Darklord Deck: deck recipe [Apr 10]

“Darklord” is an archetype of mostly DARK Fairy monsters whose main strategy revolves around setting up the Graveyard and then swarming the field with various high ATK monsters.

Despite losing their best Skill and seeing two of their best cards added to the Forbidden/Limited List, Darklords are still an extremely threatening deck with incredible draw power and consistency.

The interaction between F.A. and Darklords is simply due to Level Augmentation. The idea is to summon an F.A. monster, permanently increase its level with Level Augmentation revealing a high-leveled Darklord. You effectively Normal Summon for free a 4000+ ATK monster with good control effects inherent to the F.A. monster.

Since Level Augmentation can only be used once, later F.A. monsters you summon are just used as Xyz materials.

with the boost from Level Augmentation Hang On Mech is effectively immune to all enemy monster effects. Additionally, it prevents any form of graveyard setup and graveyard recycling, by banishing anything that goes to the enemy graveyard.

Whip Crosser chips away at the opponent's LP every time they activate a monster effect. It also prevents the opponent from activating any effect that requires a discard cost, which includes many generic techs like Karma Cut.

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.

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.

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.

Keep Tezcatlipoca onhand until you need it to protect your Darklord from destruction.

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 Superbia from your Deck to the Graveyard. Discard Darklord Ixchel and any other “Darklord” card, draw 2 cards. Activate Darklord Contact and Special Summon Superbia and then Ixchel from your Graveyard.
  
  
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

An engine for making Rank-4 Xyz monsters. Unlike other Xyz focused combos, the Star Seraph engine isn't really meant for quickly bringing out Xyz monsters. Instead it focuses on giving you resource gain, while you perform Xyz plays. Even if you're not able to Xyz summon with this engine due to enemy disruption, you're still able to decently thin the Deck.

Ideally you would have two Scepters onhand for this combo:

1. Normal Summon Scepter and search Sovereignty.
2. End turn.
3. On your next turn, Normal Summon Scepter again and Special Summon Sovereignty. Each of them activates their effects to net you additional cards.
4. Perform an Xyz summon with 3 materials. Then with Scepter's effect, you get to destroy an enemy card and draw.

Valhalla gives you an easy way of getting high-level Fairy monsters such as your Darklord monster onboard.

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.

Since you can only use Utopia Ray's effect when down to your last 1000 LP, he is best used to clutch the game. The ATK manipulation can help you get rid of a powerful enemy monster and deal massive damage. Keep in mind this effect can be activated multiple times per turn as long as you have the materials.

Save Utopia in your Extra Deck and keep him there until you're ready to make Utopia Ray.

Use Emeral as a mini draw engine. Recycle Darklord monsters like Tetzcatlipoca and Ixchel back into the Deck to get a free draw.

Diamond Dire Wolf gets rid of itself along with any enemy card. Use this as on demand removal against a problematic card, or secure your attacks by getting rid of enemy backrow.

Delteros' first effect is one of the best ways to counter the ever prevalent Floodgate Trap Hole. The second effect is a starndard targeting removal effect, which is also generally quite useful.

The first time you activate Night Papilloperative's effect you'll get at least a 600 ATK boost, putting it at 3200 ATK. This is already stronger than most monsters. Due to the prevalence of Xyz monsters, the ATK boost can easily be much higher.

Malevolent Sin temporarily banishes a monster, possibly opening your opponent up for direct attacks. Do this when you need a non-destruction form of removal. Another thing to note is that banishing an Xyz monster gets rid of all their Xyz materials.

Ouroboros is a powerful Xyz monster aimed at reducing your opponent's resources. All three of its effects are quite good on their own, even if you can only use them once while Ouroboros is on the field.

• 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.

Simorgh of Darkness' inherent Special Summoning effect lets it be Special Summoned for free. Generally, this is done when you tribute summon into Amdusc 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.

Darklords are fairly easy to get onboard and are usually pretty high-leveled monsters. All they need is a level-1 Tuner and they're able to make a wide range of Synchro monsters.

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