[SDPE] Magicians (aka Zarc's cards)

[LK96]

SD31-JP001 Astrograph Magician / Astrograph Sorcerer

Level 7 DARK Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Effect Monster

ATK 2500

DEF 2000

Pendulum Scale: 1

Pendulum Effect:

You can only use the Pendulum Effect of “Astrograph Sorcerer” once per turn.

(1) During your Main Phase: You can destroy this card, and if you do, place 1 “Stargazer Magician” from your hand or Deck in your Pendulum Zone.

Monster Effect:

(1) If a card you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then, you can add 1 monster from your Deck to your hand, whose name is the same as a monster that was destroyed this turn.

(2) You can banish this card you control, then banish 1 “Pendulum Dragon” monster, 1 “Xyz Dragon” monster, 1 “Synchro Dragon”, and 1 “Fusion Dragon” monster, from your hand, field, and/or Graveyard; Special Summon 1 “Haohryuu Zarc” from your Extra Deck. (This Special Summon is treated as a Fusion Summon.)

 

 

Chronograph Magician / Chronograph Sorcerer

Level 6 DARK Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Effect Monster

ATK 2000

DEF 1700

Pendulum Scale: 8

Pendulum Effect:

You can only use the Pendulum Effect of “Chronograph Sorcerer” once per turn.

(1) During your Main Phase: You can destroy this card, and if you do, place 1 “Timegazer Magician” from your hand or Deck in your Pendulum Zone.

Monster Effect:

(1) If a card you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then, you can Special Summon 1 monster from your hand.

(2) You can banish this card you control, then banish 1 “Pendulum Dragon” monster, 1 “Xyz Dragon” monster, 1 “Synchro Dragon”, and 1 “Fusion Dragon” monster, from your hand, field, and/or Graveyard; Special Summon 1 “Haohryuu Zarc” from your Extra Deck. (This Special Summon is treated as a Fusion Summon.)

 

 

Seisou no Pendulumgraph / Pendulumgraph of Ages

Continuous Spell Card

You can only use the (2) effect of “Pendulumgraph of Ages” once per turn.

(1) Spellcaster-Type monsters you control cannot be targeted by your opponent’s Spell Effects.

(2) If a face-up “Magician” Pendulum Monster leaves your Monster Zone or Pendulum Zone: You can add 1 “Magician” Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your hand.

 

 

Kousai no Majutsushi / Iris Magician

Level 4 DARK Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Effect Monster

ATK 1500

DEF 1000

Pendulum Scale: 8

Pendulum Effect:

(1) Once per turn: You can target 1 DARK Spellcaster-Type monster you control; for the rest of this turn, double any battle damage it inflicts to your opponent if it battles a monster, then, destroy this card.

Monster Effect:

(This card is always treated as a “Pendulum Dragon” card.)

(1) If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can add 1 “Pendulumgraph” card from your Deck to your hand.

 

 

Kokuga no Majutsushi / Black Fang Magician

Level 4 DARK Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Effect Monster

ATK 1700

DEF 800

Pendulum Scale: 8

Pendulum Effect:

(1) Once per turn: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; that monster’s ATK becomes half its current ATK until the end of this turn, then, destroy this card.

Monster Effect:

(This card is always treated as an “Xyz Dragon” card.)

(1) If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 DARK Spellcaster-Type monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon it.

 

 

Hakuyoku no Majutsushi / White Wing Magician

Level 4 WIND Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Tuner Effect Monster

ATK 1600

DEF 1400

Pendulum Scale: 1

Pendulum Effect:

(1) Once per turn, when a card effect that targets a DARK Spellcaster-Type monster(s) you control resolves, you can negate that effect, then, destroy this card.

Monster Effect:

(This card is always treated as a “Synchro Dragon” card.)

If this Pendulum Summoned card is used for a Synchro Summon, banish it.

 

 

Shidoku no Majutsushi / Violet Poison Magician

Level 4 DARK Spellcaster-Type Pendulum Effect Monster

ATK 1200

DEF 2100

Pendulum Scale: 1

Pendulum Effect:

(1) Once per turn, before damage calculation, when a DARK Spellcaster-Type monster you control battles: You can activate this effect; that monster gains 1200 ATK until the end of the Damage Step, then, destroy this card.

Monster Effect:

(This card is always treated as a “Fusion Dragon” card.)

(1) If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 face-up card; destroy it.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Welp, Zarc is confirmed to be a Fusion Pendulum.

I'm calling it now. Zarc can also treat itself as a Synchro and an Xyz.
As for the cards, they seem...alright? I don't know if Stargazer and Timegazer are still used, but these seem vast improvements.
Plus, Pendulumgraph is great for the deck as a wonderful Sky Iris support card.

[LK96]

4 New Magicians added to OP

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Wow...so the new Magicians can be used as substitutes for their respective Dragons to get out Zarc...
Zarc had BETTER be worth all of this!

[Atypical-Abbie]

These are just the cutest little things, trying to be the Extra Deck Dragons, silly Magicians. That being said, I wonder how powerful Zarc will be, considering the amount of work you have to put in to get it out, but at the same time, you also have Main Deck monsters that could do the job for you. Is that going to tone it down a little? As they are not the greatest monsters out there, I am not sure they will, but then again, we are talking about the Magician Archetype here, they are a very powerful Archetype, so I don't know, it will be interesting.

[heraldry_lord]

These are just the cutest little things, trying to be the Exttra Deck Dragons, silly Magicians.

 

Trying to be? That's assuming that these aren't the humanoid forms of the dragons themselves, which could very well be the case.

[Atypical-Abbie]

Trying to be? That's assuming that these aren't the humanoid forms of the dragons themselves, which could very well be the case.

If my intuition about how dragons are typically represented in YGO and Japan, I find it more likely that they are servants of them, or perhaps their masters in some sense.

[Lee Cheng Men]

Four of the Magicians shown to have similar parts to the four dragons, which can assumed that they actually the human form of the dragons, or just a bunch of magicians that trying to turn themselves into the Dragons. Btw, I wonder how powerful that Zarc would be, as his appearance were leaked...

 

[The Highlander]

The "graph Sorcerer"s are no "Magician" monsters, is that right ? That would make them a pain to search out and thus make the whole Zarc play far worse.

[Blake]

tfw Clear Wing was a girl this whole time

[Atypical-Abbie]

The "graph Sorcerer"s are no "Magician" monsters, is that right ? That would make them a pain to search out and thus make the whole Zarc play far worse.

They aren't, he translators would have made sure of that, since the others are called Magician. That being said, as DARK Spellcasters which only really need to get on the field to be useful, there are plenty of other ways you can get them out.

 

tfw Clear Wing was a girl this whole time

Don't assume dragon genders, jeez.

[Dokutah]

kinda disappointed that SDKZ is just a straight-up Fusion Pendulum rather that original take on pendulum evolution...oh well is more realistic this way, and Yuya supposedly survive through sheer plot armor to make it instead

 

don't play magician much..but its kinda neat that these magicians substitute the dragons requirement

[Hallohallo]

Fun fact: both sorcerers have the same stats as Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.

 

Damn it. I forgot DM has different DEF from other Aces.

[Toffee.]

So we are keeping Zarc a secret. K.

[LK96]

The "graph Sorcerer"s are no "Magician" monsters, is that right ? That would make them a pain to search out and thus make the whole Zarc play far worse.

 

Hmm, maybe that's early revealed TCG Name (with clause "This card is always treated as "Magician" card" upon release) ??? or smth, as on wikia, both Astrograph and Chronograph are categorized as "Magician" monsters

 

EDIT:

So we are keeping Zarc a secret. K.

 

Zarc with his "terrifying" effect will be revealed next month

[Toffee.]

Unless Zarc is gamebreaking, then it's going to ruin these.

[玄魔の王]

So the 'graph Sorcerers aren't searchable by Odd-Eyes or Pendulum Call... hopefully they get some kind of support.

tfw Clear Wing was a girl this whole time

And so is Starve Venom evidently. Not that this is a bad thing.

 

Fun fact: both sorcerers have the same stats as Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.

 

DM has 2100 DEF, not 2000.

 

Astrograph does have Ace stats though.

 

Unless Zarc is gamebreaking, then it's going to ruin these.

The magazine does describe its effect as horrifying, so do with that what you will.

 

But current speculation by Ark and Eva of The Org is it's a Fusion Pendulum.

[BlackBeartic]

Zarc looks like Parsec on steroids tbh

[~~~~]

I would have preferred it if each of the Level 4s looked like their dimensional Yuya-clone.

[evilfusion]

I'm intrigued by the implications of these cards, as well as how they might factor into Arc-V's plot. Even more interesting is that these are being released in a Structure Deck?

 

And Zarc itself is going to be a Fusion, to the shock of...probably no one. I'm very curious to see what Zarc's effect might actually be, as Summoning it undoubtedly will require a lot of resources, even with the Magicians acting as substitutes.

[Bringerofcake]

Do pendulum tuners have some ridiculous aspect about them that I don't know about?

[Expelsword]

Do pendulum tuners have some ridiculous aspect about them that I don't know about?

 

More Pendulums = More

 

and

[Bringerofcake]

I mean more how konami has taken great pains to make sure there are no generic or only restrictive pendulum tuners.

[Expelsword]

It's because you could Synchro every turn, whereas using Pendulums to Xyz doesn't return them to the Extra Deck.

[Bringerofcake]

I mean that's the obvious implication, but based on how a lot of pendulum decks work it's not as though it's a problem making massive boards through pendulum summon.Though I guess a good argument against that is Dracoslayer.