Notes & Combos
- Initially I was climbing with an 45 deck variant till I had a mirror match with another Chimera deck that performed an Chimera/Yubel Beatrice combo on me. I was instantly sold and during solo play testing I noticed I could take the combo a little further, which eventually led me to using an 60 card variant. Results were not bad at all and made it pretty far up a few times, but kept deranking due to consistency issues, which was expected.
- Few comments for certain cards in the deck.
- Tour Guide From the Underworld / Sangan / Fiendish Rhino Warrior : a small engine I use time to time if I don't open any of my Chimera cards.
- Nightmare Apprentice Its amazing how one card can change a whole deck. This card raised the power level of Chimera to an ladder threat.
- Beatrice Lady Of The Eternal: I fully understand now why people are calling for this card to be banned. Sending any card from the deck to the graveyard on demand is insane.
- Nightmare Magician/ Talons of Shurilane / Vouiburial the Dragon Undertaker: I played the different illusion cards and got "relatively" best results from these three cards. Quick fun facts: Talons effect can trigger Nightmare Throne's effect if the selected monster is an Yubel monster, Nightmare Magician effects occur in the damage step similar to Tenpai, and Undertaker effect must lower the ATK of the monster to work, so it doesn't work on 0 attack monsters.
- Mirage Mirror Force: Funny little tech card that I didn't used much during my climb. Yet, I know I caught people off guard when played though. It has a graveyard effect that can save you from being OTK at the right moment too.
- Rainbow Bridge of Salvation / Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger: This is used to bridge into your Yubel cards. Either send Rainbow bridge to the graveyard via Foolish Burial Goods or Beatrice Lady Of The Eternal. WARNING: You need an Crystal beast in the deck for Rainbow bridge to work, so if you have Topaz tiger in your hand before using Rainbow Bridge then it becomes a dead card. I learned this the hard way.
- Spirit Of Yubel / Yubel - Terror Incarnate: In theory you can just run one Spirit Of Yubel, but I like the option of having another one in your hand as backup. Meanwhile Yubel - Terror Incarnate has to be used to pull off putting an Nightmare Pain on your initial end board.
Replays
- I play tested different tech cards along the way till I settled on list that is shown. So sometimes you will see cards not on the list in the duels, but the core of the deck remains the same. Duels with some flavor of the Beatrice Bridge Combo was marked too.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpLNJ6YcIg