Pendulum Magician

Duelist Cup DLv. Max from Adagio on March 16th, 2026
cp-ur 1020 + cp-sr 510
60 cards

Notes & Combos

Link to Nekoresi's Supreme King Magician Guide explaining nearly all the cards.

The goal is to FTK. It can be done in 1 Pendulum Summon if you don't set up an omni-negate. You might need 2 Pendulum Summons if you also set up omni-negates. The 2nd Pend Summon is done using Pendulum Evolution.

To FTK, we need:

  • 4 Dark Pendulum monsters to summon 2 Supreme King Dragon Starving Venoms.
  • 2 Link 2 monsters to summon Gigantic Spright. Maxx "C" can replace one of the Link 2's. Gigantic Spright summons Gale Dogra from the deck.
  • Gale Dogra sends Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingle from the Extra Deck to the GY.
  • The 2 Venoms copy Nightingale to burn for 4000 LP each.
  • We can sometimes FTK through Droll. Chronograph Sorcerer & Astrograph Sorcerer can summon more DARK Pendulum monsters from the deck.

Protecting the FTK:

  • Baronne de Fleur made with Harmonizing Magician + Oafdragon Magician or Supreme King Dragon Lightwurm + Chronograph Sorcerer or Oafdragon. We can summon Baronne by the 5th summon.
  • Performapal Celestial Magician's monster effect when you control a Synchro monster. It turns off your opponent's monster effects for the turn.
  • Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, accessed by Dark Magician of Destruction. Banish Chronograph Sorcerer or Astrograph Sorcerer to summon DMOD. This can be done by the 5th summon.
  • We can make an early Magician of Hope or Odd-Eyes Rebellion XYZ Dragon to turn on Pendulum Evolution's 2nd Pendulum Summon to help play through Nibiru. Black Fang Magician's Pendulum Effect can also help extend after Nibiru.

Other Tips:

  • We don't need 4 Dark pends on the field at once to summon 2 Venoms. We can have 3 and then summon 1 Venom to a Monster Zone Cross-Sheep points to. Cross-Sheep revives a level 4 or lower Dark pend in your GY, such as materials used to summon Magician of Hope.
  • Revive non-Dark spellcasters with Exceed the Pendulum and Cross-Sheep if you have Black Fang Magician scaled, a way to destroy Black Fang and a Dark Spellcaster in the GY.
  • Revive Beyond the Pendulum with Black Fang before your Pendulum Dark Spellcasters. Beyond returns to the GY to be revived again upon leaving the field, while your pends go to the Extra Deck.

Going 2nd:

The going 2nd winrate isn't great. However, we can sometimes perform the FTK combo in Main Phase 2 after softening the opponent's board in Main Phase 1 and the Battle Phase.

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Replays

ID: 002-019-149

The Duelist Cup replays from December show the combo. The most recent replay is an example of the FTK combo going 2nd. I should've placed S:P Little Knight in the middle Main Monster Zone to have better arrows to Pendulum Summon to, but I was auto-piloting. I searched Wings of Light instead of Pendulum Evolution with Supreme King Gate Magician because the opponent had not used Runick Destruction yet.