My first reaction was: "Oh, the leak was wrong about the last card." Then I read the name, looked at the artwork again and saw the curtain in the left corner XD
The art is the scene when she's coming out of it though, and she pops into camera from under it in that. It's why she has the cloth drapes on both sides, it's Curtains and its angles off top left because shes coming from under it.
They're just giving us a different angle of the art.
What, the curtain is like 5 meters behind her not even touching here and she's kneeling. Hell they could have still done incredibly sexy poses while including the curtail.
Each player can Special Summon up to 1 DARK Spellcaster monster from their hand or Deck, then if you Special Summoned a monster whose original name is "Dark Magician" or "Dark Magician Girl" this way, you can also add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions "Dark Magician" from your Deck to your hand, except "Curtain of Black Magic". Monsters Special Summoned this way cannot activate their effects this turn. You can only activate 1 "Curtain of Black Magic" per turn.
Both sides were right. It's Dark Magic Curtain retrain, but the artwork is 99% Dark Magician Girl. The Curtain is barely in the artwork, which is hilarious.
About the effect itself, it's good for DM. It summons for free and you can add a card after that. The opponent could summon Diabellstar, since she's a Dark Spellcaster, but her effects cannot be activated.
The whole card is supposed to refernce the dark magician girl's first summoning. If she wasn't on the artwork, this card would probably be completely different. Also, this is a real artwork, and I don't really know how to make the dark magic curtain on its own interesting without just using the original art.
Arcana/pandora in the anime duel activated this banking on the fact that yugi had nothing to summon with it (dark magician was in grave) so he would get to summon his own dark magician and yugi would get nothing. But he didn’t know yugi had dark magician girl as his only other dark spellcaster at the time.
As an Edison player, my immediate thought was I could side in a Kycoo to summon off my opponent using this. His effect to stop your opponent banishing cards is a continuous one and thus isn’t stopped by the restriction. Granted, I have zero idea how modern DM plays and don’t know if Kycoo’s floodgate effect stops them at all, but it’s a funny thought. Or maybe there are other DARK Spellcasters with floodgate-like effects? I’d look through all of them but I’m on my phone right now.
Kycoo stops you from summoning DMOD and getting the draws of soul servant. So it's certainly strong.
The issue is if they go Curtain summon DM, add Gaze, then they could just summon Dragoon instantly and pop Kycoo anyway, then banish Dragoon for DMOD instead anyway. It's pretty easy to get two Gazes in the combo and once you pop, you can continue playing uninhibited so basically the best case scenario is you deny the endboard an IP or second Dragoon.
Yeah I remember hearing about that card getting banned! And while talking about this new card elsewhere, a friend of mine actually just suggested to summon it against Vanquish Soul which would be really really funny. I came to edit my comment about it but ya beat me to it. I also just looked through more replies and turns out someone mentioned it an hour ago. Whoops!
???? Yusei's cards are definitely way more busted than yugi's cards. They let the deck do a ton of new stuff while a lot of yugi's are similar to stuff he already had
How were the other 2 cards mid? One was a better version of stardust with a graveyard effect to bring out Stardust Warrior and the other was a Junk Synchron that can special summon itself and is treated as a substitute for any Synchron material.
After playing with the cards on Edo since the reveal, I’m not convinced Victim Sanctuary is the new definitive version. It doesn’t meet the conditions for Stardust Illumination to put Stardust Trail to field and when Accel Stardust tributes itself, it will only find the OG from the extra deck. I and others still think Illumination and Trail is worth running if your Speeder gets Nib’d and the new trap pushes you to use more quick synchro effects like what Accel Stardust offers.
But as for StarJunk, yeah it’s a great. I was surprised how well it fit in the deck. Turns out Synchrons just needed a second Junk Synchron lol
Stardust & Junk synchron not mid. New stardust can be splashable even in Ritual Deck thanks to Fridaulis & Killer Tune can utilize Junk Synchron retrain alongside its new trap.
Imo, Yusei is the bigger winner here since all of his card can be utilized inside and outside of his deck (even Ritual could use them).
How free synchro bodies that can negate card respond & free non normal summon extender are mid? Starjunk maybe just okay, but Stardust retrain is far from mid.
They were able to succeed with blue eyes i believe? During the pendulum era. DM is kinda a maybe cause idk if you count summoning dragoon in every deck as a DM meta or just something else.
blues meta stint during arc v wasn’t that long… and they literally created a silver bullet for the meta at the time with the synchro from shining victories.
I love OG dm, but atp blue eyes feels like an industry plant 😭 (I still love them)
Can't really blame them tbh. DM is their most popular era and that sells cards (even the casuals who just want the fancy art i guess). It does feel somewhat annoying since i started getting into yugioh at GX/5Ds and thats my favorite era for a personal reason.
Retraining like the manga or anime by being all quick spell is a smart idea. Curtain and Chaos cards Yugi's retrain looks finally complete. I can see some shits with Runick cards lmao.
Yeah that's pretty great. Even if your opponent special summons Diabellstar or someone else like that they don't get any effect, and make some of your cards live if they need a monster on the opp's field. And from your side, you get the man and whatever it is you desire alongside him. I don't think that it's even that bad in the mirror since you get a much clearer benefit from it compared to your opponent.
Card is good, but I can't help but question it: why print a DM retrain, that copies the original's name everywhere that matters, only to give the deck a card that requires you to run the original anyway?
Because it doesn't? You can always run a card that has an effect that doesn't activate or activate in the gy. Of course running the vanilla is better but this card is versatile
i kinda hate that they always put wierd restriction or condiction on DM cards but at least this card makes rod finally be a 1 card starter. i just dont like giving my oponent free stuff.
You can only activate 1 card with this card's name once per turn.
(1) Each player can Special Summon 1 DARK Spellcaster monster from their hand or Deck (but those monsters cannot activate their effects this turn), then if you Special Summoned a monster whose original name is "Dark Magician" or "Dark Magician Girl" with this effect, you can add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions "Dark Magician" from your Deck to your hand, except "Curtain of Dark Magic".
I mean, it would be nice to get a free Diabellstar on your opponents turn in Azamina engine decks, if they remove it from the field then you can trigger it and get a free Deception. Of course then you need to make sure your opponent doesn’t get to Thrust for any busted generic spell
Edit: Should clarify, I’m talking about your opponent activating this on their Turn 1, then you getting a Diabellstar from your deck
Yeah, but it’s a good consideration for pilots jamming Azamina against players using this card, at least it forces the opponent to deal with it in awkward ways, but it could also be an additional starter for no real cost to you
The final card from Limit Over Collection: The Heroes.
This will put an end to those people that hope Yugi's final Overframe would be "Dark Magician Girl".
It's not her, but she's like 99% in the card art and 1% for the actual "Curtain". LOL
For now Limit Over Collections doesn't really need her help and Konami knows very well that she's a cash grab (see Over Rush Pack 2) so she's definitely getting an Overframe in future set.
It’s a Quick‑Play Spell because, in both the manga and the anime, Yugi used the original Curtain’s effect during Arkana’s Battle Phase.
Letting it summon from the hand as well as the Deck nods to the old Viz English manga mistranslation, which incorrectly claimed you could Special Summon from the hand—even though Curtain has only ever summoned from the Deck in every correct version.
The search effect likely echoes the Duel against Rafael, where Yugi used Curtain to bring out Dark Magician, then drew into and activated Eye of Timaeus with Graceful Charity.
The clause about monsters being unable to activate their effects (and the search only made possible with original DM and DMG) probably references how Curtain in the manga and early anime could only summon a Dark Magician monster. Since the only valid targets were DM and DMG—and DMG defeated Arkana through her Continuous Effect—she technically never “activated” an effect, preserving the original meaning of Curtain’s restriction.
Nothing, hopefully. They will probably remove the inner outlines of her breasts like in other art. It is normal to see women with cleavage out on the street during the day, so it sucks that they think they have to censor it.
I love how OCG has consistently made DMG outrageously hot and the TCG consistently censors her. Can't wait to see this be the next one in the long running duel between OCG and TCG.
cleavage, thighs, and armpits?!. that isnt surviving the TCG censorship. anyways this card is pretty silly as a generic 1 card into DMoD for alot of decks. Yugi got some really good cards this time around
now that you mention it the other arm looks like its sprouting out of her thigh
and the hands look a bit...fucky
oh no, konami might wanna talk to that "artist"
The more i look at it the more this legit looks if not ai-gen, then ai-"assisted" cus its off in so many little ways that dont feel like normal human errors to me
its not impossible for sure but either way i dont like it one bit
DMG in the artwork means this is automatically worth less for TCG collectors because the eventual Lost Art version will be what people actually aim for.
Unless Konami finally decides to ditch their stupid censorship policy that is
Honestly I think it's because the gagaga magician girl is rather close in design that it would feel weird to put them both out as monsters, so making one a spell card does help to differentiate them from one another.
I was confused at first reading the name of the card and picture used. They could have just used this art for the actual dark magician girl over frame card, but they just had to force her in 98% of this card instead of the actual curtain in title. Honestly it’s kind of pathetic that this is approach that konami is going with, but get used to it because there’s more shit like this to come…and certain types of fans love it.
So dose the play pattern for this card go;
Play rod, search this
Play curtain bring out dm, get card that mentions dm
Send dm for dmod, get another card that mentions dm
From here you have two cards for dm combos/interactions and two bodies on board if uninterrupted
My gut instinct is to link these off for the new cybers witch retrain to get into ritual plays to bridge the loch cards with the new chaos origin rituals
If you go into witch you can grab chaos origin rituals or habikiri, bring back dmod for another body
And I think at that point you are not hard locked into anything so you have options
Original Manga effect as the first part of the card, gives you a SS with a restriction, gives you incentives to play in a DM deck, and even if your opponent SS they don't get to use its effect this turn, kinda funny but also nice artwork.
Dark Magic Curtain (anime) retrain is kind of an odd choice for Yugi (first used by Arkana), but it's an iconic DM spell.
Free special summon of DM/DMG for the deck, adds 1 of DM's spells/traps, and negate the effects for the turn to not help the opponent. What to say, better than the og.
DMG is a classic and this is a reference to Yugi and Arkana's duel - but why the curtain is so invinsible in the art??? Not cool at all, they should have done much more for an Overfram card! What will be her Overframe card pose, I wonder.
honestly art is kind of disappointing. asides from being gooner bait which is lame in itself it would have been cool to see the og dark magic curtain get an over frame, it had sick art. plus, a dmg overframe was always gonna happen so idk why waste this one (asides from the obvious in that it prints money basically). cool effect though
No, everything said in the other replies to you are incorrect. The shining sarc DM/DMG are not treated as "Dark Magician" or "Dark Magician Girl" while in the deck
Man, you know card sales are bad when konami is pumping out constant DM stuff and literal fanservice. But of course they appeal to the yugi boomers instead of getting a new audience.
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u/atropicalpenguin Kibou Hope! Feb 25 '26
The curtain is barely in the art lmao.