22/09/2012

Yubels, Guess Who's Back? Back Again? Yubel's Back!

For those who don't know, the title was referring to Without Me, by Eminem.


Yeah, yeah, yubels, love them. I always loved this archetype because of it's destruction ability. I believe the main reason I love this is because of the fact it was the first original deck I built by myself. Macro Yubel, actually, using Scout Planes and Survivors to have a giant field advantage against the opponent, while having the antimetish factor offered from macro. At that time, XYZs didn't exist, but they would have been a great power-up for the deck.
So, recently, I found myself reading some old cards on wikia, and accidentally read "Yubel". Aw yeah, there we go. I started working on that, and actually built something that works. I'm into WU Rabbit recently, once I started using it in Madolches, I'm thinking of it pretty much everywhere, and after quite some time (well, not really, actually just 5 minutes), I realized it was perfect for the theme.
Let's firstly say, for those who don't know, that a yubel deck aims to the second form of yubel, terror incarnate, since it can litterally wipe out the field, while being the last man standing, not attackable (or, to be precise, is attackable, but no player would like to do that). What if we combine this with something that's not on the field during this card's effect's activation but that comes back later? Free advantage over the opponent.
I'm actually playing a great sending&reviving engine (3 grepher, 3 armageddon, 1 reinforcement of the army, 1 foolish burial, 3 call of the haunted, 3 limit reverse, 1 monster reborn, 2 swing of memories), that usually makes yubel incarnate during your first or second turn. While easily setupping this and destroying opponent's plays, we have to patiently wait for Wind-Up Rabbits (considering how we thin the deck, that's not even that hard) or tutor some with tour guide into tour guide into zenmaity into rabbit. After we did this, we're constantly in advantage over the opponent, if he doesn't want to die from Rabbit's attacks, he'll have to summon something, that can't attack neither rabbit nor incarnate (if he attacks rabbit, you'll just chain its effect, if he attacks incarnate, he's kinda dumb, and it will make no damage to us), then incarnate will destroy that monster, and the opponent minused of one just to avoid a simple 1400 direct attack. What if we have multiple rabbits, though? That'll be 2800, or even 4200, giant total attacks, aren't they?
However, once you encounter madolches (it happens, I did it, the single game last 1h and 10m, that because he wanted to end the game and I had to have dinner, but we were about to finish it, anyway) you'll have some hard time, since they recycle them forever, while accumulating cards. That's why I do play a teched Sacred Phoenix of Nephtys. 2400 ATK beater, destroyed in end, when summoned gets rid of chateau and other S/Ts, while incarnate gets rid of monsters. That'll make your opponent losing lots and lots of cards.
Don't know how much experience you do have, but probably you do know PACMAN, don't you? It's a quite awesome deck I'm playing actually, along with this, madolches and other things I'm trying, that goes into many +1s with des lacooda, while getting rid of opponent's resources with swarm of locust/medusa worm, and burning lps with stealth bird, wave-motion cannon and magical cylinder, while stalling with swords of revealing light and messenger of peace. Well, this deck is something like that. You basically never -1 yourself (while pacman does actually +1 itself alot) but you minus the opponent alot (compared to the -1/2 that pacman does). What's more, yubel has some more stall ability, and kills actually more, probably, while putting tons and tons of pressure on the opponent.
I'm liking this deck alot, because its worst match-up was inzektor, but now there are fewer, and this does work great. It has no particular bad match-up against other decks, has some good match-up here and there, but there's a problem. This deck does fear a true staple in every extra deck: Zenmaines.
Zenmaines' effect prevents it to be destroyed, and kills a card when you use that effect, that means that if incarnate tries to kill zenmaines, it'll just detach a material to kill incarnate itself (doesn't matter that incarnate will evolve, since even the destroying effect that nightmare has can be negated via zenmaines' effect, and destroying a card again).
Luckily, every player does play only a copy of this card, so once you kill the first, you're safe in most cases, except pot of avarice, that's why I'm considering maining crows here. Other than hitting zenmaines before poa, you can hit some combo pieces, and even that single hornet your opponent does play.

Conclusive thoughts: the deck has potential, should tweak a little more my actual build and then post it.
Ja Ne (See Ya, japanese for who doesn't know)

2 comments:

  1. Ottima idea, amavo molto anch'io Yubel, ed ho provato anch'io vari deck,ma che purtroppo non reggevano molto...
    Non vedo l'ora di vedere una list e provarla!
    PS: E' già un po' che ti seguo e vorrei farti i complimenti, visto che non ho mai commentato...

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    1. Grazie mille, penso che la posterò a breve.

      Traducing for non-italians:
      He said: I always loved yubel, but never did something that truly worked, wait for your decklist. (rest is just some praises for the blog and stuff)
      I said: Thanks alot, I'll post it before long.

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