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Dark World: deck recipe [Feb 2]

Duel Links Dark World deck, Dark World in the meta, how to make Dark World deck,
update 02/02/2023

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Main Deck

Galactic Origin  Primal Burst Valiant Souls Gaia Genesis Chaotic Soldiers Selection Box Vol.06

Extra Deck

Voltage of the Metal Infinite Ray Photons of Galaxy Darkness Gimmick Link Revolution Arms of Giant Lord of Borrel

Example deck

Standard Version

Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark WorldGrapha, Dragon Lord of Dark WorldGrapha, Dragon Lord of Dark WorldGoldd, Wu-Lord of Dark WorldSnoww, Unlight of Dark WorldSnoww, Unlight of Dark World
Snoww, Unlight of Dark WorldCeruli, Guru of Dark WorldBroww, Huntsman of Dark WorldBroww, Huntsman of Dark WorldBroww, Huntsman of Dark WorldWorld Legacy Succession
Monster RebornBook of MoonBook of MoonThe Gates of Dark WorldThe Gates of Dark WorldThe Gates of Dark World
Dark World DealingsDark World DealingsDark World DealingsInto the VoidInto the VoidInto the Void
Gateway to Dark WorldIce Dragons PrisonIce Dragons PrisonIce Dragons PrisonNeedle CeilingNeedle Ceiling
Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant GrinderNumber 22: ZombiesteinNumber 70: Malevolent SinNumber 68: Sanaphond the Sky PrisonBorreload DragonDecode Talker
Code TalkerWee Witchs Apprentice----

Set Skill

[Skill] descriptionUser
Avenger from the Void
Beginning the Duel with 1 "Infernity Avenger" in your Graveyard. This Skill will not activate if you begin the Duel with a Deck that contains monsters other than Dark monsters.
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Kalin Kessler

How to Use

Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World

Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World
Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World
DARK Dragon ★8
ATK 2700 / DEF 1800
Eternal Stream [UR]
You can Special Summon this card (from your Graveyard) by returning 1 "Dark World" monster you control to the hand, except "Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World". If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: Target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy that target, then, if this card was discarded from your hand to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect, look at 1 random card in your opponent's hand, then, if it was a monster, you can Special Summon it to your side of the field.

Discard Grapha to make use of its targeted removal effect. Then Grapha can revive itself by returning a Dark World monster to the hand; a low-Leveled Dark World monster you can Normal Summon would be most cost efficient for this. So in one easy combo you destroyed an enemy card and got a strong beater on board for minimal cost; this powerful combo is why turbo-ing out Grapha is Dark World's best strategy.

Snoww, Unlight of Dark World

Snoww, Unlight of Dark World
Snoww, Unlight of Dark World
DARK Fiend ★4
ATK 1700 / DEF 0
Primal Burst [UR]
If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: If it was discarded from your hand to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect, you can target 1 monster in your opponent's Graveyard; add 1 "Dark World" card from your Deck to your hand, then Special Summon that target (if any) in face-up Defense Position.

Always prioritize searching Grapha. If you already have Grapha then search something that can discard Grapha, like Gates of the Dark World. Lastly, you might need to fetch a low-Level Dark World monster for reviving Grapha.

Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World

Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World
Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World
DARK Fiend ★5
ATK 2300 / DEF 1400
Supreme King Jaden [UR]
D.D. Castle: Emergence Event [UR]
D.D. Castle: Siege Event [UR]
D.D. Castle: Supreme King Rises! [UR]
If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: If it was discarded from your hand to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect, you can target up to 2 cards your opponent controls; Special Summon this card from the Graveyard, then destroy those targets (if any).

Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World

Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World
Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World
DARK Fiend ★4
ATK 1600 / DEF 1300
Primal Burst [R]
Eternal Stream [R]
If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: Special Summon it from the Graveyard.

Run Beiige to have some more Normal Summonable monsters you can use to revive Grapha. Beiige revives also itself when discarded, which is another way you could swarm the field.

Broww, Huntsman of Dark World

Broww, Huntsman of Dark World
Broww, Huntsman of Dark World
DARK Fiend
ATK 1400 / DEF 800
Primal Burst [R]
If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: Draw 1 card, plus another card if this card was discarded from your hand to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect.

Discard Broww when using the other cards in your draw engine to efficiently dig into your Deck. For example you can discard Broww with Dark World Dealings to draw a total of 2 cards.

The Gates of Dark World

The Gates of Dark World
The Gates of Dark World
Field Spell
Gaia Genesis [UR]
All Fiend-Type monsters gain 300 ATK and DEF. Once per turn: You can banish 1 Fiend-Type monster from your Graveyard; discard 1 Fiend-Type monster, then draw 1 card.

Gates of the Dark World is the archetype's Field Spell that allows you to banish a Fiend in your graveyard to draw and then discard a card from your hand. It also gives all your Fiend monsters a small 300 attack boost which puts Grapha at a respectable 3000 ATK.

Dark World Dealings

Dark World Dealings
Dark World Dealings
Normal Spell
Valiant Souls [UR]
Each player draws 1 card, then each player discards 1 card.

Dark World Dealings allows you to draw a card and then discard a card.

For both Gates of the Dark World and Dark World Dealings the best card to discard are Snoww and Broww so you do not lose resource count.

Revival

World Legacy Succession
World Legacy Succession
Normal Spell
Future Circuit [UR]
Target 1 monster in your GY; Special Summon it to your zone a Link Monster points to. You can only activate 1 "World Legacy Succession" per turn.
Monster Reborn
Monster Reborn
Normal Spell
5th Anniversary Campaign [UR]
Target 1 monster in either player's Graveyard; Special Summon it.

Charge Into a Dark World

Charge Into a Dark World
Charge Into a Dark World
Normal Spell
Eternal Stream [SR]
Target 1 Level 4 or lower Fiend monster in your GY; Special Summon it, then discard 1 Fiend monster. You can only activate 1 "Charge Into a Dark World" per turn.

Charge Into a Dark World combos really well with Snoww. First discard Snoww with another card effect to search Grapha. Then use Charge Into a Dark World to revive Snoww and discard Grapha, Grapha's removal effect also activates. Lastly, return the revived Snoww to the hand to revive Grapha.

You can also revive Beiige from your Graveyard while you control Snoww, then setup for Xyz Summoning Rank 4 Monster.

Dragged Down into the Grave

Dragged Down into the Grave
Dragged Down into the Grave
Normal Spell
Ishizu Ishtar Lvl 38 [SR]
Both players reveal their hands, each player chooses 1 card from their opponent's hand, then you discard the chosen cards from both players' hands, then both players draw 1 card.

Dragged Down into the Grave is somewhat like a more nuanced Dark World Dealings. Both cards force both players to discard and draw but the difference lies in who chooses the card to discard. The best time to play this card is after you've played everything else and you only have a Dark World monster left on hand, so your opponent won't have any other choice. On your side, you can force your opponent to discard a Spell/Trap card because these are usually harder to recover.

Gateway to Dark World

Gateway to Dark World
Gateway to Dark World
Quick Spell
Revolution Beginning [N]
Target 1 "Dark World" monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target. You cannot Summon other monsters the turn you activate this card (but you can Set).

Techs

Ice Dragons Prison
Ice Dragons Prison
Normal Trap
Selection Box Vol.06 [UR]
Target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; Special Summon it to your field, but its effects are negated, then, you can banish 1 monster from both players' fields that have the same Type as each other. You can only activate 1 "Ice Dragon's Prison" per turn.
Needle Ceiling
Needle Ceiling
Normal Trap
Valiant Souls [UR]
Selection Box Vol.04 [UR]
When there are 4 or more monsters on the field: Destroy all face-up monsters.

Dark Smog

Dark Smog
Dark Smog
Continuous Trap
Primal Burst [R]
Once per turn: You can target 1 monster in your opponent's Graveyard; discard 1 Fiend-Type monster, and if you do, banish that target.

Graveyard disruption is very effective against Decks that recycle or card activation from the graveyard like The Phantom Knights. You can even use Dark Smog in response to something that targets a card in the graveyard, banish that target to waste your opponent's recovery. Then the discard effect is generally good for activating your Dark World monsters' effects.

Extra Decks

Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder
Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder
DARK Machine ★8
ATK 1500 / DEF 2500
Darkness Gimmick [UR]
2 Level 8 monsters
Up to twice per turn, during your Main Phase 1: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 Special Summoned monster your opponent controls; destroy it, then if it was an Xyz Monster, inflict damage to your opponent equal half to its original ATK.

A rank 8 Gimmick Puppet XYZ that simply destroy monsters then inflict Damage equal to half of their original ATK and you can use this effect twice.

However, keep in mind that this destruction effect has a restriction where it can only destroy special summoned monsters.

Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
LIGHT Dragon ★8
ATK 3000 / DEF 2500
Infinite Ray [UR]
2 Level 8 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; Tribute any number of monsters from your hand and/or your side of the field (minimum 1), then destroy an equal number of cards on the field.

Grapha is very easy to summon after you get it in your graveyard, and if you manage to get two Grapha on the field you can make Heliopolis. And after detaching Grapha, you can revive it just as easily. This card has a powerful multi-card removal effect which can potentially wipe out the enemy field.

Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
DARK Dragon ★4
ATK 2500 / DEF 2000
Phantom of Rebellion [UR]
2 Level 4 monsters
You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; its ATK becomes half its current ATK, and if it does, this card gains that lost ATK.

General Rank 4 Xyz Monster for players to use so far. Its effect essentially lets you deal 2500 (its own ATK) damage if this attacks the monster you targeted. The advantage is that your opponent's monster's ATK is also lowered, allowing you to attack over it with your other weaker monsters.

Number 22: Zombiestein
Number 22: Zombiestein
DARK Zombie ★8
ATK 4500 / DEF 1000
Darkness Gimmick [SR]
2 Level 8 DARK monsters
Must be Xyz Summoned and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card and send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard to target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; change this card to Defense Position, and if you do, negate that face-up card's effect until the End Phase.

A pretty good optional card to use as a rank 8 XYZ. 4500 ATK is high enough to one shot your opponent, making it a great comeback card from your opponent controlling 2 monsters to a win for you in a turn.

The negate effect is pretty strong since it's a quick effect and can negate any face-up card, but switching it to DEF with only 1000 can make it difficult to survive.

Number 70: Malevolent Sin
Number 70: Malevolent Sin
DARK Insect ★4
ATK 2400 / DEF 1200
Photons of Galaxy [SR]
2 Level 4 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; banish it until your opponent's next Standby Phase. At the end of the Damage Step, if this card attacked: You can make this card gain 300 ATK, and if you do, increase its Rank by 3.

Malevolent Sin is an anti-Xyz tech. Summon Malevolent Sin and use its effect to temporarily banish an enemy Xyz monster. The Xyz monster will return with no materials attached to it.

Steelswarm Roach
Steelswarm Roach
DARK Fiend ★4
ATK 1900 / DEF 0
Photons of Galaxy [SR]
2 Level 4 monsters
During either player's turn, when a Level 5 or higher monster would be Special Summoned: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; negate the Special Summon, and if you do, destroy it.

Roach is great for monster suppresion, much like a Trap Hole card. When your opponent summons a boss monster, use Roach's effect to immediately destroy it. This is an especially good counter against Synchro Decks. But most of the time, just Roach's presence on the field is enough to deter the opponent from making big monsters.

Diamond Dire Wolf
Diamond Dire Wolf
EARTH Beast ★4
ATK 2000 / DEF 1200
Voltage of the Metal [SR]
2 Level 4 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 Beast, Beast-Warrior, or Winged Beast-Type monster you control and 1 other card on the field; destroy them.

You can make Dire Wolf if you need a quick way of removing any enemy card. Dire Wolf destroys any opponent's card along with itself.

Borreload Dragon
Borreload Dragon
DARK Dragon
ATK 3000 / DEF 4
Lord of Borrel [UR]
3+ Effect Monsters
Neither player can target this card with monster effects. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; it loses 500 ATK/DEF. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this effect's activation. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card attacks an opponent's monster: You can place that opponent's monster in a zone this card points to and take control of it, but send it to the GY during the End Phase of the next turn.
Decode Talker
Decode Talker
DARK Cyberse
ATK 2300 / DEF 3
Link Revolution [UR]
2+ Effect Monsters
Gains 500 ATK for each monster it points to. When your opponent activates a card or effect that targets a card(s) you control (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 monster this card points to; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card.
Code Talker
Code Talker
DARK Cyberse
ATK 1300 / DEF 3
Vrains World Celebration Campaign [UR]
2 Effect Monsters
Gains 500 ATK for each monster this card points to. Cannot be destroyed by battle or your opponent's card effects, while this card points to a monster.

Additional Notes

Some of the Dark World effects can be confusing, for example players might wonder why they can’t activate a Dark World effect when they discard a monster with Tribute to the Doomed. The reason for this is that the discard with Tribute to the doomed is a cost, not an effect. Compare it to Dark World Lightning, this card says “then discard 1 card” after you destroyed a set spell/trap, this part is written after the semi-colon (“ ; “) , while the “discard 1 card” on Tribute to the Doomed is written before the semi-colon. This also means that if you activate Tribute to the doomed, and someone uses Magic Jammer, you will still discard 1 card (because that’s the cost for its activation), but when someone uses Magic Jammer on Dark World Lightning, you won’t discard 1 card (because its effect was stopped).

  • Don’t forget for a Dark World card’s effect to activate the card you used must clearly say “discard” (sending to the graveyard is not the same as discarding), and the discard must be an effect and not a cost to activate that card!

  • The reason Floodgate Trap Hole is preferred over other defensive spells/traps is because of the synergy with Dark World Lightning. If you target one of their set monsters with it, you have the advantage that they can’t flip over your target which would prevent you from using Dark World lightning’s discard effect.

  • The current playstyle of this deck feels a bit like OTK Ice Barriers. Just like Ice Barriers you prefer to go second , and if you aren’t able to finish your opponent in one turn, chances are you can’t climb back.

Other Useful Cards

Ceruli, Guru of Dark World

Ceruli, Guru of Dark World
Ceruli, Guru of Dark World
DARK Fiend ★1
ATK 100 / DEF 300
Primal Burst [SR]
If this card is discarded to the Graveyard by a card effect: Special Summon this card from the Graveyard to your opponent's side of the field in face-up Defense Position. When this card is Special Summoned by the effect of a "Dark World" card: Your opponent must discard 1 card.

Trance Archfiend

Trance Archfiend
Trance Archfiend
DARK Fiend ★4
ATK 1500 / DEF 500
Yami Bakura [SR]
Once per turn: You can discard 1 Fiend-Type monster, and this card gains 500 ATK until the End Phase. When this card you control is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 of your banished DARK monsters; add that target to your hand.

Trance Archfiend synergizes very well with the Dark World archetype because it discards as an effect, not a cost. This means Trance Archfiend can be the trigger to Dark World monsters' effects. The Deck doesn't have much interaction with the Banish Zone but having Trance Archfiend as possible Banish Zone recovery can be useful just incase.

Into the Void

Into the Void
Into the Void
Normal Spell
Galactic Origin [UR]
Activate only if you have 3 or more cards in your hand. Draw 1 card. During the End Phase of this turn, discard all the cards in your hand.

Hand draw engine while you have 3 or more cards in your hand. This will allows you to increase resources for board setup. The discard effect is generally good for activating your Dark World monsters' effects.

Dark World Brainwashing

Comments

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geoff
Bakura drops suck ive been farming him since he came 2 the gate and hes only dropped 1 dark necrofear i eant the trance archfiends so i can build this deck
<< Anonymous(geoff)
Anonymous Reply
Oh? You can build this deck? Then don't cry
Anonymous
Since gladiator beast, is the only one archetype from box that can atleast work. jurrac, cloudian, gem knights, lightsworm, aren't good enough.
Anonymous
instead of 3 lightening I only have 1 in my deck, but I tech dark smog to stop any graveyard plays and dragged down to make sure my opponent has at least 1 monster in the grave for dark smog.
Anonymous
nerf all dirk world
lordRB
tribute of doomed work?
discard one card from hand n 🔥 one monster on the field,,,
works on dark world mnsters affect in hand???
<< Anonymous(lordRB)
Anonymous Reply
Are you 🔥ed?
<< Anonymous(lordRB)
your friend Reply
nope, because discard a card for tribute to the doomed it's a cost not the effect itself.
skebi
Why do the effects don't get activated with cost reduce and monster reincarnation?
<< Anonymous(rtfg)
Keth Reply
Lol and why is the 500 Atk bonus of Trance Archfiend not a cost?
<< Anonymous(Keth)
Anonymous Reply
Because it is after the colon. Rtfc
<< Anonymous(Keth)
Anonymous Reply
Seriously kid, what era of yugioh did you start playing? If its just duel li ks then you have much to learn about dark worlds
<< Anonymous
dark world ra Reply
I am the king of the dark world
Anonymous
Maybe ill try the necrofear deck.. Complete dark world is too much 4 me
dark world ra
I am the king of the dark world
Anonymous
Just testing out Dark World archetype on console game with 2 Card Destruction and 3 Graceful Charity. Really insane 2 turns win most of the time.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
oh hey, you found out why some cards are banned.
Piroca
This is the most expensive archetype of the game: Main Box with 2 key cards as UR and other key as SR. Seems cool, I even have a tcg Dark Worlds based deck, but I'm not wasting all my gems on this Box
<< Anonymous(Piroca)
Anonymous Reply
Because all the cards are in the same box... It's not that expensive.
Anonymous
some 🔥 named skankhunt ripped me in legend a couple times today
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
LOL
Anonymous
So really which 1 is better

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