Dark Magician: deck recipe [Mar 23]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of monsters commonly used in the meta have over 2500 ATK, so having this as an ATK booster is already pretty decent and works well on unsuspecting players. The 2+ and 3+ are more difficult to work with and are more suited for late game plays.

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 third effect and the fact it is a Quick-Play Spell is what makes Fate a formidable removal card. It does not target, does not destroy, can be used on both monsters and Spell/Trap Cards, and only costs cards in the graveyard to activate are just some of the reasons why it remains quite relevant.

Additionally, you can form a loop with two Spellbook of Fate and some Spellbook of Eternity that lets you banish a card every turn.

The first and second effects also contribute a lot to Fate's versatility. The first effect can be used to open the opponent to your attacks by removing a backrow card. The second effect can be used to stop attacks and turn off effects.

Unlike Blue-Eyes which relies on its Effect monster support, Dark Magician decks are able to bring out their boss monster with just their Spell/Trap support. This creates a niche where Heat Wave can be used to its full potential.

Activate Heat Wave at the start of the turn, and then Summon Dark Magician with Star Blast or Magician Navigation. Since most decks heavily rely on effect monsters, Heat Wave can preemptively shutdown your opponent's next turn.

Be careful to not use Heat Wave during the turn you want to setup with Magicians Rod.

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 focus of the deck is Dark Magician, so chances are, you will have Dark Magician on the field at some point in the duel. This counter trap is quite powerful since it can negate even a summon of a monster, essentially stopping a combo.

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.

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.

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.

Since you can only use Utopia Ray's effect when down to your last 1000 LP, he is best used to clutch the game. The ATK manipulation can help you get rid of a powerful enemy monster and deal massive damage. Keep in mind this effect can be activated multiple times per turn as long as you have the materials.

Save Utopia in your Extra Deck and keep him there until you're ready to make Utopia Ray. If you are using the Star Seraph engine with no other level 4 monster, you can only go into Utopia Ray. This means that you can remove Utopia and put in another rank 4 that uses 3 monsters, or another lvl 7 XYZ.

Only summonable using that Star Seraph engine. 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.

Abyss Dweller is great at negating enemy graveyard plays similar to a mini Necrovalley, without hindering your own graveyard plays. Keep in mind Abyss Dweller prevents the activation, not negate it. Make sure you toggle chain to "ON" and activate Abyss Dweller at the start of the opponent's turn.

A staple in Rank-4 Toolboxes. Gagaga Cowboy's defense position effect can occasionally steal you some wins by burning your opponent's last 400LP. The attack position effect is good for beating down bigger monsters, especially when given double attack by Gagaga Samurai.

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.

Face-Up Card Destruction including backrow is pretty decent effect but sadly it cannot activated during Damage Step. When you destroyed a monster, it will allows you boost up ATK of 1 monster you control until the end of the next turn.

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.

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.

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.

Diamond Dire Wolf gets rid of itself along with any enemy card. Use this as on demand removal against a problematic card, or secure your attacks by getting rid of enemy backrow.

Summon only to push damage. Usually you will give Samurai the double attack and hit directly twice to deal massive damage.

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.

Hierophant of Prophecy can allows you to destroy min. 1 backrow of your opponent.

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.

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.

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