Stats                : A Level 4 Light Spellcaster is a good start.  Its easy enough to get into play, can feed Chaos, and Spellcasters have some really excellent support right now.  Then you see the ATK and see that it isn’t so easy to get out: 0 DEF.  If this was the manga or animé and we could Normal Summon in Face-Up DEF mode, it wouldn’t matter.  It isn’t, however, so this can be quite a pain since we have to either include cards to flip it face up or shift it to DEF position after we do.  The DEF is nice, though: 2000.  The Attribute becomes a little better because of this: if you want to run a Dark/Spellcaster deck, you could toss this in since it would still have its DEF powers.  Why you’d do this… I don’t know. ;)  Of course, 2000 DEF is sadly no longer sufficient thanks largely to abundant Monster Removal and easy to Summon, high ATK Monsters.

 

Effect(s)            : Each time a Spell card is played and successfully Activated, once the Spell card resolves, Royal Magical Library gets a Spell Counter, up to a maximum of three.  You can remove three Spell Counters from this card on your turn in order to draw a card.  Not too bad, but not too good either.

 

Uses and

Combinations  : So why are we looking at this?  Apparently someone came up with a OTK for this card.  I haven’t seen the deck, so I don’t know how reliable it is.  The basic idea is to use something to Special Summon Royal Magical Library (I believe Marauding Captain is what is used), activate an Inferno Reckless Summon to make it into three copies of Royal Magical Library.  Now play three Spell cards, with at least one being a burn Spell.  Now use the Libraries to draw three cards.  Repeat the cycle until you’ve burned 8000 LP for the win.

 

The combo has the potential to give a FTK, but just barely: you need one Marauding Captain (or Reinforcements of the Army), one Royal Magical Library, and one Inferno Reckless Summon.  That’s three cards of your opening six, meaning the last three must be Spells (though the burn part is optional so long as you eventually draw into and use them).  Of course, there aren’t that many really good burn Spells, but apparently you can get by using the weaker ones due to the combo.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1/5 – We have real FTK decks that are much more reliable here.

 

Advanced        : 3.5/5 – Well, with most current OTK decks losing important components, this could become an interesting alternative to Cyberstein OTK.

 

Limited            : 4/5 – It’s a big defender that might work as draw power.  Take it.

 

Summary

As most regular readers should know by now, I detest OTK decks because they are largely a matter of luck.  Once you have a decent built and the combo learned, you just need to draw into it quickly to win with little or no hope of an opponent countering it.  This one thankfully does seem weaker than its predecessors, so the bans are making progress in this respect.  Also, this one requires three copies of Royal Magical Library, so as long as Konami doesn’t overreact, they can just Semi-Restrict it and the deck dies.