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Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh Card of the Day
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Sorcerer of
Dark Magic
Limited Edition Promo
Spellcaster / Effect Monster
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This
card cannot be Special Summoned except by offering 2
Level 6 or higher Spellcaster-Type monsters on your
side of the field as Tributes. As long as this card
remains face-up on the field, you can negate the
activation of Trap Cards and destroy them.
Type
- Dark / 9 / 3200 / 2800
Card Number
- MOV-EN002
Ratings
are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being
the worst. 3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating
Date Reviewed - 8.10.04 |
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ExMinion OfDarkness |
Tuesday:
Sorcerer of Dark Magic
This card is also fairly difficult to play, but much
less so. You have to offer two high-levels from the
field...and get a 3200 one-sided Jinzo. Basically,
this is how Jinzo and Amplifier should be working. The
Japanese already have this card except for Magics (and
with an easier summoning requirement, see one of DM7's
articles).
99% of the time, you won't be able to get this card to
successfully Summon. The one case I could see it
happening is if you use the Painful Choice/Monster
Reborn/Dark Magician of Chaos combo and wanted some
trap protection to go with your attempt at a one-shot
kill.
Still, the attack and effect aren't good enough to
consider this card. When's the last time you had TWO
high-level Spellcasters on the field at the same time?
1/5 |
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Tranorix |
Tuesday: Sorcerer of Dark Magic
Today's card is a bit more playable than BESD; in
fact, it's a very good monster that I feel will be
pretty underrated. The stats are fantastic; with 3200
ATK, there is virtually nothing that will be able to
stop it. 2800 DEF can also stand up to a lot, but I
doubt you'd put him in Defense Position anyway.
The summoning effect hurts him a little, but not when
you take into consideration how easy it is to summon
Dark Magician. Get two on the field, sac them for this
guy, and you have an improved version of Jinzo. With
awesome ATK and an OPTIONAL effect of negating Traps,
he's certainly a dominating presence on the field
(though of course he's still vulnerable to Magic Cards
and Effect Monsters).
He obviously needs his own deck to work, but in such a
deck, this guy would be amazing. Any monster this
powerful with reasonable summoning requirements
deserves recognition.
Typical tournament deck: 1.5/5
Dark Magician deck: 4.5/5
OVERALL RATING: 3/5 |
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Omega |
Today's card is the Sorcerer of Dark Magic. At first
glance this looks like a pretty tough monster to
summon, but in a good Dark Magician Deck, there
shouldn't be that big of a problem to get the 2
required monsters on the field.
Some may find this easy, some may find it hard,
however there is a second option hidden within the
summoning ability of Magical Scientist.
In the upcoming Soul of Duelist booster set, we saw
released a monster called Critch. This monster was a
fusion of Witch of the Black Forrest, and Sangan. Why
am I talking about this card you ask? well you see
Critch just happens to be a Level 6 Spellcaster
monster. So for the mere cost of 2000 life points, you
can have Magical Scientist summon 2 of them for a
sacrifice for Sorcerer of Dark Magic.
The Sorcerer has an Improved Jinzo like effect which
allows you to CHOOSE if you wish a trap negated or
not. And if that weren't enough, is also holsters an
incredible attack of 3200 which is the highest for any
spellcaster ever released.
Because of Magical Scientist making him so easy to
summon, Sorcerer of Black Magic gets a 5/5. It is
truly the best of the 4 movie promos. |
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Otaku |
Stats:
Sorcerer of Dark Magic is a Level 9 Dark/Spell caster
with some effects, including one similar to
yesterday’s card (Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon for those
of you that are absent-minded like me ;) ) that makes
its Level relevant only when using certain cards like
Gravity Bind and Metamorphosis. Being Dark and a
Spell caster opens up some good options, like Being
Chaos food and (since it’s also Level 9) making use of
Diffusion Wave Motion. It has a
magnificent 3200 ATK and good/bad 2800 DEF (it
will stop a lot, but if it were 1500, you could search
it out with Witch of the Black Forest).
Effect(s):
This card can only be summoned by two Level 6 or
higher Spellcasters as
Tribute. There are a couple ways to make this less
painful than it sounds-see Uses/Combinations. Its
second effect, since I can’t see any other way of
taking it, is what makes it so that it should actually
see play: it can negate the activation of Trap Cards
and destroy them. At the very least this is a nice
permutation on Jinzo (or Ryu
Senshi), if not an
improvement. Traps that are already in affect would
continue functioning as normal,
buts for most decks that will not be a factor.
Uses/Combinations:
Well, you need some big
Spellcaster monsters to sack. How to get
them? With the current card pool (most Japanese cards
I don’t have a lot of experience with, so I won’t list
them-yesterday’s Cyber Stein
was an exception) I would think all the normal tricks
to Summon tribute monster’s cheaper: Cost Down would
make Chaos Command Magician and Dark Magician Girl
no-Tribute Monsters; Chaos Sorcerer is Level 6 and can
be Special Summoned himself with ease using your
standard Chaos Deck set-up; DNA Surgery can make
anything a Spell Caster (and makes a sweet surprise),
and if you don’t mind risking running your hand out,
you could even just use Ultimate Offering (perhaps
with Cost Down).
After getting it into play, do the obvious-combine it
with cards to keep annoyances from Monster and Spell
effects to a minimum. For example, Imperial Order and
a plethora of Traps to negate Monster Summons/nuke
them.
Ratings
Casual:
4/5-Once it gets going, with its attack, effect, and
proper support, it looks
Tournament:
3.5/5-Harder to use, but it could be worth it.
Limited:
0/5-Only a promo right now. Even if it were somehow
available for limited, the odds of being able to play
it are pretty low.
Summary
Woo-hoo!
It’s good! |
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dawnyoshi |
Sorcerer of Dark Magic...wow, definitely a card with
some potential. The fact that it can only be special
summoned through its effect sucks, as it's only a
one-shot monster since it can't be revived. You'll
need some decent protection against monster effects
mainly, as it's attack is higher than most monsters,
and spells can be stopped easily with cards like Magic
Jammer or Dark Paladin.
So far, there are two relatively easy ways to summon
this guy. You can combine Magical Scientist with DNA
Surgery, summon two of the same level 6 fusion, have
DNA Surgery transform all monsters to spellcasters,
then sacrifice both to summon Sorcerer of Dark Magic.
You can also summon 2 chaos sorcerers if you have the
light and dark necessary, use their effects, then
sacrifice them to summon this guy...both are
relatively easy to pull off, though I find the chaos
way easiest (DNA Surgery can easily be destroyed
before you get a chance of using it). It's a bit
limited, but it's definitely a great choice for a
spellcaster deck, which no longer needs to rely on a
Jinzo. Who needs to when you can CHOOSE which cards to
negate?
Constructed: 3/5
(no limited score) |
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JAELOVE |
Tuesday: Sorcerer of Dark Magic
Rated
For: Spellcaster decks
Nipping at the heels of Monday's Blue-Eyes related
Kaiba card is today's Dark Magician based Yugi weapon.
It's slightly more playable than the mess known as
Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, but does that help its
score? This card relies on level 6 spellcasters to
bring out. The only playable level 6 and above
spellcasters are Dark Magician of Chaos, Dark
Magician, Chaos Sorcerer, and arguably Chaos Command
Magician). Building a deck around so many tribute
monsters is sheer suicide, and having a card in your
deck with SUCH restrictive summoning requirements is
also foolish. The fact is that cards WILL BE PUNISHED
for such self-strangling tribute costs.
Advantage F/H:
A 3200
attack monster dominates the field. The ability to
negate every trap limits your opponent's mobility.
Remember, this card DOES work in conjunction with your
OWN traps, it's not a Jinzo by any means. However,
chew on this. To sacrifice two level 6 or higher
spellcasters from your deck, the BEST case scenario
forces you to waste two cards from hand (Let's say you
reborn and premature two Dark Magicians). Of course,
the reality is that the tribute cost for this card
ranges anywhere from 2 to 4 cards. This sort of hand
disadvantage, coupled with the abject disadvantage
of basing your deck around 4+ level 6 spellcasters,
lowers this card to a 2.5/10 (it negates
traps, has 3200 attack, and is slightly easier to
bring out than BESD).
Best
Draw for the Situation:
Cards
with this sort of restrictive special summoning cost
(even more stringent than Mazera Deville's) warrant
pure zero's. You never want to draw these cards
period. They're Gate Guardians.
0/10.
Attributes/Effect:
This
card is actually superior to BESD in my opinion. The
trap effect is actually a very powerful one (it's one
sided). Also, using Reasonings and other creative
cards will let you bring this card out into play far
more often. Finally, it boasts a hefty 3200 attack,
which is MORE than enough. Unfortunately, the
positives only give it a small bonus because of its
disgustingly prohibitive summoning cost. To those who
are almost considering using him, stew on this. Why
would you give up two 2300+ attack monsters, which
mean you've won the game, for one 3200 attack monster?
3/10.
Dependability:
No,
you're not going to be able to depend on getting this
guy out. Even if you do, he'll fall easily to every
form of spell/monster card that destroys monsters.
0/10.
The
Bottom Line:
These
two movie promos reviewed thus far are garbage in
competitive play.
A BAD
Score: 5.5/40= 14/100
Cards
it combos well with:
Reasoning, Dark Magician, Dark Magician of Chaos,
Monster Gate, Skilled Dark Magician, Chaos Command
Magician, Chaos Sorcerer |
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