Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is a game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga franchise. It is a card collecting battle-type game released for Android, iOS and Steam (for PC players).
The core gameplay mechanic revolves around players building their own decks and using them to battle other players. The deck-building aspect is left up to the players’ imagination, but some deck types stand out more than the rest.
Today, we will be talking about one of them, namely, the Dark Magician Deck.
Dark Magician Deck
Dark Magician is a fan-favorite deck type that centers around the main character’s ace card, Dark Magician from the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime.
Over the past year, this deck type has skyrocketed in popularity with cards like Dark Magical Circle and Magician Navigation, which when combined, allows the player to swarm the field and banish an opponent’s card during either player’s turn.
Advantages
A huge advantage of this deck type is that it matches up great against many of the meta control decks like Gouki, Shiranui, and Invoked Magician Girls, due to its ability to overwhelm the opponent with two relatively large monsters and banish a card off the field during either player’s turn. In addition to all of that, it also has Spell/Trap negates to counter most of the disruptions.
Disadvantages
One downside of this deck type is that because it takes a turn to set up their combo, players tend to struggle against the aggressive decks of the meta like Blackwings and HEROS, especially since they play large amounts of backrow removal with Cosmic Cyclone while also applying a lot of early-game pressure on their first turn.
While backrow removal is annoying for most control strategies, it’s especially devastating against this particular deck type, as part of what makes this deck viable is the Circle, and most anti-backrow cards can compromise its utility.
Best Dark Magician Deck List
Monster Cards:
- 3x Magician’s Rod
- 3x Magicians’ Souls
- 3x Apprentice Illusion Magician
- 3x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
- 3x Dark Magician
- 1x Dark Magician Girl
- 1x Red-Eyes Black Dragon
Spells:
- 3x Dark Magical Circle
- 3x Soul Servant
- 3x The Eye Of Timaeus
- 1x Secrets of Dark Magic
- 1x Dark Magic Attack
- 1x Called by the Grave
- 1x Magicalized Fusion
Trap Cards:
- 3x Solemn Judgment
- 3x Solemn Strike
- 2x Eternal Soul
- 1x Magician Navigation
- 1x Magicians’ Combination
Extra Deck:
- 2x Amulet Dragon
- 1x Accesscode Talker
- 1x Linkuriboh
- 1x The Dark Magicians
- 1x Dark Magician The Dragon Knight
- 1x Ebon Illusion Magician
- 1x Norito the Moral Leader
- 1x Predaplant Verte Anaconda
- 1x Link Spider
- 1x Relinquished Anima
- 1x Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians
- 1x Imduk the World Chalice Dragon
- 1x Knightmare Phoenix
- 1x Knightmare Unicorn
While there are still more Dark Magician support cards not included in this deck, many of them end up being situational at best, so we did not include them.
And that’s all you need to know about playing a successful Dark Magician Deck! Tell us more about your experiences.
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