The Dark Knights

The Dark Knights (；yami kishi) are a series of Spirits first introduced in BS09, a sub-archetype of The Knights. All of them are in the Purple color and the Evil Shadow family. Most of them possess the keyword Immortality, which helps shaping the play style of the deck. They have much of a demonic appearance, though ironically they are based on knights of the Arthurian legend. Many of them also look like some kind of animals.
== Play Style ==
Having the keyword Immortality, the deck plays around crash and burn and reviving from trash. Players are rewarded from destroying their own Spirits through various ways. There are also effects which discard own cards from hand for more conveniency in Immortality, and The Dark Sacred Sword is used to generalise the cost of the destroyed Spirits to Cost 3/4, which is often the trigger range of many of the Immortality conditions. The X-Rare of the deck, The KnightHero Swordius-Arthur, can even directly summon those Spirits from trash without cost.
However, with the lack of support after the Heroes era, the deck slowly fell out of the environment. Though in the True Rebirth era, the archetype comes back along with the new archetype The Dragon Knights, also sharing the theme of Arthurian legend. Some of the Dark Knights are given revival versions in order to go along with the new mechanics, though they still have not shaken off the Immortality keyword, and summoning from trash is still one of their main tactics.
== See Also ==
* List of "DarkKnight"-named cards
* List of "DarkKnight" supports
Category:Archetype