Prob will Second Anniversary or sometime later this year. I also expect a Red Eyes structure and additional support too since that will cover 3 main OGs
I haven't spent a single dollar in Master Duel and I don't have a top-tier deck because I always spend my gems in fun decks. With them, I've managed to reach Platinum 1.
@@andresraffler, they can. But they're not so much when the competitive world of Yu-Gi-Oh influences casual players to play top decks, intentionally or not. That ends up with a bunch of players dueling with the same decks in most locals, tournaments, etc. And that is not fun at all...
@@andresraffler top tier decks aren’t as fun because by definition, as you get higher in rankings more people play them… you start to see the same deck over and over and it kinda stops being fun 😒
I really appreciate you making this deck. I have actually been winning matches and having fun. There have even been matches where I thought I was gonna lose, but I turned the game around and won. I rarely lose and only to op decks. Thank again!
For those who doesn't want MD, the Salamangreat structure deck is also a great choice. The Zombie deck is pretty nice too but you will need some fragments to craft one of its Boss monster
I’m shocked at how good the deck is for f2p. So long as you fill it out with good staples you can get decently far with it. I really hope they do this treatment for blue eyes in the future.
bro pretty decent , i drop all the card that sam have all by 1 and added in the 4 type of hand trap. guess what P1 now. best part is due to the search effect of spell and trap i always have droplet and called by in my hand. and due to the cost of the deck is 1500 gem i have enough to craft them by the time i finish 5 story mode quest. pretty insane right
@@morbentfel what do u mean ??u meant the hand trap or u mean the anime deck in general ?? as they themself are in that category . so far hero and DM is the 2 insane structure that go that far.
I swear this video has inspired a lot of new players cuz when I went back to climbing the rank again THIS DECK IS ALL I FIND. At least in the lower ranks. Great video 😊
Honestly, I love seeing more of these decks played. It's so fun to get ogdoadic queen out and completely wipe their monsters if they have eternal soul out. They summon something from the grave? It's GG
Dude I faced that deck last night and the dude hit me with the cosmic pincer and planet pollutant virus combo among the other reptiles. Hollyyyyy I just had to smile and give him the win for the diversity.
@@mantistoboggan5346 If thats the case, then thats a very stupid ruling made on Konamis part. I would consider it a target, considering you are choosing and singling out a single card, as is the very definition of 'target', an object chosen for attack/destruction.
Thanks man, I just started playing Master Duels, I watched your tutorial on how to get started. After watching this video I've been having so much fun. This deck is so much fun to use, its strategic and powerful.
That's why you play fused DM with Timaeus right? (Forgot the real name) because the effect of that card is basically Eternal Soul but for spells and traps
@@dualitygrief576 You don't always draw eye of Timaeus, but yeah I use it for DM dragon knight to protect the eternal soul. Eternal soul is good it you have the right counters down with it, for example dark magician the dragon knight or beat cop from the underworld.
The deck starts to flounder in high gold tiers, it has so many consistency cards but because the deck doesn't have a ton of graveyard play like top tier decks once the searches have been negated your dead in the water. That's even with stuff like droplet max c and ghost to help it. I wanna try mixing it with another archetype but I'm not sure yet. I've seen people suggest Dinomorphs, the once that pay a ton of life points for effects but they are expensive.
Dinomorbin is way too expensive right now, you have to hard craft almost everything because they aren't in a secret/selection pack. I agree about DM though, the deck has 50 ways to dig for Eternal Soul, but Eternal Soul turbo isn't very good unless you back it up with a bunch of floodgates.
@@FakeHeroFang and the floodgates brick you hard sometimes. I've been in so many situations that if I head one more DM card is be good but my hand is max c, limit summon, ghost, skill drain and maybe a circle. The the opposite happens when your running DM full blast you don't draw the staples much because your top decking DM cards. It's frustrating as it's the first deck I built and my person's favorite. Had an invoked strategy a year ago but it doesn't work as well anymore.
Thank you Sam, This is a great simple deck for people learning to read the cards/combos/GY,hand effects/and more! Great solid deck I’m using currently to rank up and finally starting winning 😂😂😂 this is amazing! Thanks. Sam plz more sharp structure decks ❤️❤️❤️
One of the biggest hurdles for New players is to well actually learn AND u win with a deck to complete quests and get gems since Master Duel is unfortunately a meta fest locked behind many URs (Maxx,Ash,Infinite,grave,etc) You even need URs to make a reasonable archetype work. This structure deck was not only a good value but help spring board me into ranked.
Definitely can play this game without spending anything. I started with the Cyberdark structure deck, played through ranked and got two more copies of that same structure deck to build the deck up then I grinded through ranked some more to get gems/cards so I could craft the deck I wanted to build - Gladiator Beasts. Then when the pure Gladiator Beasts deck wasn't being consistent enough I decided to grind some more to mix in Tri-Brigades. Total money spent: $0, Total time around 20 hours. I can't get past Gold Tier 2 though.
Gotta say the deck is solid. I do really miss the old days of dueling when turns didn't have over 20 plus moves made it way more fun and competitive. Your videos are awesome especially when you smell a pack being opened lol.
Pretty much the reason i dont play YGO very often, and generally only against friends. IO dont want to sit there watchign someone spend 156minutes jacking off across the board before i even get one turn, i want to have a back and forth game that requires strategy and thought rather than who can put out as many negates and flood gates out first. Konami ruined YGO.
@@cyanide7270 Agreed, It's annoying sitting there for several minutes waiting for them to take their turn only to draw your first card and have them take a whole other turn of combos before you can even play a single card. I can stil find fun matches, but over all it's just a slogg. IMO responses should be limited, maybe 3 card max per response?
@@alphadante5764 the only solution I can think of to counter the power creep is to duel by types of deck or by era in yugioh. Otherwise it may turn the game into a drag for other reasons. But the alternative to this summoning solitaire won't come from Konami.
Hey sam! Thanks for your videos they sre really fun to watch! a little thing I saw In the first duel you could've killed your opponent the first turn after banishing with circle by keeping soul servant in hand Then attack for 1600 with rod amd 2500 with dark magician making 4100 damage Then activate activatw secrets of dark magic special summon dark magicians attack for 2800 more making 6900 of damage then activate soul servant stacking eternal soul , activate the effect of dark magicians draw eternal soul set it and activate it to special summon Dm again to attack for 2500 more.
to be fair, this account is probably playing against rookie/bronze players. If you're in Gold rank, the chances of you winning is much lower, and also this video is highlighting the best moments with this deck. Don't have high expectation with only using the structure deck, this deck is good to start getting from rookie to gold to get more gems to buy higher tier decks
In all of the duels sam shows this deck going first not to mention not going up against any tier one decks like sprite. I feel like showcasing a deck also involves showing off counter moves against your opponent’s board.
Yeah. Pretty sure he just cherry picks his matches and only show off the good ones for views and likes. None of his off meta decks are consistent past gold. Although this might function until like... mid gold and not a terrible thing for new players to build. His over all channel is still suspect in regards to the former.
Nice Video Sam I am an f2p player and I have: -This Dark Magician deck -A Stardust / Synchron Deck (without a quasar) -3 Ash -3 Maxx "C" -2 Called By The Grave -2 Skill Drain... I Am Also on Gold Rank 3 but I am advancing so fast
bro im still learning yu gi oh and i really want to build a dark magician deck cause im stuck with my salamangreat cybers deck, but i dont want to spend alot of money. so this is actually a big help. thank you good sir!
If you want a crazy free deck build the Dinomist 3* deck from the solo mode it’s mostly Normals and Rares with I think 3 SR in it. There’s no extra deck but the deck itself goes absolutely crazy. It’s a pendulum deck and for being actually free like zero gems required, it’s insaneeeeee
Ever since I watched Yugioh as a kid. I've always liked the dark magician and every card built around it. I want to thank you for creating a deck like this.
I mostly waited till I pulled 2 dark magicians out of the pack to build but mostly to put a branded engine into it, 2 albaz, 2 aluber, 3 branded, also helps make dragon dark magician faster
Hey Sam, first off i wanna say that I greatly enjoy your content, and i look forward to more. I also wanted to suggest for another deck Vid could be about Numeron Dragon, I've already made my own Blue-eyes deck surrounding this monster, and it was crazy! I hope you try it out, it seems like alot of fun.
@@brandoncrain3818 let’s see, not ur channel so opinion invalid, everyone’s playing master duel so lots of people find it better to watch an match and not just deck list and packs and never see cards get played
My bad, I forgot to say that I also ran some other xyz monsters to summon numeron dragon, it's Draglubion, Heart-earth dragon, and Heart-earth choas dragon.
im brand new to the game, picked up that deck and kept playing my friends with it, they're also new to the game. I basically never lost. I went to ranked and got absolutely smacked by a spright deck. any tips on how to counter spright?
@@mykellharris1 you’d need your Ash Blossoms, MaxC’s, a cross out maybe an Ogre along with some extra deck links etc. unfortunately I don’t see a structure only built deck beating sprights
@@mykellharris1 if you use kaijus, lava golem, winged dragon of ra - sphere mode etc they are great cards that you can use to tribute your opponents monsters that are normally tricky to deal with! Dark Ruler No More and all the Forbidden cards (Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Lance etc) are also great to negate their effects. Pick a couple of those cards and throw them into your Dark Magician deck and you should be good!!
What were the changes you made to the deck in the third duel? I noticed some cards were different. P.s. thank you for the video. I been watching for a few years now, finally got back into yugioh with this deck. Made it to silver 3 in 5 days lol
With just the 3 DM structure you have ~800 gems left, so it would probably be worth also grabbing either the Spellbook or CyDra structures, former for a small Spellbook draw package (Blue boy, Knowledge and the last one I forget) and cut like Chronicle Magician or something. CyDra structure has Fusion Deployment iirc so that's also a nice one to grab. Either way, it'll make the deck a bit stronger than just using the 3 structures
@@ulmostinsane Yeah so I checked the name of the Spellbook cards, you want: Spellbook Magician of Prophecy Spellbook of Knowledge Spellbook of Secrets And in the extra deck put in a Crowley, the First Propheseer. These guys let you turn a normal 1st turn end board of Souls + Rod into a potential draw 2, alternatively you can keep Crowley on board as a replacement for Artemis the Magistus Moon Maiden (in the opponents turn, activate any spell/trap to tribute the Artemis to add Rod back to the hand). One structure deck is enough as you only need one of each of these cards. Remember that you can chain Soul Servant to Circle (Circle first, then SS) to add any DM spell/trap or DM to hand for free. When you get some SR gems later down the line, you can replace a copy of Illusion of Chaos for Preparation of Rites. It just searches Illusion of Chaos which is nice because IoC can be a brick - 2 or more in the hand is useless. Also, Artemis is another SR that's worth picking up at some point for the same reason as Crowley above. Make sure you put aside UR gems for staples. Cards like Maxx "C", Ash Blossom, Called by the Grave, Ghost Belle and Dark Ruler no More are high priority because they'll be useful in ANY deck, not just DM, and eventually you'll want to branch out for extra fun so they're the best return on investment cards. Staples are MUCH more important than engine cards when starting off for this reason specifically, so don't neglect them.
Cydra does indeed have Fusion Deployment, reason I bought it too. Additionally, you can get the link starter deck because it gives you Link Spider for DM and Circle banish
Haven't played Yu GI Oh in a decade, Hopped on Master Duel and didn't know wtf was going on, I built this deck because it had familiar cards to me and after 5W 0L in the casual room, I made it to Silver 4 in ranked before finally getting stumped. Thank you for the deck and quick strategies, gonna modify it for ranked keep it like this for casual, cuz it's a casual room masterpiece
I’m new to the game I stopped playing but my lil cousin got me back into it and he’s a lot better than me . I got this Deck and needed to know how to use it. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING HOW TO USE THIS!
Vortex was excellent in playing legacy. Have created a good amount of decks through packs I got through earning gems from playing the game. One deck created from only collecting gems/dusk was magical muskeet runick.
Bro this deck is insane it can beat toon summoned skull pass 🤯 On a serious note tri-brigade is probably a better way to spend your starting gems if you want something good to play
nice, i also use this kind of deck. just 3 vortex of magic and 2 bundle pack of ash & imperm got my fresh new account rank up easily but it's really hard to get 5 win streak especially in higher rank such as gold
@TeamSamuraiX1 do you still have this deck? You changed it up slightly at the end cus I see that you had Bond Between TEacher and Student in the 3rd duel but it wasn't in the deck list when you showed it at the beginning of the video. Do you have a finished decklist for this?
I kind of love / hate that this deck came out. On the one hand I love dark magician. On the other hand I hate that I just wasted like 2 months grinding gems to build a DM deck the hard way
At least even for those who just crafted the deck already, same with the zombie deck, they come with some pretty decent exclusive cards, like ioc or zombie dragon lord for zombies
So far the deck he's built I've been using and it's gotten me to Gold V so far. I stopped playing Rank and been focusing on Solo so I don't burn out. Aside from the Numeron OTK deck I've had alot of fun good duels.
A hint vs Numeron is that their field spell is what allows the xyz monsters to use their effects without using materials. So if it's the battle phase and you banish their field spell, their puny 1000 atk monsters can't activate their effects
the deck he plays i not so competetive as it could, i added 3 ashs and 3 maxx C, and 1 more Handtrap, removed some cards and added some like soleimn or skill drain. Very strong deck now im playing the current event and im duel level 14 rn
You made it look way easier then me 😂😂😂 I struggle bad with DM sometimes I made a soul servant mix breed but you just made me want to use my pure dm deck just make some tweeks
Man, thank you I was just doing this like last week and I haven’t picked it up. I’ve been busy but I’ve been trying to figure out like how does the deck work I know there will be a lot of good tips and pointers in this video
I haven't played since early 2000s, these randomly came up and now I cant stop watching. No idea what is going on. I guess its like old school football and todays.
If atem EVER came back in the series we know he would be wildly overpowered, he would update his deck with the times, and have the ability to fucking choose his cards, or. If any of your cards were luck based, he could flip it so you would always have bad luck, He could Make SURE you don't draw the card you need, or maybe he would he too prideful to abuse his powers too much but still.
I did the same thing bro but instead of buying the same deck three times just made adjustments with some card packs btw downloaded the game and actually maxed the gems to 10,000 somehow, it is an amazingly free to play game honestly
Another prime instructor/operator, I played duel master mobile a couple years ago was big on the red eyes slasher and alternate dragons combo , seeing someone explain is always clutch
I wish there was some more time dedicated to strategy / best order of play. I recently got this game and pack as I loved Dark Magician when I was a kid. It seems good, but there are so many effects and spells it's hard to work out best strategy.
Hey Sam, did you know if you use the anniversary royal rare Dark Magician to deal a final blow to an opponent there's a special dark magic attack animation? Would love to see a video of you pulling this off.
@Prince Phantom I didn't know that! That's dope, I should have tried it with those ones too! I spent so much time trying to set up a win with that specific Dark Magician lol.
I'm free to play and I have pretty good decks , it's all about good planning, luck in packs and you have to be smart when crafting I would have never gotten a dark magician deck without the structure decks That's why for now I'm never building a Blue eyes deck 😂 so many URs
Yep, i made multiple decks like runick spright and drytron without spending money in the game. The only reason you spend cash in the game is to support it or to get those royal rares, otherwise game is practically free.
To be fair, blue eyes was rather easy to make when MasterDuel came out. You get 2 copies of Blue Eyes from the starter deck and the selection pack at the time was Revival of legends which got you a good amount of stuff to play classic Blue Eyes (alternative, melody, white stone of legends/ancients, maiden/protector/priestess, spirit of white) and you could even dabble with chaos form and the Chaos(MAX) dragons. For everything else you needed the secret pack, but getting that many cards without having to craft an SR/UR every time made it pretty budget compared to other anime decks (DM, Red Eyes, Heroes, etc.).
My pendulums always get stomped by dark magician. It's one of my most played against and I really love when they pop 3 DMs on my turn banishing my whole board
Getting back into it after a long time and just being a video watcher, what are some good cards to compliment this deck after you get rolling a little?
Unfortunately in the current meta DM deck in higher ranks will fall to decks like runick or sprite so throwing in some floodgates and negates into to the deck help. Things like skill drain, secret village and summon limit are good options and help against decks like runick or sprites. Other options like dark ruler no more or servant from the abyss will also help. And of course your typical hand traps like ash and Maxx c, imperm and ghost Belle are also good options
the card he plays with and the list he showed at the beginning aren't the exact same as example in the second duel he used bond between teacher and student and dark burning magic in the thirth duel he also used dark burning attack and bond between teacher and student like its not a to big of a problem since all those cards are still free avaiable in the strucur deck but just would be kinda nice if he would have mentioned it that he made a change and that he would have shown the final decklist he used
As far i saw it was only this two changes and i think he either just put them in aswell to make 42 cards deck thats at least what i did while copying it or he changed something out but i couldn't exactly say what
Yes vortex of magic is nuts. I dropped in rank Sobieski could climb back up with it intentionally. Through silver to gild 1 I had 0 trouble in games once I got to gold 2 and 1 I was running into decks that can compete with it. This deck takes one of my favorite boss monsters decks and just overhauled it. It's amazing hands down, and my favorite once again. The best part is if you do a little tweaking you can make a deck thats looks like a plain jain dm deck then slap the other playbacross the face with a slifer the sky dragon out of left field. More and more it's also very combines will with branded. Let us not forget the wicked red eyes dark dragoon 😈. Waiting to build that deck now. Oh so patiently waiting for the band to be removed.
i think that this structure deck ,dragonmaid,and salads are the best one . out from them i think cipher and spellbook are the next choice i have tested on them on three different accounts
agreed lol although id also slot the cyber dark/dragon one up near the top to lol its hard to play but a skilled duelist/ deck builder can really make it work haha
@@skuty4882 sure they can, with some tweaks to the decks and learning both how your deck works and your opponent's deck, dragon maids and dm can beat meta. It wont be easy mind you, but it is indeed possible.
Loving the deck, but how would you handle a chaos max? The heart of the cards were not with me, and all I could do was send my magicians to their doom.
I rebuilt Chaos Max/Iblee deck from your video, it was insanely fun but I can never get past gold 3 I feel like free decks just stop being viable after this point :(
Im finding dark magician's deck is getting better of my despia deck just when i cant draw those right anti spell or trap cards. Its a meta deck without a doubt
I may be late. But will try this deck on year 2024 against the meta (tenpai, yubel, etc) because I am a fan of old generation of yugi.. can it still win? what are the improvements in the year 2024?
I actually think that the zombie structure deck is by far more worth it then dm considering it has all the essentials for any zombie or vampire deck you make
It is a little sad we never got a Blue eyes structure deck considering how expensive that deck is to make for a mid tier deck.
I've wasted so many resources on one that I'd be sad if they ever actually did
Prob will Second Anniversary or sometime later this year. I also expect a Red Eyes structure and additional support too since that will cover 3 main OGs
Lol what are you talking about "mid tier"? Thats being extremely generous in your assessment there🤣
@@reezyrenzel439 nah middle tier and probably higher, doesn't go any lower.
Brick eyes became such a cash cow for Konami because of Sam and his $700 brick eyes escapade that they will never release it in a structure deck. Lmao
I haven't spent a single dollar in Master Duel and I don't have a top-tier deck because I always spend my gems in fun decks. With them, I've managed to reach Platinum 1.
Top tier decks can also be fun decks
@@andresraffler, they can. But they're not so much when the competitive world of Yu-Gi-Oh influences casual players to play top decks, intentionally or not. That ends up with a bunch of players dueling with the same decks in most locals, tournaments, etc. And that is not fun at all...
@@andresraffler top tier decks aren’t as fun because by definition, as you get higher in rankings more people play them… you start to see the same deck over and over and it kinda stops being fun 😒
same! im now plat ans only started 3 weeks ago using only dm deck!
@@Timeater i too fun decks are the best you are one of the best duels in md
I really appreciate you making this deck. I have actually been winning matches and having fun. There have even been matches where I thought I was gonna lose, but I turned the game around and won. I rarely lose and only to op decks. Thank again!
For those who doesn't want MD, the Salamangreat structure deck is also a great choice. The Zombie deck is pretty nice too but you will need some fragments to craft one of its Boss monster
I'd suggest you give us decks to use with all the starter deck packs as I'm curious how you'd build the budget zombie deck with no extras
W idea
You cant cuz the zombie deck is ass
@@Big_Bledsoe you've never played zombies to their full potential
@@darkfangnightcrowdamn. Scared him off
I’m shocked at how good the deck is for f2p. So long as you fill it out with good staples you can get decently far with it. I really hope they do this treatment for blue eyes in the future.
PSA: if a comment says you won something claiming it's from the TH-camr, don't pay attention to it
bro pretty decent , i drop all the card that sam have all by 1 and added in the 4 type of hand trap. guess what P1 now. best part is due to the search effect of spell and trap i always have droplet and called by in my hand. and due to the cost of the deck is 1500 gem i have enough to craft them by the time i finish 5 story mode quest. pretty insane right
it would be sick to have a bunch of low to mid tier decks with all the key cards as structures!
@@morbentfel what do u mean ??u meant the hand trap or u mean the anime deck in general ?? as they themself are in that category . so far hero and DM is the 2 insane structure that go that far.
Dragonmaid is pretty good too
I swear this video has inspired a lot of new players cuz when I went back to climbing the rank again THIS DECK IS ALL I FIND. At least in the lower ranks. Great video 😊
Honestly, I love seeing more of these decks played. It's so fun to get ogdoadic queen out and completely wipe their monsters if they have eternal soul out. They summon something from the grave? It's GG
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Dude I faced that deck last night and the dude hit me with the cosmic pincer and planet pollutant virus combo among the other reptiles. Hollyyyyy I just had to smile and give him the win for the diversity.
Cant say ive played against Ogdoadic, but Isnt the Queens "send 1 card to the GY" part considered a 'target'?
@@cyanide7270 no it’s not. Doesn’t say target in the text
@@mantistoboggan5346 If thats the case, then thats a very stupid ruling made on Konamis part. I would consider it a target, considering you are choosing and singling out a single card, as is the very definition of 'target', an object chosen for attack/destruction.
Thanks man, I just started playing Master Duels, I watched your tutorial on how to get started. After watching this video I've been having so much fun. This deck is so much fun to use, its strategic and powerful.
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The worse thing about the deck is when your eternal soul gets banished it wipes your monsters. It can be super devasting.
That's why you play fused DM with Timaeus right? (Forgot the real name) because the effect of that card is basically Eternal Soul but for spells and traps
@@dualitygrief576 You don't always draw eye of Timaeus, but yeah I use it for DM dragon knight to protect the eternal soul. Eternal soul is good it you have the right counters down with it, for example dark magician the dragon knight or beat cop from the underworld.
@@nathanwillan2159 hmm that is true, that's good to know. I barely started playing and was experimenting with a DM deck
1:03 Ultra rare video, thx
The deck starts to flounder in high gold tiers, it has so many consistency cards but because the deck doesn't have a ton of graveyard play like top tier decks once the searches have been negated your dead in the water. That's even with stuff like droplet max c and ghost to help it. I wanna try mixing it with another archetype but I'm not sure yet. I've seen people suggest Dinomorphs, the once that pay a ton of life points for effects but they are expensive.
Dinomorbin is way too expensive right now, you have to hard craft almost everything because they aren't in a secret/selection pack. I agree about DM though, the deck has 50 ways to dig for Eternal Soul, but Eternal Soul turbo isn't very good unless you back it up with a bunch of floodgates.
Same for me with Chaos Max/Iblee Deck from Sam
@@FakeHeroFang and the floodgates brick you hard sometimes. I've been in so many situations that if I head one more DM card is be good but my hand is max c, limit summon, ghost, skill drain and maybe a circle. The the opposite happens when your running DM full blast you don't draw the staples much because your top decking DM cards. It's frustrating as it's the first deck I built and my person's favorite. Had an invoked strategy a year ago but it doesn't work as well anymore.
Branded
Thank you Sam,
This is a great simple deck for people learning to read the cards/combos/GY,hand effects/and more! Great solid deck I’m using currently to rank up and finally starting winning 😂😂😂 this is amazing! Thanks. Sam plz more sharp structure decks ❤️❤️❤️
One of the biggest hurdles for New players is to well actually learn AND u win with a deck to complete quests and get gems since Master Duel is unfortunately a meta fest locked behind many URs (Maxx,Ash,Infinite,grave,etc)
You even need URs to make a reasonable archetype work. This structure deck was not only a good value but help spring board me into ranked.
Definitely can play this game without spending anything. I started with the Cyberdark structure deck, played through ranked and got two more copies of that same structure deck to build the deck up then I grinded through ranked some more to get gems/cards so I could craft the deck I wanted to build - Gladiator Beasts.
Then when the pure Gladiator Beasts deck wasn't being consistent enough I decided to grind some more to mix in Tri-Brigades. Total money spent: $0, Total time around 20 hours. I can't get past Gold Tier 2 though.
Rip I use a cubic deck which mainly loses to only meta.
It depends on how well you know the matchups for and against your deck be it pure, combo, or budget.
Gotta say the deck is solid. I do really miss the old days of dueling when turns didn't have over 20 plus moves made it way more fun and competitive. Your videos are awesome especially when you smell a pack being opened lol.
@@dancosgrove4940 that's a scam
These new decks are more overpowered than made up rules and effects in the playground.
Pretty much the reason i dont play YGO very often, and generally only against friends. IO dont want to sit there watchign someone spend 156minutes jacking off across the board before i even get one turn, i want to have a back and forth game that requires strategy and thought rather than who can put out as many negates and flood gates out first. Konami ruined YGO.
@@cyanide7270 Agreed, It's annoying sitting there for several minutes waiting for them to take their turn only to draw your first card and have them take a whole other turn of combos before you can even play a single card. I can stil find fun matches, but over all it's just a slogg. IMO responses should be limited, maybe 3 card max per response?
@@alphadante5764 the only solution I can think of to counter the power creep is to duel by types of deck or by era in yugioh.
Otherwise it may turn the game into a drag for other reasons.
But the alternative to this summoning solitaire won't come from Konami.
Hey sam! Thanks for your videos they sre really fun to watch!
a little thing I saw In the first duel you could've killed your opponent the first turn after banishing with circle by keeping soul servant in hand
Then attack for 1600 with rod amd 2500 with dark magician making 4100 damage
Then activate activatw secrets of dark magic special summon dark magicians attack for 2800 more making 6900 of damage then activate soul servant stacking eternal soul , activate the effect of dark magicians draw eternal soul set it and activate it to special summon Dm again to attack for 2500 more.
to be fair, this account is probably playing against rookie/bronze players. If you're in Gold rank, the chances of you winning is much lower, and also this video is highlighting the best moments with this deck. Don't have high expectation with only using the structure deck, this deck is good to start getting from rookie to gold to get more gems to buy higher tier decks
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Yeah unfortunately this deck only competes in higher ranks if you run the deck with floodgates which kinda takes the fun out of the deck
@@chrislovejoy9679 or with branded engine
In all of the duels sam shows this deck going first not to mention not going up against any tier one decks like sprite. I feel like showcasing a deck also involves showing off counter moves against your opponent’s board.
Yeah. Pretty sure he just cherry picks his matches and only show off the good ones for views and likes. None of his off meta decks are consistent past gold.
Although this might function until like... mid gold and not a terrible thing for new players to build. His over all channel is still suspect in regards to the former.
Put off starting Master Duel until this passed weekend and was wondering what deck to start off with. I think this will do very nicely! Thanks Sam!
Nice Video Sam
I am an f2p player and I have:
-This Dark Magician deck
-A Stardust / Synchron Deck (without a quasar)
-3 Ash
-3 Maxx "C"
-2 Called By The Grave
-2 Skill Drain...
I Am Also on Gold Rank 3 but I am advancing so fast
bro im still learning yu gi oh and i really want to build a dark magician deck cause im stuck with my salamangreat cybers deck, but i dont want to spend alot of money. so this is actually a big help. thank you good sir!
If you want a crazy free deck build the Dinomist 3* deck from the solo mode it’s mostly Normals and Rares with I think 3 SR in it. There’s no extra deck but the deck itself goes absolutely crazy. It’s a pendulum deck and for being actually free like zero gems required, it’s insaneeeeee
Ever since I watched Yugioh as a kid. I've always liked the dark magician and every card built around it. I want to thank you for creating a deck like this.
I like that they put out DM structure deck but it kind of sucks that I built DM deck when I first started playing and now everyone just has it
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I mostly waited till I pulled 2 dark magicians out of the pack to build but mostly to put a branded engine into it, 2 albaz, 2 aluber, 3 branded, also helps make dragon dark magician faster
Same
Hey Sam, first off i wanna say that I greatly enjoy your content, and i look forward to more. I also wanted to suggest for another deck Vid could be about Numeron Dragon, I've already made my own Blue-eyes deck surrounding this monster, and it was crazy! I hope you try it out, it seems like alot of fun.
I’m sorry but Sam got boring. What happen to the deck list the in play duels? Pack openings. The stuff that made your channel awesome
@@brandoncrain3818 let’s see, not ur channel so opinion invalid, everyone’s playing master duel so lots of people find it better to watch an match and not just deck list and packs and never see cards get played
@@master-shifu2828 it’s just that an opinion no need to get so pressed. I disagree with your statement but happy you spoke on your opinion.
My bad, I forgot to say that I also ran some other xyz monsters to summon numeron dragon, it's Draglubion, Heart-earth dragon, and Heart-earth choas dragon.
Legit one of the best structures they added to the game. Deck is great out of the box and you can spice it up as you progress.
im brand new to the game, picked up that deck and kept playing my friends with it, they're also new to the game. I basically never lost. I went to ranked and got absolutely smacked by a spright deck. any tips on how to counter spright?
@@mykellharris1 you’d need your Ash Blossoms, MaxC’s, a cross out maybe an Ogre along with some extra deck links etc. unfortunately I don’t see a structure only built deck beating sprights
@@mykellharris1 you need going second cards to bait out the carrot/red negates probably something like dark ruler no more would help
@@mykellharris1 if you use kaijus, lava golem, winged dragon of ra - sphere mode etc they are great cards that you can use to tribute your opponents monsters that are normally tricky to deal with! Dark Ruler No More and all the Forbidden cards (Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Lance etc) are also great to negate their effects. Pick a couple of those cards and throw them into your Dark Magician deck and you should be good!!
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11:31 God bless you good sir 🗿
What were the changes you made to the deck in the third duel? I noticed some cards were different.
P.s. thank you for the video. I been watching for a few years now, finally got back into yugioh with this deck. Made it to silver 3 in 5 days lol
Okay so Im not going crazy, He added Dark Burning Magic I know that much!
With just the 3 DM structure you have ~800 gems left, so it would probably be worth also grabbing either the Spellbook or CyDra structures, former for a small Spellbook draw package (Blue boy, Knowledge and the last one I forget) and cut like Chronicle Magician or something. CyDra structure has Fusion Deployment iirc so that's also a nice one to grab.
Either way, it'll make the deck a bit stronger than just using the 3 structures
Thank you so much, anymore tips for a newbie?
@@ulmostinsane Yeah so I checked the name of the Spellbook cards, you want:
Spellbook Magician of Prophecy
Spellbook of Knowledge
Spellbook of Secrets
And in the extra deck put in a Crowley, the First Propheseer.
These guys let you turn a normal 1st turn end board of Souls + Rod into a potential draw 2, alternatively you can keep Crowley on board as a replacement for Artemis the Magistus Moon Maiden (in the opponents turn, activate any spell/trap to tribute the Artemis to add Rod back to the hand). One structure deck is enough as you only need one of each of these cards.
Remember that you can chain Soul Servant to Circle (Circle first, then SS) to add any DM spell/trap or DM to hand for free.
When you get some SR gems later down the line, you can replace a copy of Illusion of Chaos for Preparation of Rites. It just searches Illusion of Chaos which is nice because IoC can be a brick - 2 or more in the hand is useless. Also, Artemis is another SR that's worth picking up at some point for the same reason as Crowley above.
Make sure you put aside UR gems for staples. Cards like Maxx "C", Ash Blossom, Called by the Grave, Ghost Belle and Dark Ruler no More are high priority because they'll be useful in ANY deck, not just DM, and eventually you'll want to branch out for extra fun so they're the best return on investment cards. Staples are MUCH more important than engine cards when starting off for this reason specifically, so don't neglect them.
Cydra does indeed have Fusion Deployment, reason I bought it too.
Additionally, you can get the link starter deck because it gives you Link Spider for DM and Circle banish
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Haven't played Yu GI Oh in a decade, Hopped on Master Duel and didn't know wtf was going on, I built this deck because it had familiar cards to me and after 5W 0L in the casual room, I made it to Silver 4 in ranked before finally getting stumped. Thank you for the deck and quick strategies, gonna modify it for ranked keep it like this for casual, cuz it's a casual room masterpiece
I just noticed this I have yet to see this man go against any meta decks with his "op" deck
This deck helps a lot! Thanks for the awesome video keep it up 💯🔥
Loved this video so much ✌️✌️ hope to see some more free deck content and tutorial as I'm new to the game 😅
Any chance we can get a list of cards in the deck you made
is this deck still good to grab just started playing
I’m new to the game I stopped playing but my lil cousin got me back into it and he’s a lot better than me . I got this Deck and needed to know how to use it. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING HOW TO USE THIS!
Thank you for this deck! I came across this video in my recommended and as a ftp master duel player I’ve ranked up significantly just using this deck!
Hey love this deck, any recommendations for upgrading the deck?
As a new player I got from rookie to gold 4 but the only problem with this deck that it bricks alot where you start with almost no play
Vortex was excellent in playing legacy. Have created a good amount of decks through packs I got through earning gems from playing the game. One deck created from only collecting gems/dusk was magical muskeet runick.
I played the shiranui structure deck and I surprisingly beat other people with it, galaxy eyes and heroes
Bro this deck is insane it can beat toon summoned skull pass 🤯
On a serious note tri-brigade is probably a better way to spend your starting gems if you want something good to play
nice, i also use this kind of deck. just 3 vortex of magic and 2 bundle pack of ash & imperm got my fresh new account rank up easily but it's really hard to get 5 win streak especially in higher rank such as gold
DM DECK IS SOOO GOOD :) THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEOVBRO! THO IMMA BIT TOO LATE, BEING A RETURNEE AND SEEING CARDS LIKE THESE OVERWHELMS ME
How would you slowly upgrade this deck?
You make it look so easy xD i need to learn how to play. Really love your content thx for this video
“This is the best budget deck u can play” the pendulum magicians in question:
@TeamSamuraiX1 do you still have this deck? You changed it up slightly at the end cus I see that you had Bond Between TEacher and Student in the 3rd duel but it wasn't in the deck list when you showed it at the beginning of the video. Do you have a finished decklist for this?
I know it's been a year but I'd like to see more of this deck and how you'd upgrade it. Awesome vid!
It depends on what deck but a few can dark magician, salamangreat and cyber dragon can
I kind of love / hate that this deck came out. On the one hand I love dark magician. On the other hand I hate that I just wasted like 2 months grinding gems to build a DM deck the hard way
At least even for those who just crafted the deck already, same with the zombie deck, they come with some pretty decent exclusive cards, like ioc or zombie dragon lord for zombies
So far the deck he's built I've been using and it's gotten me to Gold V so far. I stopped playing Rank and been focusing on Solo so I don't burn out. Aside from the Numeron OTK deck I've had alot of fun good duels.
Numeron is broken they gotta limit numeron network to one bro
didnt u change anything from the deck he showed?
A hint vs Numeron is that their field spell is what allows the xyz monsters to use their effects without using materials. So if it's the battle phase and you banish their field spell, their puny 1000 atk monsters can't activate their effects
the deck he plays i not so competetive as it could, i added 3 ashs and 3 maxx C, and 1 more Handtrap, removed some cards and added some like soleimn or skill drain. Very strong deck now im playing the current event and im duel level 14 rn
You made it look way easier then me 😂😂😂 I struggle bad with DM sometimes I made a soul servant mix breed but you just made me want to use my pure dm deck just make some tweeks
I just got onto master duel and bought this deck. Thank you so much cause now I can do actually ok at the game!
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Man, thank you I was just doing this like last week and I haven’t picked it up. I’ve been busy but I’ve been trying to figure out like how does the deck work I know there will be a lot of good tips and pointers in this video
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I haven't played since early 2000s, these randomly came up and now I cant stop watching. No idea what is going on. I guess its like old school football and todays.
If atem EVER came back in the series we know he would be wildly overpowered, he would update his deck with the times, and have the ability to fucking choose his cards, or. If any of your cards were luck based, he could flip it so you would always have bad luck, He could Make SURE you don't draw the card you need, or maybe he would he too prideful to abuse his powers too much but still.
I did the same thing bro but instead of buying the same deck three times just made adjustments with some card packs btw downloaded the game and actually maxed the gems to 10,000 somehow, it is an amazingly free to play game honestly
Sam's like "THIS DECK IS SO GOOD" when he's facing a Vorsr Raider Toons beater deck 😆
What was your final deck build because I see you had different cards in your deck while playing
Dark magician the dragon knight with eternal soul is so underrated, I'm to the point that I main dark magician.
1st video i seen by you. Subscribed cuz you was funny asf
I love to see how easy you do the combos and destroys the other players ❤
Sam out here gatekeeping all the coughing babies in bronze lol
You should do a road to glory. You start with 30 packs. And after every game you get 1 pack, and if you win you get an extra pack. And other rewarss
Another prime instructor/operator, I played duel master mobile a couple years ago was big on the red eyes slasher and alternate dragons combo , seeing someone explain is always clutch
I wish there was some more time dedicated to strategy / best order of play. I recently got this game and pack as I loved Dark Magician when I was a kid. It seems good, but there are so many effects and spells it's hard to work out best strategy.
Hey Sam, did you know if you use the anniversary royal rare Dark Magician to deal a final blow to an opponent there's a special dark magic attack animation? Would love to see a video of you pulling this off.
It’s actually not just that card it’s both magician girl and dark magician normal that can do it
@Prince Phantom I didn't know that! That's dope, I should have tried it with those ones too! I spent so much time trying to set up a win with that specific Dark Magician lol.
@@joshhutton5104 yeah bro I tried it in solo
I got bored and made a Runick Dark Magician deck....its surprising that it is working
I'm free to play and I have pretty good decks , it's all about good planning, luck in packs and you have to be smart when crafting
I would have never gotten a dark magician deck without the structure decks
That's why for now I'm never building a Blue eyes deck 😂 so many URs
Yep, i made multiple decks like runick spright and drytron without spending money in the game. The only reason you spend cash in the game is to support it or to get those royal rares, otherwise game is practically free.
To be fair, blue eyes was rather easy to make when MasterDuel came out. You get 2 copies of Blue Eyes from the starter deck and the selection pack at the time was Revival of legends which got you a good amount of stuff to play classic Blue Eyes (alternative, melody, white stone of legends/ancients, maiden/protector/priestess, spirit of white) and you could even dabble with chaos form and the Chaos(MAX) dragons.
For everything else you needed the secret pack, but getting that many cards without having to craft an SR/UR every time made it pretty budget compared to other anime decks (DM, Red Eyes, Heroes, etc.).
I'd like to see you use buster blader or a dark magician x buster deck
My pendulums always get stomped by dark magician. It's one of my most played against and I really love when they pop 3 DMs on my turn banishing my whole board
You never ran out of resources and constantly cycle cards🔥🔥🔥
Getting back into it after a long time and just being a video watcher, what are some good cards to compliment this deck after you get rolling a little?
Unfortunately in the current meta DM deck in higher ranks will fall to decks like runick or sprite so throwing in some floodgates and negates into to the deck help. Things like skill drain, secret village and summon limit are good options and help against decks like runick or sprites. Other options like dark ruler no more or servant from the abyss will also help. And of course your typical hand traps like ash and Maxx c, imperm and ghost Belle are also good options
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Yo! Thanks Sam for the idea! Im goin to make the deck rn! 😁
Really needed this!
These new decks are more overpowered than made up rules and effects in the playground.
I bought three copies of the dragonmaid structure deck and it carried me to gold so far
Nice
the card he plays with and the list he showed at the beginning aren't the exact same as example in the second duel he used bond between teacher and student and dark burning magic in the thirth duel he also used dark burning attack and bond between teacher and student like its not a to big of a problem since all those cards are still free avaiable in the strucur deck but just would be kinda nice if he would have mentioned it that he made a change and that he would have shown the final decklist he used
I picked up on that too, do you happen to know the updated decklist?
As far i saw it was only this two changes and i think he either just put them in aswell to make 42 cards deck thats at least what i did while copying it or he changed something out but i couldn't exactly say what
Dude this deck is really insane!!, i just tried it out
I would personally love to see him use a galaxy eyes photon dragon deck
Yes vortex of magic is nuts. I dropped in rank Sobieski could climb back up with it intentionally. Through silver to gild 1 I had 0 trouble in games once I got to gold 2 and 1 I was running into decks that can compete with it. This deck takes one of my favorite boss monsters decks and just overhauled it. It's amazing hands down, and my favorite once again.
The best part is if you do a little tweaking you can make a deck thats looks like a plain jain dm deck then slap the other playbacross the face with a slifer the sky dragon out of left field.
More and more it's also very combines will with branded.
Let us not forget the wicked red eyes dark dragoon 😈. Waiting to build that deck now. Oh so patiently waiting for the band to be removed.
I haven't spent any, first deck was trains/timelords. Now I'm playing branded
i think that this structure deck ,dragonmaid,and salads are the best one . out from them i think cipher and spellbook are the next choice i have tested on them on three different accounts
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agreed lol although id also slot the cyber dark/dragon one up near the top to lol its hard to play but a skilled duelist/ deck builder can really make it work haha
Personally I like the Zombies. Get some great stuff that can use your opponents cards against them.
I'm new to master duels, can a dragonmaid or this magician structure deck actually win if I'm against top meta decks or is it not possible?
@@skuty4882 sure they can, with some tweaks to the decks and learning both how your deck works and your opponent's deck, dragon maids and dm can beat meta. It wont be easy mind you, but it is indeed possible.
I love this Video
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can you make like a small upgrade with that?
I would like to know what is the title of the background music in the last part o the duel?
Loving the deck, but how would you handle a chaos max? The heart of the cards were not with me, and all I could do was send my magicians to their doom.
what's the actual deck you used for the duels? i have seen that there are cards that are not on the beginning of the video. T - T
I rebuilt Chaos Max/Iblee deck from your video, it was insanely fun but I can never get past gold 3
I feel like free decks just stop being viable after this point :(
Saw you on fuslies stream yesturday. Deciding to sub to you to learn the game better.
Im finding dark magician's deck is getting better of my despia deck just when i cant draw those right anti spell or trap cards. Its a meta deck without a doubt
How expensive is MDs if you wanted to get into it and collect a few decks?
I may be late. But will try this deck on year 2024 against the meta (tenpai, yubel, etc) because I am a fan of old generation of yugi.. can it still win? what are the improvements in the year 2024?
I seen this today I've trying to build a Dark Magician of chaos deck in duel links now I'm playing master duel all day I love this free deck build
thats such a cool video
They need to make a Blue Eyes anniversary as well just like how they did Dark Magician
I actually think that the zombie structure deck is by far more worth it then dm considering it has all the essentials for any zombie or vampire deck you make
So what would be better for someone who just started MD : this or Salamangreat?