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I'd like some suggestions, but please do not try to change the flow or style of the deck. I'm keeping the main pure keepers. no exceptions.
Side deck ideas would be nice as well. Please and thank you ^.^

-1 TT
+1 magicians circle

side:
+3 Grave keepers watcher
+3 dust tornados or msts
+3 Rivarly of warlords
+3 veiler
+2 fossil dyna
+1 Roach

might go with a dust/2 mst, maybe. undecided on whether or not I wanna bother with backrow hate, as my deck is designed to make most of it useless anyways. pachy is ok I guess, but he doesn't fit the archetype, and thus gets no bonuses. I'd have to use a key beetle just to protect him, and that will make it harder to use. The rest, no. Just no. GK Watcher hasn't been useful since royal tribute got hit to 2; and it does so little for this format. Better than him would be gemini imps, since at least I get to draw a card after he does his negation. Rivalry shuts down my extra deck, so it's more of a rivalry on my terms thing, and I'd run it at 2 max. Veiler is just bad news for my deck, it only goes -1, and doesn't hit the matchups hard enough. I'm already running effect hate in the deck, what I need is an effective way to control the backrow hate. I'm thinking of using cursed seal to mitigate the prophecy matchup. There's also the fist matchup that'll be hit hard by it. Roach would rarely see play, so there's no call to play him in the side. He'd never see prevalence, except against rogue decks of the format. As for the main deck stuff, magician's circle is a card I'd only use if I were going for gravekeeper's visionary beatdown. I'm not doing that this time around, and the card is too slow for the format anyways. It's too reactive and not dynamic enough. Basically put, it's Space bait.

tldr
jk i actually read it, I find myself agreeing with most of what you said.

side in viruses and malefic things  >.> 
Iron wall, skill drain (maybe), soul drain, debunk, light mirror, flying, veiler, maxx.. etc >.>
at least until few things are cleared in this format

RsS.YuGi wrote:

side in viruses and malefic things  >.> 
Iron wall, skill drain (maybe), soul drain, debunk, light mirror, flying, veiler, maxx.. etc >.>
at least until few things are cleared in this format

he already said he wanted to keep this pure keeper so malefics are out of the question.

iron wall and soul drain are almost useless with necrovally 

skill drain would stop the gk affects and such

veiler slows down gk 

a couple of good sides in gk would be for this format some nightbeams and mst, mistake, thunder king rai oh, droll and lock bird and a light mirror 

i do question some choices in extra like 2 arsenal when u can add a utopia which is a stronger monster let alone its stall ability 

also i found thantanos good in gk so id take out the holy lightning for it 


overall solid build tho i do reccomed finding some space for solem warning

2 arsenal? Are you referring, perchance, to the zenmaisters? They're there to re-set spy. I don't plan to stall, for even one moment. As to thanatos, he's resistant, which is nice, but he really doesn't do the deck justice. I have set up my deck so any drop can use eradicator as needed, and thanatos doesn't fit the bill. As for solemn warning, I DO realize it's standard, but I'm not maining it right now because I've found that most decks put GAME on board even over solemn warning, so paying the 2000 may be too high a cost. I may fit it in later, but at the moment, I'm trying life without it, for the sake of extra deck space. 

On the side deck note, I almost agree with you. Soul Drain may have a lot of positive matchups, but most noteworthy of which is the fact that it stops my recruiter. Nix the main engine=bad news. Iron wall still has a place in the side, though, as it shuts down the key defensive plays of prophecy decks. It also prevents the big dragon rulers from summoning via banish effects, so I will probably side 2 of that. Thank you for the suggestions, Marcus. As for Rami's advice, the malefics aren't part of my play style. They are useable, but they also conflict with iron wall as a side deck choice, and let's face it, top tier decks will be hurt too much by iron wall to NOT give it due consideration. I will be siding maxx "C"s, but other than that, I'm going to shy away from hand traps, as they only ever really -1 me in the long run, or at best, break me even. I also might experiment with solidarity again (remember, though I use xyz that aren't spellcasters, the xyz are made on MY terms), so I might go 2 kycoo in the side and drop the cardcars as I side solidarity in. I'm getting there, slowly ^.^

update, here's the latest version. deck runs fine, decided to bump up my spellbook portion by 2, adding secrets to search power, as power won't ALWAYS go through and search for me. Despite my best intentions, dropped the spellcaster-specific quick play in favor of dark hole. Deck's all about field control, so yea. no suprises there. Whatcha think, fellas?