Dark Magician - Failed Cards, Archetypes, and Sometimes Mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh

Alright, we’ve had almost 10 years of copium. It’s time to admit that Dark Magician is a flop. Maybe not in your hearts, but definitely in the TCG Meta. Nostalgia has brought this deck a long way, and many of us have played it since it’s one of the most iconic cards in the game, which really is a shame since this deck has never honestly gotten its time to shine. It’s a tough time for the ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense. For all the support it has received throughout our lifespan, the OG of Yu-Gi-Oh can’t put it all together, or in this case, it did, but it went nowhere. So before you guys burn us at the stake, grab your Hogwarts wands, set hexes on us, and tell us to “get good” with everyone’s favorite bad deck, watch this video and see why Dark Magician failed severely in the

Script by Victor Guildford
Edited by Lily

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[Alicious_Al]

But he’s the ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense!

[wcfx]

"the last thing anyone does in yugioh is read so why would you force your monster to do it" dude you cannot come out of the gates with a banger like this

[mekahans]

Dark Magician : *breathe
TSX1 : BROKEN DARK MAGICIAN COMBO BEST DECK TIER 0 BROKE META

[artydomi]

Hearing Yugi shout "Dark Magician... *DARK MAGIC ATACK* " lives rent free in my head

[Kei-yeif]

You forgot to mention Mahad's other downside that it has 3x to chance to be in your first hand if you have it in your deck

[Guythatlivesaquietlife]

It's funny that the main weakness of dark magician is dark magician itself

[terryliliana]

Just a reminder to all people saying that this will trigger old school fans:
It only failed in competitive tcg, a wagon most archetypes are already in.
People play casual Yu-Gi-Oh for a reason.

[MistaOppritunity]

I have no clue how Konami can release generic cards thinking they will fix a specific archetype. It truly is like they've never played a card game before, let alone their own.

[tahjkuemmerle]

The description of this video is the same description from the penguin video.

Guys this does not deserve to be top comment.

[dohdoh]

it may be failed but in our hearts it succeeded forever...

[Dragen]

Honestly, I love Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl and all of their support, but I agree. Trying to establish a powerful end board is very hard and if I am going second, I might as well surrender if the opponent makes a half-decent board.

[MatchieYGO]

I think the “the end board is always 1 piece away, even with a good hand” was the perfect way to explain the deck’s current situation. Great video.

Nonetheless, it’s still my favourite deck. So we keep doing what we can with what we got.

[absoul]

I know they don’t do erratas that buff cards, but I don’t see why Eye of Timaeus hasn’t gotten one that makes it searchable by soul servant or Dark magic circle.

[LowTierLife]

One thing to mention is that when Dark Magician's main set of support was still new, the deck was prohibitively expensive. I remember wanting to build it at the time and gave up on it because it was just a fun rogue deck yet cost almost twice as much as full power Zoodiac at the time.

[murozaki]

Would be funny if one of these days they pulled a Flame Swordsman on Yugi's deck: That is, take one Monster he uses that has received little to no support. And then release a bunch of great support centered around it that makes it a decent deck much better than Dark Magician could be. Just like how despite Red-Eyes being Joey's signature Monster, Flame Swordsman in one support wave became way better than Red-Eyes has ever been.

[ThegreatCMFB]

If Eye of Timaeus was searchable by Soul Servant, and Dark Magical circle, it would honestly be a very consistent deck with extremely powerful endboards. The deck doesn't have a ton of searching capabilities outside of niche spells and traps

[TheTruestZero]

The biggest crime against Dark Magician was Konami being stuck up and having Magi Magi Magician Gal locked unless it got censored.
God bless Kazuki Takahashi's soul for actually standing his ground and not seeing such a beauty changed.

[Sir_Djack]

I'm sure Triamids are an amazing addition to the failed archtype collection

[tatsu]

Ah yes, Dark Magician, my favorite Penguin Card

[DanTheMeek]

1900 beat sticks were actually still at a premium when Skilled Dark Magician came out, especially ones who could be grave yard food for chaos monsters, so while he wasn't great at actually summoning Dark Magician, he was a good card that supported DM.