From: Derek Dariafan [disgruntled_gremlin88@yahoo.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:31 PM
To: yugi_help@pojo.com
Subject: The Disgruntled Gremlin's Top Ten Future Dark 
Magician Cards

Hello Pojo people.  I'm the Disgruntled Gremlin and
I'm here to talk to you about the Dark Magician
support cards.  In the current English game, the Dark
Magician has been ridiculed for its weak attack power
and high summoning cost.  Duelists have dubbed him
"The Kiddie Card" and "The Dork Magician."  However,
the following ten Japanese cards are designed to give
this Mage a chance in the heavy beatdown environment.

10) Dark Sage:
  This card has 2800 attack power, and can revive a
magic card from your graveyard.  The catch is that he
can only be summoned by you having a Dark Magician in
play and you calling the Time Wizard's flip correctly.
 Your Dark Magician can then be sacrificed to summon
Dark Sage from your deck.  This is a real pain, and in
my opinion not a very good combo, but if you had the
bizarre urge to build a Second Coin Toss deck around
him, I guess it MIGHT be decent.

9) Magical Knives
  This simple magic card can destroy one opponent's
monster so long as you have a Dark Magician on the
field.  This can be like a free TttDoomed if you've
just used Dark Magic Curtain or Skilled Dark Magician,
and can be kind of useful (though far from a staple)
in a Dark Magician deck.

8) Dark Magic Ritual
  This ritual card is used to summon #7: The Magician
of Black Chaos.  However, this ritual has some combos
of its own.  The Dark Magician Girl card requires Dark 
Magicians in the graveyard for her optimum strength, so 
you can try to tribute your Mages using this ritual.

7) Magician of Black Chaos
  This level 8 2800/2600 attack ritual card is best
used for getting mages into the graveyard (with its
ritual card), but can also power up Dark Magician Girl
from the graveyard, so it's a useful card to have in a
Mage deck.

6) Dark Magic Curain
  This magic card comes with the steep cost of half
your lifepoints, but if you use it, you can summon a
Dark Magician from your deck (you can't summon any
monsters on the turn you used this card either).  This
can be very powerful if you want to summon Black
Paladin, or just get a monster out to protect you. 
You may want to use some cards to cut down on the
lifepoint damage to make this card more useful.

5) Cyber Stein
  This card isn't used directly with the Dark
Magician...it's the Black Paladin combo that gets it
on the list.  This monster lets you pay 5000
lifepoints to summon any fusion monster immediately. 
Most people like using it with Blue Eyes Ultimate, but
thanks to cards like Dark Magic Curtain, it works
nicely with Black Paladin too.  Why?  Because Dark
Magician decks tend to lose lots of lifepoints (thanks
to Dark Magic Curtain cards, failed Dark Sage
summonings, Toon World, etc.) so you can activate
powerful cards like Last Turn and Megamorph to
obliterate your opponent!

4) Black Paladin
  This fusion of Dark Magician and Buster Blader has
2900 attack points, is powered up 500 for any dragons
on either field or graveyard (DNA Surgery anyone?) and
has an effec that lets you negate enemy magic cards by discarding 
a card from your hand.  You're better off using Goddess of the 
Third Eye than Buster Blader as you'll wind up with too many 
tribute monsters.  This card is very strong for attacking, and, 
so long as you keep a large hand, has a very Imperial Order-like 
effect.  This is one of the few fusions that might just be worth 
playing.

3) Dark Magician Girl
  This level five mage has 2000 attack points and is
powered up 300 points for all Dark Magician and
Magician of Black Chaos cards in either graveyard. 
This makes her a deadly weapon in any spellcaster
deck.  By using Card Destruction and Graceful Charity,
she can be powered up to 2900 very quickly.

2) Skilled (Experienced) Dark Magician
  This card's name will probably become Dark
Magician's Apprentice or something.  Anyway, it's a
level four with 1900/1700 stats, and when three magic
cards have been played after it is summoned, you can
tribute it to special summon a Dark Magician from your
hand, deck or graveyard.  This is amazingly powerful
as a deck thinner, an attacker and even a magic
prevention card.  If you run spellcasters, run this
guy.

1) Liberation
  This powerful magic card lets you discard all
monsters in your hand but one, and reduce the
remaining monster's summoning cost by 1.  This means
you need only pay one tribute for Dark Magician, and
none for Dark Magician Girl.  Not only that, but you
can discard all your excess Dark Magician cards!  This
powerful combo needs a little setup, but is one of the
most annoying moves you can make.  Liberation
single-handedly makes a lot of tribute monsters
playable.

Well, that's the top ten Dark Magician support cards. 
I hope you'll give your Mages a second look after
these cards are released.  Some current English cards
that will also the Dark Magician are Yami, Mystic
Plasma Zone, Monster Reborn/Premature Burial/Call of
the Haunted/The Shallow Grave.

Hope ya liked my first top ten list!  I'm the
Disgruntled Gremlin, and you can e-mail me at: disgruntled_gremlin88@yahoo.ca

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