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TTP1-JP001 Horobi no Kuro Majutsushi / Dark Magician of Destruction
Level 8 DARK Spellcaster Fusion Effect Monster
ATK 2800 DEF 2600
“Dark Magician” + 1 LIGHT or DARK monster
Must be either Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing 1 Level 6 or higher DARK Spellcaster monster you control during the turn a Spell Card or effect was previously activated. You can only Special Summon “Dark Magician of Destruction” once per turn this way, no matter which method you use.
(1) This card’s name becomes “Dark Magician” while face-up on the field or in the GY.
(2) If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Dark Magician” or 1 card that mentions it from your Deck to your hand.
TTP1-JP002 Gattai Maryuu Timaeus / Timaeus the United Magidragon
LIGHT Dragon / Fusion / Effect
LV10 2800/1800
“Dark Magician” or “Dark Magician Girl” + 1 Dragon or Spellcaster monster
You can only use the 2nd and 3rd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) After this card is Special Summoned, until the end of your next turn, it is unaffected by other cards’ effects.
(2) If this card battles, during damage calculation: You can make it gain 100 ATK for each Spell in the GYs and banishment.
(3) During your opponent’s turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Spell/Trap on the field; destroy it.
Quick-Play Spell
You can only activate 1 card with this card’s name per turn.
(1) Target 1 “Dark Magician” or “Dark Magician Girl” you control or in your GY; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck that mentions it as material, by shuffling that monster into the Deck, but banish it during the End Phase of the next turn. (This is treated as a Special Summon with “The Eye of Timaeus”.)
Secrets of Dark Magic gets an alternate artwork in this set!
Source: yu-gi-oh.jp
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Searchable Eye of Timaeus FINALLY!!
I think people here are REALLY undervaluing the potential of these new cards. Dark magician already has a one card combo with either primite starter to drop a dm fusion and hieratic seals. Combine that with an INCREDIBLY easily summonable extra deck extender that can either fish out backrow (circle, eternal soul, magician’s combination), OR search a timaeus spell that can fuse simply with the extender that searched it (said extender is treated as dm on board) and dark magician should be able to consistently set up fusions (let’s not forget about dragoon) with supporting backrow. We’re not just talking about some standard ah lose to dark ruler no more, but a layered board of interaction. I’m definitely coping hard to some degree, but there is enough potential that dark magician might finally be tiered for the first time. That alone is huge for the history of the deck
Diabellstar now gets you full fiendsmith combo, Illia Silvya, and Dragoon. Let’s go
2 things…
First of all, sadly this is yugioh, so people will not play the deck, and will only play the 2 or 3 best cards which allow for a combo. So I dont doubt that if those cards actually play good, they might find some tops, but that wont catapult the who deck up high… especially since only needing a level 5 or higher dark spellcaster is rather generic, and doesnt need too much setup
Second of all, sadly (or more like luckily, because we dont need another “dragoon package” incident), if you use the most simple combo to bring out dragoon (any level 6+ dark spellcaster foder -> dm of d -> the gaze of timaeus -> dragoon), it cant use its pop effect, because it didnt use a normal monster, also it will only survive until the end of next turn
So while it is basically another easy to obtain, somewhat generic, hard to remove negate, it isnt dragoon at its full power
Bro wrote a brochure when just run Diabellstar packageand get two negates for one rando discard.
OMG! Dark Magician Girl the Magician’s Apprentice is 1.5 Card Dragoon!
Sorry to disappoint but The eye of timaeus still can’t be searched (gaze of timaeus yes) since it doesn’t mention dark magician. It states dark magician monster, not even dark magical circle can add it.
Is this as underwhelming as i’m thinking or?
Any level 6+ special summoned spellcaster becomes any DM fusion
It’s not underwhelming. These are great cards for DM.
These cards barely do anything to make the deck competitive. Dark Magician of Destruction does nothing to disrupt your opponent. Timaeus is good and what are you using Gaze to summon that will then get banished? Generally curious as to how these cards will heighten the deck with all known information
“does nothing to disrupt your opponent”
Good, it means you can actually play the game.
Basically any lv 6+ dark spellcaster (including tokens) can become a dragoon
While not as open as anacondae, being able to summon it without a lock and only 1 garnet is veeery good
looks like a fun deck and that’s good
are you stupid? this might be the biggest and most relevant cards FROM THIS SET. Any level 6 or higher spellcaster makes dragoon. IF pendulum ever becomes good (or if they unban electrumite) this card will be more hated than baronne.
No it’s amazing. Diabellstar now gets Dragoon access without having to run any maindeck bricks instead only having soft garnets. KashDiabellFiendSmith pile is back on the menu
NO! Dark Magician Girl the Magician’s Apprentice is 1.5 Card Dragoon!
– Turning any spellcaster into a Dark Magician that searches basically any DM card on summon (Also more ATK buffs of DM Girl for whoever uses her).
– Searchable Timaeus
This is a huge fix to DM in general.
@Lee
Your 100% wrong kid
Would probably need way more than this to get DM to a level of playable Blue-Eyes is, but these are still nice cards
Yup, this support has the usual “few good cards” problem
People wont play dark magician decks, they will just use the good stand alone cards
Somehow, I thought Dark Magician of Destruction would be a Ritual Monster instead of a Fusion Monster (but its Effect is quite good and other DARK Spellcasters can easily overuse it)
Finally, an Eye of Timaeus that is compatible with Dark Magician (Rush Duels had to come in to correct the OG Eye of Timaeus so that OCG could follow the same steps)
What are you talking about you dolt? Eye Of Timaeus already was compatible with Dark Magician. If you meant to say Dark Magician Girl, she’s compatible too because it specifically says “Dark Magician monster”. You’re not as clever as you think you are.
Stop name dropping Rush Duels like you invented it moron.
@Design. Considering that many people are happy that there’s a searchable Eye of Timaeus, it means the OG Eye of Timaeus had a problem (and that was because it couldn’t be searched due to its weird wording)
The user isn’t lying: Rush Duels fixed the wording of the OG Eye of Timaeus (and many people noticed)
I know you hate Rush Duels (I’ve seen your other similar comments), but let’s not fool the facts.
I also thought it would be a Ritual Monster (and unfortunately it isn’t a Chaos one so it would directly support Dragon Master Magia), but it is still a very useful and generic card.
I feel like they are going to release more DM support in the near future and this is just a teaser or a way for people to spend more money to get the complete Deck with a new strategy.
Also, @Design why the need to be so offensive?
@Design it’s a dumb Rules Lawyer-type distinction. Timaeus’ card text reads as follows:
Target 1 “Dark Magician” monster you control; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck that mentions that monster on the field as material, using it as the Fusion Material.
The important distinction is that this wording technically means that Timaeus does NOT list the card “Dark Magician” in its text, it lists the archetype “Dark Magician”. It’s dumb and confusing, I know, but that’s the rulings. So that means cards that search out Spell cards that mention “Dark Magician” could not search out Timaeus. Rush Duel fixed this by changing the wording to “Declare either “Dark Magician” or “Dark Magician Girl”, thus it does qualify for searching.
they didnt “fix” it, they just made it compatible with their stupid obsession to not do archetypes at all costs (which is a big issue for RD, see: how they utterly mangled Skyscraper)
What are you talking about “obsession with not having archetypes”, Rush Duel has tons of archetypes in full name and function, this set up is just fundamentally how Dark Magician and a lot of retro-fitted archetypes are built
Not liking the sound of this. Combining the new cards and the reprint list, Secrets of Dark Magic is card #021 in both set order and the list.
Looks to me like we may only get 3 new DM cards in here. I sure hope not.
That sounds about right. There’s no way Mikanko are getting 5 new cards so while it may be disappointing it should not be surprising. If they didn’t include a deck build pack theme there would be room for more speculation or just higher expectations.
Honestly I think they are holding off on showing us the final card like they sometimes do so I imagine we have one last Dark Magi card left
You’re telling me
They replaced a set type with 21 new cards(7 each for 3 themes)
With a set with 12 new cards(4 each for 3 themes, I assume a new one is left for lead-up to set drop)
I am… in pain. And this will never come to the TCG because it’s too much reprints
They aren’t replacing Deck Build packs, we already had a next deck build packs announced. You’re probably right that we won’t get this pack as it is, tho
^ this is a replacement for duelist packs bro, the packs that used to be themed around attributes. going from 7 to 3 cards is a wild downgrade from that.
As always Dark Magician got mediocre support while Blue-Eyes got amazing support and is currently meta rn.
First Fusion is generic (banish any Level 6+ DARK Spellcaster in a turn a Spell card or effect was activated) and searches Magicians’ Souls.
Gaze is really good too.
Magidragon is decent.
Relax, obligatory blue zoodiac + 500 negates is next year, probably. Not that I would every watch DM solitaire but I’m sure others will be into that.
Please make Number 11 Big Eye meta again 🙏. We will get Chaos Number 11: Giant Eye.
stop thinking of this as dm support. The fusion is incredibly generic endboard piece.
Meta is like a drug to you, everything has to be meta nowadays smh.
OMG You people this are great card the spell its a auto dragoon and the fusion its a link1 searcher and an eternal soul target shut up
Dark Magician Girl the Magician’s Apprentice is 1.5 Card Dragoon
Calling blue eyes “meta” is a stretch. It’s solid but still outmatched against the true “meta” decks
So we’ve got a Dragon Tails target in DM now. Summoning Timaeus turn 0 would be pretty good.
Given that all Fusion monsters that Eye of Timaeus could summon explicitly name DM or DMG, I guess i shouldn’t be surprised by the wording of the revamp. I reckon this will work wonders in a Shining Sarcophagus deck, since it already borrows most of the viable Fusions. You can even run that Seven Star Sword thing that discards a Level 7 for two cards, since you can target ones in the GV.
My only real beef is that banish effect, I don’t think shuffling the targeted card from your GV warrants that kind of drawback for a deck that struggles to consistently get cards on the board and keep them there, much less cards that name one of the Ur-Examples of Bricking and die to something as basic as Dark Hole. Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon is still the only Timaeus target with some kind of protection on top of a negate.
Sacred Sword of Seven Stars banishes a level 7 from your hand or field; not discards.
Dang it! Does the Level Six one at least work with DM?
You use Gaze the same way Secrets of Dark Magic should be used which is as an OTK enabler.
No, Celestial Observatory takes from the hand or field and places on the bottom of the deck =/
Kuji-Kiri Curse, the level 9 variant, sends to GY. Don’t know what L9 could be run to make it worth it.
Tokusano Shinkyojin sends to GY and requires a total of 10 stars, but can send multiple for cost. You could, in theory, send DMG and Rod, or maybe DM and Ash, but at that point you’re going -1, plus needing to have the right combination of levels to pull it off, so is it even worth it?
The utility that you can use a monster from the GY isnt the reason why the timaeous spell has the banishment drawback
Its serachability and dragoon are the speciffic reason why
Normal timaeous isnt searchaple, and this not that much played (especially not generically), however this new timaeus is searchable, and on top already of a very easy to perform combo which ends in dragoon
Konami knows that, and thus make it self remove, so that you dont get more than one turn cycle of advantage out of it… which is still a lot for a comitment of 2 extradeck cards, 1 maindeck card, no lock, and semi generic bridge into it
The wording of Gaze is just so that it can be searched by cards like Rod or added by Circle.
You can just summon the new Timaeus if you’re concerned about the Banish, the protection it self-applies will block the Banish
No ritual or Mobc stuff I sleep. Meanwhile Chaos Soldier has endless variants. Rush time bomber got excited but instead we go dracotail cross promotion slop. I’m so tired of Timaeus, Hermos has yet to get even one ocg original fusion. All that text and then the climax is just sorch because of course.
“Palladium Oracle Mahad”
I’m beginning to worry that there’s a legal stipulation that would disallow an alt art for Mana (no offence to Kaz) and even a reprint might be off the table. The anniversary art cards don’t show up in official video games either. After waiting so many years, meh, I might have just have to commission new Mana art someday.
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take a shower
Posts you can smell.
Kinda disappointed Dark Magician of Destruction is a fusion monster instead of a ritual, and the fact based on it’s name it has zero “Destruction” type effects… but I guess at least it being a fusion monster makes it feel closer to the anime where BMoC wasn’t location in the deck. The artwork is still totally epic regardless!
As a side note, The Gaze of Timaeus is the vast upgrade we needed! The banishment is bit of annoying con, but it would had been absurdly lucky for it to survive that long in modern Yugioh either way.
Dark Magician of Destruction sounded like it was going to be a force to menace with but alas it destroys nothing but banishing your own monster lol
Oh Dark magician of Destruction totally destroys stuff, even in the yugioh dark magician cannonical way
On summon you can grab any of the dm spells which have destruction effects, and since its name counts as dm, you can emediately the card youve gotten with that effect
And since the dm spells are named after its attacks in the anime, you destroy your opponents cards the “intended” way for dm xD
Wait am i reading this correctly but does this mean 1 Dark Magician = Dragoon??
No, this means ANY LVL 6 OR HIGHER DARK SPELLCASTER = Dragoon (Azamina, Horus, Witchcrafter, Endymion, Generaider, dang even D Shifter could get out Dragoon)
Someone finally understands the gravity of the situation. Yeah any deck thata ctivates a sepll and can maybe synchro into a spellcaster now has an omni with protection
You are still thinking to small
Any deck that can make lv 6 or 8 synchros, shining sarcophagous, pendulum magician, diabellstar, even super random picks like shadolls, altergeist, performage, performapals, trapmonsters, or monarchs if you run an extra deck variant
Also this goes for ANY of the dm fusion monsters, including likes of master of chaos, which instead of a negate give you a free light or dark reborn
Ready Fusion + Sanwitch = Dragoon.
If nothing eles at least this deck has more Super Polymerization targets. Fusion Deployment might be decent to get a free DM on the field.
Also Secret Village of the Spellcasters can makes this deck a good rogue option in some cases.
MoBC gets screwed over once again. No new Ritual and no retrain of Black Magic Ritual that works for “Chaos” Spellcaster Ritual monster.
Yup, and putting him in the alt art was the salt in the rage bait-induced wound.
Diabellestar is now a one card Dragoon btw.
People in the comments here are like “Boo it’s not a ritual this does nothing for dark magician” and they’re dumbasses.
That would mean something if Dragoon wasn’t an overrated nothingburger of a card.
Dragoon is only mediocre if you have to invest any amount of strategy or recouces into it
However if you can get it as exchange for 1 monster, then it is really good
On its own its a light annoyance, but while part of a larger end board, it is very dangerous
3 Ready Fusion + 1 Sanwitch to summon a new seacher guy without normal summoning!
Oh wow, I didnt even realize
And since its a spell it also puts dm of d live emediately
thats definitely a neat trick
Is United Magidragon protected from the banishing effect of Gaze, or is that a precondition that isn’t necessarily a card effect?
That’s something I’m curious about, too.
It’s applied to it before it becomes Unaffected. Same as Instant Fusion being used for Unaffected monsters.
The lingering effect would be applied, but the effect would fail to do anything when it resolved later, as Timaeus would be protected from the effect at that point by my understanding(protection against lingering effects is Weird in general, did you know that Mirrorjade’s lingering effect does NOT count as an activated effect when you blows up your board, despite being the conclusion of an activated effect?)
Damn it. I saw the red DM in the image and thought maybe we were finally getting some kind of Pandora-oriented DM support. Maybe a retrain of Red DM.
Le sigh~
Sad. I thought the retrain of DM of Chaos would have banishing effect that would disrupt the board…but it seem like a Vanilla Ritual card
Welp, Dragun, it was nice having you unbanned even if it was just for a banlist or two
Masses will cower at the sight of dragoon. Also there is a backup called destined rivals if dragoon gets banned
So many 1 card Dragoon combos… Jesus Christ. Konami can’t stop printing generic engines every Deck can abuse.
Dragoon’s still mid af lmao.
Dragoon is mid af if you have to jump through hoops in order to reach him, if all you have to do is summon a level 6 or higher spellcaster hewill be banworthy.
Funny how Konami gave Blue eyes their own Link-1 and other good cards to make the deck playable and meta, yet they refuse to give Dark Magician a Link-1 and the other ok new cards it got can be and will be abused by other decks.
Well, the cards being used in other decks is more of a problem with the players and not the creators.
“Usable” and “Abusable” are two different things.
??? “The design mistakes aren’t the designers fault, its the player’s fault for exploring the game space”
And again… they create a card that is better and more viable on other Decks than DM.
DMoD looks more viable on other decks that con easily summon a DARK Spellcaster and that is instantly a 1 card Dragoon, while DM has to mill with Souls or something to use it.
Its super generic and useful for other Decks that can set their fuelds and, as a plus, summon a Dragon, while DM requieres more to establish his field and become competitive or have at least some defenses.
Quite sad how Blue-Eyes gets the good support and DM AGAIN gets 3 cards and the most “hyped” card is more useful on other decks.
I’m sorry for all he dm fans but my first thought seeing this was about pendulum lmao
Welcome to the generic endboard club Dragoon. Current members: Desirae, Caesar, Silvia, Unicorn
Is that a new hero in the cover of the pack?
Yes
Ugh, more awesome Dark Magician decks/sets that WONT come to the TCG
Does Konami just not like the TCG market?
Well duh
Have you seen the prices in the ocg compared to tcg?
Kind of a let down
“dark magician of destruction”, ye he doesnt destroy anything. regardless these look amazing and so generic that it feels like DM will be really easy to splash onto things.
The art of the Dragon Fusion is so ugly 😐
In my opinion, these cards are kinda good, but if Konami only provides us with theses only, then it’s a disappointment. At least we need a new monster card that is more better than Rod
Small question for the effect
Can DM of destruction be revived after getting summoned correctly?
No.
OMG! Dark Magician Girl the Magician’s Apprentice with Shining Sarc Engine is FREE Dragoon!
So is the magician of black magic
Tbh, the deck already toyed with dragoon and other dm fusions in the past, its just that now its way easier to use
I wonder what they are trying to do with this design. Generic enough to work outside its home archetype yet not good enough for its home archetype.
“People have asking for playable support, so here is playable support”
This is gonna be the curse of yugioh forever. Whenever something really good is printed, people try to isolate it from all “junk” that came before it, and abuse it as much as possible
This sucks, they just made dark magician irrelevant in his own deck
Maybe, but being a rag that cycles between the field and gy that will never actually attack is already a terrible fate.
Play-ability aside, the timaeus cards look ass. Uninspired armor slap dashed on it and the scaly look doesn’t look good compared to the smooth look he has on other cards.
I was hoping DM of Destruction would be a Ritual, but giving us a usable MOBC clone is fine too. Isn’t Gaze of Timaeus banishing the summoned monster after two turns pretty harsh though? Outside Dragoon I can’t think of any DM Fusions who deserve that.
ANOTHER timaeus retrain, and hermos is still in the depths of the ocean
Oh, is it the time of year for DM to get support already?
The eye of timaeus can’t be searched (gaze of timaeus yes) since it doesn’t mention dark magician. It states dark magician monster, not even dark magical circle can add it.
Wow was actually hyped to see my boy magician of dark chaos/black magician of chaos get new support, just to find out its just more dark magician support and an alt art. Sad
I totally agree, only one main card, I’m shocked… no links, no monsters for maindeck, no new traps, no cards that add archetype. it seems like a joke.
the quote “or Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing 1”, does not limit from special summon only from extra deck? So, from another sources it can be special summoned (from grave, from banishment), so it can be summoned by eternal soul effect?
Finally the protagonist main deck is playable in 2025!
The searchable fusion will really do wonders for the deck.
Now fix Red Eyes and Harpies!
People want to play their favorite decks from the anime.
Hopefully there’s still room for a new DMG monster. How long has it been since she’s actually got a fusion to herself?
The fact that these cards are better off with Diabellstar is sad.
I’ve been waiting all this time for a main deck card? Come on Konami, no more disappointments. OK it’s strong, but it’s main support. The deck lacks good monsters like: ‘discard this card and set spell or trap, or discard add Dark Magician card.’ or even a good monster card like Alternative Dark Magician, which does something useful like Blue-Eyes or Red-Eyes… I’m speechless, do you think I’m asking too much?
No you aren’t, we need some thing like that, and with this bestial meta and the DMoD cost, we really need something to recicle the DMs from the Banishement
No you aren’t, we need some thing like that, and with this bestial meta and the DMoD cost, we really need something to recicle the DMs from the Banishement