The Ultimate Dark Magician's Guide: All Variants

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[chrispambo]

**Dark Magician : Into The Magiverse**

[genjithesheikah]

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!

[zeemaster]

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.

[goroufromgenshin]

Since you mentioned Magician’s Robe, you forgot Magician’s Rod, which acts in a similar manner

[reaflor]

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.

[emo_ninetales]

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.

[aaronwest]

One of my favorite YouTubers Ever, would love to see you do this for blue eyes white dragon

[FrostGhidorahEX]

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

[ronmillionare]

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.

[Arcadia_warlic]

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.

[cis]

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.

[cherrycreamsoda]

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.)

[jparis]

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.

[pasipaavonen]

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.

[Zetact_]

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.

[maxlee]

I would have thought the skilled Dark Magician would have gotten a mention in this video

[seanmckenzie]

It doesn't fit your requirements even remotely.

But Diabellastar and Snake-eyes are also loosely based on Dark Magician and Blue Eyes.

[mouthyschannel]

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.

[OmnicidalClown]

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?

[viktorzahariev]

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.