Notes & Combos
Tips:
Search before you draw. Better yet, stack the deck before you draw.
When possible, use Magician Navigation before Eternal Soul. Get that negate live in your GY asap.
Summon Magician of Dark Illusion after Eternal Soul's effect to wipe your field resolves to keep a body on the board. You can often chain Eternal Soul when targeted by MST or other removal, search for Dark Magic Attack, and then special summon the Magician of Dark Illusion from your hand after the effect to wipe your field.
Both Dark Cavalry and Decode Talker can protect your backrow from targeted effects.
On your second turn, you can have three monsters on your field at the start of your turn. Link those off into Security Dragon and Imduk, return a monster to the hand, and then go into Decode Talker. This clears up your main monster zones to summon a Dark Magician to the zone Decode Talker is pointing to.
This is a CHAD DM deck. A lot of people sleep on Cavalry but I try to include it whenever posible. Did Warning Point put on a lot of work? Because I'd rather use Book of Moon which serves practically the same purpose.
Warning Point I've found to be more helpful than BoM in the newest format. The negate helps but stopping your opponent from using the monster for a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link summon is the real cherry on top. Shuts down Salamangreat if you hit Balelynx with it. Traps dont have the same synergy with Ebon High Magician but I haven't found myself using him as much anyways.
That was actually my next question. How often if ever did you use Ebon High Magician and how?
Honestly, I don't think I used him once, but I couldn't be bothered to remove it. He fits thematically and I always had that "maybe I could use him at some point" running in the back of my mind. He should probably be replaced with something more useful. Ebon High Magician shines in versions that use Quick Play spells like BoM. He can activate traps from the hand which is why I kept him in.