Dark Magician: deck recipe [Apr 2021]

Star Seraph Scepter can search a "Star Seraph" monster when it is either Normal or Special Summoned. If it is used as a Xyz Material for a Xyz Monster of 3 Materials, Scepters allows that monster to destroy a card as soon as that monster is summoned, and you can draw a card if successful. Note that Scepter's effects can be used as many times in a turn as possible.

Star Seraph Sovereignty can be special summoned when a "Star Seraph" monster is either Normal or Special Summoned, then immediately draw 1 card. Keep in mind that Sovereignty can only used as a Xyz Material for a Xyz Monster of 3 Materials.

Magician of Dark Illusion's effect activates in response to your Spell/Trap activations letting you combo for field presence. Magician of Dark Illusions is a good monster to Special Summon from your deck with Magician's Navigation. This sets up for another Dark Magician summoning using Magician of Dark Illusion's effect with Magicians Navigation in your graveyard as 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 expend his second effect, letting you revive Dark Magician just before Magician of Dark Illusion leaves the field as fusion material.

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.

Because were not able to run Magicians Rod, Chocolate Magician Girl is a good alternative for boosting consistency. Her effect lets you cycle the deck and hopefully draw into Dark Magical Circle. If you have a Magician of Dark Illusion onhand, discard it to indirectly protect Chocolate Magician Girl.

Search Chocolate Magician Girl or another Berry Magician Girl upon summon. Her second effect lets you fetch another Chocolate Magician Girl. Basically Berry is used for her good search effect and to have an extra body onboard. Additionally your Magician Girls provide good tribute fodder for Illusion Magic.

Activate Curtain when you have Dark Magical Circle onboard for maximum effect. Navigation requires you to have Dark Magician onhand, so Curtain is often more reliable. However, the summoning restriction does kinda hurt since you can't follow up with other combos.

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.

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

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.

Summon Amulet Dragon against decks that recycle Spells from the graveyard. The first deck that comes to mind is Spellbooks, Amulet Dragon's banishing deals a crippling blow to this deck. Witchcrafter is also a deck that recovers Spells from the graveyard, but they can easily counter Amulet Dragon's banishing with Witchcrafter Patronus and turn the situation around.

The floating effect is good for reviving Dark Magician, getting rid of whatever killed Amulet Dragon if you have Dark Magical Circle active.

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.

The Rank-4 Xyz are mostly made if you're running the Star Seraph engine with your Dark Magician Deck. Otherwise, you'll only rarely get a chance to make them using the standard version.

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

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

Shark Drake is good at dealing damage. Its effect allows you to revive an enemy monster so that you can deal damage through that monster. The three material requirement makes it a possible monster to summon when using Star Seraph Sovereignty as material.

Delteros protects against summoning hazards, most notably Floodgate Trap Hole and Void Trap Hole. Its removal effect is also decent at breaking the enemy's board.

Ouroboros is one of the more powerful Rank-4 Xyz due to having three different good effects that can be used once each while it is on the field. The first effect is a simple yet effective targeted removal effect. The second effect when used early in the Duel, can limit your opponent's plays by reducing their resources. When used correctly, the third effect can get rid of a crucial card in the graveyard.

Summon Thunder Spark Dragon and use its effect for a field wipe similar to Black Rose Dragon. Gets rid of your opponent's entire board set up, and especially punishes opponents that overcommit to their board.

Emeral's first effect lets you recycle monsters from the graveyard while also netting you a draw. The second effect is simply used to revive Dark Magician.

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.

Rank-7s are fairly easy to make with Magician's Navigation Special Summoning two Dark Magicians.

Summon by using Dark Magician and/or Magician of Dark Illusion as material. Titanic Moth is able to deal a ton of damage between its direct attack and burn damage. If successful, this can sometimes win you some games.

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.

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.

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