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Spellbook deck (Before 2018 Jan)

Duel Links Spellbook deck, Spellbook in the current meta, how to use.
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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
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CostExpensive
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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.

Comments

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Spellbooks for faqs
Hey guys, if you find this deck really annoying, do this:

After you duel someone who uses spellbook deck, report them for time wasting. You can do so by clicking the opponent in duel history under ranked.

You might even want to stall and use up your time to teach them what wasting time means. They might report you, but if we all report these annoying fkers then I am sure Konami will do something about it :)

Or you can do nothing and suffer spellbook for another year lol
<< Anonymous(Spellbooks for faqs)
Anonymous Reply
I love how grit sylvan players timestall after they know they have lost
<< Anonymous(Spellbooks for faqs)
Anonymous Reply
Ahahahahahahah another sylvian or amazoness player that is getting his 🔥 wreked
<< Anonymous(Spellbooks for faqs)
akubane Reply
you know that you can get banned for that? the report buttom is for cheating and slow play(timer-stall).
<< Anonymous(Spellbooks for faqs)
Anonymous Reply
report sylvan and amazon decks
Anonymous
SerIouSlY Th0 SpEllBoOk tAke A L0t mOrE thInkiNg thAn sYlvANs
Anonymous
Hey any other good skill to use for spellbooks after restart nerf? I was wondering what other skill should I run and yes I am playing the 30 card variant would it be better to run the 20 card variant now?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I will probably run SB with destiny draw so I can get fool/treacherous, even with the nerf of once per duel, destiny draw is still a solid skill IMO
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Nerfed Restart it's actually fine for spellbooks ;)
wtf
how to counter this deck?
<< Anonymous(wtf)
Aquablast Reply
We had some discussion in the QA section:

http://duellinks.gamea.co/qa/yux9vk

... but some of those advice are made without realizing that Fate is a non-targeting spell, so use your head and don't follow all those advice blindly.

But the quickest answer to your question is: just buy "Structure Deck EX: Spellbound Silence" if you can. The Silent Magician there can stop Fate for free.
<< Anonymous(wtf)
Aquablast Reply
Silent Magician Lv8 is immune to spell effect from your opponent, so it is still safe from Fate too. Of course, neither Silent Magician will work if your opponent goes first and set up Fate before you could even make a move...
<< Anonymous(wtf)
Aquablast Reply
Oh, and focus on destroying the spellcaster with a spell/trap. Fate can't be used unless your opponent controls a spellcaster.
<< Anonymous(wtf)
Anonymous Reply
Chaos hunter can counter it :T
Anonymous
F**K THIS DECK. F**K THIS DECK. F**K THIS DECK. F**K... This deck is so broken because the player can manipulate his deck so easily with cards that let the player add cards to his hand, banish cards during either players’ turn, and retrieve a vanished spell card with ease!!!!
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
flood the field and 🔥 his monster.
Or use something like providence or tribute yo the doomed to 🔥 the monster.

He cant use fate banish without a spellcaster on his field.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
You sound like you havent even played this deck, bruh. Try playing it and actually winning, required thought and one misplay fk's u over.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Lol just coz you lost, doesn't mean it's broken. If you actually understand how the deck works, you would know how to counter it. Better yet, let's see you use SB deck and win consistently.
Anonymous
Spellbook tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl6DyHhls2c
Rootless
Spellbooks feels like Woodland Bamboo. 🔥ing annoying deck where u take ages do do your play.
Spellbookcounterplay
Spellbook is the new sylvans but seems to have less counterplay.

Spellbooks is basically draw and mill whatever you want for the approriate situation. As if you are searching with your deck open.

Every turn they can easily get thevresources to set spelltrap back to hand/flip facedown monster/banish controlled card.

Opponent cant build up anything or gain momentum this way.

Spellbooks have even easy access to special summon the board.

This deck is getting out of hand.

At least vs cyber angel dakini there were viable meta counterdecks.

These dont exist vs spellbook deck.

A really early otk through a super lucky draw defeats them, but its not exactly hard to prevent that with their tools in general.

This deck is spreading like a disease in legend. Especially with 5k life.

With wcs 2018 qualifiers stage it was already a plague at 22+ with 4k life only.

There need to become more countercards vs spellbook decks or this deck will get even more out of hand.

<< Anonymous(Spellbookcounterplay)
Insight Reply
Spellbooks are maybe even more counterable by f.e. flooding the field, killing or negating the blue kid, emptying their resources.
Trunade helps a bunch too.
<< Anonymous(Spellbookcounterplay)
Anonymous Reply
Another dumbass who doesn't have a clue how Spellbooks work. How about you play the deck and let's see your win rate by then. Just coz you got owned, doesn't mean it's easy.
<< Anonymous(Spellbookcounterplay)
Moloz Reply
thts why the new structure deck silent magician n silent swordman is coming!1
<< Anonymous(Moloz)
Anonymous Reply
if anything it buffs spellbooks and not overpower them
Anonymous
How exactly do you play spellbooks? I just got all the cards except for a third copy of secrets, but I keep on losing. Can someone please tell me how to win?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Pb389vgHE

This video should teach you about everything you need to know
Tobi
I thought this deck was OP because a Vagabond OTK'd me with this deck, but every time I see this in PvP I just win like it's nothing. How did people get KoG with this deck? It's just using spell cards in a huge loop without achieving anything just to get destroyed because you just put a 500 atk monster on the field with a single quick play spell.
<< Anonymous(Tobi)
Anonymous Reply
FYI, this deck got the 3rd/4th place in the most recent MCS
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Maybe with a grass version that has a good opening draw and good grass rng.
<< Anonymous(Tobi)
Spellbooky Reply
It can take time to get to a build up where you can become dangerous with spellbook.

You may have won before they got to that point.

If you can flood the field for example?

What did you play?
Sylvan?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
And you consider 3rd/4th high for a minibox deck?
Anonymous
To all saying this deck is easy to play bla bla bla

Everyone can play this deck, but not everyone can play this deck OPTIMALLY. Whenever I looked back at my old spellbook replay, I always thought to myself "Oh, I could have done this instead", "If I did this instead, I could have won easier", "Why the heck did I do that" etc.

Other meta decks are easier to play OPTIMALLY, which is not the case with spellbook and make spellbook more "complex" than other meta decks atm
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Seems harder indeed than georgia, sylvan and amazone.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Being only able to use spellbook spells once a turn and requiring a spellcaster makes one have to plan carefully.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Are you referring to the 20 card version the 30 card or both?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Are you referring to the 20 card version the 30 card or both?
Spellbook new
Spellbook can seem stronger than it is at first,
because its new
AND it plays different than most decks.

So it takes a bit getting used to how to fight it.

The 30card grass version can go offensive fast in a good hand but can also be very bricky and the 20card version is less bricky but slow and is low in the special summon department.

Spellbooks will lose if they cant keep a spellcaster on the field and a spellbook to show in their hand to keep their sequences going.

Even if they can do sequences, they can still lose if you can summon more dangers at them that they can banish or deal with in general.

If your pressure is low they will be able to deal well with it and slowly disable you.
You need to keep up high pressure.

Also you can take many hits from a 500 att monster before something bigger appears.
Which can take especially long in the 20card version.
Giving you quite some possible turns to fight back.

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