Advice Needed for Marik Deck

[Zoltrixer]

Hello,

I'm looking for a Marik character-based deck that is good enough to beat level 51 AI most of the time. From what I understand, the Winged Dragon of Ra in the anime had all kinds of effects that aren't in this game, so that card can be excluded if it doesn't go well with the other cards. It also doesn't have to be exactly as in the anime, just with a good number of the cards and ideas to feel like a Marik deck.

Note: I don't have the shadow game skill.

Regards,
Zoltrixer

[⛤ . taki ˚⊹]

What will you do: play pvp or pve?

SOme nice cards: Legendary Fiend, Lord Poison (great card in Plant deck). Let's not forget: Masked Beast Des , Mask of the Accursed and Lava Golem.

[Zoltrixer]

Originally posted by taki:

What will you do: play pvp or pve?

SOme nice cards: Legendary Fiend, Lord Poison (great card in Plant deck). Let's not forget: Masked Beast Des , Mask of the Accursed and Lava Golem.

PvE, and I'm not even looking for 100% win rate and such, just a fun character-based deck that won't always lose (because always losing is also not too fun :P). Are the masks Marik's cards or cards of Lumis and Umbra? I'm not sure how I can fit Lord Poison in, and same with Revival Jam.

[⛤ . taki ˚⊹]

Originally posted by Zoltrixer:

Are the masks Marik's cards or cards of Lumis and Umbra? I'm not sure how I can fit Lord Poison in, and same with Revival Jam.

"Structure Deck: Marik" -> google
Duel Links has some diffr. opinion about cards and their owners ;D

From Wiki:

Yami Marik runs an Immortality-Torture Deck, which focuses on slowly torturing his opponents and revelling in their suffering. Keeping with the theme of pain, Yami Marik's cards slowly drain an opponent's strength, such as discarding their hand with "Helpoemer", lowering ATK with "Dark Jeroid" and "Plasma Eel", and inflicting effect damage with "Coffin Seller" and "Bowganian". Some of his cards, like "Nightmare Wheel", "Viser Shock" and "Viser Des", are based on torture machines. Yami Marik's Deck otherwise relies on a variety of powerful Trap Cards and Fiend-Type monsters. With "The Winged Dragon of Ra" as his trump card, Yami Marik uses a variety of cards to discard it, then revive it with "Monster Reborn" to devastate opponents. He further relies on retrieving "Monster Reborn" to his hand after using it initially to continue to revive "Ra" again and again, using cards such as "Left Arm Offering" and "Mining for Magical Stones". Yami Marik also uses some of the cards previously used by Rare Hunters such as "Jam Defender" and in the anime "Masked Beast Des Gardius".

The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode: https://i.imgur.com/RfQv1JK.jpg

[c Z p]

You seem to have analyzed a great deal of other stuff around here. What do you need help for making Marik's deck? -_- (Your thread doesn't seem very honest, if I may say so)
Just watch the anime and "translate" those cards he holds there into a Duel Links deck, is that so hard? Asking the opinions of randoms around here will get you nowhere and even more confused. They'll just refer to wikis and other non accurate stuff, in the end.

Regards

ps: Marik doesn't use a "burn" deck, nor a "mill" deck. Duel Monsters isn't about using a tight-structured deck like the ones players use nowadays. Only Siegfried Von Schroeder does that.

[Zoltrixer]

Originally posted by taki:

Thank you. The character structure decks cleared some things up for me. From what I see from both of the structure decks, it'll be the best to give the masked cards to Lumis and Umbra and to give the torture and dark stuff along with maybe Lava Golem to Marik. Ishtar would have the gravekeepers and Odion the continuous traps. I think I won't be including Lord Poison since it just doesn't fit, and even the Revival Jam stuff doesn't have much synergy, unless I put in Slifer. I'm probably not putting in Ra as it just doesn't seem to make sense.

Do you have any ideas if I could include Revival Jam and co, Lord Poison or Ra in this deck even with the help of some cards that aren't used by Marik? I can post a screenshot of a deck in the making later on when I level up Marik enough for some of his key cards.

Originally posted by c Z p:

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with the thread not seeming honest and what you think its purpose is. I want to make a deck good enough for fun PvE experience with using many cards from the anime, but my issue with Marik is that he uses a lot of cards that just don't make any sense in his deck or even for his character, example being the Revival Jam which was just there to help him build up his hand for Slifer, from what I remember, and also that his cards are mixed up with those of his allies, like the masked guys or Ishtar. I am wondering how others have dealt with this and built a Marik character-themed deck and if anyone has suggestions on how to fit in the cards that don't fit in too well, even if it's with a card that's not used by Marik in the anime.

[c Z p]

Originally posted by Zoltrixer:

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with the thread not seeming honest and what you think its purpose is. I want to make a deck good enough for fun PvE experience with using many cards from the anime, but my issue with Marik is that he uses a lot of cards that just don't make any sense in his deck or even for his character, example being the Revival Jam which was just there to help him build up his hand for Slifer, from what I remember, and also that his cards are mixed up with those of his allies, like the masked guys or Ishtar. I am wondering how others have dealt with this and built a Marik character-themed deck and if anyone has suggestions on how to fit in the cards that don't fit in too well, even if it's with a card that's not used by Marik in the anime.

Nevermind. Build the deck you want ys.

[Zoltrixer]

Well, here's something I made for now. It does pretty well against level 51 AI, vagabonds and legendary duelists. There's a few more changes incoming since I have yet to obtain Helpoemer and Newdoria.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268064538

Skill: Draw Sense Dark
1x Lava Golem
2x Grave Squirmer
2x Dark Jeroid
1x Wicked Acolyte Chilam Sabak
1x Legendary Fiend
1x Power Invader
1x Ogre of the Scarlet Sorrow
1x Drillago
1x Kiseitai
1x Viser Des
2x Gil Garth
1x Recurring Nightmare
2x Statue of Anguish Pattern
1x Counter Gate
1x Draining Shield
1x Wall of Disruption
1x Skull Invitation
1x Coffin Seller

I didn't include Ra, Slifer, Plasma and its relatives or Lord Poison since they weren't really dark/torture/effect damage which I think is what Marik would be best described with, and since these cards were making the deck too weak.

I'm not sure how to add in Helpoemer once I get him. Removing Power Invader or Wicked Acolyte Chilam Sabak would quite weaken the deck, while I cannot remove Legendary Fiend due to it being Marik's card and fitting in with his themes. Having both Legendary Fiend and Helpoemer would ruin the deck's consistency, however.

As for Newdoria, I guess changing one of the Dark Jeroids or one of the Grave Squirmers for it wouldn't hurt the deck. Otherwise, if I just add in Helpoemer, I am thinking of just adding in Newdoria, too.

What do you think?

Oh, and I forgot to add in the XYZ cards here, and maybe a high level synchro, but they're not too important power-wise and theme-wise and I don't have many XYZ cards at the moment, either.