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Yami Yugi Role-play Deck

This week I decided to do a build for Yami Yugi or Atem from the Duel Monsters run of the Yugioh anime. This build is as anime accurate as I can get it, combining some of the characters best cards and strategies. I will state that I am not very good at Yugioh; I just like having fun and building fun decks and this deck is intended for nothing more than roleplaying. Below is the current deck recipe.

 Monsters

Dark Magician x 1

Jack’s Knight x 1

Beta the Magnet Warrior x 1

Gamma the Magnet Warrior x 1

Queen’s Knight x 1

Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts x 1

Alpha the Magnet Warrior x 1

Obelisk the Tormentor x 1

The Winged Dragon of Ra x 1`

Slifer the Sky Dragon x 1

Valkyrion the Magna Warrior x 1

Buster Blader x 1

Dark Magician Girl x 1

Berfomet x 1

Celtic Guard of Noble Arms x 1

Skilled Dark Magician x 1

Magician’s Valkyria x 1

King’s Knight x 1

Breaker the Magical Warrior x 1

Obnoxious Celtic Guard x 1

Big Shield Gardna x 1

Kuriboh x 1

Magician of Black Chaos x 1

 Spells

The Eye of Timaeus x 1

Sage’s Stone x 1

Polymerization x 1

Thousand Knives x 1

Dark Magic Veil x 1

Monster Reborn x 1

Dark Magic Curtain x 1

Black Magic Ritual x 1

Magical Dimension x 1

Multiply x 1

De-Fusion x 1

 Traps

Dark Renewal x 1

Mirror Force x 1

Magic Cylinder x 1

Spellbinding Circle x 1

Seven Tools of the Bandit x 1

Magic Jammer x 1

        Extra deck

Dragon Master Knight x 1

B. Skull Dragon x 1

Amulet Dragon x 1

Dark Paladin x 1

Gaia the Dragon Champion x 1

Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight x 1

Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast x 1

 Side Deck

Gaia the Fierce Knight x 1

Summoned Skull x 1

Curse of Dragon x 1

Sorcerer of Dark Magic x 1

Catapult Turtle x 1

Obnoxious Celtic Guard x 1

Electromagnetic Turtle x 1

Black Luster Soldier x 1

Double Spell x 1

Diffusion Wave-Motion x 1

Black Luster Ritual x 1

Mage Power x 1

Lightforce Sword x 1

Shift x 1

Magical Hats x 1

   This deck is made using cards Atem has actually been seen using or has had listed in deck profiles. Essentially it’s focused on getting Dark Magician to the field or a god card. Your DM pieces are Dark Magician Girl/Sage’s Stone, dark magic curtain, dark magic veil, dark renewal or Skilled Dark Magician. All of those cards are fairly solid, giving you quick ways to get a 2500 beater on board. It’s when you move over to the gods that things get a bit shaky.

 First off all three god cards are in the deck (pretty obvious since this is a deck based around Atem’s cards), each requiring three tributes each which means you’re not going to be summoning more than one or two in a duel. The shakiest would be the poker knights since they require such a specific order to use the special summoning ability. You have to have Queen’s Knight already on the field when you play King’s Knight which will then let you special summon Jack’s Knight from the deck. So you have to play the other two and not draw Jack in order to activate King’s special ability to give you three tributes. Next up would be the Magnet Warrior combo which is a lot better considering you can play them in any order and combine them to get a stronger monster, then just uncombined them to get your three tributes back.

 Typically you’ll use Obelisk since he’s kind of an all-purpose for this deck. Slifer would be a decent option as well but since his power relies on having cards in your hand you might want to consider opting for a strategy of limiting what you use in your hand. Ra is kind of hard to use unless you can summon the beast early on when you still have high life points and shoot for game.

 Alternatively, you could switch out the god cards for any of the cards in the side deck. Such as Gaia and Curse of Dragoon. However Gaia the Dragon Champion only has 2600 ATK points. Alternatively, Dark Magician is way easier to summon and only has 100 points less than Dragon Champion, also with the way deck is set up Dark Magician girl can easily match Dragon Champion with DM and Magician of Black Chaos in the grave. Dark Magician can also can a hefty attack boost with Mage Power since there are a few quick plays and all the traps are offensive you’ll be setting a lot. If you’re in a role-play and you have to tag duel with a Joey then you could toss in Summoned Skull for a B. Skull Dragon play. Or bring in BLS to summon Dragon Master Knight if you’re tag-teaming with a Kaiba role-player.  I have MBC in there to add to Dark Magician Girl’s ATK. You could also swap out the Celtic Guards or Magician’s Valkyria, Celtic Guard of Noble Arms allows for a couple of draws depending on how many Celtic Guardian monsters on your side of the field. Magician’s Valkyria could easily be swapped out for Electromagnetic Turtle and that’s probably the better option I just like Valkyria.

Multiply merely allows for a wall, with these slower role-play style decks your opponent is typically not going to clear your field in one turn so it will buy you some time to pull better plays to your hand. The spell cards are fairly basic and most of them work to bring out Dark Magician or a dark spellcaster. While the trap cards are counters, like Spellbinding Circle or Mirror Force.

The extra deck is really lackluster if I’m being honest, with a few fusions the deck can actually create on its own Amulet Dragon and Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight being your main fusions by means of the Eye of Timaeus, Dark Paladin is also a decent option but you’re only really going to summon it if you’re facing someone who’s playing a bunch of dragons. Chimera isn’t a bad option either if you’ve got the materials, and if it dies then you can get one of the two beasts fused back allowing you to do something else.

 To conclude that’s really about it. It’s a bricky deck that’s not going to win you a lot of games unless you’re using it in a role-play where everyone else is playing at a slow speed as well. Of course, if you have any suggestions or things to add feel free to comment. I may come back and improve upon this at a later point, and make it better.