Yubel Deck #773337 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Yubel chain: Yubel - Terror Incarnate Special Summons Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare, and the Yubel engine enables Extra Deck bosses such as Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever, Luce the Dusk's Dark, and Phantasm Emperor Trilojig.; Predaplant and Elemental HERO fusion bosses (Starving Venom Predapower Fusion Dragon, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Elemental HERO Neos Kluger) convert the board when Yubel lines stall.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Yubel starter, use Nightmare Throne or Nightmare Pain to search or destroy into the Yubel chain, and keep Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler up for the opponent's answer. Hand-trap backup is thin when going first, so the opening hand must contain a Yubel starter.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Battle Fader, Gruesome Grave Squirmer) to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Spirit of Yubel and Mature Chronicle.
• Recovery: Recover through Spirit of Yubel and Mature Chronicle, which can Special Summon Yubel monsters from the GY or banishment, and through Nightmare Throne to add a Yubel monster from the GY or banishment.
• After siding: Not supported: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's structural score comes from the system as a whole: its hand-trap density (15 hand-trap cards, roughly 89% chance of at least one in a six-card going-second hand) and the Yubel recursion through Spirit of Yubel, Mature Chronicle and Nightmare Throne give it real interruption resilience and going-second strength. Its weakest parts are the thin starter count (Yubel - Terror Incarnate, Yubel and Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare are one copy each, so the chain is fragile), the high off-archetype share (58 of 67 archetype-tagged copies are off-archetype), and a 16-card Extra Deck with no side deck. The archetype core is widely used (usage stats show 9 of 13 core cards present), but that popularity earned no points on its own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The list is illegal (3 copy-limit violations including a Forbidden card, and an Extra Deck over the limit), so the final score is capped at 30 and is structural-only; no combos, tournament record or guides are available to confirm the ceiling or median.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); unrecoverable_choke_point (-3); weak_post_side_plan (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 40; because the list is Illegal, the result is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 15 hand-trap cards and 10 negation-text cards give strong going-second coverage.
• Recursion engine: Spirit of Yubel, Mature Chronicle and Nightmare Throne recover Yubel monsters from GY and banishment.
• Closing bosses: Phantasm Emperor Trilojig (4000 ATK) and Yomagna (3300 ATK) can end the game when the chain completes.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 copy-limit violations (including a Forbidden card) and an Extra Deck of 16 over a limit of 15.
• Fragile starters: the Yubel chain relies on single-copy Yubel monsters with low hand-5 odds.
• Brick and dead-card risk: Triple Tactics Talent, Mutiny in the Sky and Surprise Fusion do little in most hands.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability.

Critical choke points

• Yubel - Terror Incarnate (1 copy) is required to reach Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare and the Yubel boss line.
• Yubel (1 copy) is the main Special Summon source for the Yubel recursion package.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 51 Main, 16 Extra, 0 Side; copy violations on Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization and Triple Tactics Talent; Extra over limit.; Yubel-core group has 21 copies; usage stats show 9 of 13 core cards present.; Card text for the Yubel chain and Spirit of Yubel recursion is present in the evidence.
• Inferred: At-least-one-starter probability for the Yubel-core group ≈ 0.94 (hypergeometric).; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.89.; Interaction and recursion strength read from card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample is supplied.; Matchup and tournament reliability are not supported by data.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates). Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample. No side deck and no guides for the archetype.