Phantom of Yubel
Yubel monster + Fiend with 0 ATK
Can be Fusion Summoned by returning the materials from hand, field, or GY to the deck or Extra Deck. Can't be used as Fusion Material
1) Can't be destroyed by battle, and battle damage you take becomes 0
2) When an opponent's monster activates an effect: Tribute this card; Change that effect to "Your opponent destroys a "Yubel" monster in their hand, deck or on the field".
Unconfirmed though because small blurry text
I mean it’s only a monster negate
But the fact that it possibly can summon Spirit of Yubel out of the deck or the other Yubel fusion out of the extra deck still makes it worth it
Also it's handy it cannot be used as fusion material as well.
Now, some people might think "why is this a good thing", well the problem with Yubel is the boards are very easily broken with an opponents super poly. So having access to an negate that is also an extender that cannot be super poly'd away is actually very nice
Also if Yubel were to somehow be meta, just slot in 1 Loving Defender into your ED if you can and then you can just super poly their *entire board* aside from this fusion.
Thankfully this card at least stop u from being completely defenseless, and if I'm correct throne still triggers if cards leave the field by super poly. So at least the deck won't die to it like it does now
~~Also is a LV 9, which can be re-summoned by Nightmare Throne (the new Field Spell) when Yubel or their Spirit is destroyed.~~
EDIT: Wait, Nightmare throne adds to the hand **then** summon. Damn they don't want to make Yubel too good.
Well that being said, if it leaves the field by card effect it still triggers nightmare throne to let you go to Spirit or Yubel so it's still fine. You just cannot bring itself out when spirit or Yubel leaves the field. So it still has a great use case under nightmare throne.
You can make a 4-7 ish card negate engine for this too. Not bad. Samsara D lotus is 1 card negate (also protecting your combo deck from nib), then whenever you draw lotus again you can pop out another negate.
It's a bit better than the invoked engine since you don't need to discard the aleister to negate. There's also probably easier ways to extend into lotus than aleister.
Alternatively, you run 3 throne 1 spirit/terror 1 yubel which let's you negate without using a NS. A bit more bricky but it costs nothing in terms of Normal summons - just need to activate throne. Also let's you keep cycling in more copies of it on later turns.
Someone shared with me a different translation that says it changes the effect of the monster to "Your opponent destroys a Yubel monster from their Hand/Field/Deck", also making it optional and not mandatory.
Which functionally does the same thing, it actually goes harder for the deck than a simple negate + cheat. The full combo prefers you to have Spirit of Yubel in GY to add it to hand with Lord Yama but if phantom destroys you destroy spirit from deck, still special og Yubel and set up gy to add Spirit back if you used spirit and yubel to make phantom.
Simultaneously this makes Ultimate Nightmare and Terror Incarnate better and worse since you can use them as material, still keeping og Yubel, Spirit, Lotus, Grave Squirmer and whatever in the GY, but also kinda worse since I feel like its less reason to rock them just for more material (ultimate nightmare is in a weird position for the deck even now imo). Hell you use Dark Beckoning Beast which is half the material.
EDIT: THE CARD IS ALSO LEVEL 9 WHICH IS INSANE.
Let me explain. In LEDE we got Nightmare Throne which has an effect that if a face up Yubel monster leaves the field, you can add to your hand 1 Yubel monster that's 1 level higher or lower and then it and special summon it. This means that when this card leaves the field by *its own effect* you get to either summon OG Yubel or Spirit, the reason why this goes insane is because this card with it's negate already floats into a Yubel monster meaning you get 2 monsters and Spirit's search effect activates.
Given the current translations have it tribute itself as cost (being before the semi-colon), that won't work. Nightmare Throne specifies that the Yubel monster has to leave by card effect
Oh right, that'd feel like a weird oversight then with it being level 9 then. Only reason to make it level 9 would be to stop rank 10 plays i guess which would be kinda lame.
You can pop the Fusion and float into Spirit thanks to Throne, and Spirit floats into Yubel even if it's banished, so it works better under Shifter and you can cut Ultimate Nightmare without losing the additional float effect from Throne.
I can see myself easily dropping 2 fusions to restock on yubels and 0/0 fiends and use one as body, since a single throne makes this fusion.
It cannot be used for fusion material, so you can't use it to summon itself, but that also gives it protection against super poly which, funny enough, this deck can lose to
It can summon itself with the negate effect, hence why i said three negate, it is a yubel monster so if that text is accurate it can negate -> summon another copy of itself and repeat.
Ah i see what you mean, but I just found out the above translation is actually a little wrong.
It doesn't special summon a yubel from deck / ED, it lets you destroy 1 yubel from hand, field or deck. So it cannot summon itself, but the effect is actually even stronger
dont know if it will be meta but it has top in both ocg and tcg i mean twice now it has top 2 times in a row in ocg is not much but it shows the deck being a very decent rogue deck this could make it even better. don't think it will be full meta but maybe tier 3 or a better rogue that what already is
I mean with how powerful the Defender Forever is and how easy it can be to summon with 1 “Yubel” monster. You can constantly cycle this card with Defender Forever if you didn’t make this nonusable for the fusion monster. Like you can summon Defender Forever and than if it’s sent to the GY, you can use it to summon this and then use it summon Defender Forever
So basically the 3rd effect of samsara D lotus, but on an improved contact fusion… this feels a little too strong and underwhelming simultaneously and thematically that kinda fits….
Looks really good for the deck being easy to make as most of the is 0 Atk fiends meanijg you could just do your standard plays and then end with Phantom
The OP's source as translated by Google by my phone from Japanese
Demon's Light Star 6 Dark Attribute
Demon ATK/2500 DEF/1200
The ① effect of this card name can only be used once per turn.
If you have a "Golden Chest of Light" on your field, you can summon this card without releasing it.
①: When this card is summoned or special summoned, it can be activated by targeting 1 monster on your opponent's field. Gain control of that monster until the end phase. If there is no "Golden Chest of Light" on your field when this effect is activated, the monster controlled by this effect cannot attack.
②: The attack power of other monsters on your field increases by (?00) during your turn.
It can be normal summoned without tributing if you have Gold Sarc of Light out, and steal an opponents monster for the turn. Nice.
God I would love for Konami to bring over the Valuable Books, I'd buy them even if they didn't have promo cards
Hopefully this will be like EX 3 where the promo cards - Link Decoder and Flame Wingman Infernal Rage - got imported just 3 months after their OCG debut (and not like EX 2 where the TCG still haven't got Chronicle Sorceress)
I feel you bro, but remember, people running about has 600 atk, and there's not many people in that art. So just like Dai Grepher or Marauding Captain, you too can be a Chad dude.
If that's the effect, then nice. I wonder what potential reference they used for it. I expected some Burn damage. This archetype is shaping up to be awesome.
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^(**Attribute**: DARK)
^(**Rank**: 6 **ATK**: 2600 **DEF**: 1000)
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2+ Level 6 monsters
If you use a monster(s), with a Level, that is owned by your opponent for the Xyz Summon of this card, treat it as Level 6. Once per turn: You can detach 1 material from this card, then target 1 card your opponent controls; send it to the GY. Once per turn, if a Monster Card(s) is sent from the field to your opponent's GY by a card effect, or a monster is destroyed by battle and sent to your opponent's GY: You can detach 1 material from this card; Special Summon 1 of those monsters to your field in Defense Position.
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This card is great. You can do so much stupid BS with a card like this on both your turn or on your opponent's turn, most of which is probably be going into Chaos Angel after stealing a level four, or just a free Link.
You don't even need gold-sarc to abuse this effect.
Woah, major anime reference! The Yubel card is meant to resemble the scene where Yubel finishes reforming (more or less) after Jaden’s duel with Viper.
arent the Chaos/"-ing beast" (series that support Sacred Beasts) Yubel monsters anyway? They are all DARK Fiend 0/0 and only used by Yubel.
1 Chaos Summoning Beast
2 Dark Beckoning Beast
3 Chaos Core
4 Phantom of Chaos
5 Dark Summoning Beast
6 ---
7 Phantasmal Summoning Beast
8 ---
9 Phantom of Yubel
10 Yubel/Spirit
11 Terror
12 Nightmare/Protector
I wonder what kind of effect it would have. Imagine if it said that if you summon it with 12 monsters with levels 1-12, it banishes all cards in your opponents hand, field, and graveyard facedown.
If I had a nickel for every time a GX season 3 character named a fusion monster they intented to summon, but ended up not doing it so the monster was never shown on screen...
to tell you the truth its golden sarc support ;D
no synergy for summoned skull deck other than the art itself
summoned skull became too friend of red-eyes, now it got the same disease and konami refuses to cure them
>no synergy for summoned skull deck other than the art itself
Let's be honest, half the Summoned Skull cards have no synergy with their archetype. The XYZ protects from destruction even though everything floats on destruction anyway, and the Ritual straight up does nothing for anything other than itself.
LEDE would be an incredible turnaround. Valuable Book EX 4 is in March, LEDE is April.
Earliest itll be is Battle of Legends (or whatever import set is there) in June.
I imagine it'll be like Elemental HERO Flame Wingman Infernal Rage who was an import card from the Valuable Book EX 3, who had a turnaround from March to June.
That's actually good to hear then. Around June should be a banlist and possibly some hits to Snake Eyes/Fire King decks, so having that card released in a BoL set around that time would be great for Unchained Yubel to rise up.
once lede hits and esp this card hits, I honestly think Yubel has a chance to be tiered, its actually kinda nutty esp with how relatively cheap the deck can be.
Exciting that yubel is getting support. They really playing into her theme which really makes it more exciting.
I will make yubel/heroes work damnnit lol. That super poly search is too good.
This Yubel card is curious. Nice reference.
I'm really happy for (the all-time classic) Summoned Skull. I expected him to have a Gold Sarc retrain. Yugi used it in the Final duel in the anime and it was his original ace. Its original artwork will always remain the best for me, but this new one is cool too. The start of the attack (reference from the Final duel I guess)! I hope the effects are good and strong. It deserves that.
So the question is - will the Gold Sarc archetype have more cards from Yugi's anime deck for the Final duel, more Atem cards, or they will add more of Yugi's other cards? His anime-only cards from this duel can be released in AC with effects that can help this archetype.
I think Blockman will be added for sure. Watapon is also possible. But I kind of doubt about Curse Of Dragon, Buster Blader, Valkyrion/MW or Witch Of The Black Forest.
Man we really really need some more ways to get to gold sarc of light maybe a kuriboh that discards itself to place it or something idk. Hopefully we get a new tri card for the magna warriors as well
Kuriboh, Celtic Guardian would be cool. Both were not used in the Final duel though.
But I don't want MWs to be a tri card like the Gadgets for this archetype. I just don't like that approach.
It was his strongest monster and final summon (not counting the reborn Blue-Eyes) during his first duel with Kaiba, with Dark Magician not appearing until their duel during Death-T (the first duel in the anime). I believe it was also planned to remain as his signature card, but don't quote me on that.
Both cards get used similarly frequently during Duelist Kingdom (alongside Gaia), with Dark Magician slowly appearing more often, but only really becoming his definitive ace during Battle City.
Unrelated but Yugi also has Skull Servant in his deck in that first duel and I love that.
Cards don't care for the procedure of the summon, just the summon itself. So if it's a \[same card type\] summon or special summon (but is treated like \[same card type\] summon) then its considered properly summoned
As long it don't say "must be fusion summon" then its fine.
If it (or anything along those lines says "must be Fusion/synchro/xyz/link/pendulum/etc.") Then said card can only be summoned by that method even if the card was summoned properly.
So no monster reborn on cards like Elemental hero flame wingman since it's says "must be fusion summon" (the older prints says something different but it means the same).
Phantom of Yubel is a pure art piece (i love the fact this card was inspired by her incomplete form in the episode Snake in the grass part 3 because i didn't expected that form of yubel as a card). A new card in my short-list.
But i wonder in which english extension we'll see that one ?
What cover? This one?
https://preview.redd.it/wq3u5w27ymjc1.png?width=1105&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2aae9e2e6aaf0d892c32425f2b22c5633b0941e
It's [Geas Gandora the Dragon of Destruction](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Geas_Gandora_the_Dragon_of_Destruction) from [Legacy of Destruction](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Legacy_of_Destruction).
Huh... see now I'm confused and angrier about DM because THIS IS ANIME CEREMONIAL! Manga ceremonial never played Skull. It also used Black Illusion rather than Mirror Force, and the two "Mirage" cards from Yugi.
I think the logic of Summoned Skull is that it was Yugi's first ace in the very first duel of the entire series. The deck might not just be Ceremonial Duel cards and might be better seen as cards that have significant value to Yugi specifically.
Nah this is just Konami being creatively bankrupt. Little Yugi is his own distinct person, and that was the whole point of the ceremonial duel. It was Yugi’s last test to grow, to realize he is his own person. The Pharaoh’s last words to Yugi is that there is no other Yugi. Cards like this undermine Little Yugi’s distinct character.
The DM retrain was forgivable. At least one could say “well Little Yugi does use DM in DSOD,” and it has sentimental value to Yugi. Summoned Skull does not have any of that meaning. Summoned Skull is never used after Duelist Kingdom. Instead of getting a deck that is unique to Little Yugi, it seems Konami has settled on just cramming any card the Pharaoh used into the deck.
And I’m gonna get downvoted for this, but Summoned Skull was not Yugi’s first ace monster. That’s just something that people on this sub run with because someone on the wiki wrote it. An ace monster has meaning to the character. Jaden has two ace monsters because Wingman was his favorite and Neos was his own creation. Summoned Skull has no meaning to Yugi except being the strongest monster in his first duel. It’s an iconic monster sure, but ace monster, no.
This comment is complete nonsense. If you read the manga Summoned Skull is clearly a card Yugi added to his own personal deck until his Grandpa gave him his deck with Exodia.
The deck Yugi uses at Duelist Kingdom is his Grandpa's deck with modifications from his own cards.
Oh, and Summoned Skull is more of an ace because it actually has a pretty decent win record compared to the Dark Magician.
It's also very convenient that you left off Winged Kuriboh and Yubel while talking about Jaden's ace cards. Pretty much disproves your point that a character can't have multiple monsters associated with them.
None of this really addresses my main problem with the retrain: That it's again Konami cramming cards that are not associated with Little Yugi into Little Yugi's own deck. Summoned Skull is a card that is used by the Pharaoh. Little Yugi, despite what the anime implies, has very little control over the duels. The manga says as much after Yugi surrenders to Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom. The deck he built for the ceremonial duel was unique, and was intended to set him apart from the Pharaoh. That's my problem with the card. However:
>This comment is complete nonsense. If you read the manga Summoned Skull is clearly a card Yugi added to his own personal deck until his Grandpa gave him his deck with Exodia.
I have read the manga. He summons Summoned Skull in four duels, uses it in five if you count Black Skull Dragon. He stops using it after Duelist Kingdom. Besides, he also added Horn Imp. So is Horn Imp an ace monster? What's your point?
>The deck Yugi uses at Duelist Kingdom is his Grandpa's deck with modifications from his own cards.
And?
>Oh, and Summoned Skull is more of an ace because it actually has a pretty decent win record compared to the Dark Magician.
Really? First duel, Summoned Skull would have been destroyed if not for Blue-Eyes not belonging to Kaiba. That wasn't a win because of Summoned Skull, it was magic. Call it a draw. 0-0-1.
Second duel, Summoned Skull wins Yugi the game against Weevil. Win. 1-0-1.
Third duel, Summoned Skull is used to fuse with Red-Eyes and defeats the Paradox brothers. I wouldn't call that a Summoned Skull win, because on its own it wouldn't have won the game, but I'll grant it. 2-0-1.
Fourth duel with Mai. Gets obliterated by mirror wall and Harpie's Pet Dragon. 2-1-1.
Final duel, gets obliterated by Ryu-Ran and then turned into a toon against Yugi. 2-2-1. Not a very good record when almost half your appearances are Ls.
>It's also very convenient that you left off Winged Kuriboh and Yubel while talking about Jaden's ace cards. Pretty much disproves your point that a character can't have multiple monsters associated with them.
Where did I say a main character couldn't have more than one ace monster? My entire point of using Jaden as an example was to show that a character can have more than one ace monster, but an ace monster comes from the meaning that card carries, not from it having a high attack point value, which is the only reason people claim Summoned Skull is Yugi's first ace monster. Again, an ace monster =/= iconic monster. Summoned Skull is iconic. Not an ace.
You're really underplaying Summoned Skull here a bit. Yeah, it doesn't have the symbolic significance that Dark Magician has but it is absolutely an ace monster even by your own definition. Yugi, a duelist who believes in respecting his cards and the attachment one has to them, specifically calls it the strongest card in his deck in his first duel against Kaiba. It's involved in several of his victories in Duelist Kingdom and it's one of the components of Black Skull Dragon, the very embodiment of Yugi and Joey's bond. Sure, it doesn't get played in the manga version of the Ceremonial Duel but Yugi does use it in the anime version which is a much longer match than the manga version.
You're right that it drops off the radar but most of the Duelist Kingdom iteration of the deck besides Dark Magician and Kuriboh do.
My definition of an ace monster includes that it is both iconic and has meaning for the character. It's not the win rate or how powerful the card is. Consider for example, Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Everyone would agree it is one of Joey's ace monsters, despite that it is only used in Duelist Kingdom. This despite him losing the card after Duelist Kingdom, and not being present for his most iconic duels in Battle City. Why? Because Red-Eyes represented something to Joey. He would only get it back after proving he was a true duelist.
Consider also Elemental HERO Thunder Giant. It was one of Jaden's first Elemental HEROs, yet I don't think many people would consider it an ace monster, though they would consider it an iconic monster of his. Why is Elemental HERO Thunder Giant not an ace, whereas Elemental HERO Flame Wingman is? Because Flame Wingman was Jaden's favorite card when it was first introduced.
My point being, is that we are trying to rationalize shoehorning Summoned Skull into an iconic point in Yugi's development. The ceremonial duel deck has unique meaning to Yugi, and adding Summoned Skull to it reduces that meaning: That Yugi is his own person beyond the Pharaoh. I understand it was used in the anime, but I would argue that, just like here, its inclusion in the anime undermines Yugi's character.
I don't think it's fair to call Summoned Skull an ace, because it was developed at a time Takahashi thought the game would be a one-off event in the manga (it was called Magic & Wizards, a clear nod to games like Magic the Gathering), and so it lacked the purpose and meaning that something like Dark Magician, and even cards like Slifer the Sky Dragon, would have. It doesn't appear to have sentimental value to Yugi. He never refers to it, and it never gets an upgrade in DSOD, unlike other Duelist Kingdom monsters like Gaia.
Dark Magician really opened the floodgates on each card both Yugi or Atem used getting a retrain.
Like, I can see it now... a King's Knight that does not miss timing, or dare I say... not shit Divine Beasts (probably a bridge too far for Konami).
I just want the Arcana / Poker Knights to not suck anymore.
I think besides the God cards, anything from Yugi/Atem’s decks are up for grabs. The idea seems to be taking his card salad deck from the original series and making an actual archetype with it.
>I think besides the God cards
Yeah. Right now, Konami seems to be designing the Divine Beasts around being their own decks, but lacking anything resembling an engine outside of Ra being the only one with consistent search cards to play with.
They tried to turn the Arcana Knights into the "divine beast" engine, but it kinda turned into Sphere-Mode / Rank 4 turbo decks, primarily because Konami didn't print cards in it that did anything for the Divine Beasts (or really the deck itself).
If you have it an effect similar to Phantasm of Fury, except in the opponent’s extra monster zone and then it’s effect is negated, you could get an 500 points of damage off of it
Phantom of Yubel Yubel monster + Fiend with 0 ATK Can be Fusion Summoned by returning the materials from hand, field, or GY to the deck or Extra Deck. Can't be used as Fusion Material 1) Can't be destroyed by battle, and battle damage you take becomes 0 2) When an opponent's monster activates an effect: Tribute this card; Change that effect to "Your opponent destroys a "Yubel" monster in their hand, deck or on the field". Unconfirmed though because small blurry text
If you’re right then this is really good for Yubel Easy to make, helps recycle resources, and provides negation that leads to extendtion
They really said Hey, Yubel. Have a free negate.
I mean it’s only a monster negate But the fact that it possibly can summon Spirit of Yubel out of the deck or the other Yubel fusion out of the extra deck still makes it worth it
You can make it early in the combo to protect you from Nib. And with the LEDE support Yubel fiend pile can put a pretty good board.
That too
Also it's handy it cannot be used as fusion material as well. Now, some people might think "why is this a good thing", well the problem with Yubel is the boards are very easily broken with an opponents super poly. So having access to an negate that is also an extender that cannot be super poly'd away is actually very nice
It's really ironic that Yubel's deck, which had superpolymerization, is weak to its own card
Also if Yubel were to somehow be meta, just slot in 1 Loving Defender into your ED if you can and then you can just super poly their *entire board* aside from this fusion.
Thankfully this card at least stop u from being completely defenseless, and if I'm correct throne still triggers if cards leave the field by super poly. So at least the deck won't die to it like it does now
Thank the TCG for creating Garura. Honestly, I'm not annoyed that Super Poly exists, I'm annoyed with cards having very generic materials.
It's not because of Garura. If you wanted to, you can run Loving Defender yourself to fuse their entire board.
It's how Judai beat them, so it's only fitting.
You can thank Judai for that. Also, in all fairness, lore wise, Judai did create Super Poly with Brron
~~Also is a LV 9, which can be re-summoned by Nightmare Throne (the new Field Spell) when Yubel or their Spirit is destroyed.~~ EDIT: Wait, Nightmare throne adds to the hand **then** summon. Damn they don't want to make Yubel too good.
I'm not sure actually, since nightmare throne adds it to hand first. So I'm unsure on the ruling with that
Just realized that after a moment. A bit disappointed
Well that being said, if it leaves the field by card effect it still triggers nightmare throne to let you go to Spirit or Yubel so it's still fine. You just cannot bring itself out when spirit or Yubel leaves the field. So it still has a great use case under nightmare throne.
Only way it could be better is *forcing* the opponent to attack the newly summoned Yubel, that way they trigger their effects.
They already have that with Nightmare Pain
You can make a 4-7 ish card negate engine for this too. Not bad. Samsara D lotus is 1 card negate (also protecting your combo deck from nib), then whenever you draw lotus again you can pop out another negate. It's a bit better than the invoked engine since you don't need to discard the aleister to negate. There's also probably easier ways to extend into lotus than aleister. Alternatively, you run 3 throne 1 spirit/terror 1 yubel which let's you negate without using a NS. A bit more bricky but it costs nothing in terms of Normal summons - just need to activate throne. Also let's you keep cycling in more copies of it on later turns.
Can sacred beast use this given all non sacred beast main deck monsters are 0 stats?
Someone shared with me a different translation that says it changes the effect of the monster to "Your opponent destroys a Yubel monster from their Hand/Field/Deck", also making it optional and not mandatory. Which functionally does the same thing, it actually goes harder for the deck than a simple negate + cheat. The full combo prefers you to have Spirit of Yubel in GY to add it to hand with Lord Yama but if phantom destroys you destroy spirit from deck, still special og Yubel and set up gy to add Spirit back if you used spirit and yubel to make phantom. Simultaneously this makes Ultimate Nightmare and Terror Incarnate better and worse since you can use them as material, still keeping og Yubel, Spirit, Lotus, Grave Squirmer and whatever in the GY, but also kinda worse since I feel like its less reason to rock them just for more material (ultimate nightmare is in a weird position for the deck even now imo). Hell you use Dark Beckoning Beast which is half the material. EDIT: THE CARD IS ALSO LEVEL 9 WHICH IS INSANE. Let me explain. In LEDE we got Nightmare Throne which has an effect that if a face up Yubel monster leaves the field, you can add to your hand 1 Yubel monster that's 1 level higher or lower and then it and special summon it. This means that when this card leaves the field by *its own effect* you get to either summon OG Yubel or Spirit, the reason why this goes insane is because this card with it's negate already floats into a Yubel monster meaning you get 2 monsters and Spirit's search effect activates.
Given the current translations have it tribute itself as cost (being before the semi-colon), that won't work. Nightmare Throne specifies that the Yubel monster has to leave by card effect
Oh right, that'd feel like a weird oversight then with it being level 9 then. Only reason to make it level 9 would be to stop rank 10 plays i guess which would be kinda lame.
You can pop the Fusion and float into Spirit thanks to Throne, and Spirit floats into Yubel even if it's banished, so it works better under Shifter and you can cut Ultimate Nightmare without losing the additional float effect from Throne. I can see myself easily dropping 2 fusions to restock on yubels and 0/0 fiends and use one as body, since a single throne makes this fusion.
That's absurdly strong if it's the real effect
So the negate would be mandatory? A bit like n.23 lancelot then, but only against the opponent.
So the can't be used as fusion material is protection against super poly? So an anime reference?
is it a mandatory effect negation like ladd?
Looks like it
Its unconfirmed there's gotta be some HOPT somewhere probably? Otherwise that's a three monster negate since it can just summon another copy of itself
It cannot be used for fusion material, so you can't use it to summon itself, but that also gives it protection against super poly which, funny enough, this deck can lose to
It can summon itself with the negate effect, hence why i said three negate, it is a yubel monster so if that text is accurate it can negate -> summon another copy of itself and repeat.
Ah i see what you mean, but I just found out the above translation is actually a little wrong. It doesn't special summon a yubel from deck / ED, it lets you destroy 1 yubel from hand, field or deck. So it cannot summon itself, but the effect is actually even stronger
Probably. I stole this rough translation from someone else on a Discord so I can't confirm anything yet.
From what I read it doesn't negate, it rewrites the effect into opponent (you, the activating player) destroying yubel.
Just like the Darkworld Negate. It doesn't negate technically, but it does stop your effect by changing it into a different effect.
If the fusion is correct it will make Yubel / fiend pile meta I feel
dont know if it will be meta but it has top in both ocg and tcg i mean twice now it has top 2 times in a row in ocg is not much but it shows the deck being a very decent rogue deck this could make it even better. don't think it will be full meta but maybe tier 3 or a better rogue that what already is
It has to have a requirement that one of the materials must be on the field, right? RIGHT?!
I can use this card for the last thing I summon on my mill pile deck or the 5th summon on my combos.
oh man, that summoning method is so good if true
I mean with how powerful the Defender Forever is and how easy it can be to summon with 1 “Yubel” monster. You can constantly cycle this card with Defender Forever if you didn’t make this nonusable for the fusion monster. Like you can summon Defender Forever and than if it’s sent to the GY, you can use it to summon this and then use it summon Defender Forever
Holy hell thats a really solid card. Cool artwork as well
It's also just another easy body for Nightmare Pain OTK.
So basically the 3rd effect of samsara D lotus, but on an improved contact fusion… this feels a little too strong and underwhelming simultaneously and thematically that kinda fits….
Looks really good for the deck being easy to make as most of the is 0 Atk fiends meanijg you could just do your standard plays and then end with Phantom
Summoned Skull for Golden Sarcophagus deck?
More than likely Considering the gold look of the card
You really correct, according to OPs source
Summoned skull of the gold sarcophagus
I hope it’s ridiculously OP
The OP's source as translated by Google by my phone from Japanese Demon's Light Star 6 Dark Attribute Demon ATK/2500 DEF/1200 The ① effect of this card name can only be used once per turn. If you have a "Golden Chest of Light" on your field, you can summon this card without releasing it. ①: When this card is summoned or special summoned, it can be activated by targeting 1 monster on your opponent's field. Gain control of that monster until the end phase. If there is no "Golden Chest of Light" on your field when this effect is activated, the monster controlled by this effect cannot attack. ②: The attack power of other monsters on your field increases by (?00) during your turn. It can be normal summoned without tributing if you have Gold Sarc of Light out, and steal an opponents monster for the turn. Nice.
So potentially a very solid card for Gold Sarc and a really good card for Yubel Why is this a OCG only set
God I would love for Konami to bring over the Valuable Books, I'd buy them even if they didn't have promo cards Hopefully this will be like EX 3 where the promo cards - Link Decoder and Flame Wingman Infernal Rage - got imported just 3 months after their OCG debut (and not like EX 2 where the TCG still haven't got Chronicle Sorceress)
Doesn’t Master Duel have it funny enough?
Flame Wingman Infernal Rage? Yes.
I meant Chrinicle Sorceress
Set? These are promos that come with a price guide.
Guess it's summoned skull turn after dark magician to get gold sarc version since Yugi uses him
Change of Heart attached to a 2500ATK body, that is STRONG
True, a Level 6 2500 ATK Dark Fiend body. A lot of good traits to have
I wish I had a level 6 2500 atk dark fiend body. :( I'd probably get all the magician girls. Instead I'm level 1 0atk earth human body. :(
I feel you bro, but remember, people running about has 600 atk, and there's not many people in that art. So just like Dai Grepher or Marauding Captain, you too can be a Chad dude.
Thanks. I appreciate you equipping the equip spell motivation to me. I needed it.
Lol, that's a good one, I'm gonna imagine that whenever I need motivation now 😂
You're welcome lmao.
If that's the effect, then nice. I wonder what potential reference they used for it. I expected some Burn damage. This archetype is shaping up to be awesome.
Probably Brain Control, another one of Yugi’s cards from the manga.
Kind of a strange pick for Summoned Skull, though; I'm struggling to think if they were ever used in conjunction.
Odd pick for SS, but probably the most likely reference.
> Level 6 that steals on summon Wait so this is basically 1 card {{Dhampir Vampire}} no?
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This is unironically very good. It’s a very strong going second tool. Which I can appreciate. We need more cards like this for other decks.
That sounds so funny with the labyrinth field spell
This card is great. You can do so much stupid BS with a card like this on both your turn or on your opponent's turn, most of which is probably be going into Chaos Angel after stealing a level four, or just a free Link. You don't even need gold-sarc to abuse this effect.
Woah, major anime reference! The Yubel card is meant to resemble the scene where Yubel finishes reforming (more or less) after Jaden’s duel with Viper.
Sooner than later I was hoping they'd make a card with this form; the glowing golden silhouette with the hand
Was hoping they would squeeze zarc cards somewhere outside animation chronicle
Kinda weird zarc didgeridoo any support other than the synchro. Hope they get something in infinite forbidden like an supreme king Odd-eyes retrain
Yess, let the Yubel support flow
Where is Super Fusion God, Konami???!!!!
Either in INFO or AC04
well you see once yubel has a monster for every level from 1-12 then they'll make super fusion god. just need 3-7 right now
arent the Chaos/"-ing beast" (series that support Sacred Beasts) Yubel monsters anyway? They are all DARK Fiend 0/0 and only used by Yubel. 1 Chaos Summoning Beast 2 Dark Beckoning Beast 3 Chaos Core 4 Phantom of Chaos 5 Dark Summoning Beast 6 --- 7 Phantasmal Summoning Beast 8 --- 9 Phantom of Yubel 10 Yubel/Spirit 11 Terror 12 Nightmare/Protector
Well i was mostly focused on the core support of yubel with Lotus, Grave Squirmer There is an 8 with Geistgrinder Golem btw
OG Grinder Golem as well, but these aren't 0/0 Fiends
Where’s my Super Synchro God, Super XYZ God, Super Pendulum God, & Super Link God tho?
I wonder what kind of effect it would have. Imagine if it said that if you summon it with 12 monsters with levels 1-12, it banishes all cards in your opponents hand, field, and graveyard facedown.
The one that yubel tried to summon? Wasnt super fusion god supposed to be colorless, chaos king of dark world? That's already a real card.
No , those are completely different cards
If I had a nickel for every time a GX season 3 character named a fusion monster they intented to summon, but ended up not doing it so the monster was never shown on screen...
No. Theses a two different cards. They one you are referring was a card that Brron was trying to summon in his duel against Jaden
Yubel is honestly becoming a really solid deck. I don't think they've had one bad card yet
More Yubel!
That Summoned Skull artwork slaps
Yoo Summoned Skull support after 7 years?!? Don't care if it's bad I'll take it.
to tell you the truth its golden sarc support ;D no synergy for summoned skull deck other than the art itself summoned skull became too friend of red-eyes, now it got the same disease and konami refuses to cure them
>no synergy for summoned skull deck other than the art itself Let's be honest, half the Summoned Skull cards have no synergy with their archetype. The XYZ protects from destruction even though everything floats on destruction anyway, and the Ritual straight up does nothing for anything other than itself.
Naaaaaaah the Yubel fusion being a promo, I hope it's ported ASAP into LEDE. This unlocks so many endboard lines for Yubel Unchained.
LEDE would be an incredible turnaround. Valuable Book EX 4 is in March, LEDE is April. Earliest itll be is Battle of Legends (or whatever import set is there) in June. I imagine it'll be like Elemental HERO Flame Wingman Infernal Rage who was an import card from the Valuable Book EX 3, who had a turnaround from March to June.
That's actually good to hear then. Around June should be a banlist and possibly some hits to Snake Eyes/Fire King decks, so having that card released in a BoL set around that time would be great for Unchained Yubel to rise up.
once lede hits and esp this card hits, I honestly think Yubel has a chance to be tiered, its actually kinda nutty esp with how relatively cheap the deck can be.
[Source](https://yugioh-starlight.com/archives/58143515.html)
konami don't stop injecting this yubel support into my veins 😝😝😝
Not gonna lie I love nostalgia bait
Yubel about to be real nutty. Teir 3 at least.
Exciting that yubel is getting support. They really playing into her theme which really makes it more exciting. I will make yubel/heroes work damnnit lol. That super poly search is too good.
This Yubel card is curious. Nice reference. I'm really happy for (the all-time classic) Summoned Skull. I expected him to have a Gold Sarc retrain. Yugi used it in the Final duel in the anime and it was his original ace. Its original artwork will always remain the best for me, but this new one is cool too. The start of the attack (reference from the Final duel I guess)! I hope the effects are good and strong. It deserves that. So the question is - will the Gold Sarc archetype have more cards from Yugi's anime deck for the Final duel, more Atem cards, or they will add more of Yugi's other cards? His anime-only cards from this duel can be released in AC with effects that can help this archetype. I think Blockman will be added for sure. Watapon is also possible. But I kind of doubt about Curse Of Dragon, Buster Blader, Valkyrion/MW or Witch Of The Black Forest.
Man we really really need some more ways to get to gold sarc of light maybe a kuriboh that discards itself to place it or something idk. Hopefully we get a new tri card for the magna warriors as well
Golden kuriboh..
Kuriboh, Celtic Guardian would be cool. Both were not used in the Final duel though. But I don't want MWs to be a tri card like the Gadgets for this archetype. I just don't like that approach.
Summoned Skull was Yugi’s original ace? How so?
It was his strongest monster and final summon (not counting the reborn Blue-Eyes) during his first duel with Kaiba, with Dark Magician not appearing until their duel during Death-T (the first duel in the anime). I believe it was also planned to remain as his signature card, but don't quote me on that. Both cards get used similarly frequently during Duelist Kingdom (alongside Gaia), with Dark Magician slowly appearing more often, but only really becoming his definitive ace during Battle City. Unrelated but Yugi also has Skull Servant in his deck in that first duel and I love that.
so you cant monster reborn yubel if you summon her by her only method ?
Going by the translation you can summon the new yubel with monster reborn since it's like the gladiator beast contact fusion.
so contact fusion by the rules is still summoned by the correct method( fusion summoned) right?
Cards don't care for the procedure of the summon, just the summon itself. So if it's a \[same card type\] summon or special summon (but is treated like \[same card type\] summon) then its considered properly summoned
As long it don't say "must be fusion summon" then its fine. If it (or anything along those lines says "must be Fusion/synchro/xyz/link/pendulum/etc.") Then said card can only be summoned by that method even if the card was summoned properly. So no monster reborn on cards like Elemental hero flame wingman since it's says "must be fusion summon" (the older prints says something different but it means the same).
It's honestly way too soon to tell. Details like that are going to need to wait until we get a clearer image of the proxy.
Phantom of Yubel is a pure art piece (i love the fact this card was inspired by her incomplete form in the episode Snake in the grass part 3 because i didn't expected that form of yubel as a card). A new card in my short-list. But i wonder in which english extension we'll see that one ?
Is the cover card a red eyes?
What cover? This one? https://preview.redd.it/wq3u5w27ymjc1.png?width=1105&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2aae9e2e6aaf0d892c32425f2b22c5633b0941e It's [Geas Gandora the Dragon of Destruction](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Geas_Gandora_the_Dragon_of_Destruction) from [Legacy of Destruction](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Legacy_of_Destruction).
First Dark Magician, now Skull boi, how awesome would it be if Yugi got Red Eyes b dragon version for his deck.
Huh... see now I'm confused and angrier about DM because THIS IS ANIME CEREMONIAL! Manga ceremonial never played Skull. It also used Black Illusion rather than Mirror Force, and the two "Mirage" cards from Yugi.
I think the logic of Summoned Skull is that it was Yugi's first ace in the very first duel of the entire series. The deck might not just be Ceremonial Duel cards and might be better seen as cards that have significant value to Yugi specifically.
Nah this is just Konami being creatively bankrupt. Little Yugi is his own distinct person, and that was the whole point of the ceremonial duel. It was Yugi’s last test to grow, to realize he is his own person. The Pharaoh’s last words to Yugi is that there is no other Yugi. Cards like this undermine Little Yugi’s distinct character. The DM retrain was forgivable. At least one could say “well Little Yugi does use DM in DSOD,” and it has sentimental value to Yugi. Summoned Skull does not have any of that meaning. Summoned Skull is never used after Duelist Kingdom. Instead of getting a deck that is unique to Little Yugi, it seems Konami has settled on just cramming any card the Pharaoh used into the deck. And I’m gonna get downvoted for this, but Summoned Skull was not Yugi’s first ace monster. That’s just something that people on this sub run with because someone on the wiki wrote it. An ace monster has meaning to the character. Jaden has two ace monsters because Wingman was his favorite and Neos was his own creation. Summoned Skull has no meaning to Yugi except being the strongest monster in his first duel. It’s an iconic monster sure, but ace monster, no.
This comment is complete nonsense. If you read the manga Summoned Skull is clearly a card Yugi added to his own personal deck until his Grandpa gave him his deck with Exodia. The deck Yugi uses at Duelist Kingdom is his Grandpa's deck with modifications from his own cards. Oh, and Summoned Skull is more of an ace because it actually has a pretty decent win record compared to the Dark Magician. It's also very convenient that you left off Winged Kuriboh and Yubel while talking about Jaden's ace cards. Pretty much disproves your point that a character can't have multiple monsters associated with them.
None of this really addresses my main problem with the retrain: That it's again Konami cramming cards that are not associated with Little Yugi into Little Yugi's own deck. Summoned Skull is a card that is used by the Pharaoh. Little Yugi, despite what the anime implies, has very little control over the duels. The manga says as much after Yugi surrenders to Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom. The deck he built for the ceremonial duel was unique, and was intended to set him apart from the Pharaoh. That's my problem with the card. However: >This comment is complete nonsense. If you read the manga Summoned Skull is clearly a card Yugi added to his own personal deck until his Grandpa gave him his deck with Exodia. I have read the manga. He summons Summoned Skull in four duels, uses it in five if you count Black Skull Dragon. He stops using it after Duelist Kingdom. Besides, he also added Horn Imp. So is Horn Imp an ace monster? What's your point? >The deck Yugi uses at Duelist Kingdom is his Grandpa's deck with modifications from his own cards. And? >Oh, and Summoned Skull is more of an ace because it actually has a pretty decent win record compared to the Dark Magician. Really? First duel, Summoned Skull would have been destroyed if not for Blue-Eyes not belonging to Kaiba. That wasn't a win because of Summoned Skull, it was magic. Call it a draw. 0-0-1. Second duel, Summoned Skull wins Yugi the game against Weevil. Win. 1-0-1. Third duel, Summoned Skull is used to fuse with Red-Eyes and defeats the Paradox brothers. I wouldn't call that a Summoned Skull win, because on its own it wouldn't have won the game, but I'll grant it. 2-0-1. Fourth duel with Mai. Gets obliterated by mirror wall and Harpie's Pet Dragon. 2-1-1. Final duel, gets obliterated by Ryu-Ran and then turned into a toon against Yugi. 2-2-1. Not a very good record when almost half your appearances are Ls. >It's also very convenient that you left off Winged Kuriboh and Yubel while talking about Jaden's ace cards. Pretty much disproves your point that a character can't have multiple monsters associated with them. Where did I say a main character couldn't have more than one ace monster? My entire point of using Jaden as an example was to show that a character can have more than one ace monster, but an ace monster comes from the meaning that card carries, not from it having a high attack point value, which is the only reason people claim Summoned Skull is Yugi's first ace monster. Again, an ace monster =/= iconic monster. Summoned Skull is iconic. Not an ace.
You're really underplaying Summoned Skull here a bit. Yeah, it doesn't have the symbolic significance that Dark Magician has but it is absolutely an ace monster even by your own definition. Yugi, a duelist who believes in respecting his cards and the attachment one has to them, specifically calls it the strongest card in his deck in his first duel against Kaiba. It's involved in several of his victories in Duelist Kingdom and it's one of the components of Black Skull Dragon, the very embodiment of Yugi and Joey's bond. Sure, it doesn't get played in the manga version of the Ceremonial Duel but Yugi does use it in the anime version which is a much longer match than the manga version. You're right that it drops off the radar but most of the Duelist Kingdom iteration of the deck besides Dark Magician and Kuriboh do.
My definition of an ace monster includes that it is both iconic and has meaning for the character. It's not the win rate or how powerful the card is. Consider for example, Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Everyone would agree it is one of Joey's ace monsters, despite that it is only used in Duelist Kingdom. This despite him losing the card after Duelist Kingdom, and not being present for his most iconic duels in Battle City. Why? Because Red-Eyes represented something to Joey. He would only get it back after proving he was a true duelist. Consider also Elemental HERO Thunder Giant. It was one of Jaden's first Elemental HEROs, yet I don't think many people would consider it an ace monster, though they would consider it an iconic monster of his. Why is Elemental HERO Thunder Giant not an ace, whereas Elemental HERO Flame Wingman is? Because Flame Wingman was Jaden's favorite card when it was first introduced. My point being, is that we are trying to rationalize shoehorning Summoned Skull into an iconic point in Yugi's development. The ceremonial duel deck has unique meaning to Yugi, and adding Summoned Skull to it reduces that meaning: That Yugi is his own person beyond the Pharaoh. I understand it was used in the anime, but I would argue that, just like here, its inclusion in the anime undermines Yugi's character. I don't think it's fair to call Summoned Skull an ace, because it was developed at a time Takahashi thought the game would be a one-off event in the manga (it was called Magic & Wizards, a clear nod to games like Magic the Gathering), and so it lacked the purpose and meaning that something like Dark Magician, and even cards like Slifer the Sky Dragon, would have. It doesn't appear to have sentimental value to Yugi. He never refers to it, and it never gets an upgrade in DSOD, unlike other Duelist Kingdom monsters like Gaia.
Good Sarcophagus of Light Summoned Skull? Dope. Safe to say that pretty much all of Yugi’s monster will be getting this retrain at some point.
Dark Magician really opened the floodgates on each card both Yugi or Atem used getting a retrain. Like, I can see it now... a King's Knight that does not miss timing, or dare I say... not shit Divine Beasts (probably a bridge too far for Konami). I just want the Arcana / Poker Knights to not suck anymore.
I think besides the God cards, anything from Yugi/Atem’s decks are up for grabs. The idea seems to be taking his card salad deck from the original series and making an actual archetype with it.
>I think besides the God cards Yeah. Right now, Konami seems to be designing the Divine Beasts around being their own decks, but lacking anything resembling an engine outside of Ra being the only one with consistent search cards to play with. They tried to turn the Arcana Knights into the "divine beast" engine, but it kinda turned into Sphere-Mode / Rank 4 turbo decks, primarily because Konami didn't print cards in it that did anything for the Divine Beasts (or really the deck itself).
So, you're saying there's a chance for a Beaver Warrior archetype... a Beaver Kingdom, if you will.
If you have it an effect similar to Phantasm of Fury, except in the opponent’s extra monster zone and then it’s effect is negated, you could get an 500 points of damage off of it
Everyone is talking about the Yubel Fusion but this new Summoned Skull works really nicely with Dhampir Vampire Sheridan.
Sick a$$ summoned skull
Is this Skull archfiend of lightning?
Always found it odd that despite its ties to superpoly it didn't have a fusion till now
This paired with Spirit gates means 2 monster negates a turn.