Lesson 02: The Prophecy Realised

not sure why you would run only 1-2 priestess in a priestess build but ok guy

AS i said in CB good Job on Opening a window for new prophecy players to look at. Guide is enjoyable well presented and the only comment i had was on the "count" you gave out which we discussed in CB. For Purposes il just name my counts (keep in mind this is my PERSONAL PREFERENCE and not a MUST)

Wisdom: 1-2 Never 3
Fate:1 (if unli 2 tops) never 3
Priestess: 1-2 If world build 2-3 if Priestess (Usually 3 given we need her out early this format since its a speedy format)

Tower: 2 Period.

Justice: World = 0-1 Priestess = 2-3 (i pReffer 3 beacsue we need her out early)

Temperance: World = 3 (you can run 2 idk but 3 is ideal IMO) Priestess = 0-1 (i run 0 its bad in this build but some can run 1 for idk there personal prefference)

Yup thats about it and again Good Job for ur first Book article

Well I played prophecy last month a bit on devpro. And I actually like Reaper of Prophecy. Especially since I abused the crap out of star hall. Monsters easily hitting 4k+ atk. At the same time when I have a lot of banished spellbooks he lets me bring out wheel of prophecy which let me put as many spellbooks into my grave and shuffle the rest into the deck. Which let me abuse Fate a lot more. Spellbooks could do well against the current meta as long as every turn you use fate as that can tear up the meta a bit. Reaper of Prophecy also gives you fodder to BLS if you need a dark. Which can push the game even harder. Imagine 2 Priestess on Field (or 1) And a BLS banishing with BLS and popping with Priestess. Over all I think the deck has some solid match ups. Sadly though it is kind of slow compared to BA and Qliphorts on establishing a board. The deck won't really care about shaddolls midrash or construct as you can either pop construct or attack over midrash. Also if you just want to abuse the atk boosts you can get from hall I would run 3 Hermit as that attack does add up letting him get over Apoqliphort Towers or anything really. Just my thoughts on the deck.

If youre running BLS and star hall in spell books you should probably stop playing spellbooks

Star hall really only slows the deck down now on top of gimping your starting hand, i'd rather open any trap than hall. BLS really does not belong in this deck. He will sit in your hand dead 90% of the time and by the time you get him lined up to do something youre losing.

You also kinda forgot to mention Daigusto phoenix, Herald of pure light, and downerd magician(<---kind of a biggie to forget)

Phoenix turns your 2 blue boys into a 1500 atk double swing, which you can stack into downerd in main phase 2 so that you keep a spellcaster on the field for fate to be live.

Herald can fix up bad hands by detaching blue boy, and then adding him back to hand( or priestess), and returning a dead spellbook to deck, like crescent, lategame

Downerd is downerd, its a rank 4 spellcaster that pierces and turns all your non spellcaster rank 2's into spellcasters. This helps alot because there are turns where you want to do big damage or fix your hand, but cant afford to really give up the spellcasters youve got on field. This lets you go into phoenix for big damage or do other stuff, and then go back into a spellcaster so your cards stay live.

ToFeelTheLifeOfOthers wrote:

If youre running BLS and star hall in spell books you should probably stop playing spellbooks

Star hall really only slows the deck down now on top of gimping your starting hand, i'd rather open any trap than hall. BLS really does not belong in this deck. He will sit in your hand dead 90% of the time and by the time you get him lined up to do something youre losing.

You also kinda forgot to mention Daigusto phoenix, Herald of pure light, and downerd magician(<---kind of a biggie to forget)

Phoenix turns your 2 blue boys into a 1500 atk double swing, which you can stack into downerd in main phase 2 so that you keep a spellcaster on the field for fate to be live.

Herald can fix up bad hands by detaching blue boy, and then adding him back to hand( or priestess), and returning a dead spellbook to deck, like crescent, lategame

Downerd is downerd, its a rank 4 spellcaster that pierces and turns all your non spellcaster rank 2's into spellcasters. This helps alot because there are turns where you want to do big damage or fix your hand, but cant afford to really give up the spellcasters youve got on field. This lets you go into phoenix for big damage or do other stuff, and then go back into a spellcaster so your cards stay live.

Welp Brah...right now you just saved me a hell of a lot of writing, so thank you. Starhall at anything is slow, but if your the type of duelist that doesn't like holding back your hand and just wasting every spellbook you get starhall at 1 will work for you. BLS....is just...no. 

Priestess is best at 2 because we don't want clogging
Temperance at 2
World at 1 

At most in any spellbook deck you should have about 12-13 monsters and the rest being your spellbooks itself.

I almost forgot to mention Ghostrick Socuteboss

ghostrick socuteboss is an interesting card in it's own right. It's another rank 2 spellcaster. It's effect allows it to pick a monster on the field with less attack than all the ghostricks you control, combined(which means just counting herself, anything with less than 1400) and then destroy it. Then, if you do, that monster zone cannot be used while you have a ghostrick, and Socuteboss is on the field. Socuteboss counts herself for this block, so as long as she is on the field, and her effect is active, that monster zone is now blocked out, meaning they have 1 less space to place monsters on the board. Where this becomes really interesting is that Socuteboss, is a SPELLCASTER. so you can increase its attack with book of Power, to 2400 or even 3400 with a master combo, and then anything with 2300 or 3300 attack on the field, is now poppable by socuteboss. On top of this we can also add in the downerd play if we just want to get rid of a pesky mini-monster, on our way towards making a beater.

I wish ChiChi was here to post.But nice guide.