General description:
Reprinted two times, Dark magician Of Chaos is among one of the best and most overused monster. It’s ability to grab a spell card from the grave is unique, and is the main reason why this card is well appreciated. Want to know how to use him better?
Uses:
Basically, summon, grab a spell and attack. DMoC is also a very good beatstick basting 2800Atk points, and also, it does not fear monsters like recruiters or Sangan due to another one of it’s abilities-removing the destroyed monster from play!!!
Strategies and game play:
DMoc is a card that should be used wisely, for it gives you a real advantage over your adversary. It allows you to grab key spell card that you need to strike for game. For example, you can take Heavy Storm to clear the back card row, or Lightning Vortex to blow away the monsters!!
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Combos with other cards:
Anyone playing the game since the release of IOC booster pack will surely remember the Painful Choice/Triple DMoC combo!! Despite the fact that this one cannot be used due the banning of PCand also to the limitation of DMoC , the latter still works very well with a plethora of new cards today’s metagame offers, namely:
Dimensional magic: That’s quite simle. While you have a spellcaster on the field, you can tribute a monster to summon DMoC from your hand, destroy a monster, grab a spell etc…
Dedication through light and darkness: A less ideal(if not worst) way of special summoning DMoC. Tribute a Dark Magician to activate this card and you’ll get the ‘chaos version’!! This is pretty cool in Yugi based decks!!
Fires of Doomsday: Provides you with two tokens ready to be tributed. Be sure to activate fires in your opponent’s end phase though
Monster reborn: Woa, that’s waaaay too obvious!! Reborn a DMoC form the grave(it should be discarded there), grab the reborn, and special summon another monster.
D.D.R and D.D.M Different Dimension Revival will allow you to special summon DMoC once he’s removed from play(just like escape from the diff dimension). Different Dimension Master does the same thing, both by discarding a hand card.
Being level 8 and Dark, DMoC makes a perfect target for Trade In, Allure of Darkness, Dark Grepher or even Folish Burial
Ways to counteract it:
Skill drain, shadow imprisoning mirror… Necrovalley and DD Crow can stop the spell grabbing effect, unlike torrential tribute or bottomless trap hole. DMoC has no evasion ability, so it’s easy to get rid of him!!!
Strengths/Pros:
-2800 Atk beatstick
-R.F.P the monsters it destroys
-Gets you a spell card for free from your grave
-Dark attribute(who doesn’t like that?
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Weaknesses/Cons:
There’s only one disadvantage…it gets removed from play when destroyed, but then, even this can be used as a pro in many situations!!
Variations:
It’s available in Invasion Of Chaos and Dark Revelations2 as an Ultra rare. It’s also been newly reprinted in Gold Pack 1, but too bad the latest version is harder to get.
Artwork and aesthetics:
The artwork is pretty good, this cant be denied. But however, what I don’t like is the fact that it seems too….well….. in two dimension…like it’s been flattened, but then, this gets all right when the card catches sunlight and starts glinting!!
Overall rating:
A 10/10 obviously!!!! Simply the best spellcaster in the whole game till now!!! Hope you all enjoyed my review. Feel free to add comments suggesting improvements or errors.
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