Difference between revisions of "Spell Counter Deck"
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* [[Breaker the Magical Warrior]] | * [[Breaker the Magical Warrior]] | ||
* [[Chaos Sorcerer]] | * [[Chaos Sorcerer]] | ||
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* [[Crusader of Endymion]] | * [[Crusader of Endymion]] | ||
* [[Dark Red Enchanter]] | * [[Dark Red Enchanter]] | ||
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* [[Arcane Barrier]] | * [[Arcane Barrier]] | ||
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* [[Book of Moon]] | * [[Book of Moon]] | ||
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* [[Field Barrier]] | * [[Field Barrier]] | ||
| + | * [[Fighting Spirit]] | ||
* [[Fissure]] | * [[Fissure]] | ||
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* [[Heavy Storm]] | * [[Heavy Storm]] | ||
* [[Mage Power]] | * [[Mage Power]] | ||
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* [[Magical Stone Excavation]] | * [[Magical Stone Excavation]] | ||
* [[Mega Ton Magical Cannon]] | * [[Mega Ton Magical Cannon]] | ||
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* [[Mystical Space Typhoon]] | * [[Mystical Space Typhoon]] | ||
* [[Pot of Avarice]] | * [[Pot of Avarice]] | ||
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* [[Bottomless Trap Hole]] | * [[Bottomless Trap Hole]] | ||
* [[Call of the Haunted]] | * [[Call of the Haunted]] | ||
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* [[Hidden Book of Spell]] | * [[Hidden Book of Spell]] | ||
* [[Magician's Circle]] | * [[Magician's Circle]] | ||
Revision as of 14:01, 18 March 2010
A deck based on Spell Counters generally focuses on using the numerous destruction and burn effects of monsters that require them. This deck uses a variety of different cards to rapidly gain Spell Counters. The main method of gaining spell counters is through the field spell Magical Citadel of Endymion which gains a counter each time a spell card is activated and it also allows you to once per turn use its stored counters to activate another card's effect. Other methods to gain counters usually involve monsters that gain spell counters whenever a spell card is played, such as Magical Exemplar, or that gain them when summoned, like Breaker the Magical Warrior. Some card effects, like Pitch-Black Power Stone ,Alchemist of Black Spells and Crusader of Endymion allow Spell Counters to be placed on other cards. 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.
The head cards for a Spell Counter deck tend to be the Synchro Monsters Explosive Magician, Arcanite Magician, and Tempest Magician, but they can also be Legendary Flame Lord or Mega Ton Magical Cannon.
Contents
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.
In Traditional Format, you can use Gearfried the Iron Knight and Butterfly Dagger - Elma to create an infinite number of spell counters.
Another way to genetate Spell Counters is to use the Continuous Spell Recycle. This card, for 300LP, can take any non-monster card from your Graveyard and place it on the bottom of your deck. You may only use this effect During your Standby Phase. It is recomended to only use it on one of each of the following cards per turn.
- Spell Power Grasp, Its effect places one spell counter on the field (along with one on every card that generates their own) and pulls another Spell Power Grasp from your deck to your hand. Can only use one per turn.
- Gather Your Mind, This Spell Card works exactly as Spell Power Grasp above except it doesn't add a spell counter on a card. This is only useful if you do not have a Spell Power Grasp in your hand or you have no face-up cards that can handle spell counters. Not likely in a Spell Counter deck... Can only use one per turn.
- Toon Table of Contents, This card is normally used to help a Toon Deck, however due to its wording, it can search for another Toon Table of Contents. Along with Recycle, you can use this every turn and can use it multiple times in a turn. This is the only card of these three that it would be useful to use Recycle to replace both in your deck. The other cards have that "once per turn" limit.
Strengths
A Spell Counter Deck's main advantage lies in the mid to late game, by which point they will have usually generated enough counters to destroy a large number of their opponent's cards and keep up the rate of destruction by "reloading" their monster or using the Citadel's counters.
Spell counter decks can also be very versatile. Monsters that use spell counters can cause spell and trap destruction, monster destruction, burn damage, and hand discard.
The Spell Counter specific Synchros all have effects that can use counters from anywhere on the field which, with enough counters, can make Arcanite Magician and Explosive Magician greater than Judgment Dragon and Heavy Storm respectively.
Tempest Magician can reload cards like Breaker the Magical Warrior or Dark Valkyria for more destruction, or with enough counters she can win the duel by inflicting a massive amount of Effect Damage.
Weaknesses
One of the 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, as well as Spell Canceller. Counter Cleaner and Exhausting Spell can clear all the Spell Counters on the field instantly.
Magical Citadel of Endymion can still be 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.
Recommended Cards
Monsters
- Alchemist of Black Spells
- Apprentice Magician
- Breaker the Magical Warrior
- Chaos Sorcerer
- Crusader of Endymion
- Dark Red Enchanter
- Dark Valkyria
- Defender, the Magical Knight
- Disenchanter
- Effect Veiler
- Endymion, the Master Magician
- Frequency Magician
- Maiden of Macabre
- Magical Exemplar
- Magical Plant Mandragola
- Magical Marionette
- Magicat
- Magidog
- Magician's Valkyria
- Night's End Sorcerer
- Old Vindictive Magician
- Royal Magical Library
- Silent Magician LV4
- Silent Magician LV8
- Summoner Monk
Spells
- Arcane Barrier
- Book of Moon
- Double Summon
- Field Barrier
- Fighting Spirit
- Fissure
- Foolish Burial
- Heavy Storm
- Mage Power
- Magical Citadel of Endymion
- Magical Dimension
- Magical Stone Excavation
- Mega Ton Magical Cannon
- Mystical Space Typhoon
- Pot of Avarice
- Recycle
- Spell Power Grasp
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Terraforming
Traps
- Bottomless Trap Hole
- Call of the Haunted
- Defense Draw
- Hidden Book of Spell
- Magician's Circle
- Mirror Force
- Pitch-Black Power Stone
- Tower of Babel
