As the oldest card in the game, and the face of the franchise, Dark Magician is not only my personal favorite deck to use, but can be utilized in a plethora of powerful card structures. Dark Magician is not your average wizard; He’s the king of using spell and trap cards to his advantage. His sacrifice can trigger some crazy monster card setups on your opponent and he looks fly in his classic purple robes while doing it. Today we're going to look at the various ways Dark Magician can be used by analyzing five (5) different deck structures that rely on this iconic stable monster!
BYSTIAL MAGICIAN
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This deck uses “Dark Magician” as a support card for the "Bystial" Dragon monsters. This deck requires you to have “Dark Magician” in the Graveyard ( which you can do easily with “Magician's Soul” or “Foolish Burial” ) to banish inorder to activate the summoning effect of your "Bystial '' monsters. This combo allows multiple 25000ATK monsters to special summon to your field with ease that can then use trap effects like "Branded Beast" or create more powerful monsters such as the Synchro “ Bystial Dis Pater" which can then special summon your “Dark Magician” back to the field.
Stack your field with high powered Dragon monsters
Banish light & dark monsters from your opponent's graveyard with the activate effect of your "Bystial" monsters
Synchro summon monster including "Bystial Dis Pater" that when summoned using your "Bystial" monster can bring them back to the feild.
FUSION DARK MAGICIAN
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This deck focuses on using Dark Magician to summon powerful fusion monsters such as "Dark Magician The Dragon Knight" and then bouncing itself back on the field with the trap card "Eternal Soul" to be used in another fusion summoning. This combo allows for you to always be in possession of Dark Magician that can be used for a fusion summon or for extra 2500ATK damage.
Always have a "Dark Magician" able to be summoned
Fusion summon even during your opponent's turn to bring out cards to protect your backline.
With "Eternal Soul" on the field and your Dark Magician fusion monsters you'll have a field that can't be destroyed or effected by card effects.
KASHTIRA MAGICAL CIRCLE
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This deck focuses on banishing your opponent's cards by first setting up your field with a “Kashtira Fenrir” monster and the continuous spell card “Dark Magical circle”. Then use “Magician's Soul” to special summon “Dark Magician” on the field. This combo essentially allows you to banish cards your opponent controls multiple times per turn thanks to the effects of “Kashtira” monsters and the effect of “Dark Magical Circle”.
Banish cards that attack or activate an effect using "Kashtira Fenrir"
Banish card every time "Dark Magician" is summoned to your field with "Dark Magicial Circle"
Easily create rank 7 XYZ monsters like "Ebon illusion magician" that can further increase your banishing capabilities when attacking with a "Dark Magician"
DARK SKILL DRAIN MAGICIAN
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This deck focuses on negating all monster effects on the field and then creating link monsters using “Dark Magician” such as: “link spider” and "Imduk the World Chalice Dragon”, to bounce him back to the field using “Eternal soul" which would then activate “Dark Magician Circle" to banish your opponent's card. To protect your back row, use the continuous spell cards “Magician's right hand” and “Magician’s left hand”. The field spell “Secret Village of the Spellcasters” could also be used in this deck . This combo allows you to have Dark Magician plus powerful link monsters on the field, while banishing your opponent's card from the field and preventing them from activating any monster, spell or trap effect.
Negate all effects on the field with "Skill drain"
Stop the first spell and trap card your opponent activates per turn with the left & right Magician's hand.
Dark Magician isn't an effect monster so you won't be affected by "Skill Drain"
Create link summons to send "Dark Magician" to the GY to bounce back with "Eternal Soul" and trigger "Dark Magical Circle", banishing a card.
THE DARK MAGICIANS
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In the lore of Yu-Gi-Oh, “Dark Magician” is the teacher of “Dark Magician girl” (an effect monster that gains 300ATK for each “Dark Magician” in the GY), so when you pair them together in a deck you'll get two unstoppable magicians. This deck focuses on using archetype specific monsters, spells and trap cards to summon both of the magicians onto the field. After, you can set your backrow up with quick effect spell cards like; “Dark Burning Magic” or “Dark Magic Expanded”. This combo allows you to protect your cards while leaving your opponent's field clean. If you love spellcaster cards, this deck can be extremely fun!
Open to the unlimited possibilities of different spellcaster specific spells and traps.
Wipe your opponent's board clean using "Dark Burning Magic" which can be triggered multiple times per turn in the event your opponent can stack their field again.
Have your Dark Magicians support each other so you'll always have a monster on the field making it incredibly hard for your opponent's to deal effective damage.
