im excited to see more people messing with illusion dm! *this is a long comment btw sorry LOL* as someone whos been playing the deck aLOT recently, theres a couple techs i want to share with you so you can maybe try some stuff out sadly alot of the standard dm cards dont actually do anything that can interact with the chimera lines of play, and it ends up being sort of just a dm deck with another deck in it. HOWEVER after playing it for a good while theres some stuff ive been learning 1: right now im playing 3 souls, 1 ioc, 2 prep, 1 ascended (the ritual u mentioned), 2 DM, then 1 magician of dark illusion and 1 chronicle magician for the more dm focused cards, and no other main deck dm cards. its a bit odd for the dm card picks, but the deck leans heavier into the illusion plays, and as it turns out those seem to actually have interactions with the illusion lines of play. chronicle and dark illusion both will be special summoned on the opponents turn by using chimera fusion to make guardian chimera for dark illusion and by summoning nightmare magician or dark illusion for chronicle. this gives you more bodies on the field ofc, but more importantly you now have up to 3 level 7 monsters on the field, 4 if we include fenrir, with some battle protection from nightmare magician, and this is AFTER summoning guardian chimera, meaning if you used your interactions well, this is after you stopped the opponents line of play. this means its likely that their only way of removing these level 7s is by beating over them, which chronicle will make illusion go to 5k defense, nightmare magician cant be destroyed by battle, and chronicle can be protected by nightmares destruction effect. so next turn you have some serious rank 7 and/or link potential, aswell as alot of bodies to swing for game. generally after keeping those 3 on the field, what i do is use illusion and chronicle for ebon, ebon brings out dm, and then in the battle phase i can steal a monster, banish a card, destroy a card, and then link away the opps monster and dm for I:P, turn ebon into zeus, and pass turn (this doesnt include any other follow up you had in your hand aswell that turn) 2: this is a small one but chronicle is nice for when you dont draw into any of your chimera plays and bricked on dm cards, as you can try to go for draco plays. 3: PLAY SMALL WORLD AND SMALL WORLD TARGETS. with tempest, ascended, pankreatops, and droll in the deck, small world can turn fenrir or any dm card in my hand into the full one card combo for the illusion plays except for souls, can search fenrir at times, and if i already opened with the illusion plays i can search another corn, who i will small world into a droll for a much more oppressive field instead of searching nightmare magician. not to mention being able to turn any dm card in my hand into full chimera board just adds to the synergy between the two archetypes. 4: 2 albaz, 3 branded fusion, 2 mirrorjade, 1 albion, 1 lubellion, 1 rind. branded fusion can send albaz + claws to make rind, and from there you get the full chimera field set up. not to mention albaz isnt a real brick since chimera fusion can just use him in my hand for rind if i have a beast, and hes a board breaker, plus having branded fusion in your hand is just amazing to throw down after getting all your other plays negated and is an easy way to dragoon or to recycle your illusion cards in the gy & banish with lubellion. those are the main things i highly recommend looking into. the list im using rn has 2 fenrir, 1 pankreatops, 3 droll, and 2 albaz as the going 2nd cards which is slightly lacking, but a deck that is turbo guardian chimera naturally doesnt struggle as much going 2nd, but feel free to try to fit more stuff in if you find yourself struggling with going 2nd as for my illusion engine, i run 2 wings 2 claws 3 mirror 3 corn 3 fusion
Nice decklist zephyr! I have something quite similar for my DM deck! What do you think about incorporating a small Buster Blader/Destruction Sword package?
Its defiantly doable, im hoping we get a way in the future that can special mirror sword without using the normal, then this can be used in buster blader deck aswell.
pretty spicy 🌶️ my first impression watching this videos was: that‘s optimal combining of modern yugioh with nostalgia yugioh ❤
im excited to see more people messing with illusion dm! *this is a long comment btw sorry LOL*
as someone whos been playing the deck aLOT recently, theres a couple techs i want to share with you so you can maybe try some stuff out
sadly alot of the standard dm cards dont actually do anything that can interact with the chimera lines of play, and it ends up being sort of just a dm deck with another deck in it. HOWEVER after playing it for a good while theres some stuff ive been learning
1: right now im playing 3 souls, 1 ioc, 2 prep, 1 ascended (the ritual u mentioned), 2 DM, then 1 magician of dark illusion and 1 chronicle magician for the more dm focused cards, and no other main deck dm cards. its a bit odd for the dm card picks, but the deck leans heavier into the illusion plays, and as it turns out those seem to actually have interactions with the illusion lines of play.
chronicle and dark illusion both will be special summoned on the opponents turn by using chimera fusion to make guardian chimera for dark illusion and by summoning nightmare magician or dark illusion for chronicle. this gives you more bodies on the field ofc, but more importantly you now have up to 3 level 7 monsters on the field, 4 if we include fenrir, with some battle protection from nightmare magician, and this is AFTER summoning guardian chimera, meaning if you used your interactions well, this is after you stopped the opponents line of play. this means its likely that their only way of removing these level 7s is by beating over them, which chronicle will make illusion go to 5k defense, nightmare magician cant be destroyed by battle, and chronicle can be protected by nightmares destruction effect.
so next turn you have some serious rank 7 and/or link potential, aswell as alot of bodies to swing for game. generally after keeping those 3 on the field, what i do is use illusion and chronicle for ebon, ebon brings out dm, and then in the battle phase i can steal a monster, banish a card, destroy a card, and then link away the opps monster and dm for I:P, turn ebon into zeus, and pass turn (this doesnt include any other follow up you had in your hand aswell that turn)
2: this is a small one but chronicle is nice for when you dont draw into any of your chimera plays and bricked on dm cards, as you can try to go for draco plays.
3: PLAY SMALL WORLD AND SMALL WORLD TARGETS. with tempest, ascended, pankreatops, and droll in the deck, small world can turn fenrir or any dm card in my hand into the full one card combo for the illusion plays except for souls, can search fenrir at times, and if i already opened with the illusion plays i can search another corn, who i will small world into a droll for a much more oppressive field instead of searching nightmare magician. not to mention being able to turn any dm card in my hand into full chimera board just adds to the synergy between the two archetypes.
4: 2 albaz, 3 branded fusion, 2 mirrorjade, 1 albion, 1 lubellion, 1 rind. branded fusion can send albaz + claws to make rind, and from there you get the full chimera field set up. not to mention albaz isnt a real brick since chimera fusion can just use him in my hand for rind if i have a beast, and hes a board breaker, plus having branded fusion in your hand is just amazing to throw down after getting all your other plays negated and is an easy way to dragoon or to recycle your illusion cards in the gy & banish with lubellion.
those are the main things i highly recommend looking into. the list im using rn has 2 fenrir, 1 pankreatops, 3 droll, and 2 albaz as the going 2nd cards which is slightly lacking, but a deck that is turbo guardian chimera naturally doesnt struggle as much going 2nd, but feel free to try to fit more stuff in if you find yourself struggling with going 2nd
as for my illusion engine, i run 2 wings 2 claws 3 mirror 3 corn 3 fusion
Nice decklist zephyr! I have something quite similar for my DM deck! What do you think about incorporating a small Buster Blader/Destruction Sword package?
Its defiantly doable, im hoping we get a way in the future that can special mirror sword without using the normal, then this can be used in buster blader deck aswell.
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@@zephyrwargamesyugioh I play a Dark magician deck with a chaos emperor dragon
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What lights do you uterlise? Dogmatika?
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Hate it when yugitubers lock combos and test hands behind likes i think thats super stupid.
It's just to show that enough people want to watch it compared to the time, effort and work that goes into the video