Magistus Current Format (1/19) Competive Variant (HMCD)

Combo Tutorial: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=701929-56270803

Description:
Magistus has been a deck that hasn't seen any competitive play outside of small engines in pre-existing strategies. This attempts to use more Magistus cards combined with unforseen interactions to elevate the floor of the magistus deck. This version of the list is able to steal games against the top of the meta of TCG, which is a position that Magistus has never been in. In fact, I've gotten to 2000 rating easily on YGOmega w/ this list and I believe that it can get to high rated in DB as well.

Of course, this isn't a pure build that some of you may have liked to see (with Rilliona + Magistus spells). Currently, all the magistus spells have little effective use and/or require to much setup to be anywhere close to valuable, so this list has decided to not run Rilliona currently. Furthermore, in testing, I've found Zoroa (Synchro) has been to weak, as there are a lot of decks that can out Zoroa super easily. There are decks of course (purrely/branded) that fold to Zoroa, however they both also have outs that exist. In the future, we may get support (OCGStories) that make Rilliona/Zoroa easier to slot in, but I strive to make a Magistus deck as competively-viable as possible, which brings us to this decklist here. There is a lot of room for customization in this list, so feel free to tinker as you see fit. If interested in a version that also ends on Zoroa Synchro, It can be slotted in by dropping Malong and Granguignol/Dharc for Cenderllion (Rilliona XYZ) and Calamity (Zoroa Synchro).

Card List:

Hand-Traps/Board Breakers:

3x Fenrir

3x Ash Blossom

2x Droll and Lock Bird

1x Effect Veiler

1x Called by the Grave

3x Infinite Impermanece

Note: The Ratios for Droll/Veiler are due to the ability of witch to search them out. In a lot of hands, you will have more then enough for the combo (especially without opp interaction), so you can search these for added disruption.

Engine:

3x Endymion

3x Imesty

3x Zoroa

1x Witch of the Black Forest (serves as a psuedo one-card combo, however you still do need a way to a 1.5k spellcaster through hard drawn, nadir, or horus engine)

1x Maximus

2x Nadir Servant

3x King's Sarcophagus

Note: Ratios for Nadir/Maximus is due to the prevelance of Droll in the format and the general value of Maximus in the hand. Maximus is a very good extender as another body and doesn't lose as hard to droll if hard drawn. Since we already run Zombie Vampire as a way to each of our engines, I didn't personally find value in maxing out Nadir, however these ratios are customizable to yourself.

Extenders:

2x Magicians' Souls

1x Nefarious Archfiend Eater of Nefariousness <- Not an activated effect to SS itself, so it works with witch

Basic End Board:

Possessed Partnerships + I:P

Best End Board: (In a lot of games w/ no interruption you will be able to get here. I'm not including hand traps in either board as they depend on the mills or draws in the turn).

Savage, I:P, Possessed Partnerships, Cartesia, Fleur