Forum:Spellcaster Lockdown... opinions needed

So, I've been working on a new deck for quite a while. I quit about 6 and a half years ago, so I'm slowly getting back into the game. I don't want to play tournaments, but I am trying to follow tournament banlists and rulings. Back in the day, Spellcasters were my favorite cards. So, with help from people on these forums and on the Pojo forums, I've got two possible decks I'm working with.

I mainly want to know a couple of things:

1) Which of these deck plans do you prefer?

2) What are each deck's main weaknesses?

3) Do you have any suggestions?

Keep in mind that I quit a while back, so I don't really understand a lot of the newer gameplay mechanics. I'm simply going off of what I remember, though I've been trying to learn a bit about synchro summoning. I also want these decks to remain pure Spellcaster decks, though one deck does have 3 non-Spellcaster monsters. Lastly, the strategy in both decks is centered around lockdown (traps, magic cards [again, I played a LONG time ago, so I'm used to calling them magic cards], flip effects, and multiple monster types), so please, don't suggest cards that will either get rid of this strategy or cards that will cause part of the strategy to not work (for example, I'm not putting Royal Decree in since a couple of the cards I need are traps).

Thanks in advance!

Here's the first deck...

...and I'll post the second one in a reply, since I'm having trouble with putting two deck box things in this post.

Reapsoul964 (talk • contribs) 18:24, March 5, 2012 (UTC)