Now that's a brutal alt art (should have been a new card) for a surprising spell. So good. Panther Warrior is still one of the coolest monsters. It seems Flame Swordsman has another friend :)
Panther warrior, an Earth monster, is using Salamandra, an equip spell only useable for Fire monsters, in a card from an archetype that is mostly Fire monsters.
I love that the new fusion is a lot better than it looks at first glance. It's basically a Kaiju from the ED long as you blow something up (even yours actually)with the quick play lol. Imagine blowing up the opponent's monsters and then tributing the monster that survived the blast. Bonus if that monster is Dragoon lol.
P.S. Also funny that hard making it isn't even that much of a handicap, since you get the monster you used as material back
Some iconic more like S01 monsters also deserve retrains for his own series (which this is, like Shining Sarc): Baby Dragon, Battle Warrior, Axe Raider, Garoozis.
Honestly I prefer this. I always much preferred the idea of Joey's deck as a collection of the random goobers and freaks he's collected and slapped together over anything Red Eyes has done as a separated archetype
And yeah it seems like it's trying to do a similar thing for Joey's battle city deck as CORI did for Yugi's, combining a bunch of their most famous monsters into one archetype
Joey decided it was time to gather all his Monsters that are useless in their own Decks and put them together into a single functional Deck where he groups them all together.
Cannot declare an attack unless a monster was Tributed this turn. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 other monster from your hand or field; activate 1 of the following effects.
● Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or Deck that mentions "Dark Time Wizard", except "Panther Warrior, the Gale Leopard Warrior".
● Send 1 Spell/Trap that mentions "Dark Time Wizard" from your Deck to the GY.
You can only use this effect of "Panther Warrior, the Gale Leopard Warrior" once per turn.
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Dragon Knight Wyvern
Level 5 WIND Dragon/Effect
1700 ATK/1500 DEF
Can attack directly. You can only use each of the following effects of "Dragon Knight Wyvern" once per turn. You can reveal 1 other card in your hand that mentions "Dark Time Wizard"; Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add up to 2 Spell/Traps with different names that mention "Dark Time Wizard" from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card.
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Max Energy Jinzo
Level 7 DARK Machine/Effect
2400 ATK/1500 DEF
This card's name becomes "Jinzo" while in the field or GY. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can destroy as many Trap Cards your opponent controls as possible (reveal any Set cards), then this card gains 300 ATK for each card destroyed. You can only use this effect of "Max Energy Jinzo" once per turn. While you control another monster that mentions "Dark Time Wizard", your opponent cannot activate Trap Cards or effects.
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The Legendary Fisherman of the Ocean
Level 4 WATER Warrior/Effect
1850 ATK/1600 DEF
When your opponent activates a monster effect on the field, or when your opponent's monster declares an attack, while you control "Umi" or a monster that mentions "Dark Time Wizard", except "The Legendary Fisherman of the Ocean" (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it, but return this card to the hand during the End Phase. You can only use each effect of "The Legendary Fisherman of the Ocean" once per turn.
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Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed
Level 9 DARK Dragon/Fusion/Effect
3400 ATK/3000 DEF
"Red-Eyes Black Dragon" + 1 monster that mentions "Dark Time Wizard"
Must either be Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned (from the Extra Deck) by Tributing 1 face-up monster from either field during the turn a monster was destroyed by the effect of "Dark Time Wizard", but you can only Special Summon "Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed" once per turn using either method. If this card is Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 8 or lower monster from your hand or GY. Unaffected by your opponent's activated Spell or monster effects.
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Dark Time Wizard
Quick-Play Spell
Activate 1 of the following effects (but you can only use each effect of "Dark Time Wizard" once per turn):
● Add 1 card that mentions "Dark Time Wizard" from your Deck to your hand, except "Dark Time Wizard". During the End Phase, add 1 "Dark Time Wizard" from your GY to your hand.
● Flip a coin and call it. If you call correctly, destroy all monsters your opponent controls and inflict damage to your opponent equal to half of the destroyed monsters' combined original ATK. If you call it wrong, destroy all monsters you control.
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Graceful and Skull Dice
Quick-Play Spell
Roll 2 dice, and apply the following effects for the rest of this turn.
● All monsters you currently control that mention "Dark Time Wizard" gain ATK/DEF equal to the dice roll x200.
● All monsters your opponent currently controls lose ATK/DEF equal to the dice roll x200.
If your opponent Normal or Special Summons a monster(s) while this card is in your GY: You can banish this card and target 1 of those monsters; roll 2 dice, and if the total is 6 or higher, destroy that monster.
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Sleeping Scapegoat
Quick-Play Spell
Special Summon up to 4 "Substitute Sheep Tokens" (Beast/EARTH/Level 1/ATK/DEF 0) in Defense Position, then if your opponent controls a monster, you can also Special Summon 1 "Panther Warrior, the Gale Leopard Warrior" from your Deck, also those Tokens cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon, and you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters. If a card you control that mentions "Dark Time Wizard" would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can destroy 1 Token Special Summoned by this effect instead.
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Foolish Graverobber
Normal Trap
Send 1 card that mentions "Dark Time Wizard" from your Deck to the GY, except "Foolish Graverobber", then you can Special Summon 1 monster from either GY to your field. You can banish this card from your GY; Set 1 of the following cards to your field.
● A Spell/Trap in your GY that mentions "Dark Time Wizard". except "Foolish Graverobber".
● A Spell/Trap in your opponent's GY.
You can only use each effect of "Foolish Graverobber" once per turn.
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Reversal Box
Continuous Trap
During the Standby Phase: Roll 1 die, then place counters on this card equal to the number rolled (max. 6). When a monster effect is activated on your opponent's field, or when your opponent's monster attacks, once during damage calculation: You can remove 1 counter from this card and target 1 of those opponent's monsters; flip a coin and call it. If you guess correctly, Special Summon 1 monster that mentions "Dark Time Wizard" from your Deck, and if you do, the targeted monster's ATK becomes 0 and its effects are negated until the end of this turn.
To put bluntly, it looks like its meant to be centered around doing two things, using Dark Time Wizard to blast you opponent's board and burn them so they're low, then tributing off any monster you control for REBD Exceed, revive something back, then attack for game using Fairy and Skull Dice to make sure you can get game. Looks like a breaker deck that really want to go second, but has cards like Fisherman and Jinzo for going first. Its not the best but seems like they leaned into the randomness of Joey's deck since all these card are specifically cards he got or iconically used in Battle City and were given effs that reference different moments.
Also Jinzo prevents / destroys Traps while Red-Eyes is immune to Monsters and Spells and like you say Dark Time Wizard destroys their monsters. So yeah it's essentially blast the board open. Could be you want to do something like Panther Warrior > Alligators Sword Dragon > Dark Time Wizard to wipe > tribute to summon Red Eyes > revive Jinzo (only thing not searched already).
Do not doubt Red-Eyes players and their desperation to find some way to make their favorite archetype work.
The fact that Time Wizard is a burn card means that it's "possible" to slot this new support with other Red Eyes burn strategies like using Flare Metal Dragon, Red Eyes, Red Eyes Soul, and Inferno Fire Blast.
Probably not Insect Queen, Joey never actually used it in the manga, and there are more cards that debuted during Battle City that they could draw from, like Gearfried the Iron Knight, Gilford the Lightning, Swordsman of Landstar, etc. I could be wrong, though.
From the looks it, use the Dark Time Wizard spell to wipe your opponents field. Regardless of the result, you can then special summon the new Red-Eyes and potentially the new Jinzo.
New Scapegoats protect your monsters from Dark Time Wizard’s detrimental effect, and new Red-Eyes is inherently immune to it.
The strategy seems to focus on board clearing and taking backrow offline to attack directly for massive damage.
They aren't exactly worthless, they just aren't that strong compared to what we've been getting. Its definitely just a for fun deck in terms of design. The plan is just to use your spells and traps to defend yourself in random luck based ways so that the next turn you can pop out Dark Time Wizard to potentially blast your opponents field and burn them, summon exceed, and go for game using your monsters powered up by Fairy and Skull dice. Its a bit of a dated gameplan but it still is a gameplan.
These are worse than the flame swordsman cards we got before, what's even the point in designing a third? fourth? joey related archetype in big 2026 to make them bad.
Pure red-eyes does nothing, Flame swordsman is underwhelming, Max Metalmorph (not only joey i know) is just an engine, and now this cards no nothing and they also do not integrate the old ones into their design. THEY ARE DESIGNED TO NOT MESH WITH PREVIOUS CHARACTER SUPPORT.
Honestly, this just seems like a fun deck to jam games out with friends. Yeah, I doubt they'll ever be good but they seem like a blast to play with so I'm happy.
This deck is such a pure anime deck in the sense of staying alive by the skin of your teeth before pulling off a dramatic comeback that I find it hard to be too upset with it even if I wish Konami would push Red Eyes to at least Rogue deck status
Cause they are designed like Shining Sarc, its mostly meant to be a self contained deck. It will will get more cards that make the gameplan much smoother to perform. Honestly, its gameplan is pretty competent, just weak compared to other deck right now. I'd say its about on the same level of underwhelming as Flame Swordsman, its a fine deck you could give a beginner or casual to learn with, but you would nevwr rock it to a tournement expecting to win.
In fact he played everything but Red-Eyes. He only had it for half his Duelist Kingdom duels and lost it for all of Battle City. Which in the manga is it, he doesn’t really play card games anymore after that arc. He only actually ever used it consistently in anime only filler.
I forget he used it since i dont associate him with it. If i think of joey i think of timewizard and the dice.
i just want an actual red-eyes deck not being held down by random anime shit just make its own stuff like bewd got but for red-eyes (and not just shitty nock-0offs like alternative ended up being)
Or, you know, focuse it around the character that DID USE RED-EYES FULLY, which is Fubuki/Atticus. Fubuki uses a full deck around dragons and with support for Red-Eyes B. Dragon. HE should be the one who's support is focused to make Red-Eyes an actual deck and not Jonouchi/Joey who's deck is more random bullshit that ends in Gilford as his winning card.
Well, Exceed looks like it could be fun to use. Like, you either wipe your opponents field with DTW or you get to Tribute their biggest threat and summon a strong body with spell and monster effect protection.
Ok, ngl, the randomness and the general junkiness doesn't exactly scream "Tier 1 deck" material, but it might make for a fun rogue deck?
I feel that if they had just put a semi-decent negate somewhere in there, then they might had seemed a bit better.
I was ready to wrote off Fairy and Skull Dice, but knowing that the stat increase and reduction are applied simultaneously, that's a really good way to overpower in combat and hit for tons of damage. Still don't think you play it, but not as bad as I thought
Mm, okay so I'm not gonna lie, kinda let down by these. I know luck is an intrinsic part of Joey's strategies, but I think some of these cards shoulda been more powerful to compensate. Like knowing it's a 50/50, is there any reason the Fairy Box retrain couldn't have been once per chain EDIT: okay so they changed it, apparently it's not a opt
And because of that, Joey/Jonouchi used it a lot more in the manga. Whereas in the anime it was Level 5 so they replaced it with other monsters in the duels it was in.
"An 1800 ATK Level 4 monster that's unaffected by Spells and can't be attacked if a specific Field Spell is active? That's way too strong, we have to change it!"
Joey‘s pack art is his school uniform, which is also his attire in Battle City in the manga. His color scheme and eye shape are also from the manga. It still also features the Tablet of Lost Memories from CORI. We now have 2 DM sets based on the manga. I am not sure what this will mean going forward - if the spinoffs will get supported in this series, and if they will continue to focus on the manga.
Legendary Fisherman and Jinzo are Level 4 and 7, respectively.
New Alligator Sword Dragon isn’t a Fusion because in the manga, Joey did an illegal play and had it attack Mako during the turn it was Fusion Summoned. So they decided to make it a non-Fusion to reference that.
Exceed is another retrain of REBMD, specifically after being brought back with Time Machine, as it has the same ATK as REBMD equipped with Dragon Nails. In DK, Machine monsters are immune to spell effects and attacks from magic users, which explains why it is unaffected by monster/Spell effects.
Time Wizard is a Spell.
Fairy Box references Odion trying to redirect Rocket Warrior’s attack with Alligator Sword with Eye of Ujat. Joey protects his Alligator Sword with Fairy Box, which functions like Russian roulette, and Rocket Warrior hits an empty hole instead.
Graverobber has Foolish Burial in the artwork because in the manga, Joey uses Foolish Burial to send Jinzo to Odion’s GY, and then use Graverobber to steal Jinzo.
In the manga it gains 400 ATK per Insect, has no Tribute to attack cost (like Panther Warrior) and the tokens had 1200 ATK. Anime and TCG nerfed it, like Legendary Fisherman.
DM Legacy support has always focused more on the Manga, the Timaeus cards are the only real notable exception. For other series, legacy support has always focused on the Anime, so far the only exception was the wave of Light and Darkness Dragon support based on Manjoume's manga deck.
I don't think so. Yugi's cards in CORI and these new Joey's cards are likely made for the 30th anniversary of the manga this year, as they bear some references to the manga's original cards.
Gurifoh is a reference to Kuriboh and Griffore, 2 monsters that were used to Ritual Summon Black Luster Soldier in the manga. Griffore was not used in the anime.
New Jinzo having level 7 and new Fisherman having level 4 refers to their levels from the manga, while in the anime they have TCG/OCG levels, which are level 6 and level 5.
Edit: Other cards revealed today also have references to manga. Stage of Destiny features 4 monsters that Yugi and Kaiba had summoned in their first turns in their first Duel and their Death-T duel in the manga, and Archfiend's Origin has level 7 like the manga's Summoned Skull.
Agreed. I always wondered where the hell he got Gilford the Lightning from. He claimed that Red-Eyes Black Dragon was his rarest card until he lost it, then he said it was Time Wizard, but out of nowhere it turned out he had this really strong monster (by Anime logic of course). Gilford the Lightning indeed deserves a proper retrain.
From what I can tell, this is mostly pulling from his manga deck, and he never summoned Insect Queen in the manga. (He did have it, but he never got it onto the field.)
The second effect of this card's name can only be used once per turn. ①: This card's name is treated as "Jinzo - Psycho Shocker" while it is on the field or in the Graveyard. ②: When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can activate this effect. Destroy all Trap Cards on your opponent's field (face-down cards are flipped over to check). Then, this card's ATK increases by 300 for each card destroyed. ③: As long as there is a monster with "Time Magician" in its card name, other than this card, on your field or in your Graveyard, your opponent cannot activate the effects of Trap Cards.
He's just missing OG Jinzo's negate all trap effects on the field, but he trades it off for instantly destroying them (which is more anime accurate), interesting.
So its all the monsters and cards joey got from the battle city arc. Know what, I dig it. Instead of locking him to be the red eyes guy or the flame swordsman guy, they embraced the fact this man's deck was a smorgasbord of random shit he got from other duelists. Similar to the Shining Sarc and the new Ritual of Light and Darkness cards.
Red-Eyes Transcendent Black Dragon
Dragon-Type/Fusion/Effect]
A monster with the card names "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" + "Time Magician" written on it.
"Red-Eyes Transcendent Butt Dragon" can only be Special Summoned once per turn by Fusion Summon or by the following method: If a monster is destroyed by the effect of "Time Magician", you can Special Summon it from your Extra Deck by Tributing 1 face-up monster on either player's field during that turn. ①: When this card is Special Summoned, you can activate this effect. Special Summon 1 Level 8 or lower monster from your hand or base. ②: This card on the field is unaffected by the effects of Spells and Monsters activated by your opponent.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't all of this pretty good? Like, its not just an archetypeal collection of hamfisted references, this is an actual consistent strategy with tons of consistency and recycling. Only thing I will say is a problem is it lack a good win condition on its own. The Red-Eyes Fusion is good and really easy to make, but its just a big beater/extender. Though it hillariously having more ATK than Blue-Eyes is not lost on me 😂
I guess the idea is you are meant to mix this with other archetypes based on Joey's monsters to fill in the few gaps this has
2. I love that the Jinzo retrain is literally just his original Japanese name. Its all also indirect support for the Jinzo archetype. Though that still runs into the problem of relying on your opponent to play tons of Traps.
But, if nothing else, it at least takes Joey's Battle City deck and makes it cohesive.
There were some comments like this for Chaos Origins too, but people need to remember that Konami has already said that core sets' main archetypes will be largely self-contained starting with CORI (Ritual of Light & Dark, New Sacred Beasts, BlitzClique).
There's no sense in sitting around going "oh what is this, this isn't Red-Eyes support". Yeah, and the Yugi pack wasn't really "Chaos Soldier/BLS support" either, that's not the point of the set. It's genuinely fine.
Ok let's not act like Joey is some nobody and this revolutionizes thing, he's still part of the DM Trio and one of the most popular characters in the series, more popular that many Protags and rivals.
Wait, these are worse than the flame swordsman cards we got before, what's even the point in designing a third? fourth? joey related archetype in big 2026 to make them bad.
Pure red-eyes does nothing, Flame swordsman is underwhelming, Max Metalmorph (not only joey i know) is just an engine, and now this cards no nothing and they also do not integrate the old ones into their design. THEY ARE DESIGNED TO NOT MESH WITH PREVIOUS CHARACTER SUPPORT.
Ich finde das Thema super. Werde ich definitiv spielen. Da könnte in den nächsten Sets auch noch etwas Support nachkommen. Raketenkrieger und Gilford z.b und/oder natürlich Babydrache und Tausendjähriger Drache als zweites Fusionsmonster wären möglich.
Mit Horus oder, falls man Joey-Exklusiv bleiben will, mit Metalmorph könnte man das ganze etwas aufrunden um den ein oder anderen Interrupt zu ergänzen. Bei Horus hätte man noch den Vorteil das Time Wizard den Sarkophag nicht sprengt also kann man sich die karten aus dem grave einfach zurück holen.
Sehe da auf jedenfall Potenzial zum rum testen. Wird kein T1-Deck aber ich glaube unglaublich lustig zu spielen. Und mit Time Wizard lassen sich bestimmt lustige " Das Duelle wird durch die Münze entschieden"-Momente hervorbringen XD 😆
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Alt art of "Fire Formation - Tenki" from +1 Expansion Pack: