Darklord Deck: deck recipe [June 2]

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.

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.

Bounzer is a pretty good turn 1 monster to summon to get a small control over your opponent. Setting up Sanctified can be better in some ways, but if you aren't able to do it, you can try to make a Bounzer with 2 Amdusc instead.

To destroy your opponent's backrow so you can more safely attack your opponent.

• Although Sealed Tombs is not as relevant as it used to be, it should be noted that it can completely cripple your deck for a turn.

Since the deck barely has any back row removal, having some is useful to prevent getting interrupted. But most back row removal cards will still be good.

Using Eccentrick mostly helps more if you are using draw sense spell/trap so that you don't end up using the skill to get something like Mystical Space Typhoon when you need any of the Darklord spell/trap.

Simorgh of Darkness' inherent Special Summoning effect lets it be Special Summoned for free. Generally, this is done when you tribute summon into Amdusc or Desire since it is the easiest to Tribute Summon among them. You can also tech in something like Jinzo, with a useful generic effect and worth the Tribute Summon.

Simorgh is worth running as a beater because you essentially Special Summon him for free. And in case your opponent activates a particularly harmful Spell/Trap such as Drowning Mirror Force, you can tribute Simorgh to negate it.

During your opponent’s turn, Artifact Lancea can be Tributed from your hand or face-up from your field to prevent both players from banishing cards during that turn.

You can chain Lancea’s effect to Invocation in order to prevent your opponent from Summoning Invoked Cocytus, Invoked Purgatrio, or Invoked Magellanica. Your opponent might still be able to resolve Invocation if they have the Fusion Materials in their hand, but chances are they searched Invocation by Normal Summoning Aleister and they don’t have another copy of the Level 4 Spellcaster in their hand.

Even if your opponent does have another Aleister, they still need a WATER, FIRE, or EARTH monster to send to the Graveyard in order to Summon something from their Extra Deck, which is going to be “very difficult” if their only other monster is Elementsaber Molehu.

Lancea can prevent Blackwings from playing Black Whirlwind from the Deck via Blackwing - Simoon the Poison Wind’s effect, it prevents Crystrons from making certain plays, and it almost completely shuts down both Shiranui and Metaphys.

Superbia gives Artifact Lancea some decent synergy with the archetype and the incredible draw power provided by Ixchel is all you need to have this Hand Trap available when you need it.

You have a chance of getting this with the skill after using a Darklord monster's effect and paying 1000 LP.

This can be a good and useful card to simply revive a monster without cost, but it could also not be that good since you have a less reliable chance to pick up Banishment to get Contact/Sanctified and put them both in the graveyard to be usable for your other Darklords again.

Contact can only be used once per turn and using through a Darklord costs some LP. Oasis is more of a costless revival with the drawback that it's slower than using Contact. It also helps you bluff your opponent in case you want to set your Sanctified.

Can only be made with 2 Tezcatlipoca since it's the only level 9 in the deck. Dyson Sphere is a pretty strong wall that can be pretty difficult to get over, but not always reliable since there are plenty of card removal effects in the game.

Against decks that rely on battling, this can be a strong card to summon. The effect of being able to attack directly can also see some use against decks like Blue Eyes that have 3000 ATK or higher.

Since there is no level 5 or higher DARK Dragon on the field, you can only summon this by using 2 Nastens on the field.

With only 2 materials, Dark Armed will be able to destroy 2 cards in a turn, but you'll have to banish cards in your graveyard. The deck has no ways to recover banished cards, so you'll have to be careful what to use.

If you're running a lot of Rank-6s, Gaia Dragon can be overlayed to them after spending all their materials.

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