Chef de Nouvelles

Pendulum Effect Monster · LIGHT · Fiend · Level 3 · Nouvelles

Market price

$0.12

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 5 hours ago.

[ Pendulum Effect ] During your Main Phase, if this card was activated this turn: You can add 1 non-Pendulum "Nouvelles" card from your Deck to your hand. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent's field (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card. You can only use each effect of "Chef de Nouvelles" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If this card on the field is Tributed and added to the Extra Deck face-up: You can place this card in your Pendulum Zone. You cannot activate the following effects of "Chef de Nouvelles" in the same Chain. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Effect Monster on the field; increase its Level by up to 3. Once per turn, if your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) (except during the Damage Step): You can banish 1 "Recipe" Ritual Spell from your hand, Deck, or GY; apply that card's activation effect that Ritual Summons a monster.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,100

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

2.35

Copies per deck

56.3% run 3

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 79 decks. Sided in another 1, which is not counted above — completion is scored over the main and extra deck only, plus a Domain deck’s Deck Master.

Archetypes and Deck Masters that play it

Share of that archetype or Deck Master’s own decks

Ally of Justice Cosmic Gateway100%
Chef de Nouvelles100%
Poissonniere de Nouvelles80%
Nouvelles67.7%
Chaos Angel28.6%
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning5.6%
Fiendsmith2.6%
Dogmatika0.5%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20250.3%
20260.2%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 1 printing, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Duelist's AdvanceDUAD-EN023	Common	1st Edition	$0.11	—	Buy

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