Dark Magician: deck recipe [Sept 13]

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.

The quick effect is useful to prevent targeted card effects on your dragon fusion monsters, or if your opponent uses something like Floodgate Trap Hole / Drowning Mirror Force.

The effect of tributing itself is to get another Gaia the Magical Knight, essentially restarting the whole combo again.

Since the Gaia version of the deck has no low level monsters to summon, you can normal summon this card without tributing. If you don't have Curse of Dragonfire in hand or GY, then this Gaia will only be a beater on the field.

If you have Curse of Dragonfire, then you can fusion summon to go into Magical Knight Dragon Knight or Sky Galloping Gaia depending on which one you need.

Part of a pair that's used together with Gaia the Magical Knight to perform a fusion summon. The effect of being able to destroy a field spell is situationally useful for destroying something like Necrovalley or Harpies Hunting Ground.

A consistency booster so that you have a better chance of getting both Gaia the Magical Knight together with Curse of Dragonfire.

Since the Gaia related fusion monsters have effects that treat their names to "Gaia the Dragon Champion", the field spell's effect to prevent your opponent from activating cards during battle phase will work for both fusion monsters.

Can be a pretty decent monster to turn 1 summon because of its quick effect, but only use it if you have a follow-up play with it. Otherwise, it will just end up making your Gaia fusion go to 0 ATK and be left in defense position doing nothing.

If you have the field spell, you can take the risk of going into battle since you know that your opponent can't activate anything.

If you don't have a "Spiral Spear Strike" in your deck, then this monster is essentially just a 2600 ATK beater to attack your opponent's monster's ATK or DEF. It's situationally useful, but having the field spell together with this does help ensure that you can destroy by battle a lot of monsters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spending 2000 LP to activate this card puts you at the point where you can activate Destiny Draw. Banish a key card from the opponent's hand, something like Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon so your opponent can't use it immediately.

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.

Summonable by using Malevolent Sin. It's a stronger form of removal that's not temporary compared to Malevolent Sin, but it works on defensive opponents only.

Summonable by using Corebage as the material. For when your opponent has multiple set monsters and you want to deal some damage to them, or if your Corebage got hit with something like Forbidden Chalice or Fiendish Chain.

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