New rules update for the section at 06:04 From the official domain discord: There is going to be a rather large rules update going into effect after the tournament at the end of this month. They are as follows. The ATK and DEF clauses are going to be removed from what defines a Deck Master's Domain. -The reason for the ATK/DEF item is there are only about 20 cards that do this and most of them functionally work on the other parts of their DM's Domain and the ones that don't are pretty much the visas starfrost clones that don't really have synergy between their archetypes anyways. As well as a wild amount of confusion that seems to come up regularly for a mechanic that for the most part is not used. Reminder text, except for "this card is not treated as....", will be a part of a Deck Master's Domain. This includes token text. -In previous R&D it was determined to cause complications with the ATK/DEF clauses. With those no longer being a thing that effectively hits 2 birds with 1 stone. Also, as time has progressed it has become blatantly clear that wide domains are not inherently an identifier for a decks power level so much as player skill and deck optimization. By this I mean we have seen decks with 1 type and 1 attribute play at the same level as decks that let you play everything or nearly everything. You are welcome to voice your opinions but please keep in mind that this is not up for debate. The Admin team and even the development team have had multiple conversations . Play however you want but this goes into effect October 27th 2024
Same. I've been reminiscing old formats and decks with a buddy of mine at work and he doesnt have anyone to really play yugioh with, but im a mtg guy now. but after realizing Domain is a format, I might have to get him into it lol
Just an update. The discord has almost doubled since this video and has partnered with multiple tournament organizers aaaannnd it still growing steadily!
Another important thing to know is that if the DM specifies a monster by name and that monster belongs to an archetype, that archetype is part of the domain. For example, red-eyes dark dragoon has access to all "dark magician" and "red-eyes" monsters.
Is "Dark Magician" an archetype? AFAIK no card calls out "Dark Magician" cards. "Dark Magician" is mentioned as the name of a specific card but never as part of a card name that's shared across multiple cards.
This is exactly commander in yugioh, sweet.This might slow the game down. Just got me back into magic. Just might get me back into yugioh as well and in 5 years this will be the only format just like magic lol😂
Thanks a lot for this video and for the channel, been seeing the matches and they are a lot of fun. I convinced some friends to try out the format, we made a small group here in Brazil to try out next time we play. Everyone is having fun trying to bring their favorite archetypes to the format (myself with Satellite Warrior as my Deckmaster, to bring Synchron ,Stardust and Warriors all togheter). This is what Yugioh needed the most, it fixes so much of the problems: - Multiplayer to interact and have fun with more people; - Trash out the extensive banlist but the one card rule balances that. Even if Painful Choice is really strong, is 1 card out of 60, you have to get lucky to pull it off; - Cards that normally wouldn't be played in standart mode now have a reason to be used (Top Share can set up your follow up and forge an alliance with someone of the table, is so good).
Thank you for the kind words! 😭 And you nailed it 💯This whole experience with the channel and seeing the growth of the format has been wonderful. I hope you guys have tons of fun, You'll have to come back and tell me what decks you all played!
Not to mention there are archetypes that really shine in Domain that never had a chance in advanced. Charmers for example, can be really strong in domain. Before this format, if you told me that charmers could beat Yubel, Dark world, and Fire King Snake-eye I would believe you but in domain it's possible.
This is a really competent translation of the Commander format into the Yugioh game structure, really well done. The domain rules is really cool and well executed, although a part of me thinks it might hurt deck creativity in some aspects, given that MTG is a different beast than Yugioh, the limitation there addresses the problems with a large Magic card pool, but I'm not sure if it cleanly addresses the same in Yugioh given it is more archetype/stables dependant, but that is just an inital concern with the caveat that the idea is really neatly executed. The one real thing I'm unsure of is the zones in multiplayer, I completely understand that it's tough to make it work, but I feel like something more integrated between all players is more fitting, like maybe the arrows pointing upwards, left and right could also point to the same zone for each of your opponents too.
Yeah lining up zones virtually would be better, especially for column reliant cards like Imperm. Though there is the issue of Extra Monster Zones. If two players have already taken up the left and right EMZs, do the other two get to use the zones that are virtually occupied already?
Yeah there’s no good way to do it in yugioh unless you completely get rid of links and ban any column based cards to avoid any issues. The way it’s set up now omits any confusion
They printed cards past standard straight into eternal formats. And not just one of em all of em. And all those cards are legal in commander baring the banlist
I have been waiting for this in Yu-Gi-Oh!, I hope this gets more developed. I actually played with some friends in 3 player duel one time and being 3rd was pretty broken in that, just like going first was, if you had enough ways to protect yourself, but it was hilarious.
I know there's people working on spreading the word daily and the discord keeps growing like crazy! I'm hoping to hit some content creators up this next YCS in Indy!
@@yugiohcommander Gotta love that the community has been theory crafting a Commander-esque format lol. I’d be happy to share some of my ideas with you if you’re ever down to workshop.
@@wickidgames it’s legit the most fun I’ve had playing with my friends! And I’m absolutely addicted to building decks for the format 😆 Hope you get to play soon!
Both of your points have come up many times in the formats existence. The fact you have three opponents, plays a huge role in self regulating games. I have a video of a tear player starting off with painful choice and popping off. He still lost. Also, what if I told you there are plenty of cards that can accrue *more* card advantage than pot of greed due to the four players? Last turn is so insanely hard to pull off, even harder if they know you have it. I’ve never seen it resolve. But if it could be busted, I’d love to see it. We encourage people to push the format to its limits!
Once I built four decks, to let others borrow, and I convinced them to play a game they were all hooked! They almost immediately after playing, built their own decks to try out in the format. It was like magic xD
Love this! will be playing soon with some friends. One question: how do Attack Replays work in Domain? if someone attacks me directly and i play Scapegoat, would they now have the option to direct that attack at another player or another player's monster?
@@Trystaticus yup! If you declare an attack on anyone or anything, and any of the monsters change on anyone’s field, you get to redeclare the attack however you you’d like!
It's so good! I had to build some extra decks and keep them on me to convince them the first time, but after that they started building what they like and the rest is history 😎
Just doing some thinking about this and had a bunch of ruling questions. Sorry if these are difficult. 1. If a monster can only be summoned by activated effect, does that mean it can never be summoned as a deck master? Example: Malefic Truth Dragon 2. Can the deckmaster be summoned several times per turn provided its summoning method is still valid? I feel like some broken combos could come from this from cards that are special summonable and are not once per turn. 3. Can the CTS tax be manipulated by cards like Prime Material Dragon, One Day of Peace, etc? 4. Are cards that share any words/characters an archytype? Examples: Dark Magician (DM) + Dark Hole Dragon + Darklord Zerato... Ryko, Twilightsworn Fighter (DM) + Lightsworn Dragonling + Amazoness Fighter + Evening Twilight Knight... Yubel the Ultimate Nightmare (DM) + Nibiru, the Primal Being...
All great questions! 1) Yeah some monsters could be unsummonable as deckmasters. Melefic Truth would be stuck in the deckmaster zone. 2) Yes, I have a Gladiator Beast deck that has Test Tiger as the DM. I can basically summon it as much as my life points allow. But going down to 500LP is not ideal, and essentially balances that. 3) No you cannot avoid the tax. It is a cost to summon. 4) No, everything I listed are the only things that are considered for a domain of a deckmaster. non-archetype words in the title is not one of them.
Huge fan of this. Will be subbing for more. I did a very similar concept with friends where Extra Deck monsters were locked to a Main Deck quota - ie, to play Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, you need 5+ Speedroids in your Deck, to play a generic card like Splash Mage, you need 5+ non-archetypal Cyberse. If this is anything like my friend group’s concept, the games are a lot of fun and deck building is a blast. Already trying to brew ideas in my head. Great video.
I feel ABC could be really fun with this Edit: for EMZ i feel a “taking the first napkin” rule could be implemented, where once someone plays a card in lets say their right EMZ players can then only use their right EMZ until all have been emptied at which point the next person to play selects again.
I love playing alt formats so I'm definitely keeping an eye on this one! Sadly, the same thing can't be said about my friends. All Yugioh players I know would rather play Pokemon than any alt Yugioh format. I've tried to convince them multiple times to play Edison, Goat, and even a self-made format about using only cards that have 4 or less lines of text, but... I guess people at my locals dislike trying new things.
I can definitely relate. The guys at my LGS were a bit iffy to start. But I made and kept four spare domain decks on me and eventually they gave it a try since I had extra decks they could borrow. But also, you should join the discord! Theres over 1200 people playing remote games, or simulator games everyday. It's a cool place to be, and you could get some experience playing the format 😎
Hi! This is my first time hearing about this format and I'm excited to try it out. But I have some questions regarding cards with the same name. I know only one copy of a card is playable, but does that rule also apply for those cards that need multiple copy of the same card to work properly? For example Jackpot 7 or even Photon Caesar. And also, some cards are always treated as another, for example Pacifis, which is always treated as Umi. Can I play them both or do I have to choose between them?
Hi there! I'd be happy to answer your Q's. 1) regarding cards that require multiples to function. Those are still at one per deck, no exceptions. Those cards just don't see play. 2)Cards that are "always treated as X" count as the card toward deck limits. So you would have to pick between Pacifis, or Umi. But you can still play things that count as Umi in play or GY. II love answering Q's so feel free to hit me up anytime!
@@frankyquilavafireblast895 it’s awesome being able to play such powerful cards! A lot of people show concern about it, but I have a video of a tearlament player steadying off with Painful Choice turn one, and they still lose!
Only downside to these rules are that decks like salamangreats that requires you to sac identical copies for additional effects lose a lot of effectiveness. But outside of that, this seems really fun. Maybe i can convince my Magic friend group to try yugioh for once
We're deck building now so I came back to review your video. I got another question. If we can check our commanders text box for listed attributes do we count monsters with attributes in their text box? Example being if my commander is "ancient warriors ingenious zhuge Kong" can I run "dark simorgh?"
Good question! But no, you don’t check cards in your deck for any references in their text. You only ever check your deckmaster for its available cards. Zhuge Kong could play any Wind, Beast-Warrior, and/or any “Ancient Warrior” monster.
That sounds like a really cool format, but if you can choose combo starters like Snake Eye Ash as deckmaster, then I'll have exactly the same end boards on the first turn as in the Master Rule format.
@@output4794 You could only use either Pyro and/or FIRE monster to build that board. So no Apollousa, no SP Little Night, no linkuriboh, no fiendsmith stuff. Not saying you couldn’t get to Fire Princess plus other interactions, but the deck isn’t nearly as powerful when you got three opponents that can archenemy you at any time. Lots of people come in saying this is already solved or not different than TCG, or whatever. But the format plays quite different.
Extra deck monsters, do they have to be withing the deck Master's domain. Example Deck Master is Junk Synchron, extra deck contains Sooting Star Dragon
@@str83dge4real yeah the extra deck has the same restrictions. The extra and main deck monsters have to be within the deckmasters domain. Junk synchron wouldn’t be able to play Shooting Star Dragon in the extra. I know some people have built a junk/synchron/dust dragon deck. So I know it’s possible.
So with hand traps at 1 if you can even use them to begin with, what stops my Dragon Link pile from just turing this into regular Yu-Gi-Oh except I have a free Redmed, or some starter in hand every game for free?
@@loverofjesusMKII Dragon Link is very good! There’s nothing stopping you really. You may find that it won’t be so easy to keep a board through three turns and survive through battle phases though! Even still you should give it a try! The formats really fun.
I think my biggest criticism for this format would be the hard 60 card requirement combined with singleton cards. I think taking one of those away while keeping the other would be fine.
@@MrAlucard115 after playing a ton of games, I don’t see it as a “hindrance” or anything. I think it sets it apart from most other alt formats. Not sure it would be as successful as it has been if it was any other way. Give it a try, I think you’d be pleasantly surprised 😎
@@yugiohcommander I didn’t really mean it as a hindrance more so a deck building frustration. But I should definitely try it out first before dismissing it. Is there a discord for this format?
6:19 Man, this last rule gave me a wild thought...imagine if the rule involved not just specific ATK/DEF values but also specific Levels. Spright would be going wild, but another hilarious one would be a personal favorite of mine: Yakusa, Lord of Eight Thunders. Inherent special summon that works specifically with Level/Rank 8 monsters similarly to Sprights with Level/Rank 2s but the rule applying to listed Levels in the text would open up an insane Rank 8 toolbox.
Im sure someone asked this before but would a HERO archetype DM bypass attribute restrictions? Since the wording in the video suggests that archetype cards and specific named cards are a bit different use case.
This sounds super awesome. I’m going to work on an exodia deck using the cards I own. All the dark or fiend links I can fit into my extra deck and draw spells. I gotta check to see how many generic links fit those descriptions but ultimate offering should be a good combo card. It would cost 6000 LP to do it all in one turn though.
@@yugiohcommander I spent like an hour trying to sus out if there was any logic to why Ancient Gear Spark Shot only damaged one player vs. Ultimate Ancient Gear Hunting Hound halving all opponents' LP, and I decided that it comes from the fact that the former specifies an amount of damage dealt to your opponent (half of a summoned Ancient Gear monster's ATK) vs. the latter just halving your opponent's LP when Fusion Summoned. Well, that and the Obelisk Force's combo was cooler that way.
I love this but i have 1 major gripe. It seems one thing may have been critically overlooked but it’s possible i missed it in my multiple viewings so please correct me if im wrong here. The current rules for the deck master’s domain (or yugioh version of color identity) are as follows: 1) types and attributes found on the card or its text 2) cards that share an archetype with the card or one mentioned in its text 3) the monarch ATK/DEF clause. However it seems that the obvious clause of “cards that mention this monster by name” and/or “cards that this card mentions by name” are missing? This directly excludes certain cards from being deck masters of cards meant to be played together with them in konamis card designs like “fallen of albaz” “Visas starfrost” and im pretty sure it excludes many “dark magician” and “Blue eyes white dragon” support cards as well (if they are your deckmaster.
If your deckmaster mentions a monster by name, you can play it. Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous can play Fallen of Albaz since she mentions him by name. But just because something in your deck mentions your deckmaster, doesn’t mean it’s part of the domain. If Visas Starfrost was your deckmaster, you couldn’t play Vicious Astraloud, since Astroloud isn’t Light or a Warrior. You could still build a Visas lore deck, but you would have to play something with access to many attributes, like Elysium.
@@yugiohcommander yeah exactly, so i was right. The current ruleset would have Visas starfrost (for example) as a deckmaster, with a “domain” that is excluding the multitude of cards that specifically name him… by name. AKA the multitude of cards specifically meant to work and function with him by card design and name him for that reason. It seems like a bit of an oversight because this ignores the flavor of these cards “domains” and ignores the card design behind these cards being meant to be played together. Visas starfrost is just one example, this also excludes cards like fallen of albaz, and I believe some of the blue eyes white dragon snd dark magician support cards
@@cooldes4593 so build your Visas Lore deck with Elysium as the Master, and run the 1 copy of every Scareclaw, Tearlament, Kashtira, and Mannadium card you can.
So question (since I don't have discord) if a monster is part of a loreverse like world chalice, the abyss, sinful spoils are they included too in terms of deckbuilding?
@@redmastergamer64 an archetype has two requirements 1)shares a word or title component in their titles. 2)there are effects referencing that title or name component. Cards being related in lore doesn’t matter for Domains. The Sinful Spoils archetype isn’t part of the White Forest archetype, but sinful spoils cards are support for the white forest archetype.
this is great, but i can only see this competitively used for having your best starter 24/7, but this may also have to face border breakers and opposition from 3 other players. sounds interesting
Hi there, i have a question. So what about levels when talking about a domain? Because there are archetypes like spright that make level/rank their whole gimmick. Let’s take for example spright blue as a deck master. Of course you’d have access to all Spright, Thunder and Dark monsters, but i feel like a big chunk of the power of the deck is cut by not allowing cards like the Nimble engine or Toadally Awesome to be played. Regardless to that, the idea of this format seems incredible, i really hope more people start playing it because it would be the best way to play casual yugioh periodt
Level/rank aren’t part of a domain. I actually have a game where my bud Steafen plays frog/spright. The deck is totally still buildable. You can always go with Dark Doriado or Elysium for most attributes available to just play piles of whatever you want.
Question. If My deck master was Lovevly labrynth of the silver castle, would she be summonable by welcome labrynth or big welcome labrynth? Also, if my deck master was lady labrynth or labrynth archfied, would they be able to special summon themselves by their effects since it's an activated effect?
@@lefteron6804anything that lets you special from hand/deck doesn’t work from the deckmaster zone, since that’s not your hand or deck. So no, you wouldn’t be able to special your deckmaster with Big or Welcome Labrynth. And no, Lady Lab nor Lab archfiend can use their activated effects to summon themselves from the deckmaster zone. With all three of those monster, you would have to tribute summon them, or Pendulum summon them while you have the correct scales. I play and love my Lab deck, I would go with either Arianna or Ariane for the deckmaster.
@@yugiohcommander now that I think about it, if I can have only one copy of each labrynth trap, the labrynth deck doesn't seem very good. It's gameplan is focused on going to the grind game, but that isn't really an option if you have so few labrynth cards to set with the furniture. Do you have a list I could look at? I've been cooking something, but I still haven't reach 40 cards and I'm struggling.
@@lefteron6804 oh man, I wish we could talk because Labrynth is imo, a deck that has some of the *best* grind game. I’m currently at work so I can’t type out a book, but there is a Lab/Unchained deck in my linktree. All my decklists are on ygoprodeck
With regards to Domain if I were to pick Centur-Ion Legatia, just for example: Do all of my non-Centur-Ion monsters have to be BOTH Light and Machine, or can I have any light monster of any type as well as any machine monster of any attribute?
they do not have to be both LIGHT Machine monsters. You could play a dark machine, or a light fiends, only one things has to be in common with your deckmaster!
Justify would at least still be a monster negate, depending on the specific S-force monster you could splash in some other interesting synergies. I've heard of domain format but it was many years back, imma give it a shot.
@@nablexd2633 No, things that Special summon from deck don’t work with from DMZ’s. So in DMoC’s case you could tribute summon it, or pendulum summon it (if you have correct scales)
I mean the easiest way to think of it is two sets of players next to eachother. Or you could crisscross too. Doesn't matter where you put your deck master really. As long as everyone is able to see it when you start
there are a couple cards i would put in the banlist from the start, like the "you win the match" cards and pay x life spam fusion monster from the extra deck otherwise i look forward to where this ends up
so...if i were to play starry knight astel as my deckmaster... its a Light/fairy so i can play any lights or fairies...its a starry knight so i can play other stary knight monsters and the text specifically mentions dragons so i can run any dragon i want as well? but that leaves one question..what exactly is the benifit of having a particular deckmaster...you mentioned continues effects,so does that mean having jinzo as my deckmaster would mean all traps are negated from the start?
You got the Starry Knight domain down perfect! Not too shabby if I do say so myself. No, you don't get any effects while your deckmaster is in the deckmaster zone. It just sits there until you properly summon it. I go into the different archetypes deckmasters seem to fall into in my "Domain Format basic introduction" video, around 4 minutes
The deckmaster stuff sounds fun, but I'm mostly intrigued by having to play 60 different cards in your deck. I'm just tired of how hyper-consistent yugioh decks are now, making every duel the same.
I think you will be pleasantly surprised that the ability to do consistent things isn't shot down that much but it's more of you can do more things with the wider variation of cards you are forced to play. And it's not doing the same thing every turn.
@@yugiohcommander Yeah, I leaned into lifegain for it as well. Psychic End Punisher is a big wincon. One of the things I really love about this format is it makes a lot of cards that would otherwise be unviable into important includes. My fire fist deck runs basically all of them.
It’s more like brawl then commander As brawl is 59 with a commander And commander is 99 with a commander Either way it looks super fun,my group just got into this format
Sounds good on paper, but there ABSOLUTELY needs to be a deck master banlist. For example, if I use Vanity’s Fiend, what’s stopping me from running all dark fiends that summon themselves as tribute fodder (i.e almost every playable dark world card)?
Most people are playing dark hole/torrential/needle ceiling. Vanity Fiend is only powerful going first, and even if you do get it, there’s plenty of answers.
@@josephcourtright8071 People pick Elysium all the time as a deckmaster. Gives you access to all 6 attributes. Hasn’t been an issue yet. We always encourage people to come try busting the format though 😉
Sure you can sit on 1 Vanity’s, but now 3 other players are devoting all their resources to taking you out. The format forces you to add a bunch of staples to your deck already, so you have 3 players who possibly opens Book of Moon/Change of Heart/Raigeki/etc.
@@plutoniumsword cool, they have to draw the unsearchable 1-ofs in a 60-card deck to the Vanity’s I always have access to, AND if they out it I can just summon it again next turn. Also just as they can draw the outs to Vanity’s, I can just as easily deckbuild to add cards that protect it (lance/dress/safe zone etc.) The point here is that having an easily summonable floodgate monster effectively in your hand at all times makes for a very toxic gameplay experience imo and needs addressing with a banlist
Why didn't you show stack reviver during explanation? It would have been cool because it could have referenced the first time playmaker link summoned decode talker
This is an intriguing take on the deck master format. Though it seems to me that picking the deck master is best picked for the domain than summoning it. Or for archetypes, having the deck master be the "starter" to get the guaranteed play in their opening turn... In regards to the singleton aspect, do cards like the harpie lady 1-3 still count as the same card?
There's actually about three "roles" a deckmaster fills. 1)A starter for what you're archetype does. Stratos and the like. 2)A recurrable boss monster that no one can indefinitely get rid of. Red-Eyes Dragoon was a spicy one I saw. 3)A deck master that purely fills the type of Domain you would like to build under. Elysium is a popular one as it grants access to any attribute.
@@yugiohcommander I'm in the process of testing a conversion of my current master duel deck into domain format, and actually finding that most of the cards I've been using share domain as a side effect of my deck building preferences in general. The only tricky part is filling out the rest of the 60 deck. And considering contingencies because having to defend against potentially three battle phases before your turn is a daunting prospect.
How does the deckmaster work in terms of deckbuilding when they have something like "Monsters with X attack or higher/lower gains benefit of Y effect"? Does that have an impact or no?
@@aliesterus1.023 no, the only time it matters is if the deckmaster references a specific ATK *and* DEF. Something like Sangan doesn’t give you everything with 1500atk or less. Whereas something like Edea the Heavenly Squire lets you play anything with 800ATK/1000DEF
I feel this, as well as similar information, is important to know because sometimes Konami makes cards that are intended to work with each other, but don't share an archetypal name, and are made up of eclectic types. Performapals Performance, and Odd-Eyes kind of come to mind, but have the benefit of having cards that mention all three, but some archetypes get add-ons that don't offer similar benefits outside of one or two cards that don't perform well as a Deckmaster, if they even get such a card to begin with. Galaxy, Photons, and Tachyons come to mind, and Tachyons have the fun additional issue of also bringing cards **not** named Tachyon as their support. All three are designed in a way to work together, but outside of the new rank 8 Dragon that isn't even named Galaxy, Photon, _or_ Tachyon, no card mentions all three archetypes at once. Heck, I might even be misremembering, the new dragon might not even mention Photons. One day we might get "Star Constellation Bear" to support the archetype that's a level 8 Dark Beast that fixes the biggest issue with the archetype, but find we can't use it under the current understanding of the rules.
@@aliesterus1.023 on the domain website, there is a tool, where you can put all the cards you’d like to fit in a deck together, and it will generate all the monsters that could be the deckmaster for that deck. Try it out!!
@@hadex5490 there have been a few “roles” certain deck masters fill. The most common is the “stratos”-esque starter, deck master. Usually normal summon-able, and starts a various number of plays. I would say that’s the best place to start for most newer Domain players. There’s also the “boss monster” deck master. Something that can end games, and due to always being available in the deckmaster zone, is really hard to keep off the board. Then the third is a monster that has a “wide domain” that allows you to play a ton of things in one deck, like Elysium. (Which lets you play anything due to mentioning all attributes)
Each monster can still only attack once (unless it says otherwise) abut you can choose any player to attack, or any of their monsters. and it doesnt have to be all at the same person or the same persons monsters.
What happens when a card like Relinquished line mons equip your deck master? Or they are made a continuous spell like snake eyes? Cause otherwise that would disable your deck master until you use convoluted ways
So if I was to Choose Salamangreat of Fire as my deckmaster, i could then play any Cyberse and any fire monster in my deck. So i could also include lady debug/emp meowmine/ash blossom in the maindeck, and then any fire or cyberse monster in the extra deck as well correct? Just trying to get my bearings to the format. And are extra deck specific monsters all limited to one as well i assume?
The domain and singleton restrictions are also applied to the extra deck as well. And yes you could run those cards with salamangreat of fire as deck master. You nailed it!
@@yugiohcommander to follow up, if an opponent has fossil dyna pacycephalo in the deck master zone does that mean no player can special summon monsters as long as it remains in their deck master zone?
@@roberttucker3194 deckmasters have no abilities in the deckmaster zone, except the ones involving summoning conditions/requirements. Deckmasters can’t activate abilities in the DMZ, and any other continuous effects they have don’t affect the game from the DMZ. 😎
Level is not part of a domain. So if you had a spright as a deckmaster, you would have access to its type, attribute, and/or any spright monster. the atk/def thing is only if it references a specific atk *and* def combo. This lets something like Edea the Heavenly Squire play the Vassals
@@yugiohcommander Alright thank you. I was just wondering since sprights mention a specific level. Though I guess if that was the case xyz monsters would go a little crazy. rank four xyz allowing any level four monster.
If mirror jade is your deckmaster, can you use its effect when it leaves the field if it returns to the deck master zone because it is an activated effect?
So if Mirrojade went to the GY, you would get a chance to activate it in the GY, along with anything else that you want to add to the chain. When the chain is over, and no one else wants to make a new chain, you will have a chance to move it back to the deckmaster zone before continuing.
As long as there is no "rule zero" because in magic a guy literally took away my casual mulligan, so I don't want a person to get rid of rules just because they don't "feel it"
@@Fallen-Saint don’t think that will be an issue considering we don’t mulligan 😆. But in all seriousness, I would say pre game discussions are really common. I’ve seen quite a few “rule zero” scenarios. Some people want to play harpy lady 1/2/3 all in the same deck. Some people like to try skill cards. All kinds of fun stuff. I don’t think it’s ever to take anything away from anyone.
yugiohcommanderyugiohcommanderr I hope not.shity had some shity times playing commander and it's "casual" format. It's honestly made me appreciate Yu-Gi-Oh so much and really fall in love with the game ALL OVER AGAIN. So at least there is a win with that. It's also made my happy how much the yugioh is just more evolved as a game them mtg. In commander there is just so many infinites but yugioh is way more grounded and has way less mechanics, 7 vs 156 in mtg. Like it's been a really mind blowing time 🤯, especially the deck prices, I just wanted to play a gingerbread deck and it's 2k vs my Stardust dragon deck both aren't meta but that one is like 60$
What about monsters that need to be summoned by an effect like Wulf or a Drytron monster? Does they get an exeption or there's a way to send them to the Deck Master Zone to the GY or add them to the hand?
only exceptions are the "from hand/Extra deck" summon requirements are ignored. Everything has to be properly summoned. If it can't be, they're not very good deckmasters then. And there's no way to get your deckmaster out of the deckmaster zone, except by summoning it. (or activating it as a pend scale if its a main deck pend monster)
Question: if I use an effect on my turn that lasts until the end of my opponent’s turn (example lord of heavenly prison) does it end after my first opponents next turn or until my next turn
You just add “target”. “During your Main Phase: You can activate this effect; this card in your hand becomes revealed until the end of (target) opponent's turn” So if you pick the player before you in turn order, it will be revealed all the way until it’s your turn again.
@@DragonicDude those things don’t count towards aspects of a domain. Just the things I mentioned. Picking Yata Garasu wouldn’t give you access to all Spirit monsters.
Another question I have I wanna clear up. I watched the other video that was posted on Reddit for domain format, which seems a bit older. The examples for figuring out your DM’s archetype are a little different in both videos. In the first video Summoned Skull was used as an example and it’s archetype was: “Summoned,” “Summon,” “Skull,” “Archfiend”, “Arch,” and “Fiend”. In the example on this video the archetype was just Fur Hire and nothing else from its name. Did that change?
That’s a really old video. We used more complicated rules to determine archetypes back then. We simplified the archetype rule to what I explained in this video. If an archetype word is in the title or text in quotations, you have access to the archetype. We have a list of all the official archetypes in the discord. So any fur hire card has access to all fur hire cards. Summoned skull has access to Dark, Fiend and/or any “archfiend” monster, because he’s always treated as an “archfiend” monster.
@@yugiohcommander Oh wow, that's powerful. As a followup question, does the Tax to replay the deck master apply also when placing it into scale, in case of a pend summon? And, in case yes, are there two separate tax for summon/scale or do they use rhe same?
@@Mekmassimochannel whether you activate it in pend scale, or pendulum summon it, it’s the same count. You can go back and forth, but the tax accumulates each time. Not separately.
So, Going by that logic, if I choose 5headed link dragon as my Deckmaster, I get to play Dragons and or just dragons of the Attributes it mentions in it's Text?
@@TheRealJohnux you could play any monster that matches even one of those things. If that was your deckmaster you could play any dragon(regardless of what attribute it is), and/or any dark, earth, fire, wind, water monster, (even if it’s not a dragon). Hope that makes sense!
Junk Converter needs a Synchron monster to activate it's effect, is it a Synchron. Does it count as a Synchron if you have Satellite Synchron as your deck Master?
Actually seems pretty solid, would be great to have another format in the game. Only 2 things that I think could have value in changing(or at least testing) is 1) You could have the filed check at the end of a turn, and if there are only 2 players remaining and they have no interfering zones *then* the fields align. Would allow link based decks and other column cards to have more playability as well as making paying attention to the other players in the pod more important to make sure that wont hurt you later instead of just focusing on the guy in front of you. And 2) Increase the deck master cost to start at 1000 for the first recast, obviously I cant say without testing and after doing the math (see below) its basically only a 1 summon change, but I think it would go far to not allow degenerate stuff to happen as much and deincentivize people to spam summon the guy too many times early on, which is something I see levied against this kinda format a lot. Bonus 3) Ban list is going to need to be a thing, but I think letting it play out a bit before just auto banning stuff is smart. As long as real though and testing goes into cards as they do eventually get added to the list Start at 1k and increase 500, first summon free, amount taken on that summon, (total damage taken): 2. 1000 3. 1500 (2500) 4. 2000 (4500) 5. 2500 (7000) I think 5 summons if you can keep your life up sounds decent to me Starting at 500: 2. 500 3. 1000 (1500) 4. 1500 (3000) 5. 2000 (5000) 6. 2500 (7500) its only one more summon, but im more focused on the first few being so cheap that the burn might not even matter
Still a pinch unclear on one thing: does your deck master count toward the 60-card count, or is it technically a 61st? Also, can a Meklord Emperor be a Deck Master, and be summoned from the Deck Master Zone?
For cards like salamangreat ED monsters that have extra effect when summon with the same monster How can you play it in this format? If all cards is limited
So I've been playing around with thus very idea for a while now and do have some suggestions to help with streamlining the format and helping to solidify it more easily. 1. Noticing that there are some cards that do require 2 or more copies or cards that count as different cards than their card name, I will suggest something I call "the printed rule." Basically this is a rule that would help offer more consistency to deck and create a much more diverse way to play. It has two ammendment to change how the game functions. 1. The only cards in the game that can be played with multiple copies in them are cards that have another card reference a certain amount of them in a text box. Ex. Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon Refereces 3 copies of Blue-Eyes White Dragon as fusion materials. This would allow up to 3 copies to be played. Ex. Giant Germ references that it can summon up to 2 more copies of Giant Germ from your deck. This would allow up to 3 copies of Giant Germ to be played. 2. Cards are limited to one copy by their printed card name, and bypass deck building restrictions such as effects that treat their name like something else, meaning you could have 1 of every card legally in a deck that has an effect that states "this cards name is always treated as." Ex. Harpie Lady, Cyber Harpie Lady, Harpie Lady 1, etc. Would all be able to played as separate monsters In your Deck as they have individually printed names, overriding their text boxes. I feel that this would help to streamline certain strategies and offer consistency to some decks that needed it. 2. Introduce Speed Duel Emblems as an addition to allow your deck Master to have some effect even when it's a vanilla Monster, giving more variety. 3. While I do like the idea of a deck master, I feel like not limiting what can and can't be a deck master doesn't breathe creativity into the format. I would suggest limiting it to Ritual monsters and having access to the ritual spell at all times, adding in the tax rule, to make it obvious what is and is able to be considered a deck master, and giving obscure cards a chance to shine as leaders. Just a few ideas thrown your way to help flesh out the format a bit to help it florish.
I think for #1 there are plenty of blue eyes monsters that also count as a 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon" on field / grave etc, agree with #2 (you have two #2s, not the speed duel #2)
Other way around, you can play any monster that shares a type/attribute/archetype your deckmaster is, or mentions in it's card text. So if you picked Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning as you deckmaster, you could play any Warrior, any Light monster, and/or any Dark monster. You can play any spell or trap in any deck. Let me know if you have a specific deckmaster example you're curious about!
I summon my commander, it's a fusion monster, I use the 2 monsters and poly, and they all go to the graveyard. My commander goes back to the command zone.. I have to get back those fusion materials from the grave in order to summon my commander again, right?
Yeah there’s some ways to mitigate that hurdle. Things like fusion substitutes and other polymerization support like Fusion Recycling Plant. If you ever want help deck building, make a post in the discord and I’m sure people will be happy to help suggest cards for ya!
@@spyro2002 in my opinion, a specific ban list would have to be implemented. With nothing banned I just think it would be miserable to play. You could give it a try, but it’s not popular in the server.
So wild I'm working on a card game and deck building in it is almost exactly like domain format. I've never heard of it before I guess great minds think alike.
@@Pkmnkuriboh nope! 60 in main, up to 15 in extra deck, and then your deckmaster, doesn’t matter if it’s a main deck or extra deck monster. 76 cards total
![HOW TO BE GOOD AT DECK MASTER - [Format Introduction, Discussion, & Broken Deckmasters]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KPYSh1iwvXc/mqdefault.jpg)
New rules update for the section at 06:04
From the official domain discord:
There is going to be a rather large rules update going into effect after the tournament at the end of this month. They are as follows.
The ATK and DEF clauses are going to be removed from what defines a Deck Master's Domain.
-The reason for the ATK/DEF item is there are only about 20 cards that do this and most of them functionally work on the other parts of their DM's Domain and the ones that don't are pretty much the visas starfrost clones that don't really have synergy between their archetypes anyways. As well as a wild amount of confusion that seems to come up regularly for a mechanic that for the most part is not used.
Reminder text, except for "this card is not treated as....", will be a part of a Deck Master's Domain. This includes token text.
-In previous R&D it was determined to cause complications with the ATK/DEF clauses. With those no longer being a thing that effectively hits 2 birds with 1 stone. Also, as time has progressed it has become blatantly clear that wide domains are not inherently an identifier for a decks power level so much as player skill and deck optimization. By this I mean we have seen decks with 1 type and 1 attribute play at the same level as decks that let you play everything or nearly everything.
You are welcome to voice your opinions but please keep in mind that this is not up for debate. The Admin team and even the development team have had multiple conversations .
Play however you want but this goes into effect October 27th 2024
Hope the community for this format continues to grow. Might bring me back into yugioh it seems very cool.
Same. I've been reminiscing old formats and decks with a buddy of mine at work and he doesnt have anyone to really play yugioh with, but im a mtg guy now. but after realizing Domain is a format, I might have to get him into it lol
Just an update. The discord has almost doubled since this video and has partnered with multiple tournament organizers aaaannnd it still growing steadily!
Another important thing to know is that if the DM specifies a monster by name and that monster belongs to an archetype, that archetype is part of the domain.
For example, red-eyes dark dragoon has access to all "dark magician" and "red-eyes" monsters.
But great video nonetheless!
Domain format speedrun.
tbf unless its a translation error if it lists a card specifically it's archetype is on the card as well
@@tactix9843 yeah thats exactly the reason why it applies, but its not clear at first.
Is "Dark Magician" an archetype? AFAIK no card calls out "Dark Magician" cards. "Dark Magician" is mentioned as the name of a specific card but never as part of a card name that's shared across multiple cards.
@@MansMan42069 the eye of timaues lol
This is exactly commander in yugioh, sweet.This might slow the game down. Just got me back into magic. Just might get me back into yugioh as well and in 5 years this will be the only format just like magic lol😂
Thanks a lot for this video and for the channel, been seeing the matches and they are a lot of fun. I convinced some friends to try out the format, we made a small group here in Brazil to try out next time we play. Everyone is having fun trying to bring their favorite archetypes to the format (myself with Satellite Warrior as my Deckmaster, to bring Synchron ,Stardust and Warriors all togheter). This is what Yugioh needed the most, it fixes so much of the problems:
- Multiplayer to interact and have fun with more people;
- Trash out the extensive banlist but the one card rule balances that. Even if Painful Choice is really strong, is 1 card out of 60, you have to get lucky to pull it off;
- Cards that normally wouldn't be played in standart mode now have a reason to be used (Top Share can set up your follow up and forge an alliance with someone of the table, is so good).
Thank you for the kind words! 😭 And you nailed it 💯This whole experience with the channel and seeing the growth of the format has been wonderful. I hope you guys have tons of fun, You'll have to come back and tell me what decks you all played!
Draco this you?
Not to mention there are archetypes that really shine in Domain that never had a chance in advanced. Charmers for example, can be really strong in domain. Before this format, if you told me that charmers could beat Yubel, Dark world, and Fire King Snake-eye I would believe you but in domain it's possible.
I really hope this format takes off 🚀I 'm going to convince my group to try it
Let me know what decks you all try!
Yay new domain format rules update! We'll be down to 5 minutes eventually lol
This is a really competent translation of the Commander format into the Yugioh game structure, really well done. The domain rules is really cool and well executed, although a part of me thinks it might hurt deck creativity in some aspects, given that MTG is a different beast than Yugioh, the limitation there addresses the problems with a large Magic card pool, but I'm not sure if it cleanly addresses the same in Yugioh given it is more archetype/stables dependant, but that is just an inital concern with the caveat that the idea is really neatly executed. The one real thing I'm unsure of is the zones in multiplayer, I completely understand that it's tough to make it work, but I feel like something more integrated between all players is more fitting, like maybe the arrows pointing upwards, left and right could also point to the same zone for each of your opponents too.
Yeah lining up zones virtually would be better, especially for column reliant cards like Imperm.
Though there is the issue of Extra Monster Zones. If two players have already taken up the left and right EMZs, do the other two get to use the zones that are virtually occupied already?
Yeah there’s no good way to do it in yugioh unless you completely get rid of links and ban any column based cards to avoid any issues. The way it’s set up now omits any confusion
I'm super pumped to try this out with some friends. Would love to see some more deck techs on your channel!
You're right 🤝 I should make more profiles!
I'm sick of Commander in Magic, but this sort of thing is absolutely a need in Yu-Gi-Oh rn
💯🤝🫡
Problem with commander now is its THE format for most mtg players now. So obvs Wizards manged to power creep an eternal format..... somehow
@@MaggieMopsounds like a skill issue loser
They printed cards past standard straight into eternal formats. And not just one of em all of em. And all those cards are legal in commander baring the banlist
Happy I found this because now I don’t have to figure out rules to have to play this format with friends haha.
Can't wait for the 1v1 forbidden list
I have been waiting for this in Yu-Gi-Oh!, I hope this gets more developed. I actually played with some friends in 3 player duel one time and being 3rd was pretty broken in that, just like going first was, if you had enough ways to protect yourself, but it was hilarious.
Hope this becomes a thing. Can finally have an excuse to get back in the game without worrying about the meta.
I know there's people working on spreading the word daily and the discord keeps growing like crazy! I'm hoping to hit some content creators up this next YCS in Indy!
Funnily enough, I’ve been working on a similar format under a different working name with some friends for the last year. Hope this format takes off!
@@Adamame93 hey, if people are playing in a way they find fun, I’m happy!
@@yugiohcommander Gotta love that the community has been theory crafting a Commander-esque format lol. I’d be happy to share some of my ideas with you if you’re ever down to workshop.
This seems awesome! I hope this format gets more attention because I think this would be the perfect way for more casual players to play the game
I know deep down, it is only a matter of time before its played all all over in most LGS's!
Sounds almost exactly like commander in magic, im excited to try it.
@@wickidgames it’s legit the most fun I’ve had playing with my friends! And I’m absolutely addicted to building decks for the format 😆 Hope you get to play soon!
this just forces everyone to run pot of greed, graceful charity, and painful choice. also i think Last Turn would be busted asf
Both of your points have come up many times in the formats existence. The fact you have three opponents, plays a huge role in self regulating games. I have a video of a tear player starting off with painful choice and popping off. He still lost. Also, what if I told you there are plenty of cards that can accrue *more* card advantage than pot of greed due to the four players? Last turn is so insanely hard to pull off, even harder if they know you have it. I’ve never seen it resolve. But if it could be busted, I’d love to see it. We encourage people to push the format to its limits!
This is what yugioh Needs. This needs to be the main format.
OMFG!! That is soo aswome!! Wanna play this!!
Once I built four decks, to let others borrow, and I convinced them to play a game they were all hooked! They almost immediately after playing, built their own decks to try out in the format. It was like magic xD
I look forward to playing my Akiza style deck in this format!
No joke, rose dragon support is great here!
Love this! will be playing soon with some friends.
One question: how do Attack Replays work in Domain?
if someone attacks me directly and i play Scapegoat, would they now have the option to direct that attack at another player or another player's monster?
@@Trystaticus yup! If you declare an attack on anyone or anything, and any of the monsters change on anyone’s field, you get to redeclare the attack however you you’d like!
I'm quite interested in this format.🧐🤔 I'll have to ask my group if they want to play this version of Yu-Gi-Oh.
It's so good! I had to build some extra decks and keep them on me to convince them the first time, but after that they started building what they like and the rest is history 😎
@@yugiohcommander nice.
cool format and video
This video is clean
Just doing some thinking about this and had a bunch of ruling questions. Sorry if these are difficult.
1. If a monster can only be summoned by activated effect, does that mean it can never be summoned as a deck master? Example: Malefic Truth Dragon
2. Can the deckmaster be summoned several times per turn provided its summoning method is still valid? I feel like some broken combos could come from this from cards that are special summonable and are not once per turn.
3. Can the CTS tax be manipulated by cards like Prime Material Dragon, One Day of Peace, etc?
4. Are cards that share any words/characters an archytype? Examples: Dark Magician (DM) + Dark Hole Dragon + Darklord Zerato... Ryko, Twilightsworn Fighter (DM) + Lightsworn Dragonling + Amazoness Fighter + Evening Twilight Knight... Yubel the Ultimate Nightmare (DM) + Nibiru, the Primal Being...
All great questions!
1) Yeah some monsters could be unsummonable as deckmasters. Melefic Truth would be stuck in the deckmaster zone.
2) Yes, I have a Gladiator Beast deck that has Test Tiger as the DM. I can basically summon it as much as my life points allow. But going down to 500LP is not ideal, and essentially balances that.
3) No you cannot avoid the tax. It is a cost to summon.
4) No, everything I listed are the only things that are considered for a domain of a deckmaster. non-archetype words in the title is not one of them.
Huge fan of this. Will be subbing for more. I did a very similar concept with friends where Extra Deck monsters were locked to a Main Deck quota - ie, to play Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, you need 5+ Speedroids in your Deck, to play a generic card like Splash Mage, you need 5+ non-archetypal Cyberse.
If this is anything like my friend group’s concept, the games are a lot of fun and deck building is a blast. Already trying to brew ideas in my head. Great video.
It’s so fun! And the discord is legit the coolest discord I’ve been a part of. Tons of great players/brewers there
I feel ABC could be really fun with this
Edit: for EMZ i feel a “taking the first napkin” rule could be implemented, where once someone plays a card in lets say their right EMZ players can then only use their right EMZ until all have been emptied at which point the next person to play selects again.
Give it a try! I tried making a deck with Magnets too xD ygoprodeck.com/deck/abc-xyz-magnets-domain-format-309654
I love playing alt formats so I'm definitely keeping an eye on this one!
Sadly, the same thing can't be said about my friends. All Yugioh players I know would rather play Pokemon than any alt Yugioh format. I've tried to convince them multiple times to play Edison, Goat, and even a self-made format about using only cards that have 4 or less lines of text, but... I guess people at my locals dislike trying new things.
I can definitely relate. The guys at my LGS were a bit iffy to start. But I made and kept four spare domain decks on me and eventually they gave it a try since I had extra decks they could borrow. But also, you should join the discord! Theres over 1200 people playing remote games, or simulator games everyday. It's a cool place to be, and you could get some experience playing the format 😎
Hi! This is my first time hearing about this format and I'm excited to try it out. But I have some questions regarding cards with the same name. I know only one copy of a card is playable, but does that rule also apply for those cards that need multiple copy of the same card to work properly? For example Jackpot 7 or even Photon Caesar. And also, some cards are always treated as another, for example Pacifis, which is always treated as Umi. Can I play them both or do I have to choose between them?
Hi there! I'd be happy to answer your Q's.
1) regarding cards that require multiples to function. Those are still at one per deck, no exceptions. Those cards just don't see play.
2)Cards that are "always treated as X" count as the card toward deck limits. So you would have to pick between Pacifis, or Umi. But you can still play things that count as Umi in play or GY.
II love answering Q's so feel free to hit me up anytime!
I watched nova‘s first video a while ago, and I nearly choked when he mentioned forbidden cards like painful choice, so that was cool.
@@frankyquilavafireblast895 it’s awesome being able to play such powerful cards! A lot of people show concern about it, but I have a video of a tearlament player steadying off with Painful Choice turn one, and they still lose!
Only downside to these rules are that decks like salamangreats that requires you to sac identical copies for additional effects lose a lot of effectiveness. But outside of that, this seems really fun. Maybe i can convince my Magic friend group to try yugioh for once
Give Formud Skipper a try as deckmaster 😉 He lets you activate those Salamangreat effects you're talking about.
Commander is the best way to play Magic so this is awesome!
We're deck building now so I came back to review your video. I got another question. If we can check our commanders text box for listed attributes do we count monsters with attributes in their text box? Example being if my commander is "ancient warriors ingenious zhuge Kong" can I run "dark simorgh?"
Good question! But no, you don’t check cards in your deck for any references in their text. You only ever check your deckmaster for its available cards. Zhuge Kong could play any Wind, Beast-Warrior, and/or any “Ancient Warrior” monster.
That sounds like a really cool format, but if you can choose combo starters like Snake Eye Ash as deckmaster, then I'll have exactly the same end boards on the first turn as in the Master Rule format.
@@output4794 You could only use either Pyro and/or FIRE monster to build that board. So no Apollousa, no SP Little Night, no linkuriboh, no fiendsmith stuff.
Not saying you couldn’t get to Fire Princess plus other interactions, but the deck isn’t nearly as powerful when you got three opponents that can archenemy you at any time.
Lots of people come in saying this is already solved or not different than TCG, or whatever. But the format plays quite different.
Extra deck monsters, do they have to be withing the deck Master's domain. Example Deck Master is Junk Synchron, extra deck contains Sooting Star Dragon
@@str83dge4real yeah the extra deck has the same restrictions. The extra and main deck monsters have to be within the deckmasters domain. Junk synchron wouldn’t be able to play Shooting Star Dragon in the extra. I know some people have built a junk/synchron/dust dragon deck. So I know it’s possible.
Boost for algorithm, love this
So with hand traps at 1 if you can even use them to begin with, what stops my Dragon Link pile from just turing this into regular Yu-Gi-Oh except I have a free Redmed, or some starter in hand every game for free?
@@loverofjesusMKII Dragon Link is very good! There’s nothing stopping you really. You may find that it won’t be so easy to keep a board through three turns and survive through battle phases though! Even still you should give it a try! The formats really fun.
I think my biggest criticism for this format would be the hard 60 card requirement combined with singleton cards. I think taking one of those away while keeping the other would be fine.
@@MrAlucard115 after playing a ton of games, I don’t see it as a “hindrance” or anything. I think it sets it apart from most other alt formats. Not sure it would be as successful as it has been if it was any other way. Give it a try, I think you’d be pleasantly surprised 😎
@@yugiohcommander I didn’t really mean it as a hindrance more so a deck building frustration. But I should definitely try it out first before dismissing it. Is there a discord for this format?
@@MrAlucard115 In my linktree! linktr.ee/yugiohcommander
6:19 Man, this last rule gave me a wild thought...imagine if the rule involved not just specific ATK/DEF values but also specific Levels.
Spright would be going wild, but another hilarious one would be a personal favorite of mine: Yakusa, Lord of Eight Thunders. Inherent special summon that works specifically with Level/Rank 8 monsters similarly to Sprights with Level/Rank 2s but the rule applying to listed Levels in the text would open up an insane Rank 8 toolbox.
I also thought about this but then realized. What if an xyz monster is your DM? Any level four goes nuts.
Im sure someone asked this before but would a HERO archetype DM bypass attribute restrictions? Since the wording in the video suggests that archetype cards and specific named cards are a bit different use case.
If you pick a HERO as your deckmaster, you could play any HERO regardless of its type/attribute.
This sounds super awesome. I’m going to work on an exodia deck using the cards I own. All the dark or fiend links I can fit into my extra deck and draw spells. I gotta check to see how many generic links fit those descriptions but ultimate offering should be a good combo card. It would cost 6000 LP to do it all in one turn though.
The rules around 4 players reminds me of the headaches involved in trying to write Battle Royale duels in Yugioh fics, especially Arc-V.
it's honestly not too bad 😅
The way Domain has it set up comes naturally to me now that I have played it so much
@@yugiohcommander I spent like an hour trying to sus out if there was any logic to why Ancient Gear Spark Shot only damaged one player vs. Ultimate Ancient Gear Hunting Hound halving all opponents' LP, and I decided that it comes from the fact that the former specifies an amount of damage dealt to your opponent (half of a summoned Ancient Gear monster's ATK) vs. the latter just halving your opponent's LP when Fusion Summoned.
Well, that and the Obelisk Force's combo was cooler that way.
I love this but i have 1 major gripe. It seems one thing may have been critically overlooked but it’s possible i missed it in my multiple viewings so please correct me if im wrong here.
The current rules for the deck master’s domain (or yugioh version of color identity) are as follows:
1) types and attributes found on the card or its text
2) cards that share an archetype with the card or one mentioned in its text
3) the monarch ATK/DEF clause.
However it seems that the obvious clause of “cards that mention this monster by name” and/or “cards that this card mentions by name” are missing?
This directly excludes certain cards from being deck masters of cards meant to be played together with them in konamis card designs like “fallen of albaz” “Visas starfrost” and im pretty sure it excludes many “dark magician” and “Blue eyes white dragon” support cards as well (if they are your deckmaster.
If your deckmaster mentions a monster by name, you can play it. Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous can play Fallen of Albaz since she mentions him by name.
But just because something in your deck mentions your deckmaster, doesn’t mean it’s part of the domain. If Visas Starfrost was your deckmaster, you couldn’t play Vicious Astraloud, since Astroloud isn’t Light or a Warrior.
You could still build a Visas lore deck, but you would have to play something with access to many attributes, like Elysium.
@@yugiohcommander yeah exactly, so i was right. The current ruleset would have Visas starfrost (for example) as a deckmaster, with a “domain” that is excluding the multitude of cards that specifically name him… by name. AKA the multitude of cards specifically meant to work and function with him by card design and name him for that reason.
It seems like a bit of an oversight because this ignores the flavor of these cards “domains” and ignores the card design behind these cards being meant to be played together.
Visas starfrost is just one example, this also excludes cards like fallen of albaz, and I believe some of the blue eyes white dragon snd dark magician support cards
@@cooldes4593 so build your Visas Lore deck with Elysium as the Master, and run the 1 copy of every Scareclaw, Tearlament, Kashtira, and Mannadium card you can.
Seems very good , thx 👍
So question (since I don't have discord) if a monster is part of a loreverse like world chalice, the abyss, sinful spoils are they included too in terms of deckbuilding?
@@redmastergamer64 an archetype has two requirements
1)shares a word or title component in their titles.
2)there are effects referencing that title or name component.
Cards being related in lore doesn’t matter for Domains. The Sinful Spoils archetype isn’t part of the White Forest archetype, but sinful spoils cards are support for the white forest archetype.
@@yugiohcommander Thank you
@ feel free to come back with any questions you got, I try to get back to everyone!
this is great, but i can only see this competitively used for having your best starter 24/7, but this may also have to face border breakers and opposition from 3 other players. sounds interesting
Playing High Value Starters as DM is a good way to eat early game aggression. Happens to me all the time.
Hi there, i have a question.
So what about levels when talking about a domain?
Because there are archetypes like spright that make level/rank their whole gimmick.
Let’s take for example spright blue as a deck master.
Of course you’d have access to all Spright, Thunder and Dark monsters, but i feel like a big chunk of the power of the deck is cut by not allowing cards like the Nimble engine or Toadally Awesome to be played.
Regardless to that, the idea of this format seems incredible, i really hope more people start playing it because it would be the best way to play casual yugioh periodt
Level/rank aren’t part of a domain. I actually have a game where my bud Steafen plays frog/spright. The deck is totally still buildable. You can always go with Dark Doriado or Elysium for most attributes available to just play piles of whatever you want.
Gigantic Spright refrences Lv. 2's, does this give access to all lv. 2 monster in main deck ?
@@clayt6n No, level is not taken into consideration for Domains
Question. If My deck master was Lovevly labrynth of the silver castle, would she be summonable by welcome labrynth or big welcome labrynth? Also, if my deck master was lady labrynth or labrynth archfied, would they be able to special summon themselves by their effects since it's an activated effect?
@@lefteron6804anything that lets you special from hand/deck doesn’t work from the deckmaster zone, since that’s not your hand or deck. So no, you wouldn’t be able to special your deckmaster with Big or Welcome Labrynth.
And no, Lady Lab nor Lab archfiend can use their activated effects to summon themselves from the deckmaster zone.
With all three of those monster, you would have to tribute summon them, or Pendulum summon them while you have the correct scales.
I play and love my Lab deck, I would go with either Arianna or Ariane for the deckmaster.
@@yugiohcommander now that I think about it, if I can have only one copy of each labrynth trap, the labrynth deck doesn't seem very good. It's gameplan is focused on going to the grind game, but that isn't really an option if you have so few labrynth cards to set with the furniture. Do you have a list I could look at? I've been cooking something, but I still haven't reach 40 cards and I'm struggling.
@@lefteron6804 oh man, I wish we could talk because Labrynth is imo, a deck that has some of the *best* grind game. I’m currently at work so I can’t type out a book, but there is a Lab/Unchained deck in my linktree. All my decklists are on ygoprodeck
With regards to Domain if I were to pick Centur-Ion Legatia, just for example: Do all of my non-Centur-Ion monsters have to be BOTH Light and Machine, or can I have any light monster of any type as well as any machine monster of any attribute?
they do not have to be both LIGHT Machine monsters. You could play a dark machine, or a light fiends, only one things has to be in common with your deckmaster!
Crys in S-Force.
Mekk Knight gameplay is about keeping the person across from you alive as long as possible.
Justify would at least still be a monster negate, depending on the specific S-force monster you could splash in some other interesting synergies. I've heard of domain format but it was many years back, imma give it a shot.
Quick question: Can i use dedication through light and darkness spell card to summon my DM Dark Magician of chaos from the DMZ?
@@nablexd2633 No, things that Special summon from deck don’t work with from DMZ’s. So in DMoC’s case you could tribute summon it, or pendulum summon it (if you have correct scales)
@yugiohcommander ahh ok thx thought it would work bc the spell summon from the hand 😅 I just now seen the DM stuff from the website lol
what if you use elementsaber lapullia mana as your deck master? you could literaly use any card you want as it lists all attributes in its text
Correct! Just can't activate it's effect in the deckmaster zone to summon it, gotta tribute summon it. Elysium has the same domain too!
How does this format change the field layout? Where is the deck master zone?
I mean the easiest way to think of it is two sets of players next to eachother. Or you could crisscross too.
Doesn't matter where you put your deck master really. As long as everyone is able to see it when you start
@@yugiohcommander Thank you.
there are a couple cards i would put in the banlist from the start, like the "you win the match" cards and pay x life spam fusion monster from the extra deck
otherwise i look forward to where this ends up
The only legal Match Winner is Victory Dragon and he just does not work, because we dont play Matches.
@@OrmylLP and technically you can surrender before he attacks, meaning its effect never activates.
Oh... this is very interesting
the problem I have is Dinomorphia probably gonna suffer a lot in this format
Can I ask why you think that? I'm not super familiar with the archetype, all I know is that they like to have a low life total right?
@@yugiohcommander well pretty much anything they do need to pay half their life so it is possible to play them but it is gonna be ROUGH
Thinking about it more it might be fine as long as the deck master is kent or the main deck guys just not rexterm
so...if i were to play starry knight astel as my deckmaster...
its a Light/fairy so i can play any lights or fairies...its a starry knight so i can play other stary knight monsters
and the text specifically mentions dragons so i can run any dragon i want as well?
but that leaves one question..what exactly is the benifit of having a particular deckmaster...you mentioned continues effects,so does that mean having jinzo as my deckmaster would mean all traps are negated from the start?
You got the Starry Knight domain down perfect! Not too shabby if I do say so myself.
No, you don't get any effects while your deckmaster is in the deckmaster zone. It just sits there until you properly summon it. I go into the different archetypes deckmasters seem to fall into in my "Domain Format basic introduction" video, around 4 minutes
The deckmaster stuff sounds fun, but I'm mostly intrigued by having to play 60 different cards in your deck. I'm just tired of how hyper-consistent yugioh decks are now, making every duel the same.
I think you will be pleasantly surprised that the ability to do consistent things isn't shot down that much but it's more of you can do more things with the wider variation of cards you are forced to play. And it's not doing the same thing every turn.
Sounds fun and anime like. I like it
I made a psychic/P.U.N.K. deck and it's a lot of fun.
I got a friend who built it too, and psychic end punisher is such a beast!
@@yugiohcommander Yeah, I leaned into lifegain for it as well. Psychic End Punisher is a big wincon.
One of the things I really love about this format is it makes a lot of cards that would otherwise be unviable into important includes. My fire fist deck runs basically all of them.
It’s more like brawl then commander
As brawl is 59 with a commander
And commander is 99 with a commander
Either way it looks super fun,my group just got into this format
Sounds good on paper, but there ABSOLUTELY needs to be a deck master banlist. For example, if I use Vanity’s Fiend, what’s stopping me from running all dark fiends that summon themselves as tribute fodder (i.e almost every playable dark world card)?
Most people are playing dark hole/torrential/needle ceiling. Vanity Fiend is only powerful going first, and even if you do get it, there’s plenty of answers.
My first thought was 5 headed dragon. I don't actually care about it as a card but I get access to a ridiculous slice of the card pool
@@josephcourtright8071 People pick Elysium all the time as a deckmaster. Gives you access to all 6 attributes. Hasn’t been an issue yet. We always encourage people to come try busting the format though 😉
Sure you can sit on 1 Vanity’s, but now 3 other players are devoting all their resources to taking you out. The format forces you to add a bunch of staples to your deck already, so you have 3 players who possibly opens Book of Moon/Change of Heart/Raigeki/etc.
@@plutoniumsword cool, they have to draw the unsearchable 1-ofs in a 60-card deck to the Vanity’s I always have access to, AND if they out it I can just summon it again next turn. Also just as they can draw the outs to Vanity’s, I can just as easily deckbuild to add cards that protect it (lance/dress/safe zone etc.)
The point here is that having an easily summonable floodgate monster effectively in your hand at all times makes for a very toxic gameplay experience imo and needs addressing with a banlist
Hoping this will take off!!!
nice, its like MTG commander
Im guessing LP is still 8k, 15 extra along side the 60 main, I would change the cmdr tax cost to 1000, to limit spamability
Why didn't you show stack reviver during explanation? It would have been cool because it could have referenced the first time playmaker link summoned decode talker
@@Digiheart400 I never watched vrains 😅
8:57 what are you using to play simulator games?
@@BloodBarron115 there’s a website called Untap.in it’s a manual browser based sim. There’s also a Tabletop Simulator mod, which is also manual.
This is an intriguing take on the deck master format. Though it seems to me that picking the deck master is best picked for the domain than summoning it. Or for archetypes, having the deck master be the "starter" to get the guaranteed play in their opening turn... In regards to the singleton aspect, do cards like the harpie lady 1-3 still count as the same card?
There's actually about three "roles" a deckmaster fills.
1)A starter for what you're archetype does. Stratos and the like.
2)A recurrable boss monster that no one can indefinitely get rid of. Red-Eyes Dragoon was a spicy one I saw.
3)A deck master that purely fills the type of Domain you would like to build under. Elysium is a popular one as it grants access to any attribute.
@@yugiohcommander I'm in the process of testing a conversion of my current master duel deck into domain format, and actually finding that most of the cards I've been using share domain as a side effect of my deck building preferences in general. The only tricky part is filling out the rest of the 60 deck. And considering contingencies because having to defend against potentially three battle phases before your turn is a daunting prospect.
What about level mention? Example Junk Synchron. It says level 2 or lower monsters.. can I use level 2 or less monsters as part of its Domain?
@@str83dge4real Good question! But no, mentioning levels doesn’t matter for a deckmaster’s domain.
@yugiohcommander i wasn't sure. Thanx for the info and the quick response
How does the deckmaster work in terms of deckbuilding when they have something like "Monsters with X attack or higher/lower gains benefit of Y effect"? Does that have an impact or no?
@@aliesterus1.023 no, the only time it matters is if the deckmaster references a specific ATK *and* DEF. Something like Sangan doesn’t give you everything with 1500atk or less. Whereas something like Edea the Heavenly Squire lets you play anything with 800ATK/1000DEF
I feel this, as well as similar information, is important to know because sometimes Konami makes cards that are intended to work with each other, but don't share an archetypal name, and are made up of eclectic types. Performapals Performance, and Odd-Eyes kind of come to mind, but have the benefit of having cards that mention all three, but some archetypes get add-ons that don't offer similar benefits outside of one or two cards that don't perform well as a Deckmaster, if they even get such a card to begin with.
Galaxy, Photons, and Tachyons come to mind, and Tachyons have the fun additional issue of also bringing cards **not** named Tachyon as their support. All three are designed in a way to work together, but outside of the new rank 8 Dragon that isn't even named Galaxy, Photon, _or_ Tachyon, no card mentions all three archetypes at once. Heck, I might even be misremembering, the new dragon might not even mention Photons. One day we might get "Star Constellation Bear" to support the archetype that's a level 8 Dark Beast that fixes the biggest issue with the archetype, but find we can't use it under the current understanding of the rules.
@@aliesterus1.023 on the domain website, there is a tool, where you can put all the cards you’d like to fit in a deck together, and it will generate all the monsters that could be the deckmaster for that deck. Try it out!!
so any combo starter as deckmaster is really good
@@hadex5490 there have been a few “roles” certain deck masters fill. The most common is the “stratos”-esque starter, deck master. Usually normal summon-able, and starts a various number of plays. I would say that’s the best place to start for most newer Domain players.
There’s also the “boss monster” deck master. Something that can end games, and due to always being available in the deckmaster zone, is really hard to keep off the board.
Then the third is a monster that has a “wide domain” that allows you to play a ton of things in one deck, like Elysium. (Which lets you play anything due to mentioning all attributes)
How does attacking work? Do you randomly choose who you attack? Or do you target
Each monster can still only attack once (unless it says otherwise) abut you can choose any player to attack, or any of their monsters. and it doesnt have to be all at the same person or the same persons monsters.
So is wyrm pile viable as a deck with like chaofeng as a deckmaster? Cus that sounds kinda fun lol
@@jaydblerd4360 oh absolutely. Tenyi/swordsoul/yang zing goes hard
What happens when a card like Relinquished line mons equip your deck master? Or they are made a continuous spell like snake eyes? Cause otherwise that would disable your deck master until you use convoluted ways
You are correct! Luckily there’s two other players that can help if they so see fit. Otherwise I hope you drew dark hole 😅
So if I was to Choose Salamangreat of Fire as my deckmaster, i could then play any Cyberse and any fire monster in my deck. So i could also include lady debug/emp meowmine/ash blossom in the maindeck, and then any fire or cyberse monster in the extra deck as well correct? Just trying to get my bearings to the format. And are extra deck specific monsters all limited to one as well i assume?
The domain and singleton restrictions are also applied to the extra deck as well. And yes you could run those cards with salamangreat of fire as deck master. You nailed it!
@@yugiohcommander to follow up, if an opponent has fossil dyna pacycephalo in the deck master zone does that mean no player can special summon monsters as long as it remains in their deck master zone?
@@roberttucker3194 deckmasters have no abilities in the deckmaster zone, except the ones involving summoning conditions/requirements. Deckmasters can’t activate abilities in the DMZ, and any other continuous effects they have don’t affect the game from the DMZ. 😎
@@yugiohcommander ok got it
If I use a spright monster as my deck master can I use any level two monster? Or is the only extra thing you check for attack and def?
Level is not part of a domain. So if you had a spright as a deckmaster, you would have access to its type, attribute, and/or any spright monster.
the atk/def thing is only if it references a specific atk *and* def combo. This lets something like Edea the Heavenly Squire play the Vassals
@@yugiohcommander Alright thank you. I was just wondering since sprights mention a specific level. Though I guess if that was the case xyz monsters would go a little crazy. rank four xyz allowing any level four monster.
If mirror jade is your deckmaster, can you use its effect when it leaves the field if it returns to the deck master zone because it is an activated effect?
So if Mirrojade went to the GY, you would get a chance to activate it in the GY, along with anything else that you want to add to the chain. When the chain is over, and no one else wants to make a new chain, you will have a chance to move it back to the deckmaster zone before continuing.
Thanks bro
As long as there is no "rule zero" because in magic a guy literally took away my casual mulligan, so I don't want a person to get rid of rules just because they don't "feel it"
@@Fallen-Saint don’t think that will be an issue considering we don’t mulligan 😆. But in all seriousness, I would say pre game discussions are really common. I’ve seen quite a few “rule zero” scenarios. Some people want to play harpy lady 1/2/3 all in the same deck. Some people like to try skill cards. All kinds of fun stuff. I don’t think it’s ever to take anything away from anyone.
yugiohcommanderyugiohcommanderr I hope not.shity had some shity times playing commander and it's "casual" format.
It's honestly made me appreciate Yu-Gi-Oh so much and really fall in love with the game ALL OVER AGAIN. So at least there is a win with that. It's also made my happy how much the yugioh is just more evolved as a game them mtg. In commander there is just so many infinites but yugioh is way more grounded and has way less mechanics, 7 vs 156 in mtg.
Like it's been a really mind blowing time 🤯, especially the deck prices, I just wanted to play a gingerbread deck and it's 2k vs my Stardust dragon deck both aren't meta but that one is like 60$
What about monsters that need to be summoned by an effect like Wulf or a Drytron monster? Does they get an exeption or there's a way to send them to the Deck Master Zone to the GY or add them to the hand?
only exceptions are the "from hand/Extra deck" summon requirements are ignored. Everything has to be properly summoned. If it can't be, they're not very good deckmasters then.
And there's no way to get your deckmaster out of the deckmaster zone, except by summoning it. (or activating it as a pend scale if its a main deck pend monster)
Question: if I use an effect on my turn that lasts until the end of my opponent’s turn (example lord of heavenly prison) does it end after my first opponents next turn or until my next turn
You just add “target”.
“During your Main Phase: You can activate this effect; this card in your hand becomes revealed until the end of (target) opponent's turn”
So if you pick the player before you in turn order, it will be revealed all the way until it’s your turn again.
How do things like normal and non effect monsters, spirit, flip and tuners work for domain exactly.
@@DragonicDude those things don’t count towards aspects of a domain. Just the things I mentioned. Picking Yata Garasu wouldn’t give you access to all Spirit monsters.
Another question I have I wanna clear up. I watched the other video that was posted on Reddit for domain format, which seems a bit older. The examples for figuring out your DM’s archetype are a little different in both videos. In the first video Summoned Skull was used as an example and it’s archetype was: “Summoned,” “Summon,” “Skull,” “Archfiend”, “Arch,” and “Fiend”. In the example on this video the archetype was just Fur Hire and nothing else from its name. Did that change?
That’s a really old video. We used more complicated rules to determine archetypes back then.
We simplified the archetype rule to what I explained in this video. If an archetype word is in the title or text in quotations, you have access to the archetype. We have a list of all the official archetypes in the discord.
So any fur hire card has access to all fur hire cards.
Summoned skull has access to Dark, Fiend and/or any “archfiend” monster, because he’s always treated as an “archfiend” monster.
@@yugiohcommander appreciate you
By no banlist, do you mean no additions to TCG banlist or No Banlist at all? Like, could i run Pot of Greed or Graceful Charity if I wanted?
We don’t use the tcg banlist. Theres absolutely nothing banned. Yes you could run those cards 😎 dust off your Painful Choice’s
@@yugiohcommander Oh wow, that's powerful.
As a followup question, does the Tax to replay the deck master apply also when placing it into scale, in case of a pend summon? And, in case yes, are there two separate tax for summon/scale or do they use rhe same?
@@Mekmassimochannel whether you activate it in pend scale, or pendulum summon it, it’s the same count. You can go back and forth, but the tax accumulates each time. Not separately.
So, Going by that logic, if I choose 5headed link dragon as my Deckmaster, I get to play Dragons and or just dragons of the Attributes it mentions in it's Text?
@@TheRealJohnux you could play any monster that matches even one of those things. If that was your deckmaster you could play any dragon(regardless of what attribute it is), and/or any dark, earth, fire, wind, water monster, (even if it’s not a dragon). Hope that makes sense!
@yugiohcommander yes, it makes sense, thank you.
Junk Converter needs a Synchron monster to activate it's effect, is it a Synchron. Does it count as a Synchron if you have Satellite Synchron as your deck Master?
So like Commander from Mtg just for yu gi oh ?
Actually seems pretty solid, would be great to have another format in the game. Only 2 things that I think could have value in changing(or at least testing) is 1) You could have the filed check at the end of a turn, and if there are only 2 players remaining and they have no interfering zones *then* the fields align. Would allow link based decks and other column cards to have more playability as well as making paying attention to the other players in the pod more important to make sure that wont hurt you later instead of just focusing on the guy in front of you. And 2) Increase the deck master cost to start at 1000 for the first recast, obviously I cant say without testing and after doing the math (see below) its basically only a 1 summon change, but I think it would go far to not allow degenerate stuff to happen as much and deincentivize people to spam summon the guy too many times early on, which is something I see levied against this kinda format a lot.
Bonus 3) Ban list is going to need to be a thing, but I think letting it play out a bit before just auto banning stuff is smart. As long as real though and testing goes into cards as they do eventually get added to the list
Start at 1k and increase 500, first summon free, amount taken on that summon, (total damage taken):
2. 1000
3. 1500 (2500)
4. 2000 (4500)
5. 2500 (7000) I think 5 summons if you can keep your life up sounds decent to me
Starting at 500:
2. 500
3. 1000 (1500)
4. 1500 (3000)
5. 2000 (5000)
6. 2500 (7500) its only one more summon, but im more focused on the first few being so cheap that the burn might not even matter
Still hoping this really takes off.
so this is basically commander from mtg, cool
Still a pinch unclear on one thing: does your deck master count toward the 60-card count, or is it technically a 61st? Also, can a Meklord Emperor be a Deck Master, and be summoned from the Deck Master Zone?
@@thomaslight3457 you’re right, I should have been more clear! 60 main, plus up to 15 extra deck, plus your deckmaster for 76 cards total
do cards that say special x card from hang or deck work on something in the deck master zone?
im currious cuz say i wanted to try a card like prediction princess bibliomancer? would i just be limited to 2 tributes?
For cards like salamangreat ED monsters that have extra effect when summon with the same monster
How can you play it in this format? If all cards is limited
I saw a salad deck use Formud Skipper as deckmaster for exactly that 🧠💯
So I've been playing around with thus very idea for a while now and do have some suggestions to help with streamlining the format and helping to solidify it more easily.
1. Noticing that there are some cards that do require 2 or more copies or cards that count as different cards than their card name, I will suggest something I call "the printed rule." Basically this is a rule that would help offer more consistency to deck and create a much more diverse way to play. It has two ammendment to change how the game functions. 1. The only cards in the game that can be played with multiple copies in them are cards that have another card reference a certain amount of them in a text box. Ex. Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon Refereces 3 copies of Blue-Eyes White Dragon as fusion materials. This would allow up to 3 copies to be played.
Ex. Giant Germ references that it can summon up to 2 more copies of Giant Germ from your deck. This would allow up to 3 copies of Giant Germ to be played.
2. Cards are limited to one copy by their printed card name, and bypass deck building restrictions such as effects that treat their name like something else, meaning you could have 1 of every card legally in a deck that has an effect that states "this cards name is always treated as."
Ex. Harpie Lady, Cyber Harpie Lady, Harpie Lady 1, etc. Would all be able to played as separate monsters In your Deck as they have individually printed names, overriding their text boxes. I feel that this would help to streamline certain strategies and offer consistency to some decks that needed it.
2. Introduce Speed Duel Emblems as an addition to allow your deck Master to have some effect even when it's a vanilla Monster, giving more variety.
3. While I do like the idea of a deck master, I feel like not limiting what can and can't be a deck master doesn't breathe creativity into the format. I would suggest limiting it to Ritual monsters and having access to the ritual spell at all times, adding in the tax rule, to make it obvious what is and is able to be considered a deck master, and giving obscure cards a chance to shine as leaders.
Just a few ideas thrown your way to help flesh out the format a bit to help it florish.
I think for #1 there are plenty of blue eyes monsters that also count as a 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon" on field / grave etc, agree with #2 (you have two #2s, not the speed duel #2)
Do only monsters need to mention a specific part of your deck master?
Other way around, you can play any monster that shares a type/attribute/archetype your deckmaster is, or mentions in it's card text. So if you picked Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning as you deckmaster, you could play any Warrior, any Light monster, and/or any Dark monster. You can play any spell or trap in any deck. Let me know if you have a specific deckmaster example you're curious about!
I summon my commander, it's a fusion monster, I use the 2 monsters and poly, and they all go to the graveyard. My commander goes back to the command zone.. I have to get back those fusion materials from the grave in order to summon my commander again, right?
Yeah there’s some ways to mitigate that hurdle. Things like fusion substitutes and other polymerization support like Fusion Recycling Plant. If you ever want help deck building, make a post in the discord and I’m sure people will be happy to help suggest cards for ya!
So chaos emperor dragon can play any dark, any light, and any dragon?
🎯💯
@@yugiohcommander I’m 100% making dragon link. One more question: if my deck master is five headed dragon, is that any attribute except light?
@@jkromes20 nailed it! you are correct
Do you have a 2 player version of this?
@@spyro2002 in my opinion, a specific ban list would have to be implemented. With nothing banned I just think it would be miserable to play. You could give it a try, but it’s not popular in the server.
Do cards like Elementsaber Aina that say "declare 1 Attribute" mean her Domain is all Attributes?
No, it has to list attributes by name to count. Like elementsaber lapauilla mana 👍
@@yugiohcommander gotcha 👌
So wild I'm working on a card game and deck building in it is almost exactly like domain format. I've never heard of it before I guess great minds think alike.
Very cool to hear! Great minds indeed🧠😎
Does the deck master count towards the 15 extra deck card limit or 60 card deck limit?
@@Pkmnkuriboh nope! 60 in main, up to 15 in extra deck, and then your deckmaster, doesn’t matter if it’s a main deck or extra deck monster. 76 cards total
@@yugiohcommander thanks, that was a little ambiguous 😅