Dark Magician: deck recipe [Oct 31]

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.

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.

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.

Magician is one of your key searchers alongside Spellbook of Secrets. The difference is, being a monster, Magician is much more versatile than Spellbook of Secrets.

You can use use Fate to flip Magician face-down when it is targeted for attack. This gives you another search during the opponent's turn when Magician is flip-face up again.

Draw Engine of Spellbook Deck. This card can let you convert the excess Spellbook Spell Card (Cards with the same name) from your hand into two more hand sources without losing any cards on your field. If you chain Spellbook of Knowledge with a Spellbook Quick-Spell Card, then you can send that Quick-Spell that is still on the field which is becomes 1 Card Earning in this situation.

Keep in mind that according to the Rulings, even if you apply the effect of "Spellbook of Knowledge" using the effect of "Spellbook of the Master", you cannot choose the activated "Spellbook of the Master" as the card you send to the Graveyard.

Spellbook of Secrets allows you to add from your Deck to your hand any “Spellbook” card, including Spellbook Magician of Prophecy.

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.

Strong monster removal option and useful to disrupt your opponent's turn as well.

Has a card removal effect that you can use multiple times in a turn, up to however many materials you use to make it. Needing to banish a card in your grave won't be a big issue since you can use it on the used spells/traps like Raigeki Break.

Draccosack is a self-sufficient boss monster that's effective even outside of its archetype. It has both good offense and defense with its decent stats, inherent protection from destruction, and a targeting removal effect. It also generates its own effect costs, so you don't need to invest any more resources in Dracossack after summoning it.

However, due to limited monster zones, Dracossack needs to be the only monster on board to maximize its token generates.

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.

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.

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.

Brute Enforcer is a potential removals with Good Arrow Point. Although its Removal Effect can be negated by your opponent with discard 1 same original type as the targeted cards, you can still makes your opponent's resources reduces due to this effect.

This card is a good Link Monster you run in your deck due to an extra normal summons Dark Magician.

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.

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.

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.

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