Resource Domain - Staples

Curated Staples for use in Domain Format: Join the Community Discord!

This 60-card list focuses on spells and traps that excel in multiplayer settings or within Domain Format’s unique deckbuilding restrictions. Cards that are generically good across formats in Yugioh were intentionally excluded.

Domain Format General Rules:

• Singleton Format: Every card restricted to 1 copy per deck.
• 60-card Format: Each Main Deck must contain exactly 60 cards.
• 4-player Pods: Each player competes individually in an all-out battle against three opponents.
• Deckmaster Restrictions: Each player chooses a "Deckmaster" which dictates the allowed types and attributes for their deck.
• Deckmaster Contract: A Deckmaster can be summoned from a designated "Deckmaster Zone" using normal summoning rules. After switching zones, Deckmasters may return to the "Deckmaster Zone," where they start the game.

Refer here for additional rules and exceptions:

https://www.domainformat.com/rules 

Broad Categories

Staples fall into 4 broad categories:

• Continuous Advantage Generation / Removal 
• Deckmaster Interaction
• Turns Exploitation
• Ally Recruiting Tools

Similar Cards Not in Current List:

Cards like Dark Hole or Malevolent Catastrophe :
Boardwipes: Refer to this deck link.
Notable Monster boardwipes are Earthshaker , Needle Ceiling , and Super Polymerization 
Notable Spell or Trap boardwipes are Full House , Hey, Trunade! and Fairy Wind 

Cards like Jar of Avarice:
Returns key cards for (combo) reuse: SPYRAL Resort , Cynet Universe , Slash Draw , D.D. Post , Localized Tornado , Pot of Benevolence 

Cards like Pot of Avarice:
Card Draw (2+): Pot of Dichotomy , Shard of Greed , Flawless Perfection of the Tenyi , Accumulated Fortune , Appropriate , Triple Tactics Talent 

Cards like Supply Squad: 
Card Advantage over time: Backup Squad , Pinpoint Landing , Kingyo Sukui , Branded Regained , Heritage of the Light 

Cards like Bottomless Shifting Sand:
Removes cards at each opponent's End Phase: Ectoplasmer , Venom Swamp , Savage Colosseum , Quarantine 

Cards like Dark Sanctuary:
Continuous attack negation: Ordeal of a Traveler , Scrubbed Raid , Depth Amulet , Fairy Box 

Cards like That's 10!:
Chain-Blocking for "friends" (non-OPT):  Soul Demolition , Ultimate Offering 

Best 5 Similar Cards:
Soul Absorption , Spell Absorption , Way Where There's a Will , Trickstar Light Stage , Terrors of the Afterroot 

Weaker Alternatives:

Cards like Dark Factory of More Production:
Changes one card into another: Fusion Recycling Plant , Mirror Force Launcher , Toy Box 

Cards like Starry Dragon's Cycle:  
Summons from opponents' Graveyards: Fateful Hour , Autonomous Action Unit , Spell Card "Monster Reborn" , Stand In ,
The Deep Grave , Miraculous Rebirth , Spright Double Cross , Storm Dragon's Return 
Uses cards from opponents' Graveyards: Made to Order Mermaid Outfit Outfitter , Double Spell , Graverobber 

Cards like Book of Eclipse:
Board neutralization: Digit Jamming , Turnabout , Bunch of Beast Bodies 

Cards like Ecole de Zone: 
Removes cards at opponent's turn: Future Visions , Ghostrick Museum , Ancient Forest , Begone, Knave! 

Cards like Supermagic Sword of Raptinus:
Resummons Deckmaster as extender:  Chain Summoning, Double Summon , Summon Dice 
Summons on an opponent's turn: Ultimeat Offering , Free-Range Monsters , Arrivalrivals 

Cards like Duel Academy:
More/Stronger effects with more cards on field: Flock Together , Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan , Dreamland  

Cards like Appropriate: 
Affects all opponents, benefits self: Forced Requisition 

Cards like Small World:
Conditional monster search: Downbeat , Transmodify , Mutamorphosis , Metaltronus , Ties of the Brethren , Flock Together 

Much Weaker Options:

Cards like Chicken Game: 
Effects for Turn Player: Hidden Springs of the Far East , Fusion Gate , Mausoleum of the Emperor , Way Where There's a Will , Dueltaining 

Cards like Battle Royal Mode - Joining:
Effects for attacked player: Smile Action  

Cards like Extra Net:
Incentivizes less summoning: Summon Over , Summon Breaker 

Cards like Scrap-Iron Statue:
Reusable Spell or Trap Destruction: Unending Nightmare 
Reusable Trap: Scrap-Iron Scarecrow , Scrap-Iron Sacred Statue , Subterror Final Battle 

Cards like D.D. Post:
Returns Spell/Traps to Top of Deck or Hand: The Legend of Tickets , A Feather of the Phoenix , Magical Stone Excavation , Spell Reproduction , Hidden Spellbook 

Cards like One Day of Peace:
Effect lasts one turn rotation: Timidity  
Each player draws a card: Dragged Down into the Grave , Contract with Don Thousand , Dark World Dealings 

Cards like Soul Release:
GY (engine) removal by returning to Deck: Cynet Universe , Foolish Return , The Transmigration Prophecy , Pot of Benevolence 
GY (engine) removal by banishing: Crevice Into the Different Dimension , Gravedigger Ghoul , Soul Demolition , Dark World Puppetry , Ragnaraika Wisteria of Woe 
Recyling hate: Transmigration Break , Necrovalley , Silent Graveyard , Gravekeeper's Inscription 

Cards like Child's Play:
Gain signficant LP: Supremacy Berry , The Spell Absorbing Life , Destruct Potion , Enchanted Javelin 
Continuous effect to gain LP: Soul Absorption , Spring of Rebirth , Lil-la Rap , Deception of the Sinful Spoils 

Cards like Top Share: 
Donate Cards: Exchange , Old Mind , Gold Moon Coin , Graceful Tear , Lullaby of Obedience 
Opponent searches: Dark Designator , Card of Fate , Abyssal Designator 

Duplicate Effects in the Current List:

Cards like Child's Play:
Continuous effect to gain LP: Spell Absorption , Ebon Sun

Cards like Top Share: 
Opponent adds a card with you: Margin Trading , Gift Exchange  
Request a card: Lullaby of Obedience , Spell Chronicle , Made to Order Mermaid Outfit Outfitter 

Cards like Prohibition:
Bans or restricts a specified card (usually Deckmaster): Mistaken Accusation , Dirge of the Lost Dragon , Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell , The Black Goat Laughs 
Prevents DMZ return: Sinful Spoils of Subversion - Snake-Eye , Floodgate Trap Hole
Steal a Deckmaster:  Xyz Import , Crackdown , Spell Card "Monster Reborn" 

Cards like Chain Ignition: 
Continuous effect to destroy cards: Bottomless Shifting Sand , Gingerbread House 
Destroys cards upon condition: Loop of Destruction , Dreamland , Duel Academy 

Generically Strong Cards currently legal in Domain Format (October 2024):

Painful Choice , Royal Oppression , Mirage of Nightmare ,  Mystic Mine ,
Pot of Greed , Graceful Charity , Last Will , Heavy Storm , Cold Wave , Last Turn 

Weakest 5 Cards in this list: 

One Day of Peace , Made to Order Mermaid Outfit Outfitter , Xyz Import , Pinpoint Dash , Black Garden 

Removed Due to Community Feedback:

Side Effects? , Appropriate , Gold Moon Coin , Supermagic Sword of Raptinus , Spell Chronicle , Dirge of the Lost Dragon , Crush Card Virus 

Ancient Warriors Saga - Chivalrous Path , Dreamland , Interrupted Kaiju Slumber , Destiny Board , Spell Card "Soul Exchange" ,Pinpoint Dash 

Other Community Suggestions:

Delinquent Duo , Two Toads with One Sting , Raregold Armor , Smoke Grenade of the Thief 

Other useful Cards:
Call of the Earthbound , Yu-Jo Friendship , Fighting Spirit , Iron Thunder ,
Dances with Beasts ,That's 10! , Fighting Dirty , Burning Land , Hatsugai ,
 Tower of Babel , Trap Tracks , Bait Doll , Absolute End , Land Flipping , 
Decisive Battle of Golgonda , Mystical Refpanel , Life Shaver , Red Arrows 
Please also refer to this deck link for more

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