Pendulum Magician Deck Breakdown

LIGHT 7

Your opponent cannot target Level 6 or lower "Artmage" monsters you control with card effects. You can only use each of the following effects of "Artmage Finmel" once per turn. If you control an "Artmage" card: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then you can draw 1 card. During the Main Phase, if you have 3 or more different Monster Types on your field (Quick Effect): You can negate the effects of all face-up monsters your opponent currently controls, also until the end of this turn, their ATK's become halved.

LIGHT 5

The first time this card would be destroyed by battle each turn, it is not destroyed. You can only use each of the following effects of "Artmage Graflare" once per turn. If you control an "Artmage" card: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then you can Set 1 "Artmage" Spell from your Deck. You can target 1 Spell/Trap your opponent controls; destroy it. This is a Quick Effect if you have 3 or more different Monster Types on your field.

LIGHT 3

You take no damage from battles involving this card. You can only use each of the following effects of "Artmage Litera" once per turn. If you control an "Artmage" card: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, then you can add 1 "Artmage" card from your GY to your hand. During your opponent's Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 "Artmage" monster from your hand or GY, except "Artmage Litera", then return this card from the field to the hand.

EARTH 1

You cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck, except Fusion Monsters. You can only use each of the following effects of "Artmage Power Patron" once per turn. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Fusion Summon 1 "Artmage" Fusion Monster or 1 "Nerva the Power Patron of Creation" from your Extra Deck, using this card you control and monsters from your hand or field. If this card is sent from the hand or field to the GY: You can add 1 "Artmage" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, with a different name from the cards in your GY.

WIND 1

If a card(s) is added from the Main Deck to your opponent's hand, except during the Draw Phase (Quick Effect): You can send this card from your hand to the GY; for the rest of this turn, cards cannot be added from either player's Main Deck to the hand.

DARK 4

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add to your hand, or Special Summon, 1 "Power Patron" monster from your Deck. If this card is in your GY: You can shuffle 1 monster from your hand or face-up field into the Deck, and if you do, Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Medius the Pure" once per turn.

WIND 4

If you control no cards (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; apply these effects this turn. ● Each time your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) from the Deck and/or Extra Deck, immediately draw 1 card. ● Once, during this End Phase, if the number of cards in your hand is more than the number of cards your opponent controls +6, you must randomly shuffle cards from your hand into the Deck so the number in your hand equals the number your opponent controls +6. You can only activate 1 other "Mulcharmy" monster effect, the turn you activate this effect.

WATER 4

If you control no cards (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; apply these effects this turn. ● Each time your opponent Normal or Special Summons a monster(s) from the hand, immediately draw 1 card. ● Once, during this End Phase, if the number of cards in your hand is more than the number of cards your opponent controls +6, you must randomly shuffle cards from your hand into the Deck so the number in your hand equals the number your opponent controls +6. You can only activate 1 other "Mulcharmy" monster effect, the turn you activate this effect.

DARK 101

[ Pendulum Effect ] If a "Power Patron" or "Elfnote" monster(s) is Special Summoned to your field, while this card is in your Pendulum Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can destroy this card, and if you do, draw 2 cards, then discard 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Junoldo the Shadespirit Power Patron" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] (This card is always treated as an "Elfnote" card.) You can banish the top 3 cards of your Deck, face-down; destroy this card, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Junora the Power Patron of Tuning" from your Extra Deck (this is treated as a Synchro Summon). If this card is added to your Extra Deck face-up: You can add 1 "Power Patron" or "Elfnote" card from your face-up Extra Deck or GY to your hand, except "Junoldo the Shadespirit Power Patron". You can only use each effect of "Junoldo the Shadespirit Power Patron" once per turn.

DARK 101

[ Pendulum Effect ] During your Main Phase: You can destroy this card and 1 "Power Patron" or "DoomZ" monster in your hand or face-up field, then you can destroy 1 card on the field. You can only use this effect of "Jupredo the Shademachine Power Patron" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] (This card is always treated as a "DoomZ" card.) You can banish the top 3 cards of your Deck, face-down; destroy this card, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Jupiter the Power Patron of Destruction" from your Extra Deck (this is treated as an Xyz Summon), then you can attach 1 card from your hand to it. If this card is added to your Extra Deck face-up: You can add 1 "Power Patron" or "DoomZ" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Jupredo the Shademachine Power Patron" once per turn.

DARK 101

[ Pendulum Effect ] You can negate a monster effect activated by your opponent in response to the activation of a "Power Patron" or "Artmage" monster effect, then destroy this card. You can only use this effect of "Nervedo the Shadebeast Power Patron" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] (This card is always treated as an "Artmage" card.) You can banish the top 3 cards of your Deck, face-down; destroy this card, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Nerva the Power Patron of Creation" from your Extra Deck (this is treated as a Fusion Summon). If this card is added to your Extra Deck face-up: You can Special Summon 1 "Power Patron" or "Artmage" monster from your Deck or face-up Extra Deck, except "Nervedo the Shadebeast Power Patron". You can only use each effect of "Nervedo the Shadebeast Power Patron" once per turn.

DARK 411

[ Pendulum Effect ] You cannot Pendulum Summon, except Pendulum Monsters (this effect cannot be negated). If a monster(s) with 1000 ATK or less is Special Summoned (except during the Damage Step): You can return this card to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Shade the Obscure" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If you have a card in your Pendulum Zone and this card is in your hand: You can Special Summon this card. You can pay 1000 LP; destroy 1 Pendulum Monster Card in your hand or face-up field, then you can add 1 Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your face-up Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of "Shade the Obscure" once per turn.

DARK 1211

[ Pendulum Effect ] You can activate 1 of these effects; ● Destroy this card, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Power Patron" monster from your hand or GY. ● Destroy this card, also for the rest of this turn, "Power Patron" monsters you control whose original Level is 12 gain 5000 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck or GY) by returning 3 monsters (1 Fusion, 1 Synchro, and 1 Xyz) from your face-up field and/or GY to the Extra Deck. Unaffected by monster effects, except "Power Patron" monsters. If this card is added to your Extra Deck face-up: You can add 1 "Power Patron" card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned: Banish (face-down) all cards in the GYs.

FIRE 3

When a card or effect is activated that includes any of these effects (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; negate that effect. ● Add a card from the Deck to the hand. ● Special Summon from the Deck. ● Send a card from the Deck to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring" once per turn.

EARTH 3

When a card or effect is activated that includes any of these effects (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; negate that activation. ● Add a card(s) from the GY to the hand, Deck, and/or Extra Deck. ● Special Summon a Monster Card(s) from the GY. ● Banish a card(s) from the GY. You can only use this effect of "Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion" once per turn.

Spell Field

During your Main Phase, you can Normal Summon 1 "Medius the Pure", in addition to your Normal Summon/Set (you can only gain this effect once per turn). You can discard 1 Spell/Trap, and declare 1 "Artmage" Monster Card name that is not among the monsters you control and has not been declared for "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis" this turn; add that monster from your Deck to your hand, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except "Artmage" monsters, "Medius the Pure", or from the Extra Deck.

Spell Continuous

When this card is activated: You can add 1 "Medius the Pure" from your Deck to your hand. You can target 1 face-up monster you control; if that face-up monster would be used as Fusion Material this turn, it can be treated as an "Artmage" monster. You can only use this effect of "Artmage Vandalism -Assault-" once per turn. If "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis" you control would be destroyed by card effect, you can send this card you control to the GY instead. You can only activate 1 "Artmage Vandalism -Assault-" per turn.

Spell Normal

Place 1 "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis" from your Deck or GY, face-up in your Field Zone, or if you control "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis", add 1 "Artmage" card from your Deck to your hand instead, except "Artmage Varnish -Alteration-". When your "Artmage" monster is targeted for an attack: You can banish this card from your GY; negate that attack, then you can Special Summon 1 "Medius the Pure" from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Artmage Varnish -Alteration-" once per turn.

Spell Quick

Change all face-up monsters on the field to face-down Defense Position. During the End Phase of this turn, change as many face-down Defense Position monsters your opponent controls as possible to face-up Defense Position, then your opponent draws cards equal to the number of monsters changed face-up by this effect.

Spell Quick

Target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; banish it, and if you do, until the end of the next turn, its effects are negated, as well as the activated effects and effects on the field of monsters with the same original name.

Spell Normal

Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards your opponent controls.

Spell Normal

Add 1 Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your Extra Deck face-up. You can only activate 1 "Pendulum Treasure" per turn.

Spell Field

You can reveal 1 "Power Patron" monster in your Extra Deck; banish (face-down) 1 card from your hand, then add to your hand or Special Summon, 1 monster from your Deck that mentions that revealed monster's name (except in its once-per-turn restriction clause). You can only use this effect of "Plundered Power Patron Plane - Vidolia" once per turn. Monsters your opponent controls lose 100 ATK for each banished card. Your opponent cannot activate the effects of cards in the GY, while you control "Nerva the Power Patron of Creation", "Jupiter the Power Patron of Destruction", and "Junora the Power Patron of Tuning".

Spell Normal

Send 1 "Power Patron" monster from your Deck/Extra Deck to the GY, then you can add 1 DARK Fairy monster from your Deck to your hand, also you cannot declare attacks for the rest of this turn, except with "Power Patron" monsters. At the start of the Damage Step, if your "Power Patron" monster battles an opponent's monster: You can banish this card from your GY; banish (face-down) that opponent's monster. You can only use each effect of "Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus" once per turn.

Spell Quick

Discard 1 card; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from either field as Fusion Material. Neither player can activate cards or effects in response to this card's activation.

Spell Normal

If your opponent has activated a monster effect during your Main Phase this turn: Activate 1 of these effects; ● Draw 2 cards. ● Take control of 1 monster your opponent controls until the End Phase. ● Look at your opponent's hand, and choose 1 card from it to shuffle into the Deck. You can only activate 1 "Triple Tactics Talent" per turn.

Spell Normal

If your opponent has activated a monster effect during this turn: Set 1 Normal Spell/Trap directly from your Deck, except "Triple Tactics Thrust", or if your opponent controls a monster, you can add it to your hand instead. That Set card cannot be activated this turn. You can only activate 1 "Triple Tactics Thrust" per turn.

Trap Continuous

Both players must Set Spell Cards before activating them, and cannot activate them until their next turn after Setting them.

Trap Counter

If you control an "Artmage" monster, you can activate this card the turn it was Set. When your opponent activates a monster effect: You can banish 1 Fusion Monster you control (until the End Phase), and if you do, negate the activation, and if you do that, destroy that monster, then if you have 3 or more different Monster Types on your field, you can return all Spells/Traps your opponent controls to the hand. You can only activate 1 "Artmage Impasto -Recapture-" per turn.

Trap Normal

Special Summon 1 "Artmage" monster or 1 "Medius the Pure" from your Deck, also for the rest of this turn, the activation of your cards and effects that include an effect that Fusion Summons a Fusion Monster cannot be negated, also your opponent cannot activate cards or effects when a monster is Fusion Summoned this way. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 "Artmage" monster you control; return that monster to the hand/Extra Deck, and if you do, destroy 1 card your opponent controls. You can only use 1 "Artmage Pact -Awakening-" effect per turn, and only once that turn.

Trap Normal

This turn, any monster sent to the GY is banished instead.

Trap Counter

When a monster(s) would be Summoned, OR a Spell/Trap Card is activated: Pay half your LP; negate the Summon or activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

Trap Counter

When a monster(s) would be Summoned, OR when a Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect, is activated that includes an effect that Special Summons a monster(s): Pay 2000 LP; negate the Summon or activation, and if you do, destroy it.

LIGHT 8

"Medius the Pure" + 1 "Artmage" monster You can target 1 monster on the field; change its battle position. When your opponent activates a card or effect on the field, if you have 3 or more different Monster Types on your field (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card. If this Fusion Summoned card is destroyed: You can Special Summon 1 "Medius the Pure" from your hand, Deck, or banishment. You can only use each effect of "Artmage Diactorus" once per turn.

EARTH 7

2 "Artmage" monsters Must be either Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by discarding 1 Spell/Trap and Tributing 1 Level 7 or higher "Artmage" monster from your hand or field. You can only Special Summon "Artmage Non-Finito" once per turn this way, no matter which method you use. If this card is Special Summoned: You can Set 1 "Artmage" Spell/Trap from your Deck. Once per opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters you control.

DARK 6

2 monsters with the same Type and Attribute, but different names Any battle damage your opponent takes from battles involving this card is doubled. If this card is sent to the GY: You can draw 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Garura, Wings of Resonant Life" once per turn.

WATER 4

2 monsters with the same Attribute but different Types Your opponent cannot target this card, or monsters on the field with the same Attribute as this card, with card effects. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can declare 1 Attribute; this card becomes that Attribute until the end of this turn.

EARTH 10

3 "Artmage" monsters Must first be either Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) in Defense Position by Tributing 3 monsters with different Types. You can only Special Summon "Nerva the Power Patron of Creation(s)" once per turn. While a card is in the Field Zone, this card cannot be destroyed by card effects. Once per turn, when you activate an "Artmage" monster's effect (Quick Effect): You can make the activated effect become "Destroy all cards your opponent controls".

DARK 8

1 Fusion Monster + 1 DARK monster Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; place 1 Predator Counter on it, and if it is Level 2 or higher, it becomes Level 1 as long as it has a Predator Counter. Negate the activated effects of your opponent's monsters that have Predator Counters.

WATER 5

2 Tuners

DARK

2 Effect Monsters, including a Pendulum Monster If this card is Link Summoned in the Extra Monster Zone: You can pay 1200 LP; add 1 Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your hand, but for the rest of this turn, unless you Pendulum Summon after this effect resolves, you cannot activate monster effects, and the effects of any cards in your Pendulum Zones are negated. If 2 monsters with different original Levels are Pendulum Summoned at the same time to the zones this card points to: You can target 2 cards on the field; destroy them. You can only use this effect of "Beyond the Pendulum" once per turn.

EARTH

1 non-Link Machine monster with 1000 or less original ATK If this card is Link Summoned: You can send 1 face-up Continuous Spell you control to the GY; add 1 "Clockwork Night" from your Deck to your hand. You can target 1 Machine monster with 1000 or less ATK in your GY; Tribute 1 Machine monster, except this card, and if you do, Special Summon that targeted monster in Defense Position. You can only use each effect of "Clockwork Knight" once per turn.

EARTH

2 monsters with different names If a monster is Special Summoned to a zone this card points to: You can apply the following effects, in sequence, based on the card types of the monster(s) this card points to. ● Ritual: Draw 2 cards, then discard 2 cards. ● Fusion: Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your GY. ● Synchro: All monsters you control gain 700 ATK. ● Xyz: All monsters your opponent controls lose 700 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Cross-Sheep" once per turn.

LIGHT

2+ Effect Monsters, including a Pendulum Monster Gains 100 ATK for each Pendulum Monster Card you control. You can only use each of the following effects of "Exceed the Pendulum" once per turn. If this card is Link Summoned: You can add 1 face-up Pendulum Monster from your Extra Deck to your hand. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 Pendulum Monster from your hand or GY in Defense Position, with a Level between the Pendulum Scales of the 2 cards in your Pendulum Zones.

DARK

2 Effect Monsters If this card is Link Summoned using a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Monster as material: You can target 1 card on the field or in either GY; banish it, also your monsters cannot attack directly this turn. When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can target 2 face-up monsters on the field, including a monster you control; banish both until the End Phase. You can only use each effect of "S:P Little Knight" once per turn.

FIRE 10

1 Tuner + 2 non-Tuners For this card's Synchro Summon, you can treat 1 monster in your center Main Monster Zone as a Tuner. If this card is Synchro Summoned: You can negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent controls. (Quick Effect): You can activate this effect; monsters your opponent controls in the same column as the "Elfnote" monster(s) you control cannot be used as material for a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Summon, until the end of this turn. You can only use this effect of "Junora the Power Patron of Tuning" once per turn.

WIND

3 Level 10 monsters Once per turn, you can also Xyz Summon "Jupiter the Power Patron of Destruction" by using 1 monster you control equipped with 3 or more Equip Cards (transfer its materials). If this card is Xyz Summoned: You can equip any number of Equip Spells from your GY to this card that can equip to it. Gains 3000 ATK while it has an Xyz Monster as material. Once per turn: You can detach 1 material from this card; Special Summon 1 "DoomZ" monster from your GY, then you can destroy 1 card on the field.

DARK

2+ Level 10 monsters When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can detach 1 material from this card; negate the activation, then you can detach 1 material from this card, then destroy 1 card on the field. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card attacks while it has material: You can destroy 1 card on the field. If this Xyz Summoned card is destroyed: You can destroy 1 card on the field. You can only use each effect of "Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times" once per turn.