last day of the witch.
this card destroys all spellcasters on the field.
this is pretty much a nuke on your opponent and can allow you to finish them off quickly.
as well can be a good way to kill off there priestss assuming they dont otk you.
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would be a good deck to use against spellbooks do to archlord kristya stopping the opponent from special summoning so they cant bring out high priestess.  The only other way they can get around it is normal summoning a monster that can get stronger than kristya with spellbook of power.
or spellbook of fate.

because i restarted in slifer like everyone else and want to make my way to orichalcos legit. also since im not that good of a duelist, and theres no shame in trying to get better. XD.
also to keep agents fast you would be running few to no traps. 
so a good choice would be treacherous trap hole to either destroy there priestess(s) or bait out a wisdom to be used on traps which would open up the opportunity for last day of witch

Well since EEVs been taken, I'm taking the next 2 viable hitters to Prophecy, Droll & Lock Bird and Thunder King Rai-Oh. These cards has been mainly side deck options against Prophecy to slow down their searching power. The only problems to this are that Prophecy can side in Dimensional Fissure which renders Hand Trap Monsters like Droll and Lock Bird useless and for Rai-Oh,  if the Prophecy player can summon High Priestess with its effect or have a monster with Spellbook of Power to beat over Rai-Oh or use Spellbook of Fate, it will render Rai-Oh useless. Well I feel that E-Dragons have the better match up to Prophecy but I want to share my personal deck, Chaos Dragons. For players like me, we have to do our best and outplay prophecy as much as we can in terms of setting up the OTK and rendering their attacks as much as we can, I know for me it isn't the best match, but all I can hope to do is try.

There is only one card that ik of that can stop spellbooks and that is shock master. Calling spells shuts down spellbooks compeltly where they cant do anything and if you run the right traps alot of there summons can be stopped. Match ups idk very much of i've made good plays with bw to go agaisnt spellbooks even plays where i could get out shock master fast. The best deck that i can think of is  e-drags (if i dare say bw i wil get so much hate on that)

Meklord Emperor Wisel: With its 2500 atk of power and ability to negate one spell per turn its a great combat against Spellbooks
Droll and Lock Bird:A thunder king u can use on your own terms
Secret Village of the spellcasters: My opponant cant use any spell cards period seems lovely

A good deck for combating them would be spellcaster anti-meta deck Due to their use of Secret Village and Jowgen

A card that would be good against them would be Curse of Darkness. It's a continuous trap card that inflicts 1000 damage every time a spell card is activated. Considering that they rely heavily on their spells, this card would be great to use against them.

A good match up against Spell Books would be Six Samurai. Reason I think so is because they swarm faster than Spell Books and they can overlay into Shockmaster which could shut down their spells. Six Samurai can easily synchro into Naturaia Beast which will cancel all of their spells, although a cost of two cards from your deck. On top of all of that, there is, the long forgotten Great Shogun Shien, who only allows the opponent to activate one spell or trap per turn.

IRonnie wrote:

Meklord Emperor Wisel: With its 2500 atk of power and ability to negate one spell per turn its a great combat against Spellbooks
Droll and Lock Bird:A thunder king u can use on your own terms
Secret Village of the spellcasters: My opponant cant use any spell cards period seems lovely

A good deck for combating them would be spellcaster anti-meta deck Due to their use of Secret Village and Jowgen

Wisel can negate once per turn, which is not much better than trying to rely on Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En. Droll is excellent and Rai-Oh is as well, but then he's good vs most every meta deck. Secret Village is a very BAD card to try and use against Spellbooks, considering they are nothing but Spellcasters.


You are on the right track so far, keep it up
Blazer Slater

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A card that would be good against them would be Curse of Darkness. It's a continuous trap card 
that inflicts 1000 damage every time a spell card is activated. Considering that they rely heavily on their 
spells, this card would be great to use against them.

A good match up against Spell Books would be Six Samurai. Reason I think so is because they swarm
 faster than Spell Books and they can overlay into Shockmaster which could shut down their spells. 

Six Samurai can easily synchro into Naturaia Beast which will cancel all of their spells, although a cost
of two cards from your deck. On top of all of that, there is, the long forgotten Great Shogun Shien, 
who only allows the opponent to activate one spell or trap per turn.

Excellent work! Six Samurai aren't heavily used any more and as such have sunk to Tier Two but are still an adamant option to face the meta with. Shogun is a very good idea for stunning the Spellbooks. Even if they were to try and use Priestess' effect, he can easily protect him self as long as he has a "Six Samurai" on the field. OD awarded

Woot! Yay! Thanks! :3

Not really gonna suggest any new cards or anything, but I just wanted to throw out there that Priestess isn't used as much anymore.
It makes the deck unstable and is now played at 0-1. It's not too relevant anymore when thinking about Books.

i believe that heroes can be a great viable counter against the spellbooks because heroes used to its maximum in which i mean run warrior heroes or maybe rescue heroes can allow a person to be able to get 3+ monsters on the field in a turn because of cards like gawayn or bubbleman which can allow for shock masters galore and shockmaster is a perfect shut down for them also since spellbooks dont run many traps if u use shock master it also leaves them vulnerable plus u are able to summon excal a hero favorite and then maybe shining to finish them off easily though there are also some great sides like using prohibition and saying spellbook of judgement. that really slows down their deck because they have no recover also using cards like last day of witch which(hahaha a pun) can give a 1 sided dark hole and leave them open to finish. though the last card is rai-oh which is a perfect counter to them because it doesnt allow them to add cards to hand(just another way to cancel out the OP spellbook of judgement) and also it can stop priestess or another 1 of their beaters. so heroes allows many options to beat them but also dworlds is a great counter for spellbooks.

just the way dworlds are designed can cancel them out because it increases their chances of a deck-out greatly also it can shut down their deck because of dragged down into the grave. that allows you to pick any card in their hand and discard it so u can get rid of that spellbook of judgement early. the last thing that makes dworlds so good against spellbooks (except for the fact that dworlds cant really be stopped by spellbooks because of a lack of traps and also because dworlds can destroy alot of their cards by grapha eff) is eradicator epidemic virus. this card is like a triple shock master that only affects them and causes them to discard and not even have to be able to use later on. that 1 card has the ability to completely shut down their deck and cause them to be unable to activate spells or even have them. that card is perfect right when they use spellbook of judgement or right after because then u can stop their whole combo or make them lose all their cards.

Cos you don't always open those cards. Also, DN players are highly influenced by rl tops and rl players, so 'that's DN' is a bad argument. Priestess at 3 clogs like hell. 2 is ok, but 0-1 is really good. 

But I'm not really gonna try to tell you guys how to play your decks, since you never listen anyway, so meh.

There is a card that works amazingly at completely and utterly shutting down Spellbooks, however, it comes with a side effect of being unusable in a large number of Decks. Which is why, along with this card, I shall also be describing an infamous Deck, who with some special tweaks to the strategy can completely shut down those goshdarned (XD) Spellomancers of Prohebook. Or whatever they're called.

This special card works against their strongest weapons, their Spellbook cards... By not allowing them to exist. Wait, what? Yeah, you heard me. Anything short of a Solemn Warning or a Dark Bribe can't save you when this card card enters play, either, because it isn't required to stay on the field to reap its benefits. Its main weakness is that it provides Fate with a bit of fuel, but of course that hardly matters if you can blast Fate with this as well.

Sure, the card isn't a complete win, because frankly, one thing Spellbooks have over E-Drags and a lot of other Decks is how incredibly good they are at bouncing through all the things that try to shut it down. Even their most solid monster counter, Gozen Match, is dodgable by this supremely resilient Deck. However, I'd like you to take a moment and consider: how much could this Deck do against another capable Deck without access to ANY spells? And though they wouldn't be helpless per say, how long do you assume they'd last against a strong (possibly Skill Drain-assisted) assault without those Spells?

The card to stop this power-gobbler Deck is known as Eradicator Epidemic Virus. Go ahead, look it up. Even better, don't, I'll tell you about it.

Eradicator Epidemic Virus:
Normal Trap Card
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 2500 or more ATK, and choose Spell Cards or Trap Cards; check your opponent's hand, all Spell/Trap cards they control, and cards they draw until the end of their third turn after this card's activation, and destroy all cards of the chosen type.

Pretty sweet stuff. Basically nukes a lot of Prophecy's biggest plays. Sure, there are still things they can do, and they can get Spells through cards such as Spellbook Magician, but no Prophecy player should comment to me that Eradicator isn't extremely painful to the Deck. As an added bonus, if you have more than one monster available as Tribute, this card can't even be stopped by Spellbook of Fate, which is notorious for stopping pretty much everything that could do lasting damage.

The only thing is, this card isn't exactly useable by every Deck you want to counter Prophecy with. This card needs a very certain kind of Deck that's rather hard to come across. After all, you need all of a consistent DARK engine for generating multiple 2500 or higher ATK monsters. So what do you do?

So here's what I have as a matchup against Spellbooks...

The answer comes as a surprising one... Malefics! Specifically, Necrovalley/Skill Drain Malefics. Or, if you're feeling like a real courageous little soul, you can even use Field Barrier before Eradicator... To protect your opponent's Grand Spellbook Tower! It won't really help them a whole lot since you'll be dumping any Spells they draw into anyway. Plus, then they won't be particularly eager to waste resources getting rid of their own Field Spell, since it would cost them more than you, so you get free protected Malefics! Specifically, I'd recommend a Skill Drain (and probably Necrovalley, to shut down a lot of their Grave-working and Banishing cards) build, since that also does some of its own damage against Spellbooks and helps your guys, though of course unlike with Eradicator it's quite easy to get off the field and nullify.

So there we go. I believe Eradicator Epidemic Virus is a good matchup card against Spellbook Prophecy, and that Malefics are a good matchup against this formidable foe.