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
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 , Slash Draw , Pot of Dichotomy
Cards like Bottomless Shifting Sand:
Removes cards at each opponent's End Phase: Ectoplasmer , Venom Swamp , Savage Colosseum
Cards like Supply Squad:
Card Advantage over time: Backup Squad , Pinpoint Landing , Kingyo Sukui , Branded Regained
Cards like Dark Sanctuary:
Continuous attack negation: Ordeal of a Traveler , Scrubbed Raid , Depth Amulet , Fairy Box
Best 5 Similar Cards:
Soul Absorption , Ultimeat Offering , Loop of Destruction , Slash Draw , Backup Squad
Weaker Alternatives:
Cards like Dark Factory of More Production:
Changes one card into another: Fusion Recycling Plant , Mirror Force Launcher , Toy Box
Cards like Fateful Hour:
Summons from opponents' Graveyards: Monster Reborn , Autonomous Action Unit , Spell Card "Monster Reborn"
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
Much Weaker Options:
Cards like Chicken Game:
Effects for Turn Player: Hidden Springs of the Far East , Fusion Gate , Mausoleum of the Emperor , Black Garden
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
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 Child's Play:
Gain signficant LP: Supremacy Berry , The Spell Absorbing Life , Destruct Potion
Continuous effect to gain LP: Soul Absorption , Spring of Rebirth , Lil-la Rap
Cards like Top Share:
Donate Cards: Exchange , Old Mind , Gold Moon Coin
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
Cards like Prohibition:
Bans or restricts a specified card (usually Deckmaster): Mistaken Accusation , Dirge of the Lost Dragon , Sinful Spoils of Subversion - Snake-Eye
Cards like Chain Ignition:
Continuous effect to destroy cards: Bottomless Shifting Sand , Gingerbread House , Loop of Destruction
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
Weakest 5 Cards in this list:
Way Where There's a Will , Land Flipping , Ancient Warriors Saga - Chivalrous Path , Dark Sanctuary , One Day of Peace
Removed Due to Community Feedback:
NA
Other useful Cards:
Call of the Earthbound , Yu-Jo Friendship , Fighting Spirit , Flock Together ,
Dances with Beasts ,That's 10! , Fighting Dirty , Burning Land , Hatsugai ,
Spell Economics , Tower of Babel , Trap Tracks , Bait Doll , Absolute End , Made to Order Mermaid Outfit Outfitter
Please also refer to this deck link for more
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