Darklord Deck: deck recipe [Aug 19]

Darklords are mostly high-level DARK Fairy-Type monsters that have effects in the hand, as well as an on-field effect that can copy a Darklord spellcard that's in the grave. Copying a spell requires 1000 LP, but this can help the deck since it allows the use of "Draw Sense: Spell/Trap" skill to guarantee a spell/trap for the next draw.

Since one of the spells in the deck is a searcher, each skill use leads to either Contact for a revival effect or Sanctified for a monster negate and LP gaining effect. This ultimately lets the deck continuously loop their cards very easily.

Most Darklords share an in-archetype effect that lets you copy the effect of a Darklord Spell/Trap in the graveyard. The two most common applications of this is copying Darklord Contact or The Sanctified Darklord.

Ixchel is a great setup card, but sadly we can only run one copy because we also need to run Darklord Contact. It's best to discard a Darklord monster alongside Ixchel, since if you already have the Darklord Spell/Traps onhand you might aswell use them as is.

Aside from relying on Sanctified Darklord, this is another way for you to recover some LP. It can be difficult to get out since you'll need to tribute summon. Easiest way to do this is by using Contact and Superbia.

It's a decent boss monster to summon if your opponent controls at least 2 effect monsters, allowing you to special summon other Darklords from the deck. The milling effect gives you a chance to send a Darklord spell/trap from deck to grave for your monsters to use right away.

Make sure to always have another Darklord at its side to make it untargetable.

The only high-level Darklord monster that can special summon itself from the hand. The cost to special summon is kind of expensive, but it can be beneficial to dump multiple Darklord cards in the process.

Discard cards like Ukoback so you can special summon it with contact in defense, or Superbia for more monsters on the field. Banishment is fine too since you can use Nasten on the field to copy Banishment and search for Ukoback so you can normal summon it and dump Sanctified from the deck to the grave for 1 negate next turn.

Its main use is to protect your monsters from being destroyed. It can even protect multiple monsters if it's about to get destroyed at the same time through cards like Treacherous Trap Hole.

You can respond to your opponent's Treacherous Trap Hole by using any of your Darklord monster and search for Tez if you have Banishment in the grave.

Tez also has higher attack than Nasten and has the usual effect of being able to use Darklord spell/trap from grave, so it's a good monster to summon with Contact as well.

Ukoback is one of the few in-archetype setup cards Darklords have, so run a couple of copies if you don't have any graveyard setup engines teched in. Here are some combos you can start with Ukoback:

• Normal Summon Darklord Ukoback. Send Darklord Contact from your Deck to the Graveyard. Discard Darklord Amdusc and any other “Darklord” card, add Contact from your Graveyard to your hand.
  
  
• If you use Ixchel, send Darklord Superbia from your Deck to the Graveyard. Discard Darklord Ixchel and any other “Darklord” card. Activate Darklord Contact and Special Summon Superbia and then Ixchel from your Graveyard.

Although Superbia lacks the ability to copy effects, it is still an amazing field extender and an important part of your playstyle. Always revive Superbia first and then use its effect to Special Summon another Darklord. This way you get an extra beater onboard that is also quite powerful stat-wise.

This card can miss the timing if you special summon it using a Darklord monster on the field to copy contact. So make sure to only summon it when you have Contact in your hand.

When Rank-10 Xyzs are released, Superbia and Ixchel will make a great combo to get them onboard.

Amdusc's recovery effect is great for recycling effects while also loading the graveyard. Recover Tezcalipoca to have another protection onhand. Recover Ixchel to cycle more cards out of your deck.

If you're low on LP, you can recover a Darklord Spell/Trap with Amdusc's effect instead of copying its effect with the Darklords' effect.

A Strong Instant Rank 3 Card which can support this Deck brilliantly. Tour Guide can allows you to summon Dante quickly and set up combo.

Fiendish Rhino Warrior's effect not only will it protect those "Burning Abyss" monsters from battle or self-destruction but it can also allows you to mill an extra "Burning Abyss" monster and trigger their second effect when sent to the Graveyard (including if it is detached as an Xyz Material).

Burning Abyss main deck monsters are all level 3 and have similar effects. Each turn, you can activate their effects to either special summon them when you have no spell/trap cards on the field or activate their sent to the graveyard effect.

Since they can all special summon themselves, it makes it very easy to Xyz into a rank 3 Xyz, which is going to be Dante. Dante has a milling effect to trigger BA's sent to graveyard effect for some combo or extended plays.

Quick notes on BA monsters' sent to graveyard effects:

• Scarm: Search for a level 3 DARK Fiend-Type monster from your deck. But this activates during the end phase.
• Farfa: Targets a monster on the field and banish it until the end phase.
• Alich: Negates 1 face-up monster on the field until the end phase.
• Cir: Can special summon a BA monster from the grave (other than itself), which includes Dante or Vergil.
• Libic: Special summon a level 3 DARK Fiend-Type from your hand, but its effects are negated.
• Rubic has no sent to graveyard effect, but it's the only tuner in the deck so you can make Virgil.
• Barbar max. 900 damage dealing for end game when your opponent life points is below 1000.

Make sure to use a normal summon on the BA monster that you want to activate the sent to graveyard effect before making an Xyz/synchro. If you go into an Xyz like Dante, you'll want to use the one you normal summoned as the cost to activate the effect so you get the normal summoned BA's sent to grave effect.

Cir is almost always the one to be normal summoned since its effect can extend your plays. Scarm is good for turn 1, while Farfa is if you want to make an offensive play.

The search effect is pretty slow since it works during the end phase. But thanks to the Beatrice effect, you can add another Burning Abyss monster during your opponent's End Phase.

Search for Cir so you can sort of loop Cir and Scarm combo, or Farfa so you can prevent milling all of them from the deck right away. If you only bring 1 Rubic, then Scarm is the only reliable way to get it from the deck.

Even though the banish effect is only temporary, it's still useful to remove certain monsters so you can attack directly.

Keep in mind that this can also banish your own cards. If you get turn 1 and use Dante's effect to mill the deck, you'll need to carefully read if it's Farfa or not. Otherwise, Farfa will remove your Dante from the field and lose the leftover material.

Putting Farfa in as an Xyz material is the safest place to put it since it will always get sent to the grave if your Xyz monster gets removed through any forms of removal.

During your turn, you can use its effect to banish your opponent's monster and use the skill to permanently remove them out of the game.

You can revive Farfa so you can store it in Dante as a safety net in case your Dante gets destroyed, or revive Scarm so you can search for another Cir and do a slow loop.

If you get turn 2, this can be a "safe" card to normal summon since this plays around card removal cards your opponent might have like Ballista Squad or even Treacherous Trap Hole, allowing you to potentially shrug it off and make a different play, or at the very least, not leave you defenseless.

You can reliably send this from the deck to the grave with Fiend Griefing. It's almost as effective as Farfa to stop your opponent's combos during their turn, so this essentially lets you have multiple disruptions in case you milled all of the Farfas or Alichs.

However, Farfa's effect is generally better since removing them means they can't use them to Xyz, synchro, or tributed.

It's the only tuner in the deck so its main purpose is to simply let you synchro into Virgil.

Pretty decent stats with 1700 ATK which can be used as beater in some situation. Its second effect will able to burn max. 900 Life Points to your opponents which used to end game while your opponent has 900 Life Points or below.

Can be used during either players' turn makes this card more useful to prevent OTK from your opponent by reducing their ATK regarding to their own Level/Rank.

Consistency is definitely the main thing that Darklords have struggled with ever since their introduction in Lords of Shining, so having access to a Spell Card that allows you to add any other card of the archetype from your Deck to your hand is undoubtedly going to have a positive impact on their performance.

Yes, you can only activate Banishment of the Darklords once per turn, but you can also apply its effect via Darklord Ixchel, Tezcatlipoca, Nasten, or Amdusc’s effect during your opponent’s End Phase or right before they are removed from the field, which significantly improves this Deck’s ability to recover.

You can use this effect if your opponent is about to get destroyed to search for Tezcatlipoca to protect your monsters, or use it during your turn to search for Desire so you can get a monster removal. Otherwise, Contact or Sanctified are always the safe choices to go for.

Darklord Contact is an extremely important card to this deck, because summoning Darklords will almost always be done through revival. And this revival will always involve Darklord Contact, either by directly activating the Spell or having a Darklord copy its effects.

Using this as a spell card on Superbia will let you special summon another Darklord to the field. But if this is used through a monster effect, you'll miss Superbia's timing.

If you apply this Trap Card's effect via the Darklords' in-archetype copy effect you do not pay its activation cost, which definitely makes it a lot easier to use. You can send this card to the graveyard via Darklord Ukoback’s effect and then use it in response to something like Karakuri Merchant mdl 177 "Inashichi" or Genex Undine to stop the enemy's combo before it starts.

Gaining Life Points is just an added bonus, but it’s also extremely relevant, as it allows you to use the effects of your “Darklord” monsters with more ease. You can target a monster on your own side of the field with The Sanctified Darklord, so you can use it to negate the effects of Lava Golem, preventing it from inflicting 1000 damage to you and gaining 3000 Life Points in the process.

Special summonable by using 2 Amdusc. Ptolemy M7's effect is a great form of removal because it does not destroy and does not send the removed card to the graveyard, meaning most floating effects do not activate. Additionally, since the targeted monster is not sent to the graveyard recycling it will not be possible, especially if you target an Extra Deck monster.

You can special summon 2 more easily by using Morningstar's effect. Activate Morningstar's effect to mill first, then Amdusc's effect if there are any Banishment in the grave before you XYZ into M7. Search for Contact so you can have another Darklord on field to make Morningstar untargetable.

You can make this with 2 Ukoback, which is often normal summoned anyway to send the Darklord spell/trap to the grave. Dante simply lets you have a mill effect only since the sent to grave effect won't be used.

Using Ukoback to send another Ukoback and using Contact to make a Dante isn't really worth it since the milling effect isn't reliable. It's still better to use Ukoback to send something that you can use with the other Darklords right away.

Summon Nightmare Shark to hit the opponent directly with 2000 ATK.

A decent Rank 7 Xyz monster that can take control of 1 of your opponent's monster permanently (this effect is target-effect which will be useless to those monsters that cannot be targeted). However, Big Eyes cannot attack when this effect is activated which will causes that low possibility of OTK for sometimes.

A great Rank 6 Xyz monster which can be xyz summoned by using 2 Level 6 Darklord monster. Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal (Speed 2 effect) works great that can allows you to sent Darklord card to the Graveyard during your opponent's turn.

This effect will allows you to activate Darklord Cards effect which can let you setup the board easier and faster, even sometimes you can disrupt your opponent as well.

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