CDP: Shining Sarcophagus Dark Magician, ft. INFO Support

The Ebon Sorcerer gets new Friends, curtesy of Yugi!

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Strategic Summary:

Welcome to the first CDP of the month, and this time we’re combining the Dark Magician and Shining Sarcophagus strategies into one cohesive Yugi-deck! Starting with the Shining Sarcophagus side of the deck, this theme revolves around its Continuous Spell that can tutor any card that mentions it once per turn. This Spell is key to unlocking the true potential of your deck, since almost everything else in its support suite requires it to be on the field. For example, Silent Magician Zero can negate any Spell Card or effect activation, while you control Shining Sarcophagus. The best card in its lineup is Ties that Bind, a Normal Spell that Special Summons up to 2 Level 4 or lower monsters from your hand or Deck that mention Shining Sarcophagus. Ensuring even more consistency is Gadget Trio, which tutors Shining Sarcophagus or any S/T that mentions it on summon! Now the glue that holds this hybrid strategy together is up next, and that’s Dark Magician the Ebon Sorcerer (YGOrg Translation). It can be Special Summoned from the hand while Shining Sarcophagus is on the field, plus it becomes Dark Magician on the field, enabling everything else in your deck!

Alrighty then, time to move onto the Dark Magician side. The Dark Magician strategy revolves around the Ultimate Wizard himself, aiming to leverage powerful Spell Cards to Fusion or Ritual Summon your way to victory. Enabling this is Secrets of Dark Magic, a Quick-Play Spell that can do either, as long as you use a Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl as material! It’s no Secret – the Dark Magician theme has consistent access to almost all of its support cards, as not only does Magician’s Rod gets to tutor any S/T that mentions Dark Magician when Normal Summoned, but also Illusion of Chaos tutors any non-Ritual monster that mentions Dark Magician, plus there’s Dark Magical Circle that can grab one off the top 3 cards of your deck. In a pinch, you can even turn to Soul Servant to place a card that mentions him on top of the deck, then use its GY effect to draw the card you need! These are all essential consistency boosters, since both sides of this hybrid strategy feature multi-card combos to succeed. That said, these combos can combine ever so excellently to ensure that you leave no crumbs as you destroy and banish away any traces that your opponent even tried to duel you. Let your Magicians’ Souls guide you, and check out Dark Magician empowered by Shining Sarcophagus!

Provided Decklist:

Monsters: 19
| Dark Magician
| Gandora-G the Dragon of Destruction
||| Dark Magician the Ebon Sorcerer
| Apprentice Illusion Magician
| Dark Magician Girl
||| Gadget Trio
| Silent Swordsman Zero
| Silent Magician Zero
|| Magician’s Rod
||| Magicians’ Souls
||| Illusion of Chaos

Spells: 20
||| Ties That Bind
|| Turn Silence
||| Soul Servant
||| Secrets of Dark Magic
||| Future Silence
|| Dark Magical Circle
||| Shining Sarcophagus
| Magician’s Salvation

Traps: 5
| Destined Rivals
| Dark Magic Mirror Force
| Stronghold the Hidden Fortress
| Eternal Soul
| Magicians’ Combination

Extra Deck:
| Guardian Chimera
| Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
| Dark Magician the Dragon Knight
| Master of Chaos
|| The Dark Magicians
| Chaos Angel
| Underworld Goddess of the Closed World
| Accesscode Talker
|| Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians
| S:P Little Knight
| Proxy F Magician
| Cross-Sheep
| Relinquished Anima

Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server, the comments section of any of my YouTube videos, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page or through the site with your ideas for me to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Fluffal, Valkyrie, Flame Swordsman, Memento, White Woods, XYZ, Ragnaraika, Buster Blader, Lunalight, Spirit Converter, Illusion Trap Monster

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