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Notes & Combos
Cut out a lot of cards that felt bad to get ash'd. List is mostly about getting to the good cards of the engine. Right hand engine I prefer over caster's village as the board breaker protection, as multiple field spells is awkward when drawn immediately and you draw a chicken game later in the combo.
Spellbook engine is mostly there to bait the imperms, ash's etc. He's good for clearing the field for spellpower mastery and electromite to be safe plays.
Abductor is a decent servant at home. Her search is a soft once per turn that you can look to reset with electromite astro, if you have the spells remaining to get 3 counters on her again. She becomes a nice servant summon as well if you find yourself with a bunch of restage/chicken games to search and use magician souls.
Instant fusion is a fun card, if you get it right away go for thousand eye for protection from non max c hand traps. Restage has some good synergy with it as well. If drawn late in a combo, save it for winda to revive her with selene. Feels very difficult to brick turn 1, though if going 2nd you mostly have to hope for a crazy hand or scoop. Branded meta has made some decks run anti spell more often which is basically an ftk vs all pendulum decks.
I havn't really used dark ruler. It somehow evaded my hands in my platinum grind, so I might just change that to a 2nd version of triple tactics, as that card has been doing quite well.
TL:DR all gas, servant and endymion are the only two good endymion cards.
Protip with abductor's soft opt search: If she has a counter, Endymion negate your own spell (like void/upstart), return abductor to hand, scale abductor again. Her soft opt search is reset. Also gives Endymion a counter to give him protection.
The trick is easier to pull off with the mythic beast build bc Institution can search by removing counters from anywhere on the field, not just itself.
Pretty interesting tech, usually Endymion comes in late in the combo for this version, so I've never felt like I needed the searches by the time he has come out. I've heard about negating upstarts for the mythical beast build, but i've always been paranoid of not hitting enough spells to fuel my spell counters. Though, I think it could be interesting with magicians restage if I have no targets, as it gives me a search for right hand, If i draw it off electro late in a combo.
The soft once per turn thing hardly matters anyways since I am running so few monsters, only came up a few times where i have enough spells to fuel a search for servant, so i still needed another search for endymion later in the combo for my high scale. It is a neat interaction though.
I used to run a very similar build. The monster line-up was mostly identical, just with 1 Reflection and 1 Magister instead of Astrograph. Reflection is hands-down the best monster to send to the GY for Souls' cost, since then Selene can Special Summon it during either player's turn. This is our only way to prevent the opponent from using Zoodiac Boarbow to cheat out a ZEUS with more materials than Jackal King can negate.
Astrograph is great in the Mythical Beast variant because it can search Jackal King, and because it can also be triggered after the Mythical Beast monsters destroy themselves. But in the Spellbook/Abductor variant (with only 1 Jackal King), the only time Astrograph can search an impactful card is if Electrumite destroys exactly Endymion. If Electrumite gets negated then Astrograph is stuck in your hand. And if Electrumite destroys something other than Endymion, then Astrograph is only searching an extra Abductor or a Servant that can't be Special Summoned.
I used to run unicorn over dharc to stop the zeus line with an IP endboard. But was testing out dharc over it since theres been many duels where i just sit on ip and it becomes unnecessary. If that deck gets more popular I could see the addition to a bounce later on. Since that happened recently and I had to ip->goddess which is a lot more of a cost vs just special summoning a reflection.
Also yeah astrograph's replacement effect is mostly just for another endymion for the endboard. I find his special summon as a free lvl 7 to be more valuable for easy access to the crosssheep combo.