20th Anniversary Duelist Box from Weekly Shonen Jump

[Hallohallo]

 

Dark Cavalry
DARK/Spellcaster
Level 8
2800/2300
Fusion/Effect
“Dark Magician” + 1 Warrior monster
(1) This card gains 100 ATK for each Spell or Trap card on the field and either player’s GY.
(2) If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage.
(3) When an effect that targets a card on the field is activated (Quick Effect): you can discard 1 card; negate that activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

 

 

Decode End
Normal Spell Card
You can only activate a card with this card’s name once per turn.
(1) Target 1 “Decode Talker” you control, then apply the following effects equal to the number of monsters pointed by it:
•1+: That monster gains 500 ATK for each monster linked to it.
•2+: Banish any monster destroyed in battle by that monster after damage calculation.
•3+: If that monster destroys an opponent’s monster in battle, after damage calculation: Destroy all cards your opponent controls.

 

 

Performapal Smile Magician Sorcerer
LIGHT/Spellcaster
Level 8
Pendulum/Effect
Scale 1
2500/2000
Pendulum Effect:
You can only use the Pendulum Effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) If a monster(s) you control that has higher ATK than its original ATK is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your Pendulum Zone.

Monster Effect:
You can only use the (1) and (2) effects of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Smile” Spell or Trap Card from your Deck to your hand.
(2) If all monsters you control are “Performapal” monsters, “Magician” Pendulum Monsters or “Odd-Eyes” Monsters (min. 1), and this card has higher ATK than its original ATK: You can draw cards up to the number of monsters you control with ATK higher than their original ATK, but for the rest of this turn, you cannot Special Summon any monsters.

 

 

Shining Draw
Normal Spell Card
(1) To activate this card, you must draw it for your normal draw in your Draw Phase, reveal it, keep it revealed during Main Phase 1 of that turn, and then target 1 “Utopia” Xyz monster you control and choose 1 of the following effects;
•Equip any number of “ZW” monsters with different names from your Deck and Extra Deck to the targeted monster.
•Xyz Summon 1 “Utopia” Xyz monster from your Extra Deck with a different name to that target, using that target as a material.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

More importantly OCG is getting Junk Speeder

[Atypical-Abbie]

Smile is becoming an Archetype? Alright then, that's interesting, so it mentions Traps, and there aren't any right now from what I can tell, so maybe we'll see some more support for that, seeing as Pendulum is an Archetype too.

[goodfusion]

Dark Cavalry has a similar target negation effect to Red-Eyes Slash Dragon while both require a Warrior monster to Fusion Summon. I wonder if that's intentional? Definitely a reference to Dark Paladin though. The card itself honestly seems exceedingly "whatever" as Dark Magician the Dragon Knight is much better at protecting your backrow, although I guess it can negate your opponent's Machine Duplication.

[Enguin Enguin Enguin Enguin]

that smile magician draw effect could be pretty funking mental

[Blake]

I funking love Smile Magician.

 

It's not amazing, but funk, it's way better than SMILE WORLD support needed to be. Quality meme.

 

Decode and Shining suck zzzz

 

Dark Cavalry is good flavor, decent card.

[Draconus297]

Smile Magician into search Smile World and draw 5 cards is definitely a crazy play, a +5 if you have the setup . . . in MR3. In Master Rule 4, the most likely scenario is probably closer to 3 monsters when you use that effect, and as such a lot less of an absurd play. Still, definitely worth a spot in the Deck.

 

Cavalry is kinda meh, a neat option for Dark Magician once Dragon Knight is sitting pretty in a MMZ, but imo the funniest part about the card is that he stole Gaia's horse.

[Mr. Best Male 2008]

smoke universe ftk is back boiz

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

Is there any good efficient way to mass boost attacks in Pendulum Magicians?

 

Is it basically down to using Harmonzing Magician as a scale?

[Hallohallo]

Apparently, Smile Magician isn't a "magician"...

[The Highlander]

Is it basically down to using Harmonzing Magician as a scale?

You CAN use the Smile World he searches, though that relies on playing Smile World.

In any case it is either Smile World or Harmonizing Magician.

Am I the only one who wants Monkeyboard back even more after seeing that Performapal ?

 

As for the others ... Yusaku's card is effectively his crappy first half of season 1 style.

The Dark Magician Fusion would be really good ... would it be treated as Dark Magician on the field and in the grave ... why does it not do that after the last Fusion monster they got ?

Yuma's card ... either floats the field with bricky ZWs or is a sheet version of a Rank-Up-Magic ... while Utopia has Xyz Change Tactics, due to the fact that this already requires an Utopia on the field, it is not even a topdeck meme, if you want to get a massive plus, also playing ZW just use Xyz Change Tactics with ZW (whyever you want ZWs), the only one this is better at pulling is Lion Arms and do you really care about that, while Utopia Double exists ?

At the very least it does not care if they can be equiped ?

 

The only really interesting one is the Smile Magician.

At the very least Electrumite/Sky Iris + Harmonizing Magician can tutor it from the Pendulum Zone and then allow its massive draw.

[Darj]

Any Warrior as material for Dark Cavalry is quite flexible. Can be easily Summoned through Magicalize and Necro Fusion. The (3) not having any OPT clause is a bit noteworthy.

 

Still, Smile Sorcerer looks like the most promising card from the bunch. With some setup you can fetch a couple of sweet draws. If only it could grab Smile Spell/Traps form the GY too so you would worry less about the effect becoming dead.

[The Highlander]

Any Warrior as material for Dark Cavalry is quite flexible. Can be easily Summoned through Magicalize and Necro Fusion. The (3) not having any OPT clause is a bit noteworthy.

 

Still, Smile Sorcerer looks like the most promising card from the bunch. With some setup you can fetch a couple of sweet draws. If only it could grab Smile Spell/Traps form the GY too so you would worry less about the effect becoming dead.

If you run it at all, using Wisdom-Eye Magician -> Harmonizing Magician (which works with any Performapal/Magician in the other Pendulum Zone) you get the setup to summon Smile Sorcerer and then also buff everything to draw for all of them anyways, without running any bricks and only cards you would want to run anyways.

[The Warden]

Don’t even really bother using a Warrior for Dark Cavalry, considering the Eye of Timaeus can fart it out at the cost of a Dark Magician.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Don't even really bother using a Dark Magician for Dark Cavalry, considering Fusion Parasite can fart is out at the cost of a Warrior.