beginner yu-gi-oh questions (zombie specific)?

Question

Hi, im pretty new to yu-gi-oh cards and im having a couple problems with rule specifics. yes i have read the rules but there are some minor details relating to specific cards that have caused a few debates between me and my friends. I know some of them may seem obvious to advanced players but give me some slack as it can be very confusing for new players. if you could answer one or more of these questions it would help me out a lot. thanks for your time.

1) Card effects
Do card effects for face down defense monsters become active when the monster is attacked by the opposing player if they dont say "flip" on the card?

Specific example: Spirit Reaper
effect: This card cannot be destroyed by battle. Destroy this card when it is targeted by the effect of a spell, trap or effect monster. if this card successfully attacks directly your opponent randomly discards one card.

If my spirit reaper is in face down defense position and is attacked is it sent to the discard pile? same question goes for Royal Keeper and pyramid turtle.

2) remove from play

Card specific: Book of Life and Imperial Iron Wall

IIW - trap card - cards cannot be removed from play
BOL - spell card - special summon 1 zombie type monster from your graveyard and remove from play one monster from your opponents graveyard

Can i play the Book of Life to summon a monster from my graveyard even though i am unable to remove my opponents monster from play because i have Imperial Iron Wall in play? Same question can apply to cards such as Bottomless Trap Hole.

3) Another Card Effects Question
Specific: Zombie Master
Effect: Once per turn you can send 1 monster card from your hand to the graveyard to special summon 1 level 4 or lower zombie type monster from either players graveyard.

Can I summon the monster card i have sent from my hand to the graveyard to use this card effect if the monster is a zombie monster? or do i have to send one and resurrect a zombie monster that is already in my discard pile?

eg. send pyramid turtle to an empty discard pile and ressurect pyramid turtle using this effect


Here is my deck if you have any suggestions for improvements. However, remember that im a new player so i dont have that many cards (of course id love a mirror force card etc) but i am working on making a good deck so i can enter a local tournament without being embarrassed. The tournament has lax rules due to the young kids that play but i would like to make my deck fully legal at some point. If you are kind enough to make any suggestions for improvements could you please tell me why i should add a card and why i should remove a card (instead of just listing) as it will not help me to have useful cards if i dont know how or when to use them best.


Monsters

3x Zombie Master
3x Pyramid Turtle
1x Spirit Reaper
1x Snipe Hunter
1x The Tricky
1x Mobius The Frost Monarch
1x Il Blud
2x Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon
2x Ryu Kokki
2x Paladin of the Cursed Dragon
2x Royal Keeper
3x Regenerating Mummy
1x Partrician of Darkness


Spells

1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Monster Reborn
2x Book of Life
1x Nobleman of Crossout
1x Lightning Vortex
1x Change of Heart
2x Card of Safe Return
1x Dark Hole
2x Ribbon of Rebirth
2x Zombie World
1x Everliving Underworld Cannon


Trap Cards

1x Imperial Iron Wall
1x Torrential Tribute
2x Bottomless Trap Hole

Answer 1

1. Any card that is turned face up has its effect activated regardless of whether it says flip unless it specifically says on the card so no it will not end up in the grave yard. Pyramid turtle would and you get a monster from your deck special summon



2. No neither of the cards can be activated while iiw is in play



3. you can but only if you already have a target upon using its effect. You have to have a target in your graveyard to activate his effect.



Deck

Try and add in some goblin zombies and maybe a sangan because they make the deck much faster and if you can get a plague spreader zombie and a mezuki or 2 this will give you easy access to synchros and will help you swarm the fie;d (what zombies do best ^.^)

Also try and get some allure of darkness they help you draw more cards (but cant be used while iiw is out :P)

If you want more ways to draw try reckless greed if you use 2 in 1 turn you draw 4 cards but skip only 2 draw phases



Reckless greed Trap

Draw 2 cards then skip your next 2 draw phases

hope this helps

Answer 2

1) The effect is activated with spirit reaper and Pyramid turtle, but not with cards like neo spacian Grand Mole.

2)Book of life does not work

3)No, you must already have a target in the grave to do that. (eg. pyramid turtle is in the grave, you can send goblin zombie to the graveyard and get goblin Zombie back out because you had another target.)



As for your deck, try to make zombie synchro with Mezuki, goblin zombie, Plaguespreader, and Dark Armed. It's mostly preference, though.

Answer 3

No you can not do that. On the II Blud card it says "While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have is be treated as an Effect Monster with the effect." This means that it has to be normal summoned to have that effect. If you special summon it with Pyramid Turtle then it is a normal monster and is not counted as a effect monster.

Answer 4

I used to own many cards, and my advice is to sell them in a garage sale because if you keep this up you will be a virgin forever and kayla will not make a baby with you... !!!!!!