Will you make it through the Trap World of Death?
Maze of the Master
Release Date: February 21st, 2025
MSRP: $4.49
The Set is confirmed to have over 60 new cards, including a revamp of Odion’s “Endless Trap Hell” strategy.
The first pack artwork features brand new artworks that feature what appear to be Odion’s new support”Endless Trap Hell”, which based on the artworks provided, includes an Anubis like figure, a card with the manga/anime artwork of “Temple of the Kings”, multiple versions of Serket, a card with a figure resembling Odion himself, and a card referencing “Cup of Sealed Soul”.
Also featured on the artwork are “Clear” monsters, “Break the Seal” and the AC24 Wedju card.
The second pack features various cards from Animation Chronicle 2024, including the new wave of “Performage” monsters, as well as the new Trickstar cards from “Duelists of Brilliance”
The third pack features various cards from “Duelists of Brilliance”, specifically the revamp of the XYZ series and the new wave of Tachyon cards
Source: New York Comic Con
Thanks to Ori for the images
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I hope next year we get new support for the Mask archtype used Lumis and Umbra.
There also still Mask of Shine & Dark from the video games.
I really hope as well – I been waiting for years.
(that being said, Odion is also a cool idea).
Retrain Melchid and Grand Tki Elder as Union “Mask” monsters. Introduce Mask of Shining counterpart to Mask of Darkness. New Masked Beast Ritual and Ritual Spell(or maybe an equip spell that performs Ritual summon?) an other mask equip spell or equipping trap, support for Fiend/Fairy “Mask” monster and “Masked Beast” monsters specifically.
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Mask/Kamen can become an archetype. The tcg would have a naming issue but hey, I don’t care.
None of the Masked HEROs are Fiend/Fairy though. So that won’t matter much. None of Umbra/Lumis Spell/Trap cards are quicklplays so the discrepancy between Masuku Quickplay spells and Kamen Spell/Traps wouldn’t be a problem if Umbra/Lumis cards exclude Quickplays. That leaves Mask(masuku) Charge and unreleased Damage Mask as problems.
They could, I suppose, have each of the backrow mask cards searched independently by retrains of Umbra and Lumis monsters. Reveal “Melchid The Four-Masked Beast”, add 1 “Mask of Brutality” or “Mask of the Accursed” from your Deck to your hand then Equip this monster to a monster on the field, but if you don’t, discard the card you added to your hand.
What am I saying. Melchid has 4 masks. Make him search 4 different Mask backrow cards. For that matter Grand Tiki Elder also features four masks on it…
Seeing how these packs and generally TCG is doing support for DM anime stuff lately I expect them to just retrain most cards from that theme. Which to be honest I would not mind – most of cards used by Lumis and Umbra are extremely outdated and not worth playing in modern YGO! anyway.
WHY ARE THERE THREE SERKETS
Probably the 3 forms it gain by eating each of Joey’s monsters.
what about of the fake dragon of ra
I thought Anubis guy was that.
It’s not.
Ra’s Judgment
Spell
Activate by banishing 1 “The Winged Dragon of Ra” from your hand, Deck, field, or Graveyard, face-down. Destroy all cards on the field and half both players’ Life Points. It is now the End Phase.
Wow… yeah… Ofion… Konami TCG knows exactly what the fans want.
Are the people super nostalgic for DM that the TCG is always trying to rim even gonna be that hyped about this? At least I kinda get Gate Guardian and Flame Swordsman.
I know here in the west Konami pretends Yu-Gi-Oh ended after DM, but maybe, just maybe, if you’re relying on Odion to sell a pack, you could consider making a deck around another popular character from one of the other series. I feel like people would be more excited if you printed Lightning’s cards as an example.
And trust me, it n between Odion and Lightning, there’s a lot of decks from the anime people want to see printed (I’ll take Sawatari’s dart warriors over this 🎯)
That’s kinda the issue; TCG doesn’t have the OCG’s contract with Shueisha to print cards that appeared first in the anime, without just importing OCG stuff; they can only make “reference” cards and archetypes, which is why none of these MAZE support lineups print anime cards for the first time. These are basically just mini-archetypes made to reference anime character Decks, and in the series after GX ended, the character Decks were part of archetypes that the OCG might bring out of mothballs at any time for Animation Chronicle.
I want Konami to print that food archetype that was used by that ArcV character which had fox eyes. His name was Red Pepper I believe
Mr. Bulbmin if that’s the problem then how did they print 15 anime cards from Ziegfried’s deck as TCG exclusives?
You might not be a fan of the support, but us DM fans have been waiting 20+ years for these decks to get support.
speak for yourself. I like seeing Mystical Beast Serket and other Egyptian themed cards and characters. It’s why most people got into Yu-Gi-Oh the series.
>”I feel like people would be more excited if…”
you don’t even know what these do yet, or even what the cards are. Remember Ishizu’s support cards and how nobody played them? Oh wait, that isn’t what happened, now was it?
Nah you don’t know what you’re talking about my guy. A lot of people like Serket and wanna see it get support for years. Myself included.
Incredible bait. No one suspects a thing. Everyone is taking your post at face value. You even slammed in the ‘print Armatos Legio’ at the end and no one’s any the wiser.
You really are an expert of your craft.
No one bats an eye when OCG does endless ARC-V pandering, lol.
Arc-V has the most diversity in deck types of any series. Getting a bunch of Arc-V decks means you are likely getting a mixed bag of Pendulum, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and even a distant possibility of Ritual.
DM and GX were before all the other summoning styles so there there’s very few chances you’ll get anything beyond Tribute, Ritual and Fusion. Even so, I wish they’d do more pandering to GX as long as it isn’t for Zane. With 5Ds your like 85% of the time getting a Synchro deck. 100% of the time an Xyz deck for Zexal and same for Vrains with Links.
Here are the missing pixels and then some
At least Serket is finally getting some new support after like 20 years.
Serket, my Scorpion Queen
That Anubis monster has a similar face and expression to The End of Anubis; maybe it’ll be an upgraded version?
The Beginning Of Anubis.
Funny thing is there was a XYZ in Zexal : New Order 4: Etheric Anubis that had a effect that brings a set card that was destroyed back and if it was a Trap you can activate it immediately. Sounds like a card that would fit in Odion’s deck.
New Orders finally becoming real in 2025 🤔.
Was thinking the same … ans the Eye on his chest letzte me hope that it could be an Illusion… i like the theme of that Monsters and it would fit a bit the theme ^^”
Looking forward to seeing the Fake Winged Dragon of Ra, and what effect it will have… Maybe something like when it is summoned it will destroy all monsters on the field & inflict damage to both players equal to the total ATK points of the 3 monsters used to tribute summon it?
if a Slime form of obelisk (egyptian god slime) can exist then a fake dragon of ra can exist also.
The year of Trap Monsters continues.
I’m genuinely hyped for this and have been hoping for Odion support for awhile now. After we got Ishizu I wanted Odion so bad so I could recreate newer versions of all the decks used in Battle City Finals.
So Konami does know what some fans want. Besides, we’ve been getting support for legacy anime decks besides DM too in the main packs. Shark support, Tachyon is even in this Maze pack, new Arcana Force cards just announced, a lot for GX in the last few years.
This has been an historically poor year for 5Ds representation though. No anime theme from 5Ds in all four core sets of the year, none in Duelist Pack and Animation Chronicle amounted to an Ancient Gear card and a game original representation of the forgotten Earthbound.
Febuary is going to be a good month for Kaiba fans, with the A-to-Z support coming two weeks after the Blue-Eyes SD.
So Advent of BEWD is coming in February? I saw a pre-order listing on a random site saying Feb but I wasn’t sure how reliable that was.
I hope it’s true.
the first pack has an artwork featuring Lord of D. behind the Anubis lookalike
is that a tcg premiere too?
No its Grief Tablet.
I’m interested to see if the Serket retrain will be a Ritual like it was in the anime
Exodia Necross was also a Ritual in the anime. Since there are 3 forms it probably going to be like a Level monster.
Why is no one speaking about the 3rd Apophis card in the top left or at least an Alternate Art
Exactly! It seems strongest of the versions so far, by the looks
My prediction for the 3 serkets are Ritual monsters that must be ritual summoned with the Cup and maybe the New Temple of Kings will allow us to use the opponent’s monsters as Tributes referencing how Serket gained power using the opponent’s monsters
^ Please Please Please let it be this
I think that is more probable that they are three Fusions, cause OG Temple of Kings can summon only Fusions from the Extra Deck
Temple can summon from Hand or Deck in addition to Fusion monsters.
Cup of Sealed Soul and Seal of Serket as “Serket” support getting released in October 2025 OCG set.
Who’s the white hat dude with the massive peter?
Performage Trapeze High Magician
If Serket’s ultimate form can’t be treated as 3 tributes I will furrow my brow.
Can spot soul fist for RDA, Duke of demise and the fusion equip spell. Another version of apophis but I think the ‘fake Ra’ they reference turned out to be the Anubis card. May not end up with a fake Ra for Odion so hopefully the serkets are interesting
Ok, this is the first ‘TCG exclusive DM nostalgia support’ that I’m excited for! I would love a Ritual retrain of Serket. To be faithful to the anime, but also just because I love Rituals and we don’t get enough of them. Generally though, I hope the stuff is compatible with Ishizu’s cards due to Serket also being an EARTH Fairy and the focus on Trap cards.
I love Serket…I remember when I used to play it in Monarchs in 2016. March of the Monarchs gave it protection. Thematically it was an interesting monster, banishing (eating) the monsters it destroyed by battle and growing bigger and bigger. Ofc it was never truly playable. But the Temple of the Kings special effect involving it was so unique.
I hope this upcoming support with be centered around Serket as a boss monster rather than a searcher (the latter would be lame). They are using its other “forms” as shown in the anime when it ate the various Joey monsters. But Serket in the anime was a Ritual, so I am not sure how you would do this gameplay wise.
Anubis should “stay” a Counter Trap and Seal/Cup the searcher / ritual spell. No idea about the new Temple, but it was a Field Spell in the anime.
You know what I would love to see? A retrain/printing of Eye of Ujat. It’s such a cool card letting you steal your opponents monsters and use them how you will (the card text is very ambiguous)
Joey’s fairy box retrain? :O
The card under Ocean of Regeneration, what is it?