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From a lore perspective, the story surrounding her transition from the stoic Magical Exemplar to the raging Tempest Magician<\/a>, and now back to the subdued Magical Abductor, is unknown.\u00a0 It is also unknown if there\u2019s more to her connection with Night\u2019s End Sorcerer<\/a> beyond the Tuner + Non-Tuner relationship, and Tempest Magician\u2019s appearance in That Whacky Magic!<\/a> is cryptic to say the least. Abductor\u2019s quiet beauty, lore, and the possible foreshadowing of future card interactions alluded to by her search effects, gives her an air of mystery that has me filled with anticipation.<\/p>\n Currently her most powerful effect that garners her attention is her Pendulum effect. Capable of searching any Pendulum monster and holding a scale just low enough to allow for level 4 Pendulum summons carries with it some rather obvious appeal.\u00a0 Theoretically, she can work well with spell-heavy Pendulum builds that use deck-thinners like Igknight Reload<\/a>, Upstart Goblin<\/a>, themed spell searchers, etc. However looking deeper, there\u2019s something that has me excited even more than just Pendulum searching.<\/p>\n The Spell Counter theme (if you can call it that) has a rather notorious balance issue.\u00a0 You want to control a lot of monsters that make good use of your Spell Counters, which are built up by using a lot of Spell Cards.\u00a0 However, when you build a deck, you quickly realize that opening too many monsters or too many spells renders you immobilized in the early stages of the game. I\u2019ve piloted several Spell Counter builds that I\u2019ve enjoyed up to a point, but this core issue still persisted. However now the potential for the theme has completely changed with the advent of the Pendulum mechanic.<\/p>\n Thanks to having attributes of both monster and spell, you can more flexibly use Pendulum Monsters to fill whatever void you\u2019re missing.\u00a0 Abductor is a perfect example of this.\u00a0 Her ability to search Pendulums is obviously fantastic, but on top of this she\u2019s also a bank for your Spell Counters, like a second Citadel of Endymion<\/a>, which Tempest Magician and Arcanite Magician<\/a> can make use of. Though she obviously has more utility as a Spell Card, she bears respectable stats as a monster, and gets stronger with each Spell Counter placed on her to further power up.\u00a0 Her ability to search level 1 Spellcasters lets you easily search cards like Effect Veiler<\/a>, who is also conveniently a tuner monster for which to make the aforementioned Synchro Monsters.<\/p>\n To illustrate all the things to love about Magical Abductor, I thought I\u2019d present a sample deck that makes the most use of all her attributes.<\/p>\n Abductor Spellbooks<\/p>\n Monsters: 14<\/p>\n 3 Spells: 23<\/p>\n 3x Spellbook of Secrets<\/a> Traps: 3<\/p>\n 1x Solemn Warning<\/a> Extra Deck:15<\/p>\n 1x Ignister Prominence, the Blasting Dracoslayer<\/a> (shout-out to Shining Elf<\/a> for pulling the rank 2 weight in my Spellbook decks for so long)<\/p>\n The deck is relatively simple on the face. Spam spells, build up counters, and generate advantage that you use to deny the opponent plays until you eventually overwhelm them with your Magical Abductors and extra deck monsters.\u00a0 This deck is full of cards I love, but Magical Abductor is by far the star here.\u00a0 Spellbook decks ended up cutting out most of the Prophecy monsters due to power creep essentially rendering the tarot theme inadequate. As a result the deck had become more stun-oriented until it eventually fell out of favor for being too slow to set-up and too ineffective at stunning, especially with the rise of anti-search cards that made it easy to side deck against the theme.\u00a0 It\u2019s not so much that this take on the deck is somehow the end of the problems for the Spellbook theme, but it\u2019s a new spin on a familiar strategy that gives the deck a boost in offensive capabilities, and is an ideal way of showcasing Magical Abductor’s potential. Previously, Spellbook Magician had to often go things alone, being the deck\u2019s most important normal summon. He has a lot riding on his shoulders, but now we have new cards to give him company and make his job less lonesome.<\/p>\n With its infamous history as a tool for OTK-based strategies, Royal Magical Library is a card that needs no introduction.\u00a0 The card needs combos to start rolling, and that\u2019s where Abductor and your Spellbooks come into play. Your ideal opening play is of course Abductor, RML, and Spellbooks to get the counters flowing. RML doesn\u2019t quite get things started all by itself like Spellbook Magician does, but unlike our Magician, RML can generate continuous advantage so long as you keep it in play, which Magical Abductor helps to fuel.<\/p>\n Magical Abductor\u2019s ability to grab more Pendulum monsters for more Spell Counters to generate is put on great display here, and complements other cards I love to use.\u00a0 Eccentrick Archfiend is known game-wide as a simple and effective as removal for any single card and a high scale should you need her for that. Similarly Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer needs no introduction and allows you to further search your Abductors, thereby increasing the amount of monsters you can Pendulum Summon.\u00a0\u00a0 By searching Luster Pendulum, you can start summoning Abductor as an actual monster too when Luster destroys your scale to search a duplicate.\u00a0 Between those 2 copies of Abductor and the Luster Pendulum, you have 3 Spell Counters on our Library, not to mention you\u2019ve got counters from when you were building up Abductor.\u00a0 A play like this can net you 2 draws easily. This all adds up to a very welcome boost to a Spellbook player\u2019s arsenal, as now you have a spell\/monster that both aids in adding cards from your deck to your hand (be it a tool for removal or a tool for Pendulum Summons), but also fills the role of a respectable beater that Spellbook decks have been so want to have, which doesn\u2019t rely on your normal summon!<\/p>\n Another little gem I\u2019ve come to enjoy in this deck (and others) is Moon Mirror Shield.\u00a0 When sitting behind a Spellbook Magician + Spellbook of Fate, the common response is to force Fate\u2019s activation by attacking the lone Magician. However with Moon Mirror Shield, this no longer becomes a viable option. The opponent is forced into actually investing some kind of resource into getting around Spellbook Magician, which can force them right into Fate\u2019s hand. On the offensive end, MMS makes your Spellbook of Power much easier to use.\u00a0 Though the boost is made moot, you will always be able to destroy anything in battle now that you aren\u2019t bound by attack scores for Power\u2019s search effect, and it gives you a way to out monsters without using Spellbook of Fate, (either because you can\u2019t, or simply saving it for something more worthy of banishing). To further illustrate, equip it to the 0 ATK Royal Magical Library. Now you can both defend your Library and destroy cards as mighty as Raidraptor – Ultimate Falcon<\/a>!<\/p>\n As for Synchro Summoning, Spellbook of Life + Effect Veiler can give me access to most any odd-leveled Synchro monster, but to get the even levels, I need Night\u2019s End Sorcerer. While not the most ideal card, I enjoy the nod to the original Magical Exemplar, and Tempest Magician access is truly worth it to me.\u00a0 Tempest Magician makes excellent use of Magical Abductor\u2019s (and Spellbook Star Hall\u2019s) qualities as a Spell Counter bank, which can steal games out of nowhere.\u00a0 Similarly Arcanite Magician can destroy each card on the opponent\u2019s field without exchanging its own counters.\u00a0 These are just more cards I love that Magical Abductor makes several times better.<\/p>\n As for the rest of the Extra deck, I try to mix staple generic monsters with the Spellcaster extra deck monsters. This way I can access the generic power cards I need while also having access to strong Spellcasters that let me continue to use my Spellbooks.\u00a0 Abductor being a Pendulum monster makes for nice synchro material that comes right back with a Pendulum Summon, and she\u2019s Rank 4 Material when I really need one.\u00a0 There\u2019s not a single attribute about Magical Abductor that I can\u2019t use to some advantage!<\/p>\n So what are your thoughts on Magical Abductor? Anything about her that you feel I missed? Do you use her in other decks? Do you have comments or questions about my deck list? Did you like the article? I hope so! Please feel free to leave feedback on the YGOrg Forum<\/a>. I\u2019ll see you there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey all! Joenen here and today I’d like to talk about one of my favorite Pendulum Monsters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1328,24,214],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-cards-to-love","9":"category-casual-decklist","10":"category-opinion-pieces"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2016\/05\/Foto_secuestradora_m\u00e1gica.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SpellbookMagicianofProphecy-REDU-EN-UR-1E\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2016\/05\/SpellbookMagicianofProphecy-REDU-EN-UR-1E-206x300.png\")
x Magical Abductor<\/a>
\n1x Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer<\/a>
\n2x Royal Magical Library<\/a>
\n2x Eccentrick Archfiend<\/a>
\n1x Night\u2019s End Sorcerer<\/a>
\n3x Spellbook Magician of Prophecy<\/a>
\n2x Effect Veiler<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2x Spellbook of the Master<\/a>
\n1x Spellbook Library of the Crescent<\/a>
\n1x Spellbook of Eternity<\/a>
\n1x Spellbook of Power<\/a>
\n1x Spellbook of Life<\/a>
\n2x Spellbook of Fate![\"MoonMirrorShield-CROS-EN-R-1E\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2016\/05\/MoonMirrorShield-CROS-EN-R-1E-205x300.png\")
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\n1x Spellbook of Wisdom<\/a>
\n1x Spellbook Star Hall<\/a>
\n2x The Grand Spellbook Tower<\/a>
\n1x Upstart Goblin<\/a>
\n2x Pot of Duality<\/a>
\n2x Moon Mirror Shield<\/a>
\n2x Wonder Wand<\/a>
\n1x Raigeki<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2x Solemn Strike<\/a><\/p>\n![\"TempestMagician-CSOC-EN-ScR-1E\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2016\/05\/TempestMagician-CSOC-EN-ScR-1E-207x300.png\")
\n1x PSY-framelord Omega<\/a>
\n1x Moonlight Black Rose Dragon<\/a>
\n1x Arcanite Magician<\/a>
\n1x Tempest Magician<\/a>
\n1x T.G. Hyper Librarian<\/a>
\n1x Number S39: Utopia the Lightning<\/a>
\n1x Number 39: Utopia<\/a>
\n1x Downerd Magician<\/a>
\n1x Castel, the Skyblaster Muskateer<\/a>
\n1x Abyss Dweller<\/a>
\n1x Gagaga Cowboy<\/a>
\n1x Sky Cavalry Centaurea<\/a>
\n1x Daigusto Phoenix<\/a>
\n1x Ghostrick Socuteboss<\/a><\/p>\n![\"RoyalMagicalLibrary-SDSC-EN-C-UE\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2016\/05\/RoyalMagicalLibrary-SDSC-EN-C-UE-206x300.png\")
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