Dark Magician: deck recipe [Apr 12]

Dark Magician is a fan favorite deck and one that can branch into many versions. It can be quite an oppressive deck since both Magician's Circle and Magician Navigation are good ways to stop your opponent's combos, and the combination of the 2 cards gives you some good card advantage as well.

Magician of Dark Illusions is a good monster to Special Summon from your deck with Magician's Navigation. This can set you up for another Dark Magician summoning using Dark Illusion's effect with Magicians Navigation in your graveyard as the trigger.

Dark Magical Circle's removal effect can be activated when you Special Summon Magician of Dark Illusion. Conversely, Dark Magical Circle's removal effect activated during your opponent's turn can trigger Magician of Dark Illusion's summoning, or Magician of Dark Illusion's second effect if activated during either player's turn.

The Eye of Timaeus can be used on Magician of Dark Illusion. This will activate his second effect, letting you revive Dark Magician just before Magician of Dark Illusion leaves the field as fusion material.

A searcher for Dark Magician so you can bring 3 Navigation without needing Magician's Rod. Can be very easily special summoned and also works as an ATK booster in the hand or field, making it pretty good to run multiple copies without increasing odds of bricking.

Since the ATK boost effect works on DARK Spellcaster monsters, you can use your Dark Magicians to Xyz into Ebon High or Ebon Illusion safely, knowing that you can potentially protect them from battle with Apprentice's effect.

You can recover this card from your grave by using M7's effect, which you can make with Apprentice and Malicious, or with Monster Reborn.

Kycoo can pull monsters out of your monsters out of your opponent's graveyard to disrupt the graveyard set up of decks like Invoked Elemensaber and Lightsworn. This also serves to remove graveyard effects like Kiteroid and Plaguespreader Zombie. This is not quite as effective on Shiranui, unless you banish Shiranui Spectralsword, because you will be triggering their effects.

Kycoo's second effect is amazing for protecting your graveyard from banishing effects and preventing your opponent from using their own graveyard effects if the cost is banishing, almost like a mini Necrovalley effect.

Having 3 copies in the deck can help with the consistency to get the combo going, but there's no need to have 2 of the normal Dark Magicians on the field when you use Magician Navigation.

In most cases, it's better to bring out a Dark Magician with Magician of Dark Illusion. However, there might be situations where you want to not use Dark Illusion if you want to XYZ summon instead.

Add Dark Magician to your hand and Special Summon it with Magician's Navigation. You can also fetch Magician's Navigation if you already have Dark Magician on hand. This combos well with Dark Magical Circle's second effect, letting you banish an opponent's card. Because Magician's Navigation is a Trap card, this combo can be used during your opponent's turn for disruption.

Special Summoning Magician of Dark Illusion with its own effect will also trigger Dark Magical Circle's banishing effect. Magician of Dark Illusion can, on a different turn, trigger Dark Magical Circle's removal again by reviving Dark Magician. You can use Dark Magical Circle's effect activation can trigger Magician of Dark Illusion to revive a Dark Magician.

If Dark Magician is already on the field, you can get Illusion Magic with Dark Magical Circle's search effect. You can fetch a second copy of Dark Magic Circle to be activated at a later turn. But keep in mind only one Dark Magical Circle banishing effect can be activated during a turn.

Magician Navigation allows you to Special Summon a Dark Magician from your hand and a Level 7 or lower DARK Spellcaster-Type monster from your Deck. Letting you get two Dark Magician on the field to use as beaters and field presence.

You can banish Magician Navigation from your Graveyard to target a face-up Spell/Trap Card your opponent controls and negate its effects until the end of the turn. You can use this effect to prevent your opponent from searching a “Darklord” card via Banishment of the Darklords, Summoning Elemental HERO Brave Neos via Neos Fusion, or even from shuffling all of your Attack Position monsters into the Deck with Drowning Mirror Force.

Keep in mind that you can only activate this effect of Magician Navigation if you control a Dark Magician and you can’t do it during the same turn the Trap Card was sent to the Graveyard.

Being able to special summon 2 monsters on the field this way is also a pretty good way to XYZ into another monster. Dark Magicians sent to the graveyard that's used as a cost for an XYZ monster can be brought back by using Magician of Dark Illusion.

You can Xyz into this with multiple Apprentice Illusion Magician or with a Malicious.

It's a useful card removal, especially against extra deck monsters, but it can also be used to recover a card from your graveyard or get prevent a certain graveyard card from your opponent.

Ebon High Magician makes you able to activate Quick Play Spell or Trap Card from your hand during your opponent's turn.

High Magician's second effect will allows you to special summon 1 Dark Spellcaster-Type monster from your hand or Deck after he is destroyed by your opponent's card effect. After that, you can also able to destroy 1 card on the field.

With the 2 Dark Magicians special summoned with Magician Navigation, you can Xyz into this to special summon a Dark Magician from the deck. It can also banish cards your opponent controls, but will only activate when the spellcaster normal monster attacks.

Negating enemy monster effects is great for disrupting their plays, especially because most combos involve the use of a monster effect; However, because the negation effect does not destroy the negated monster, so this can be dangerous against powerful monsters like Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon.

This is summoned by ranking up from Exa-Beetle, which will only give it 1 material for 1 use.

Rhinosebus has a quick-effect and it's a non-targeting monster removal. Either use it early to stop potential combos, or do it once they summon their boss monster.

Mainly to go into Exa-Beetle, but its effect is also not bad in case you need to return a monster instead of destroying them like Bloom Diva the Melodious Choir instead. But using the effect like this will mean that you can't rank up into Rhinosebus.

Normal Summon Dwarf Star Dragon Planeter to fetch Dark Magician. Waiting till your End Phase to get the search off is not really a problem, since you'll also need to wait for a newly set Navigation to go live.

Bringing Warrior-type monsters lets you use Dark Cavalry fusion monster in the deck. Since you can use "Master of Fusion" skill, you won't even need to bring a Polymerization spell to utilize this, but having a -1000 LP card can make it more consistent, which is why this variant uses Dark Magic Veil.

Stratos is used in the deck because it's a searcher to any other HERO card, including itself. This helps conserve resources since you can do it again since you can summon Stratos again on the next turn to search for another Stratos.

Malicious is used since it can be searched with Stratos and also has a special summon from the deck effect.

With Stratos and Apprentice Illusion Magician in your hand, you can search for Malicious and discard it to special summon Apprentice. This will let you search for a Dark Magician and can activate the Malicious in the grave to special summon another one from the deck. With 2 level 6 on the field, you can then Xyz into a rank 6 like M7 for a card removal/recovery effect.

Scepter is used to search for Sovereignty. If you already have Sovereignty in your hand, you can end up summoning both Sovereignty (1 from hand and the other from the search) for a +2 draw. Once all 3 monsters are on the field, you can do a rank 4 XYZ to activate Scepter's effect to destroy a card and draw another card.

If you don't have Sovereignty in your hand when you summon Scepter, you can use "See you Later!" skill to take the Scepter back to your hand to perform the combo on the next turn.

Keep in mind the Star Seraph engine can only be used to XYZ into a rank 4 monster that REQUIRES 3 or more monsters. Rank 4 XYZ that only uses 2 monsters cannot be summoned using them.

Pretty useful card to use if you are missing some other core cards, but the trigger and cost can be an issue to activate at times.

When it’s Normal Summoned, Magician’s Rod allows you to add from your Deck to your hand a Spell/Trap Card that specifically lists the card “Dark Magician” in its text. You can use this effect to search Dark Magical Circle or Magician Navigation. If using a Silent Magician version of this deck, you can tribute Magician’s Rod for a Silent Magician.

If you don't have both Dark Magical Circle and Magician Navigation, prioritize searching Dark Magical Circle and then use that to dig Magician Navigation.

This can be a good 1 card to bring if you are using Chocolate Magician Girl. Activating Dark Magical Circle lets you re-arrange the top few cards of your deck, allowing you to normal summon Chocolate Magician Girl and activate her effect to draw Mahad and special summon him right away.

Mahad's effect to double his effect is quite strong, but how often it gets used depends on how relevant DARK monsters are during the meta.

Another card you can use to Special Summon Dark Magician for LP cost. Normally you'd pick a Dark Magician in the graveyard for Special Summoning, so that overall you lose nothing in resource count. But if you have Magician of Dark Illusion onboard, it might be more beneficial to Special Summon a Dark Magician from your hand, and let Magician of Dark Illusion revive the Dark Magician in your graveyard instead.

The Eye of Timaeus targets a Dark Magician you control to make any of your Extra Deck monsters. This increases the power ceiling of the deck, but too many copies of Eye of Timaeus can hinder the consistency of your main strategy.

You can target Magician of Dark Illusion with Eye of Timaeus. This will let you revive a Dark Magician, while also replacing Magician of Dark Illusion with a much better beater with a disruptive effect.

Can help maintain an advantage by giving your board a form of protection, but it can also be a useful disruption effect against decks that need to target their own cards.

Dark Paladin is usually summoned against Fusion decks like Neos Fusion, Lunalight, and Invoked. Against these decks, preventing them from using their Fusion Spells essentially cripples their entire strategy. You should also watch out for Field Spells and Ritual Spells, since these Spells are also commonly key cards in their respective decks. In mirror matches, Dark Paladin is highly useful for negating enemy Dark Magical Circle and Eye of Timaeus.

Additionally there are also a bunch of decks rising in popularity that have key Spell cards in their strategy. These decks include Spellbooks, Witchcrafter, and Evil Eye.

Dark Paladin can also be summoned against Dragon decks because of his ATK boost, giving him a higher power ceiling than Dark Cavalry.

Most of the time you will be summoning Dark Cavalry with Eye of Timaeus. His protection from targeting is arguably the most versatile among your Extra Deck monsters, capable of stopping most disruption. For added utility, you can also use this negation to stop your opponent from targeting their own monsters, stopping cards like Favorite Hero.

On top of negation, the ATK boost and piercing effect makes him good as a beater. Overall making him a huge threat onboard.

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