When i think about countering prophecies the first deck i think of is.. Six Samurai. That is because the first thing people think about when they here sams is Shi-en the boss monster of there deck his effect is: Once per turn, during either player's turn, when your opponent activatesa Spell/Trap Card: You can negate the activation, and if you do, destroyit. If this card would be destroyed, you can destroy another face-up "Six Samurai" monster you control instead. This gives sames a huge advantage against opponents 1 shien can negate a Spell or Trap and 2 if it were to be destroyed it can destroy another six sam instead and lots of players usually forget about his second effect. Shien and Priestess both have 2500 ATK but shien has an advantage over it b/c if priestess tries to use its effect you can use shien effect or better yet activate magatama which is another great protector  of six samurais. But enough about shien lets move on to what the Whole deck can do if its played right. six sams r fast swarmers
they can xyz/shynchro easily and stun decks so they cant use spells, traps and monster effects like beast and barkion besides shi en summoning these two would make u have a huge advantage against spell books. Six samurai can also xyz/synchro big monsters over 2500 easily as well which would kill priestess. They also have cards like Gateway, enishi, zanji, kizan kagemusha kageki and shadow which make a huge difference in the deck with there effects especially Gateway if you have that on the field your win ( most of the time ) is guaranteed.

hmm how would an arch type like say "Gusto" fair up against the Meta?

i feel bad about my response now it feels so inadequate before LH's response

Well a few cards you can use to help combat spellbooks are; deck lockdown, Thunder King ( to stop spellbooks from adding cards ), If you can side this then side Eradicator Epidemic Virus and call spells, and for people who wannab e a little techy if you run hieratics or elemental dragons you could also try horus level 6/8 ( 6 to get level 8 out ), when you get Horus level 8 its pretty much a 3000 beater that can negate any spell multiple times per turn ( and per chain as well ) making priestess one of their only ways out. Finally another card which is commonly sided is prohibition. If you call judgment day you can slow down the deck quite abit.

Those are cards that can lockdown/slow down spellbooks. Now as for the deck with the best matchup, Anti-meta decks, E dragons ( all the effect negation in the main plus eradicator in the side not to mention the draw power of the deck makes it a good match-up ), Gravekeepers can have a good spellbook match-up if they draw necro valley and also because the deck can side in EED if they side it, Evilswarm and heroes can combat spellbooks since they run tons of traps, the only issue about the decks are they can't keep up with the speed of spellbooks so it would be a difficult match-up. Now six samurai can go against spellbooks if they can get Great shogun and shien ( the level 6 synchro ) out on the field because that pretty much puts the deck at a stand still and if that field can be maintined they can get game.

i think judgment needs to go down to 1 or 2 as well.

That's my old deck.

Yes I doubt they will hit Judgment in Sept. If anything they will hit Secrets (to 1) and Fate.

Judgment is too new to be hit.

one word. Ojamas

Magical Hero Nottu wrote:

Fate is rather OP, but I don't know if they'll really touch it.

It's the most obvious choice to hit. It's the deck's only defense.
They'll hit either Fate or Master.

Look at what they did to Wind-Ups. If they're gonna hit a tier 1 they'll do it hard enough not to allow it to be top tier anymore.

Judgment deserves a spot on the banned cards list, but as I said, they won't hit it because it's too new. You can just abuse secrets with Master and recycle it with Fate and Eternity.
Fate is the deck's only defense and it's recyclable hence it needs to be hit. Imagine a Karma Cut that hits every card on the field, has practically no cost, is searchable and recyclable. How balanced is that? Not very.

Wind-Ups were hit hard enough to make them almost unplayable. They banned their only GOOD Xyz monster and limited the card that allows them to do combos (and OTK), and yet Mermails still have their Megalo/Diva OTK. Imagine Prophecy with Magician banned and fate limited, or E-Dragons with Big Eye banned and Dracossack limited. Sucks doesn't it?

There are many things that can be hit in prophecy that hinder their consistency, such as Secrets, Fate, Magician, Master (which i doubt will be hit since the deck can works wonders without it), and Judgment (if banned Prophecy loses it's tier 1 spot).

Honestly even if they hit Judgment and limited it nothing would change. It can easily be recycled.
Magician is the deck's Stratos.. which should go. But again, we're dealing with Konami here, so you never know.

Yes that's what I'm expecting, although I doubt they're gonna hit so many cards in a single banlist.

still though the banlist isnt for a little over 2 months so its impossible to say for sure.