Card Tips:Dark Magician

You can add this card easily to your hand by using Foolish Burial while "Herald of Creation" is on the field. Then discard 1 card to add "Dark Magician" to your hand.

By having "Magical Exemplar" along with "Miracle Restoring" on your side of field, you can easily Special Summoned "Dark Magician" from your Deck through Graveyard by "Foolish Burial". Your "Foolish Burial" will automatically add 2 spell-counter to "Magical Exemplar", which you can remove both to Special Summon it from Graveyard.

This card can be easily Special Summoned in Rank 4 Centric Deck. Use "Goblindbergh" or "Tin Goldfish" to Special Summon "Armageddon Knight" or "Elemental HERO Prisma", then use the latter Summoned cards to dump "Dark Magician" to your Graveyard. Overlay the two level 4 monster to Xyz Summon "Daigusto Emeral", and use its effect to Special Summon this card. Note that you can also dump this card in any other means such like "Foolish Burial".

You can combine the above strategy by using "Swing of Memories" and "Ebon Illusion Magician", given the 2 copies of "Dark Magician" is already in Graveyard. Special Summon "Dark Magician" in your Graveyard by "Daigusto Emeral", then use "Swing of Memories" to Special Summon the second copies from your Graveyard. Overlay the 2 level 7 "Dark Magician" to Xyz Summon "Ebon Illusion Magician". Finally detach 1 material from "Ebon Illusion Magician" to Special Summon the third copy of this card from your Deck or Hand. Note: You can also use the "Daigusto Emeral" effect to return 3 important card (preferably semi-nomi or nomi monster which will be useless in your Graveyard or will works better in deck or hands) including 1 "Dark Magician" to your Deck to draw 1 card, then use "Ebon Illusion Magician" to Special Summon it from your Deck. This combo will give you a minimum of +3 advantage.

Use "Elemental HERO Prisma" to activate several "Dark Magician" thematic specific support card by revealing cards such like "Dark Paladin" or "Amulet Dragon", which is powerful but has very conditional activation requirement, such like "Dark Magic Attack", "The Eye of Timaeus", "Thousand Knives", "Knight's Title", etc. while still dumping "Dark Magician" to Graveyard for preparation of Special Summon later.

You can Special Summon this card by controlling a "Dark Magician Girl" and activate "Sage's Stone". Alternatively, use "Elemental HERO Prisma" by revealing "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" to speed up the process of "Sage's Stone" activation requirement.

After you have 2 copies or more of this card via the above mentioned strategy, it would grant you access to varies powerful Rank 7 Xyz Monster, such like "Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack", "Number 11: Big Eye", "Ebon Illusion Magician" etc. which are very flexible to use according to the field situation.

Use "Champion's Vigilance" to protect your field while controlling this card, which is very powerful counter to opponent's Spell, Trap, or Summon.

"King of the Swamp" can greatly help this card to build up a "Dark Magician" Fusion combo, which grant you access to "Dark Paladin" and "Dark Flare Knight".

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