Spell Counter
Mainly used by Spellcasters, such as "Breaker the Magical Warrior", who gets a Spell Counter when Normal Summoned, Spell Counters are often added by their own effects, like how Mythical Beast Cerberus or Royal Magical Library get Spell Counters when Spell Cards resolve.
When newly introduced to a player, it may be a little confusing, normally because they think a Spell Counter is a type of card, but in fact, you need to take it's name quite literally as a Spell "Counter". You can keep track of Spell Counters by, example, using a dice. Example, the one doted side (1) represents 1 Spell Counter. Just to make it clear, once more, Spell Counters are not cards.
Here's a list of cards that use Spell Counters:
- Arcanite Magician
- Arcanite Magician／Buster
- Anti-Spell
- Apprentice Magician
- Armor Exe
- Barrier of the Magic Tribe
- Blast Magician
- Breaker the Magical Warrior
- Dark Red Enchanter
- Dark Valkyria
- Divine Magician Deity Endymion
- Exhausting Spell
- Frequency Magician
- Hannibal Necromancer
- Legendary Flame Lord
- Mana Seize
- Mage Knight Defender
- Magical City Endymion
- Magical Exemplar
- Magical Marionette
- Magical Plant Mandragola
- Maiden of Macabre
- Mega Ton Magical Cannon
- Miracle Restoring
- Mythical Beast Cerberus
- Pitch-Black Power Stone
- Royal Magical Library
- Saint Disenchanter
- Silent Magician LV4
- Silent Magician LV8
- Skilled Dark Magician
- Skilled White Magician
- Tempest Magician
- Tower of Babel
A rewrite of the definition of Spell Counters by FJCProductions:
A Spell Counter is not a card. There is no official way to keep track of them. Well, maybe there is, but I don't know that. More on that in a bit. Spell Counters are mainly used by Spellcasters. There are, in term, the key to activate certain cards' effects. Cards such as Breaker_the_Magical_Warrior or Mythical_Beast_Cerberus use Spell Counters.
I will use Breaker as my example to clarify. When you Normal Summon Breaker, his effect permits you to add 1 Spell Counter to him. With this, his main effect comes into play. "This card gains 300 ATK for each Spell Counter on it. You can remove 1 Spell Counter from this card to destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field."
So, away from the example. You can't just add a Spell Counter to a card. Only a card's effect can. Certain cards have a limit as to how many Spell Counters you can put on them, any case like so will be on the written card.
A good way to know how many Spell Counters are on a card is to use...regular dice. Why? Unless you've never seen a die in your life, you'll have noted there are six sides to a die, each one generally symbolized by a dot or a number of dots, and these symbols represent a number (1 dot = 1, 2 dots = 2,etc.)
When you have 1 Spell Counter on a card, you place a die on the card with the 1 face-up. 2 Counters? Switch the die's top side 2, and so on.
Tada. Now you should know what a Spell Counter is. Note; there are other sorts of counters, such as A-Counters. They're the same thing, just with a different prefix.
OH RIGHT. You may be wondering why there's even such thing as Counters. They're simply there so certain card effects are not so cheap as they could've been without the need of counters.
