Toy Box Dark Magician Deck List & Card Guide

Toy Box Dark Magician is a Control deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, using a brand new Deck Engine to get many cards on hand as fast as possible. Check out the core deck list and key combos, as well as tips on how to play, alternative card options & counters against this specific Deck!

Toy Box Dark Magician Deck List

Main Deck: 44 cards
x3	x3	x3	x2	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1
x1	x3	x3	x3	x3
x2	x1	x1	x1	x1
x1	x3	x1	x1	x1
Extra Deck: 15 cards
x1	x1	x1	1x	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1

Toy Box Dark Magician Breakdown

Monsters

Spells

Traps

Extra

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Dark Magician	1
	Magicians' Souls	3
	Maxx "C"	3
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring	3
	Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous	1
	Guiding Quem, the Virtuous	1
	Palladium Oracle Mahad	1
	Diabellstar the Black Witch	1
	Illusion of Chaos	3
	Toy Soldier	1
	Toy Tank	1
	Timaeus the United Dragon	1
	Magician's Rod	2

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Toy Box	3
	Called by the Grave	2
	Crossout Designator	1
	Soul Servant	3
	Forbidden Droplet	3
	WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils	1
	The Eye of Timaeus	1
	Magician's Salvation	1
	Secrets of Dark Magic	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Infinite Impermanence	3
	Sinful Spoils of Betrayal - Silvera	1
	Shaddoll Schism	1
	Eternal Soul	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	El Shaddoll Winda	1
	El Shaddoll Apkallone	1
	The Dark Magicians	1
	Master of Chaos	1
	Chaos Angel	1
	Despian Luluwalilith	1
	S:P Little Knight	1
	Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians	1
	Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess	1
	Accesscode Talker	1
	Granguignol the Dusk Dragon	1
	Dark Magician the Dragon Knight	1
	Artemis, the Magistus Moon Maiden	1
	Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy	1
	Cross-Sheep	1

Alternate Cards for Toy Box Dark Magician

	Barrier Statue of the Heavens
	Barrier Statue of the Heavens can actually be searched out with the Toy Box Deck Engine combo, using Toy Soldier's effect once it triggers upon being Special Summoned to search out a Level 4 or lower LIGHT monster. It is a bit of an antithesis considering Dark Magicians are predominantly DARK, but still a surprise that is sure to catch opponents off-guard.
	Magicalized Fusion & Quintet Magician
	At some point, there will be around 5 Spellcasters in your Graveyard to use Magicalized Fusion on to bring out Quintet Magician. Summoning this Fusion Monsters is more often than not a game-ending play, with its board wipe effect on Fusion Summon, and extremely high ATK at 4500.
	Super Polymerization & Predaplant Dragostapelia
	Having DARK monsters in the Main Deck, it can be quite easy to go into Predaplant Dragostapelia if players decided to add in Super Polymerization into the Deck Recipe as another way to conduct a Fusion Summon. If the opponent uses DARK monsters, then this card is an easy way to get rid of monsters on the field.
	Despian Proskenion
	Usually Granguignol's effect is what is used to bring out Despian Luluwalilith, but another alternative choice to summon is Despian Proskenion. Its ability to target Extra Deck monsters in the GY for its effect for its owner's benefit can provide a serious advantage.
	Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
	For an easy defensive set up with the Toy monsters going first if they bricked their hand, Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir should buy players some time to stall and draw out the necessary cards. It can also transition into Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder if a field wipe is needed..
	Time Thief Redoer into ZEUS
	Another way of making use of the Toy monsters is to Xyz them into Time Thief Redoer and keep using its Standby Phase effect to steal cards from the top of the opponent's Deck. With enough materials, using it to go into ZEUS would let it use its field-wiping effect multiple times.
	Secret Village of the Spellcasters
	Secret Village of the Spellcasters is basically a Spellcaster Deck's own version of Imperial Order. So long as a player does not control Spellcasters, they cannot activate any Spell Card while this Field Spell is active.

Toy Box Dark Magician Deck Guide: How to Play

Playstyle and Win Condition

Core Combos and Interactions

Sample Hand 1

Starting Cards on Hand
Step	Description
1	Activate Toy Box. Use its effect immediately to set one copy each of Toy Soldier and Toy Tank onto the Spell and Trap Zones.
2	Activate one of the Illusion of Chaos in your hand; add Magicians' Souls from the Deck to the hand, then shuffle back one of the Ritual Mosnters on hand back into the Deck.
3	Activate one of the Illusion of Chaos in your hand; add Magicians' Souls from the Deck to the hand, then shuffle back one of the Ritual Mosnters on hand back into the Deck.
4	Activate Magicians' Soul from the hand; send one Illusion of Chaos from the Deck to the GY, then Special Summon the former onto the field. Afterwards, activate its on-field effect; send the set Toy Soldier and Toy Tank from the field to the GY; draw 2 cards. (Assume that the cards drawn are Diabellstar the Black Witch and Eternal Soul)
5	Upon being sent to the GY; trigger the effects of Toy Tank and Toy Soldier. Chain Link 2: Trigger the effect of Toy Tank; Special Summon itself back onto the Field. Chain Link 1: Trigger the effect of Toy Soldier; Special Summon itself back onto the Field.
6	Upon being Special Summoned, trigger the effect of Toy Soldier; add Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous from the Deck to the hand.
7	Activate the on-field effect of Toy Tank; tribute itself to Special Summon Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous onto the field.
8	Using Magicians' Souls as material, Link Summon Artemis, the Magistus Moon Maiden onto one of the Extra Monster Zones.
9	Discard Soul Servant from the hand to Special Summon Diabellstar the Black Witch. Afterwards, trigger its effect to set Sinful Spoils of Betrayal - Silvera.
10	Using Artemis, the Magistus Moon Maiden and Diabellstar the Black Witch as materials, Link Summon Cross-Sheep onto one of the Extra Monster Zones.
11	Activate the effect of Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous; using itself and Toy Soldier as materials, Fusion Summon Granguignol the Dusk Dragon onto one of the Main Monster Zones pointed to by Cross-Sheep's Link Markers.
12	Trigger the effects of Granguignol the Dusk Dragon and Cross-Sheep. Chain Link 2: Trigger the effect of Cross-Sheep; Special Summon Blazing Cartesia back onto the Field. Chain Link 1: Trigger the effect of Granguignol the Dusk Dragon; send El Shaddoll Apkallone from the Extra Deck to the GY.
13	Upon being sent to the GY, trigger the effect of El Shaddoll Apkallone; add a copy of Shaddoll Schism from the Deck to the hand, then discard a card from the hand. Discard Illusion of Chaos for this case.
14	Set Eternal Soul and Shaddoll Schism. During the opponent's turn, activate both Continuous Traps, and activate them as you see fit.
14.1	Trigger the effects of Eternal Soul and Shaddoll Schism. Chain Link 2: Trigger the effect of Eternal Soul; Special Summon Dark Magician from the Deckonto the Field. Chain Link 1: Trigger the effect of Shaddoll Schism; banish El Shaddoll Apkallone and a DARK monster from your GY to Fusion Summon El Shaddoll Winda.

No Field Spell Active
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Boss Monsters

	Dark Magician the Dragon Knight
	With access to Timaeus, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight is a massive boss monster to have on the field. The backrow becomes protected from targeted card effects, and they are also immune to card destruction effects while this card is face-up and active on the field.
	Master of Chaos
	On Fusion Summon, Master of Chaos can bring back a LIGHT or DARK monster from your GY back to the Field. Tributing a monster from those Attributes will banish all monsters the opponent controls, and should this card be destroyed, you get to recycle a Spell Card from the GY back to the hand.
	Chaos Angel
	Because this Deck is predominantly LIGHT and DARK monsters, there is no need to have Tuners in the Deck (outside of Blazing Cartesia) to Synchro Summon Chaos Angel. Depending on the materials it uses, it can become a very hard monster to remove from the Field.
	Despian Luluwalilith
	Players can cheat out Despian Luluwalilith with the help of Granguignol the Dusk Dragon. Having this on the field is a natural counter against the opponent's Extra Deck, and it provides a permanent ATK boost to all your monsters on the field every time it uses its negation effect.
	Accesscode Talker
	Accesscode Talker is a natural boss monster to with an easy to summon LINK-3 monsters in Selene. With enough Link Monsters in the GY with different Attributes, this card can pop cards from the opponent's field--and they cannot respond to this card's activation whatsoever.

Toy Box Dark Magician Counters: How to Beat

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Floowandereeze

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Chimera Illusion

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Best Cards to Tech Against Toy Box Dark Magician

	Evenly Matched
	In terms of board wipes, Evenly Matched is one of the strongest, and if the player using this Deck does not have anything that can negate this Trap Card, it might very well be game. Make sure to have something prepared, especially if the opponent decides to go second.
	Heavy Storm
	Heavy Storm is finally off the banlist as a Limited Card, so expect this to be in every single Deck side-by-side with Harpie's Feather Duster. Unless you have cards that are providing backrow protection, this can wreck a Dark Magician set-up of Spells and Traps easily.
	Droll & Lock Bird
	Toy Box Dark Magician is so reliant in its card searches to get the key cards to start their combo. Droll & Lock Bird can stop all searches on both sides for the rest of the turn, which is going to be detrimental for getting Dark Magician started.
	Sinful Spoils of Subversion - Snake-Eye
	One of the strongest displacement cards in the game, Sinful Spoils of Subversion - Snake-Eye remains unrestricted. This is especially dangerous for any Dark Magician Deck (and especially this variant) because of various Spells and Traps occupying a lot of the Spell/Trap Zones. A well-timed move of a monster into a Continuous Spell can make the player unable to activate any Spells or Traps due to not having enough space!

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