd say Trapeze Magician isn't a Dark Magician reference as much as it simply lives up to the 2500 stat benchmark that DM established. Endymion is also simply a magician that uses dark magic. From what I've read of his Magister story plus the evil implications of his last starter deck support, he has a negative character arc which clashes with DM being a heroic character.
It's been decades, we need the lore of how Arkana's Dark Magician fits into all of this lol
Apple Magician Girl does fit the color scheme, tho that might be coincidental
Oh I was just thinking of collecting the pairs variants of DM and DMG. Thanks for the video. Perfect timing.
The chronicle magician cards make me feel like if the fourth blue eyes card wasn't ripped they would be in Yugi's deck and would have been alongside silent magician in the final duel
You shoulda done the thumbnail like the "How many Super Merryo games are there (its more than 12((its interesting I promise)))"
Would love to see a variants videos for Red Eyes, Blue Eyes, and Summoned Skull! Great video mate
It's strange how we don't have a Fusion of Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon, maybe called White Magician master of Light
I like how Dark Magician #7 is the version that Yugi uses in the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. While not a fan of the color, it is my favorite design of him.
DMG version of Magician's Robe.....??
Um.....I don't know....??
Dark Magical Circle is the circle form of Dark Magician, made to correspond to the Winged Dragon of Ra’s sphere mode
/s
in fact in the recent duel grandpa vs yugi, Yugi used both apprentice and nightmare
Breaker the magical warrior, defender the magical warrior, breaker the dark magical warrior, skilled magicians, blast magician, dark red enchanter, rapid fire magician, crusader of Endymion and alchemist of black spells deserved a mention since they resemblance Dark magician in most of their features artwork wise.
Nightmare magician and nightmare apprentice.
I would count amazement administrator but his stats are slightly different.
I keep a binder of Yugioh cards containing some of my favourite archetypes and Dark Magician has about 6 pages worth
Endymion is unrelated, he just shares a similar colour scheme. Servant of Endymion is Witchcrafter Genai, not a Dark Magician Girl counterpart, the only similarity is that they're both blonde women.
He didn't mention the story about the pyramid of light movie and watapon story
Also I've always seen cyberse wizard and backup sorceress as the cyberse DM/DMG pair similar to the gagaga pair. From there, Cyberse Enchanter and Cyberse Magician would be upgrades/older versions of cyberse wizard, with the same relationship between backup secretary, backup supervisor, and cyberse witch
You forgot the Shining Sarcophagus Dark Magician. There’s also Astrograph Sorcerer, which has the same stats (except for DEF) as DM and is the ace monster of Z-ARC, and Chronograph Sorcerer has the same stats as DMG. Both Summon Supreme King Z-Arc and are evolved forms of the original Magician Pendulum Monsters that Yuya has.
Sorcerer of Dark Magic
Dunno why but level 9 monsters are kinda sick
Chimeratech overdragon, SoDM and Spirit of Yubel
It's funny because I remember when people thought those 2 cards were a romantic couple.
fun fact in ygo 5ds luna goes to the monster world and encounters a monster that looks like miracal flipper that got cursed to be young and later transforms back into its adult form with lookes most like dark sage with is an old version of the dark magician
Alright, so, this was pretty interesting, but I think that you were stretching a bit with the Endymion and Servant of Endymion. Endymion has a similar-ish artstyle to DM, but is clearly MUCH bulkier when Dark Magician, even in Warrior form has always been very lithe, and aside from SoE and DMG both being blonde and female, I fail to see the resemblance that you do, and the biggest sticking point is the hair. SoE has long flowing locks, whereas DMG's hair has always had a bit of spikiness to it. Either way, great video.
Dragon Master Magia is a fusion of Magician of Black Chaos and Blue-eyes Ultimate so it is not entirely related to Dark Magician but I thought it deserves an honorable mention.
The original pair and Jaden's versions are my favorites. And I think Effect Veiler and Extra Veiler could be a pair too.
You forgot Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic from Yugi new shining sarcophagus archetype
I would argue that Arcnite Magician is tied to the spin off.
There is no way Arcanite Magician is NOT a Synchro evolution of Dark Magician Girl
King Magician Yugi and Queen Magician Anzu or Tea is the perfect names for a idea new Magicians cards monsters.
Amazing video of the different versions of dark magician and dark magician girl,fantastic job.
There was a Vision Hero Witch variant of Darl Magician Girl as she has dark magic attack built-in her effect
I like this video. Can you also do one for the Blue-Eyes White Dragon or the Egyptian Gods please
You left out a DMG Art!
Sounds like a awesome idea to do a Blue eyes video.
I have a suggestion for a video:
Which Character has pulled off the most One Turn Kills?
And to make it easier to figure out: For those duels where you don't see the entirety and only see it on the last turn, unless it was shown that the loser went from having 4000 Life Points down to 0, it doesn't count. They must go from the starting amount of 4000 (or 2000 in the Duelist Kingdom) to 0 in one turn
Dark Paladin worth mentioning
The pendulum xyz magician of hope looks like utopia with its wings and two swords
This is awesome didn’t know about all the variants please do red eyes / blue eyes
Did you do a video yet on how many of the manga/anime characters have monster/spell/trap counterparts based on them? Akin to "Kaiba Man", or artworks that looked like them, like the ones of Ishizu and Mai?
You forgot Xiangsheng Magician when you talked about Xiangke Magician, they are a duo to resemble Yuya and Yuzu as well Z-ARC and Ray, at the same time they are a reference to DM and DMG 😅
Also, the DMG version of Endymion would be Selene and Reflection of Endymion, since both have more similarities with DMG
Dragonpit & Dragonpulse Magician . . . .
Each one them *"discard pendulum card"* >> the DM version *_(Dragonpit)_* pop backrow then the DMG version *_(Dragonpluse)_* discard pendulum card >> then pop face up monster . . . .
Well one have 2,7K deffence and the girl one have 1,8K attack tho :') 👍👍
Btw Xiangke Magician have always partner in crime when placed as pendulum scale in Arc-V by Yuya . . . .
*_"Xiangsheng Magician"_* even she's looks like archer in card artwork . . . .
But the effect tho . . . . just support Pendulum / XYZ power combination . . . .
It's just representative of Yuya and Yuto it self . . . .
Nightmare and The OG pairings are my favorite
technically, Dark Magician Girl is a variant of Dark Magician
I remember more the 2nd edition of Dark Magician Girl
Due to the games. I believe that Tea and Pegasus used that version.
I hate how much the cards are censored, art is art. They aren't even risky images, good on the artist for not backing down for every release
Into the Magicianverse.