Dark Phoenix Mage

[Wombat Slayer]

Dark Phoenix Mage
Spellcaster/Fusion/Effect
3000/2700
Attribute: DARK
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Dark Magician + Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys
When this card is destroyed by a card effect you may Special Summon during your next Standby Phase. When this monster is Special Summoned in this way you may remove it from the game to add 2 Spell Cards from your Graveyard to your deck. The deck is then shuffled and you draw a card.

ART: A dark Magician style mage with completely navy blue and black armor, Sacred Phoenix style wings at his waist and a Pharaoh-like head dress with a Magician pointy thing at the top. His staff has bluish-white flame at the top. The background is the Spell Ring with heiroglyphics all along the dark brown wall.

[aaycumi]

Nope the effect doesn't suite the Dark Magician at all.

[SilentChaos]

I love the idea of this card. This card would look sooo cool. But, instead of navy blue, maybe golden orange armor with flames coming out of parts of his armor. But, his effect, sorry to say, sucks. Maybe this:

Dark Phoenix Mage
3000/2700
FIRE
Spellcaster/EFFECT
8 Stars

When this card is destroyed by a card effect, Special Summon this card to the field during your next Standby Phase. When this card is special summoned in this way, put 1 spell counter on this card. You may remove 1 spell counter from this card to activate 1 of the following effects:
-Destroy 1 Magic/Trap card on the field.
-Return 1 Magic card in your graveyard to the top of your deck.

[Wombat Slayer]

Dark Phoenix Mage
Spellcaster/Fusion/Effect
2950/2600
Attribute: DARK
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Dark Magician + Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys
This card can only be summoned through Fusion Summon. When this card is destroyed by a card effect you may Special Summon this card during your next Standby Phase. When this monster is Special Summoned in this way you may return 1 Spell Card or 1 Trap Card from your Graveyard to your hand.

ART: A dark Magician style mage with completely navy blue and black armor, Sacred Phoenix style wings at his waist and a Pharaoh-like head dress with a Magician pointy thing at the top. His staff has bluish-white flame at the top. The background is the Spell Ring with heiroglyphics all along the dark brown wall.

i edited it a bit. remade the second effect and made the summon mandatory as fusion summon like Dark paladin, and downed its attack a bit since thats crazy i think with 3000 atk.

[Retained]

But wouldn't "this card can only be special summoned by fusion summoning" prevent it from being special summoned during the controller's next standby phase? cause that would make it so that it can only be summoned through fusion and no other way.

[Wombat Slayer]

no it means INTIALLY, like the Envoys it can only be summoned originally through removing Light and Dark removal BUT after its summoned that way and killed then it can be returned with Burial and Call and what not, thats what im saying here