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Spell Counter Deck

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Base card for the Deck.

A deck based on Spell Counters generally focuses on disrupting your opponents strategies and summoning high level Spellcaster-Type monsters. This deck uses a variety of different cards to rapidly gain Spell Counters. This includes card effects that gain a Spell Counter whenever a Spell Card is played, such as Magical Exemplar, or start with them when summoned or activated, like Breaker the Magical Warrior, or allows counters to be placed on a different card, such as Spell Power Grasp. Some card effects, like Pitch-Black Power Stone allow Spell Counters to be moved around the field. Spell Counters have a variety of uses depending on the card. Some of these effects are increasing the attack of a monster, destroying cards on the field, or drawing more cards. A major focal point of this deck is the Field Spell Magical Citadel of Endymion, which allows counters to be taken off of it for costs of different effects.

The head cards for a Spell Counter deck are Endymion, the Master Magician, Arcanite Magician, and Tempest Magician.

The Deck itself is based on having Magical Citadel of Endymion to make most of the monsters effects affordable and very easy to use without much disadvantages.

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[edit] Uses & Tips

This type of deck can be used for a variety of purposes. If you have enough spell counters on the field, Defender, the Magical Knight can be used for stalling, as it allows you to save some of your spellcasters. A spell counter deck can also be used as a Burn Deck, with the effects of Rapid-Fire Magician, Tempest Magician, and Dark Eradicator Warlock. Normally, these type of decks are used for control of the field until higher level monsters can be played. Since most of the cards used for this deck are spell cards, Spell Absorption is also a good card to have, allowing you to gain 500 Life Points every time a Spell Card is played.

If you were willing to go Traditional Format, you could also add in both Gearfried the Iron Knight and Butterfly Dagger - Elma to create yourself inifitive spell counters. To make this work, just make sure you have Gearfried the Iron Knight on the field first before you activate Butterfly Dagger - Elma.

[edit] Strengths

This Deck type has two major advantages over the other Decks of the current meta game:


  • The first one of this advantages is the versatility of the deck. while most decks now focus on swarming or have a beatdown approach to the duel this one has more than one approach to it, between the many strategies a duelist could have with this deck two come forward as the most basic and straight forward:


  • The second huge advantage that this deck offers is much more subtle. It focuses in a weakness that most decks have but this one excels in turning into an advantage: The Late Game. Most decks (specially around 2/3rds of the game) get weaker, as the cards get used up and very little decks have much to get back from the cemetery, with the not so total exception of Zombie Deck (since they don't get back magic or trap cards as well as they do monsters). While this [Decks] get very little to no advantage in the late game, the Spell Counter Deck gets a great one. The reason is obvious: As long as Magical Citadel of Endymion is in the field this card can be used to store (quite safely) Spell Counters and the more of those the more options the duelist gets, for example: summoning Endymion, the Master Magician which also allows to recover a Spell Card from the Graveyard.

[edit] Weaknesses

(Please edit, I'm accidentally based towards this deck)

One of the few weaknesses this deck has is its need to rely on the Spell Counters and much more directly to the Magical Citadel of Endymion which even with its invincibility effect could be targeted by cards that could return it to the hand and in this action discarding all the stored up Spell Counters. This Deck Becomes a very tough contestant in the middle-late game but in the very early game it could have some problems getting started up.

Because this deck heavily relies on gaining Spell Counters, cards that negate the activation of Spell Cards can counter this deck. A Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 on the opponent's field will lock this deck down, so does Spell Canceller (can backfire on the card's controller!). Counter Cleaner can clear all the Spell Counter on the field instantly.

Also, Magical Citadel of Endymion won't be destroyed by card effects that destroy cards (provided you have spell counters) but Magical Citadel of Endymion can still be returned back to your hand or destroyed by your opponent playing a new Field Spell Card, making you lose all your spell counters. Field Barrier can prevent your opponent activating a new field spell card but it's second effect will be useless (in order you have enough Counter's on Magical Cytadel)

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