Notes & Combos

Dark Magician deck with heavy Lair of Darkness presence. Feel free to reduce it under 55, I'm unable to take out any card from this build.

Some combinations - hints for the non-DM cards:

Ahrima:

• Under Lair on turn 2 is able to search Illusion of Chaos or Lord of the Heavenly Prison. This makes Verte live for Super Poly / Destiny Fusion.
• Its self-tribute helps a lot with Soul Servant or Dark Magical Circle, latter is especially great if you find floodgates.
• Its search for Lair in some cases can be used to get an additional draw from Magicians' Souls.

Combos with Lair:

• Super Polymerization (Verte) is always able to steal up to 3 opponent monsters.
• With Gozen the opponent can only summon DARK monsters, you also could destroy Lair at any time with DPE to force Gozen.
• Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror works great once you have Eternal Soul in field or Illusion of Chaos in hand. Careful because it makes DPE useless.
• Successor Soul is able to take out 2 opponent monsters in one go while giving you access to DM.

Lord of the Heavenly Prison:

• Protection effect is great, forces your opponent to use Lightning Storm only for Lair or only for your monsters.
• There are plenty targets to search, Super Polymerization, Preparation of Rites, Successor Soul, Dark Ruler No More.
• You can also use it as a body during the BP or for Link / Super Poly, or material for Super Poly - while it's protected by it.

General way to use the deck:

• You should try to get the floodgates or Super Poly, otherwise Lair doesn't really help much going 1st, luckily in this case Souls can take care of it or you can bait Ash / Gamma with Ahrima.
• Try to summon DPE as soon as possible, with Verte you only need 2 bodies, one of which will be Souls and the other will usually be Ahrima or Magician's Rod.
• Master of Chaos can resurrect DPE in case it's destroyed, which in turn can destroy it to restore a Spell from the GY.
• In case you don't have access to Lair or can't use it, play like a normal DM deck that has DPE.