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Spellbook deck (Before 2018 Jan)

Duel Links Spellbook deck, Spellbook in the current meta, how to use.
update 31/01/2019

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Overview

Spellbooks are generally a support archetype for Spellcasters. They excel at searching and boosting Spellcaster monsters with Prophecy monsters acting having the most synergy with them. With all that, the only thing lacking from Spellbooks/Prophecy right now is a boss monster to invest their support in.

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skillRestart
Essential cards
CostExpensive
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(Box reset)
Visions of IceVisions of Ice

Spellbound SilenceSpellbound Silence

Example Deck

Magician of Dark Illusion Version

Magician of Dark IllusionMagician's RodMagician's RodSpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of Prophecy
Spellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of FateSpellbook of FateDark Magic Attack
Dark Magic AttackSpellbook of the MasterSpellbook of the MasterSpellbook of EternitySpellbook of PowerSpellbook Organization
Paleozoic CanadiaPaleozoic Canadia--------
[Skill] description [Rebalance Version]User
A Trick Up the Sleeve
Your Starting Hand will be included 1 Level 7 or higher DARK Spellcaster-Type monster, randomly selected from your Deck. This Skill will not be activated if your Deck does not contain any Level 7 Dark Spellcaster-Type monsters. You cannot Special Summon effect monsters during your first turn.
Arkana
Arkana

Spellbound Silence Version

Silent Magician LV8Silent MagicianSilent MagicianSilent MagicianSpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of Prophecy
Spellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of FateSpellbook of Fate
Spellbook of FateSpellbook of PowerSpellbook of the MasterSpellbook of the MasterSpellbook of the MasterSpellbook of Eternity
Spellbook of EternityTreacherous Trap Hole--------

Show of Nightmare Version [Updated]

The TrickyThe TrickyThe TrickySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of Prophecy
Spellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of FateSpellbook of FateSpellbook of Fate
Spellbook of PowerSpellbook Library of the CrescentSpellbook Library of the CrescentSpellbook of EternitySpellbook of EternitySpellbook of the Master
Spellbook of the MasterSpellbook of the Master--------

Set Skill

[Skill] descriptionUser
Show of Nightmares
Can be activated if you have 3 or more Spell cards with different name in your Graveyard. Randomly add 1 spell card in your graveyard to your hand. This skill can only be used once per duel.
Arkana
Arkana

Blizzard Princess Version

Blizzard PrincessBlizzard PrincessSpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecyStrength of Prophecy
Spellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook Library of the CrescentSpellbook of FateSpellbook of Fate
Spellbook of FateSpellbook of PowerSpellbook of PowerSpellbook of EternitySpellbook of EternitySpellbook of the Master
Spellbook of the MasterTreacherous Trap Hole

Dark Magician of Chaos Version

Dark Magician of ChaosThe TrickySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecySpellbook Magician of ProphecyReaper of Prophecy
Fool of ProphecyFool of ProphecySpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of SecretsSpellbook of Life
Spellbook of FateSpellbook of FateSpellbook of FateSpellbook of PowerSpellbook of EternitySpellbook of Eternity
Spellbook of the MasterSpellbook of the Master

Set Skill

[Skill] descriptionUser
Restart
Can be used only once after starting hands are dealt. Reveal and redraw your starting hand.
Bandit Keith
Bandit Keith

How to Use

Silent Magician

While Spellbooks will cover all your support, Silent Magicians will be your main beaters. Summoning the Non-LV Silent Magician should be done by tributing a Spellbook Magician of Prophecy after you have used up his search effect. You should then try to protect her and keep her on the field so that you can activate Spellbook of the Master and Spellbook of Fate. Spellbooks are really good at maintaining their card advantage, so you should have no problem keeping Silent Magician above 2000 attack if used properly. If ever she does get destroyed you can special summon Silent Magician LV8 which has 3500 attack and is immune to your opponnet's spell effects.
Silent Magician is also extremely valuable in a mirror match and when dueling against other meta decks because she can negate key cards like Spellbook of Fate, Masked Change, and Ties of the Brethren.

Deck Search

Searching and thinning your deck is what this deck really excels at. Most cards in this deck has some form of search function to get Spellbooks or Prophecy monsters out from your deck.

  • Spellbook Magician of Prophecy can search out any Spellbook spell card from your deck when he is Normal or Special summoned. Very useful for getting any need card from your deck. You first search out Spellbook of Secrets and then use Spellbook of Secrets to search out the Spellbook you want. The extra step is to thin your deck further and load your graveyard.
  • Spellbook of Secrets can search out any card from your deck with Spellbook in it's name, including Spellbook Magician of Prophecy.
  • Spellbook of Power boosts one of your Spellcaster-type monsters by 1000 attack and allows you to search for another Spellbook card when it destroys a monster by battle.

Special Summon

When searching monsters this deck excels at special summoning your searched monster directly from the deck onto the field. Once per turn, Fool of Prophecy can mill any Spellbook spell card from your deck helping you reach his effect's activation condition. During the end phase when you have 5 or more Spellbook spell cards in the graveyard you can special summon a level 5 or higher Spellcaster from your deck. The best thing you could do with this is special summon Reaper of Prophecy, and then with Reaper of Prophecy search out a Spellbook from your deck and special summon Dark Magician of Chaos. Dark Magician of Chaos can then retrieve a spell card from your graveyard, this combo results in a plus 3 in card advantage.

Blizzard Princess

Summon Blizzard Princess by tributing Spellbook Magician of Prophecy or any 1 Spellcaster-type monster. She effectively shuts down your opponent's backrow for the rest of the turn after she is summoned allowing you to attack safely. Some easy ways to summon Blizzard Princess include using The Tricky or Legion the Fiend Jester as tribute fodder so that you can tribute summon into Blizzard Princess during the same turn.

Strength of Prophecy

Use Strength of Prophecy's effect to boost the attack of a Spellcaster-type monster on your side of the field by 500. Usually his effect will be used on himself first so that you can boost him enough to keep him on the field. His effect is also a good way to recycle Spellbooks in your graveyard back to the deck, which can then be searched by Spellbook of Secrets or Spellbook Magician of Prophecy.

Spellbook Library of the Crescent

Use Spellbook Library of the Crescent to search your deck for Spellbook spell cards. You can only use Spellbook Library of the Crescent if you have no Spellbook cards in your graveyard and the card that gets added to your hand is chosen at random by your opponent. But it could still be worth running this card to fuel your graveyard without losing card advantage. This could also help in some situations where your graveyard runs out of Spellbooks because of Spellbook of Fate and/or Prophecy of Strength removing them from the grave.

Retrieve

To maximize the use of your Spellbooks you also want to retrieve them for reuse. Dark Magician of Chaos can retrieve a spell card from the graveyard everytime he is summoned. Spellbook of Eternity can retrieve a Spellbook card banished by Spellbook of Fate.

Revival

Spellbook of Life can be used to revive a Spellcaster-type monster from your graveyard, the best targets are Dark Magician of Chaos, Reaper of Prophecy or Fool of Prophecy depending on the situation. Dark Magician of Chaos is the easiest target because he simple allows you to retrieve a spell card when he is summoned. Reaper of Prophecy is good if Dark Magician of Chaos is still in your deck and you have 5 Spellbooks in your graveyard, you also get to search a Spellbook from your deck. Fool of Prophecy is a great target if you want to gain a lot of card advantage while Dark Magician of Chaos and Reaper of Prophecy are still in your deck.

Spellbook of Fate

Spellbook of Fate has varying effects depending on the number of Spellbook card you remove from play as cost.

  • The first effect is useful for protecting yourself against opponent's backrow. Use it before the battle phase to return cards like Wall of Disruption to the hand without your opponent getting a chance to activate it. This effect can also help you disrupt Sea Stealth Attack boards.
  • The second effect can be used to defend against attacks and change your opponent to a vulnerable position similar to Enemy Controller's first effect. Additionally it can disrupt effects that activate upon summoning like Cyber Angel Dakini and some Sylvan monsters by flipping them face-down.
  • The third effect is just a way to get rid of anything from the field by banishing it, and keep in mind this does not target nor does it destroy meaning it is effective even against monsters with those forms of protection.

Spellbook of the Master

Spellbook of the Master is a good card to use in any Spellbook deck, because it can use the effect of any Spellbook normal spell in your graveyard. This bypasses the the Spellbook's activation condition. Also since all Spellbook cards have a hard once per turn effect, Spellbook of the Master allows you to practically activate it's effect twice in one turn.

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Anonymous
Silent magician is the way to go now or spellbook works fine without it too?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Silent Magician is a definitely a good add-up thanks to it's spell negation effect (easy win for mirror match). But people could still reach KOG with purely spellbook/prophecy build.

As the meta is rapidly changing nowadays, you might need to think twice on spending a lot to get that lovely Waifu.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Yeah i start to lose the will to spend on this game with the rapid meta changes and nerfs.
Anonymous
How does spellbook do vs fur hire?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Just SB of Fate their first master and you pretty much broke the deck's destructive combo. Or you could include some anti-meta cards such as forbidden chalice or divine wrath, solemn scolding to negate the monter's swarming effect. But ofc, this would be easier if u take the first turn, things might ugly if u go second.

Pretty much my duel with fur hire has a good win rate given that u go first.
Chaotic Anonymous
> "Spellbook is overused"
Yet PvP statistic clearly show that Fur Hire, Amazoness, Sylvan, and Mask Change deck are used more.

> "Spellbook has low skill cap"
Repetitive and long, yes, NO DOUBT about that. But it takes serious skill cap to play grind or break ideal opening against other top decks and very punishing to misplay.

It even rarely OTK and swarm.
<< Anonymous(Chaotic Anonymous)
Count Reply
There is silent spellbook and normal spellbook.
Both are shown seperately in the stats.

Add them both up and their are nearly to about double the amount of spellbook decks in kog compared to masked heros and sylvans.

Learn to read stats and do not misinform.
<< Anonymous(Chaotic Anonymous)
Anonymous Reply
In the kog stats

10 spellbook decks total (5+5).
6 mask hero.
5 sylvan.

Yeah clearly less spellbooks if 10 would be less than 6 or 5...
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Add masked stein and its 7.
Still less.

Also silent spellbook has had less time to rank so they could probably be even higher up if they would be active from the start of the month.
Anonymous
HAVE YOU SEEN THOSE ANNOYING BOTS THAT PROMOTE SCAMMING WEBSITES IN GLOBAL CHAT?

Well, guess what... !
People responsible for those bots...
ARE THE VERY SAME PEOPLE THAT:
*** Created some kind of Glitch (that lasted a couple of days, but even so, promoted the "glitch" everywhere, (as if it would have lasted years!)).
*** Came here to this website to promote hate about the Kaiba Cup (April).
*** Hated when Sylvans came out (and still keep doing it from time to time).
*** Hated on Amazoness deck as well.
*** And today, these people is the VERY SAME that hates HARD! on Silent Magician deck, trying to make people believe it's Pay-to-Win, Tier 0, big etc.

Clever huh?
By the time the 12th mini box is released.
These folks, these "haters" that try to boycott the game by any means necessary, are going to FIND ANY EXCUSE to spread hate and rumors about the new release. YOU CAN MARK MY WORDS, it's going to be so, and you guys will notice.

I'm not trying to convince you.
I don't need to.
Because it's going to happen.

I'm just saying...
So you guys can know...

Who could be so interested about ruining other's bussines?
Well, I investigated a little.
THESE PEOPLE, THESE FOLKS, ARE RESPONSIBLE AS WELL ABOUT BOYCOTTING MICROSOFT's XBOX ONE X - Weird huh?

It seems, that these guys... do not like any other company besides their HUGE CORPORATIONS. Yet, they have been very nicely welcomed here, in the USA.

Interesting.
This is not the way, you should know that; I guess YOU are reading this as well.
If you want to protect your money that badly, you can't conspire against others, and specially not against the ones who have opened their walls to you.

I don't wish any "punishment" to you, nor I wish some kind of "revenge".
But you should know... this world can't be a place where everyone "Eats before being Eaten".
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
About microsoft u are pretty much right, they have implanted some stupid belief about sony being the best "play station nation wooohoo" and that rubbish. Ps4 has fake 4k, and it's not as powerful as xbox onex, but the press never mentions it
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Lame Station 4 with fake 4k
<< Anonymous
Terra Reply
No one said silent sb is t0. And u can spam thousand posts on this site mentioning it being useless card behind a paywall but ppl who use it already know their capabilities. And ur conspiracy theory is a bit too much to take in....next thing u d have posted is trump won the elections because of these people.
<< Anonymous(Terra)
Anonymous Reply
Kappa
Anonymous
I'm sure they will nerf spell book soon since it's so over used
Anonymous
Why do SB players think that this deck requires skill? I used to play MH, until i finally collected all cards for my SB deck (without the new structur deck). I've been playing it for more than two weeks now and I have to say, that SB's are a really good deck, but it is really not hard playing it.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
It has a high skill cap. Anyone can use the deck but it rewards the more skilled players. Try watching some videos of great players and see that they would usually play differently than you in tight situations. Of course if you draw perfect then it's easy but that's not always the case.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
^ This. And this is not something that SB players think. It is the opinion of most good players who do not necessarily use SB. I myself don't play SB as I am not a fan of Spellcasters, but I can see that indeed it has a high skill cap.
Anonymous
Is this deck still good after the Restart nerf? I'm not sure if I should invest in this, but I'm really interested.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Won't be as good as before but still playable with destiny draw/draw sense earth/switcheroo
Mah boi
Sylvans and Amazoness are really annoying to deal with. Their cards will be semi-limited because of that. Even though Amazoness wasn't crippled enough...
But Spellbooks remained untouched. Even worse: they got a buff behind a paywall - the new Silent Magician.
Behold one of the worst 🔥s from Duel Links!
<< Anonymous(also)
Mah boi Reply
The truth has been spoken
<< Anonymous(Mah boi)
Anonymous Reply
Spell books have been hit with the restart nerd though.
<< Anonymous
Mah boi Reply
All meta decks (Masked Hero, Amazoness, Geargia, Spellbook - you name it) will be affected by the Restart nerf, except Sylvans.
And Spellbook doesn't need its first draw that much, they will search their Spells anyway...
<< Anonymous(Anonymous.)
Anonymous Reply
OMG I am totally laughing at your comments. Thanks for entertaining me dude HAHAHA
Anonymous
i wish spellbook of fate would be limited, and that spellbook users did not take so 🔥ing long during each turn!!
Mert1337
What about this to counter this deck? xd
<< Anonymous(Mert1337)
Anonymous Reply
Any spell disruption cards will hard counter this deck, but yes, this card is probably one of the hardest counters. Make sure you use on spellbook of secrets or fate
Anonymous
ALL MIGHT LOSES HIS ONE FOR ALL ABILITY IN BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA
<< Anonymous
Midoriya Reply
Do not worry, Why? Because I am here
Anonymous
here i was thinking i should build a spellbook deck(i got 9000 gems) but then silent magician came out...well il judt wait for the next minibox
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
fur hire will be very strong imho
<< Anonymous
Aquablast Reply
Fur Hire probably will not fare any better against Spellbooks. If their first monster is neutralized... they're done for that turn.
<< Anonymous(Aquablast)
Anonymous Reply
Yep, Fur Hire's one and only weakness is that they greatly depends on that one first Normal Summon.

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