Dark Magician: deck recipe [Jan 2020 Updated]

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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 Magic Attack or Magician Navigation, and then Tribute Magician’s Rod for a Silent Magician.

You can Special Summon Silent Magician by Tributing a Spellcaster-Type monster you control. If you Tribute Legion the Fiend Jester to Special Summon Silent Magician, you will get to add a Dark Magician from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand, which will allow you to activate Magician Navigation.

Silent Magician is able to, once per turn, negate the activation of a Spell Card, which is particularly relevant in the current meta. Moreover, since, after being negated, the card is simply sent to the Graveyard without being destroyed, you can safely use this effect to negate Geartown or Ancient Gear Fortress.

While its original ATK and DEF are definitely on the low side, thanks to its effect, Silent Magician can quickly become a pretty big threat, gaining 500 ATK for each card in your hand. Additionally, if Silent Magician is destroyed by battle or card effect, you can Special Summon from your hand or Deck a Silent Magician LV8, a 3500 ATK monster that your opponent cannot take control of via Enemy Controller and that also cannot be weakened by World Legacy Clash.

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 Magician’s Rod’s effect to search Dark Magic Attack or Magician Navigation. Other cards I would consider running and that can also be searched via Magician’s Rod’s effect are Illusion Magic to increase your chances of having a Dark Magician in your hand for Magician Navigation, another copy of Dark Magic Attack for back row removal, and Thousand Knives for monster removal.

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. You can use Magician Navigation to Special Summon Night's End Sorcerer and banish up to two cards from your opponent's Graveyard.

Use Night's End Sorcerer's effect to banish cards like Darklord Superbia, Banishment of the Darklords, The Sanctified Darklord, Cyberdark Cannon, Leng Ling, Secret Six Samurai - Fuma, Subterror Nemesis Warrior or any “Subterror Behemoth” monster.

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

When you draw Palladium Oracle Mahad, you can reveal it to your opponent and then Special Summon it from your hand. If you happen to open with Mahad already in your hand, which doesn’t qualify as “drawing it”, thanks to Light and Dark, you can just shuffle it back into your Deck and eventually you will be able to Special Summon it.

If Palladium Oracle Mahad battles a DARK monster, its ATK is doubled during the Damage Step only, meaning it reaches 5000 ATK, which is more than enough to get over a Desperado Barrel Dragon, any “Darklord” monster, any “Vendread” monster, or a Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En. Additionally, if Mahad is destroyed by battle or card effect, it allows you to Special Summon a Dark Magician from your hand, Deck or Graveyard.

This Skill allows you to add Dark Magician to your hand by shuffling a copy of Palladium Oracle Mahad back into the Deck and vice versa.

• Your opponent can get rid of Palladium Oracle Mahad by Tributing it for Lava Golem, returning it to your hand via Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi or Six Style - Dual Wield, or by shuffling it back into your Deck with Drowning Mirror Force.
  
  
• The Sanctified Darklord can be used to negate Palladium Oracle Mahad’s effects, allowing pretty much any “Darklord” monster to get over it, and, even if your opponent doesn’t have the Trap Card available, they still have Darklord Desire as a last resort.
  
  
• If you open with Night’s End Sorcerer already in your hand, you automatically lose one of the most impactful plays you can make, which is Special Summoning it from your Deck via Magician Navigation. You might even want to consider running another copy of the Level 2 DARK Spellcaster or a Level 2 LIGHT Spellcaster like Otohime just to shuffle it back into your Deck.

• Silent Magician’s floating effect can be prevented by Armades, Keeper of Boundaries, Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon, and U.A. Mighty Slugger.
  
  
• Both Silent Magician and Palladium Oracle Mahad can be dealing with without destroying them. Options include: returning them to the hand (Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi and Six Style - Dual Wield), shuffling them back into the Deck (Drowning Mirror Force), banishing them (Fortune Lady Every, Subterror Behemoth Umastryx, and Metaphys Daedalus), sending them directly to the Graveyard (Cyber Angel Dakini, Lava Golem, and Darklord Desire).
  
  
• Silent Magician floats into a 3500 ATK monster that is immune to Spell Cards; Mahad floats into a 2500 ATK monster with no effect.
  
  
• If you open with Night’s End Sorcerer already in your hand, you automatically lose one of the most impactful plays you can make, which is Special Summoning it from your Deck via Magician Navigation. Silent Magician LV8 and Night’s End Sorcerer just love to be there with you at the start of the Duel.

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