Watching Yu-Gi-Oh! short videos is making the veteran players lose...

While the GX world was baffled, many duelists in the 5DS world were also dumbfounded. Seeing another archetype centered around a vanilla monster, they almost thought that in that higher world, vanilla-based archetypes were the decks of glory!

"Wait? Another vanilla-based archetype? What's a Dark Magician?"

"I don't know? It doesn't look like there are many monster cards, but there seem to be a lot of Spells and Traps."

"It seems this archetype relies heavily on Spells and Traps! The Extra Deck seems very important too."

"It has Synchro, Link, Xyz, and Fusion. I get it, the Extra Deck is the main event!"

"...."

The voices of the surrounding duelists came one after another. Their discussion also showed that they were somewhat interested in this archetype. Having witnessed the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a vanilla-based archetype, the protagonist of this world, Yusei Fudo, would not underestimate this one. Similarly, Akiza and Jack were also watching with extremely serious attitudes, waiting for the Dark Magician combo explanation!

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ZEXAL World

Yuma and Astral, however, paid special attention to the few Xyz cards in this archetype's Extra Deck!

"Not a Number card?"

"These Xyz cards can be confirmed."

"Wait? There is a Number card!"

"Yuma! Look, what Number is that?" Astral suddenly pointed in terror at the black card in the Dark Magician's Extra Deck!

Yuma rubbed his eyes! He really did see a Number Xyz card in this Extra Deck! The Number cards they were so desperately searching for! That world... had them too?! Could it be... they had to go to that world to collect Number cards?

"It's Number 11!"

"Number 11: Big Eye!"

"And?"

"Number 89!"

"Number 89: Diablosis the Mind Hacker!"

"This Dark Magician deck... actually uses the power of Number cards!" Yuma's expression became more and more grave after identifying the Numbers. So they had more than one Number card over there?

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30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "After seeing the build, the next segment is the combo explanation for the Dark Magician archetype."

30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "As we all know, in the current meta, for Dark Magician, setting aside the bricky hands of duelists without a strong bond and opponent's hand trap interruptions, the biggest ideal board is the mutually protective first-turn setup, which is the interaction between Eternal Soul and The Dark Magicians."

"First, let's see what this 'mutually protective' setup is!"

"It involves just two cards!"

"One is Eternal Soul, also known as the coffin."

"The other is The Dark Magicians!" (The text says "Dragon Knight Dark Magician," which is a different card, but the combo described fits The Dark Magicians + Eternal Soul better in some contexts, while Dragon Knight protects backrow. The text is likely mixing up cards. Let's proceed with what's named and shown)

"Let's first look at the effect of Eternal Soul!"

[Continuous Trap Card: Eternal Soul]

[Effect: You can only use the ① effect of this card's name once per turn.]

[①: You can activate 1 of these effects.]

[● Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" from your hand or GY.]

[● Add 1 "Dark Magic Attack" or "Thousand Knives" from your Deck to your hand.]

[②: Your "Dark Magician(s)" in your Monster Zone are unaffected by your opponent's card effects.]

[③: If this face-up card leaves the field: Destroy all monsters you control.]

"Three effects. One is a search or revival. The second provides god-like protection! The third is a negative effect: if it leaves the field, it nukes your own board. High risk, high reward, right? So the question is, how do we protect this Eternal Soul? Naturally, we need to combine it with this ace, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight."

[Card Name: Dark Magician the Dragon Knight (Level 8)]

[Attribute: DARK]

[Type: Dragon]

[ATK/DEF: 3000/2500]

Effect 1: This card's name becomes "Dark Magician" while on the field or in the GY. (Simply put, it's treated as Dark Magician.)

Effect 2: While this card is in the Monster Zone, Spell/Trap Cards you control cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects, and your opponent cannot target them with card effects. (Simply put, it protects your Spells and Traps, providing immunity to destruction and targeting.)

30-Year-Old Dark Magician: "Just these two simple cards can form a mutually protective loop. You can savor the details."

...

As this key card for the mutual protection lock appeared and the blogger's voice ended, the duelists across the six worlds were first stunned. Their confused gazes scanned back and forth between the seemingly fake card Eternal Soul and this Dragon Knight Dark Magician. But when they finished reading the effect of Dragon Knight Dark Magician and combined it with the effect of Eternal Soul, not only could the old-school duelists not sit still, but the duelists from the newest worlds couldn't either!

Wait! Does such a disgusting combo exist?! Isn't this... purely invincible?!

Dark Magician the Dragon Knight is treated as "Dark Magician"!

Eternal Soul protects "Dark Magician" from all opponent's card effects!

And Dark Magician the Dragon Knight in turn protects Eternal Soul!

What was absurd was that this protection wasn't just simple protection! It was protection comparable to that of a god!

The old-school duelists of the DM world, Kaiba and Yugi, were both numb! Thinking back to the earlier comment about Dark Magician being weak, in their old-school eyes, that notion had completely vanished!

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