Disciple of the Magician - Dark Magician Girl, Level 6, Spellcaster Type, ATK 2000.
At first glance, those stats felt very familiar. Wasn't this just the classic Dark Magician Girl? But upon closer inspection of the card art, one would realize—
Damn, it really was the classic skin.
That's right. Aside from having the same Level, Type, and stats, even the artwork looked basically identical. Calling it an alternate-art Dark Magician Girl would not have been wrong. Perhaps even the designers felt that Dark Magician Girl, the iconic leading lady of early Yu-Gi-Oh!, already had a design good enough that it needed no major changes, so even her new card had failed to get a new outfit.
Of course, that assessment was not without reason. Fair, soft, blond, blue-eyed—what more could anyone ask for?
In fact, it was not just her appearance and stats that were the same. This new card could even be treated as "Dark Magician Girl" by name. Furthermore, she could be Special Summoned directly by discarding one card from the hand. Though she was Level 6, she could basically hit the Field as soon as she was drawn into the hand.
And when she was summoned, Light's Gold Sarcophagus could be added from the Deck to the hand. This effect was crucial. As everyone knew, Light's Gold Sarcophagus was the central core of the entire Gold Sarcophagus archetype. Without that core, most of the other cards immediately became blank slates.
Thus, the existence of this Dark Magician Girl amounted to an additional key searcher for Gold Sarcophagus and could be regarded as a starter for the Deck.
Finally, her ATK increased by 300 for every Light's Gold Sarcophagus Monster in both players' Graveyards. This effect was clearly a tribute to the original Dark Magician