26/09/2012

La Paura: Yubel


Monsters: [20]
3 Armageddon Knight
3 Dark Grepher
2 Doom Shaman
1 Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys
1 Sangan
2 Tour Guide
3 Wind-Up Rabbit
2 Yubel
2 Yubel - Terror Incarnate
1 Yubel - the Ultimate Nightmare

Spells: [11]
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Dark Hole
1 Foolish Burial
1 Heavy Storm
1 Monster Reborn
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Reinforcement of the Army
2 Swing of Memories

Traps: [9]
3 Call of the Haunted
3 Limit Reverse
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Starlight Road

The extra is kinda randomish, but it's ok, I'd say I'll add an Excalibur since I forgot him, maybe -1 giga-brilliant, since it was there just to fill some slots.
Before continuing with the deck, though, I wanted to talk about the title. Reading some of my posts, I noticed how the titles were plain and reduced to the essential. I just wanted to enphatize them a little more, so I decided to use some Italian words in the title, to give something more. I'll translate what it does mean at the end of every post with that kind of title, just wait till the end of the post.
Continuing to the deck, I like it very much, it's still under quite some testing, but it does work wonderfully. I'm thinking of a second nephthys, or an hand of nephthys, probably the second one, but don't know what to take out, maybe an allure since I never want to banish anything.
What about the deck itself? It is quite good, because I play 3 grephers, 3 armageddons, 1 reinforcement of the army, 1 foolish burial, for a total of 8 cards to pitch yubel/shaman. What's more we have 3 call of the haunted, 3 limit reverse, 2 swing of memories and 1 monster reborn, for a total of 9 reborners, excluding shaman himself, of course.
This deck does work because of opponent's MSTs and random backrow hate. Given this, you can even SS your yubel with call to prevent OTKs and if the opponent uses MST or something to kill yubel during the battle phase, you'll get another one. Since this other one is immune to MST there aren't many choices, if you want to do something, just go in MP2, but this has blocked your opponent's OTK, and we're fine with that.
Aside this -1 generator for the opponent, we have a terminator on the field when the first yubel is killed, Terror Incarnate. During your end phase, this 0/0 not destructible via battle and when removed from the field it summons another yubel, destroys all the monsters except itself on the field. Removing opponent's monsters is a piece of cake, then. Since this does prevent OTKs and even stops people that try to accumulate monsters to win after they have quite some resources, this card is so awesomely good. However this itself isn't game winning, and there our 3 main condition arrive:
1.Wind-Up Rabbit, the easier to achieve, a 1400 beater that survives pretty much to everything, even your incarnate. Since this is searchable from both sangan and zenmaity, other than being played in three copies, at mid game you usually have 2 or 3 of them, and once your opponent has no monsters you can directly attack with them. Good Card is Good.
2.Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, awesome one. Consider that being at 1 and not searchable, except via foolish+reborner, it is harder to achieve, but it works awesomely. Kills all of the S/Ts while your incarnate kills all of the monsters. 2400 ATK, good one, that's why I'd like to put Hand in, to use this more frequently.
3.Yubel - the Ultimate Nightmare, well, more of a win condition this is something that lets you win the game. Kills your opponent monsters without any problem, deals some damages, and then direct attack with your other cards. Sad it gets killed via incarnate's effect, but consider that reborning a yubel while incarnate is on the field will mean you'll have a nightmare and an incarnate, not bad.

What's more, we do have another card that helps us winning: Wind-Up Zenmaines. This card isn't destroyed via incarnate's effect, but it kills an opponent's S/T, clearing the field to atk with Rabbits and such. Another good card.

However, what lets this deck win is its ability to start comboeing, there are tons of ways to summon incarnate, let's see the main ones:
Blind MST, the main one, your opponent MSTs your face-down Call or Limit, you just do chain it on yubel and you'll have your opponent crying because he minused just to give you your key monster.
End Phase Limit Reverse, during the opponent end phase, activate limit reverse and SS yubel, during your turn, turn yubel in DEF and have your incarnate.
Doom Shaman, have shaman on the field with his effect enabled, SS Yubel, during the end phase tribute Shaman for Yubel's effect, then destroy Yubel for shaman's effect and have your incarnate.

I believe that's all. Hope you liked it, try it if you want, just be sure you have some time before starting, because it will take at least 10 minutes, exceptions aside.
And, as post closer, "La Paura" means "The Fright/Terror". The first translation is more appropriate, but the second one is perfect for the post.

9 comments:

  1. Umh....awesome, but why 2 starlight road?

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    1. I should answer with this ( http://blogygo.blogspot.it/2012/09/card-of-week-15-starlight-road.html ), it's just that I feel the need of starlight way too much times, and you can use it on your own incarnate to get a stardust and a nightmare.

      Or, long story short, I love it.

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  2. Ah, ok, it's not so bad....
    I tried the deck and it run well, maybe the only problem are death draws,can merchant help?

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    1. To be honest, I never had a card taht was truly a DD, because everything in here has its use while being in hand, could it be discard fodder, could it be bluffed gorz (lol).
      Merchant? Magical Merchant? If yes, why? Just can't get it, LOL.

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    2. sorry, wrong card xD
      I was thinking to Card trader/veil of darkness...

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  3. Non capisco le swing... Forse non hai notato che possono evocare solo mostri normali, non vedo altre soluzioni altrinenti XD

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    1. Le swing ressano gli shaman, che con il loro effetto ressano yubel, e durante l'end, tributando shaman per yubel, parte l'effetto di shaman che spacca yubel e specialo incarnate, ecco tutto.

      For english people, nothing worth traducing, he just had some problems with swings, forgetting that shaman while in the grave is a normal monster, nothing else.

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  4. I think it is quite good, i would use 3 shamans and yes, user the hand you need it. Well i think stigian can help you too cause you can send it to the grave with grepher etc. and it would help you to summon very faster yubel...

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    1. Well, Shamans are sorta searchable via grephers and armageddon to send 'em to the grave and then revive.
      I thought of Stygian, too, but summoning yubel if you don't have a way to destroy it is pretty much unuseful, not wanting to waste a DH or others for that.

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