Hi! In here we'll be covering everyone's favorite momm- I mean dadd- I mean everyone's favorite GX antagonist!
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OVERVIEW
Yubel is one of the oldest anime villains in Yu-Gi-Oh!, first appearing in Yu-Gi-Oh GX as one of Jaden's oldest cards and his favorite during his childhood that was later abandoned by his most famous archetype: the Elemental Heroes. In the card game Yubel never worked as a solo strategy due to lack of support and synergies. That obviously changed with some really good legacy support that was enough to send Yubel straight into tiered status. Here we'll be covering every important card, and how the deck plays.
Core Cards
This is our deck's main starter. Lotus by itself gets the entire Yubel engine going. By sending it to GY you can access any Yubel monster, and we'll cover all of them, especially the main one you wanna summon with this. It's both our strongest starter and most obvious chokepoint. Try to always make sure to summon Lotus in a safe position where its effect will resolve.
This is the card you mainly wanna summon with Loading... . Spirit does everything you want. It searches, it protects in BP, and it's the first glimpse at why Yubel is such a competent strategy. Spirit can search any Spell and Trap that mentions "Yubel" and while we have a few options, there's only one card you really wanna search with this.
Note: please pay attention to the lack of a once per turn clause in their on destruction effect... Yeah...
Typically the card you'll search off Loading... after you pop Loading... . Squirmer helps us print even more bodies through the abuse of the not once per turn effects on Yubel monsters, while also being a generally good card to simply see in your opening hand, as it lets us beat targeting hand traps like Veiler and Imperm.
The OG. There's not much to say about this one. Everyone knows and loves this card. The reason we play OG Yubel even tho the card is pretty much useless is because we can not only search it out off Spirit getting destroyed (in a non-once per turn effect), but we can also abuse its own lack of a OPT clause to keep recycling and printing bodies. This is essentially what makes the deck so good. Its ability to loop Yubel names consistently for Link plays.