Ib the World Chalice Justiciar – #BLTR-EN089
1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters
For this card’s Synchro Summon, you can treat 1 “World Chalice” Normal Monster you control as a Tuner. You can only use each of the following effects of “Ib the World Chalice Justiciar” once per turn.
● If this card is Synchro Summoned: You can add 1 “World Legacy” card from your Deck to your hand.
● If this Synchro Summoned card is sent from the field to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 “World Chalice” monster from your Deck or GY, except “Ib the World Chalice Justiciar”.
Date Reviewed: July 24th, 2025
Rating: 4.17
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Ib used to be the focus of meta decks as an extender to the extent that she went on the ban list for a little bit. Today, she is our Throwback Thursday choice: Ib the World Chalice Justiciar.
Generic Level 5 Synchro Tuner is right up the alley for White Forest, though the first part of Ib’s effect pertains to her own archetype: World Chalice. Using a Normal World Chalice monster as a Tuner involves her original form as well as her companions original form as well. That ability wasn’t the reason for her being played in many meta decks years ago though. When Synchro Summoned, Ib would add a World Legacy card from the Deck to the hand, and, when sent from the field to the grave, could Special Summon a World Chalice monster from the Deck or grave except herself.
The most likely World Legacy card to add to the hand is World Legacy Succession, as it Special Summons a monster from the grave to a link point a Link Monster of yours points to. While you have to Link Summon beforehand, that won’t be too much of an issue, as you could link-off Ib alongside a monster and get her second effect as well. When Dragon Link was a thing she would get you World Legacy Guardragon to not only Special Summon a Dragon-Type monster from the grave (Level 4 or lower) but also move a Dragon Link monster to a Main Monster Zone (Pisty or Elpy to the Main Monster Zone to setup Agarpain. Now though you’ll stick with Succession as a searchable Monster Reborn.
As for a World Chalice monster you may run in your Deck to summon off of Ib, any of the archetype Link Monsters could be a good choice. For Main Deck choices, the only one I could see being run as a “tech” choice would be World Legacy – “World Chalice”, for its ability to pop itself to send a Special Summoned monster that came from the Extra Deck to the grave, as well as its ability to be banished in the grave to search a World Legacy card from the Deck (World Legacy Succession).
Ib the World Chalice Justiciar is an easy monster to summon that, in the right builds, can gain the player plenty of advantage. Sure, the cards that made her the most broken she has been aren’t available anymore, but that doesn’t mean she’s not going to be a potentially dangerous card. When easy-to-summon monsters that gain advantage for free are left unchecked, someone will break them. Guardragon and Successor are unlimited, there’s more Link Monsters to summon other than Dragons, and even the World Chalice monsters are finding new ways to be useful.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Throwback Thursday this week brings us to a Synchro Tuner for one of our previous lores that spent time banned until coming back not long ago: Ib the World Chalice Justiciar.
Ib is a Level 5 WATER Spellcaster Synchro Tuner with 1800 ATK and 2100 DEF. A bit low on stats for a Level 5, WATER is fine, Spellcaster is nice, and Level 5 Tuners still allow for combos. Materials are any Tuner and non-Tuner(s), so yet another generic Synchro, and this one can use any World Chalice Normal Monster as its Tuner to summon it, making it accessible in the World Chalice Deck. The other two effects are each HOPT, first triggering on Synchro Summon to search for any World Legacy card from the Deck. This is more than likely World Legacy Succession since that’s the best generic one for revival if you do Link Summons, but Mekk-Knights also own some good World Legacy cards and World Legacy – “World Chalice” is always nice to access in World Chalice. The other effect triggers if this Synchro Summoned card is sent from the field to the graveyard, letting you summon any World Chalice monster from the Deck or graveyard, besides Ib. This can keep a World Chalice combo going if you use this as Synchro or Link Material, or you can get to World Chalice Guardragon to make Guardragon Pisty if you are running this in some Dragon strategy to keep Dragon combos going. Ib is still a good card, though it’s combos aren’t really relevant to some of the stronger Decks in the game. It opens doors for a lot of extension with its search and summon effects, making it a staple for World Chalice/World Legacy combo Decks and many other that might want to search for World Legacy Succession. It just needs a better home or more World Legacy support.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 5/5 Ib has been revived!
Mighty
Vee
Quite possibly one of the most controversial Synchro monsters of the combo-heavy era of Yugioh, Throwback Thursday gives us Ib the World Chalice Justiciar, a level 5 WATER Spellcaster Synchro Tuner monster. It only takes any Tuner and any number of non-Tuners, likely to make it as flexible as possible for World Legacy lore decks, but any deck that can make level 5 Synchros can make it, with Dragon Link being the biggest offender making it with Draconnect as well as Rokket Synchron and any of their level 4 monsters. Notably, the only reason we’re covering it this week is that you can cheat it out with Diabellstar Vengeance, though there’s no real reason to do it over a White Forest Synchro. Statwise, Ib isn’t too impressive, with only 1800 attack and 2100 defense, but those stats are hardly the scariest part about it. Ib was banned for just under 5 years until it was released during the January 2024 banlist, so let’s see what all the hubbub is about.
You’ll be able to use any World Chalice Normal monster as this card’s Tuner if you want to; again, this is meant to make Ib as flexible as possible to make in a variety of decks, including Mekk-Knight, Crusadia, Orcust, and Krawler, even if it’s not necessarily a great idea. What we really want to look at are Ib’s 2 hard once per turn effects, a dastardly duo that ended up getting it banned. The first effect triggers on Synchro Summon, letting you search any World Legacy card. There are 2 main targets: World Legacy Succession, which is a versatile Monster Reborn for most decks that can field Link monsters, and World Legacy Guardragon, which is the real killer! As I said, Dragon Link could make Ib relatively easily, and World Legacy Guardragon not only revives a Dragon to extend your combos, it also makes it much easier to set up your Guardragon combos (duh) since you’d be able to shift around Guardragon Pisty and Elpy to the appropriate zones. Equally nasty is the other effect, triggering if Ib is sent from the field to the Graveyard as long as it’s Synchro Summoned to let you Special Summon any World Chalice monster from your deck or Graveyard except Ib itself, for fairly obvious reasons. In Dragon Link, the most popular choice was World Chalice Guardragon since it was easy Dragon fodder for Link Summons and could generate a lot of advantage if you were doing the Draconnet combo. Ib itself could easily trigger this effect by being Linked off into Crystron Halqifibrax (it is a Tuner, after all, and World Legacy Guardragon revives a monster. Hmmm!). The end result was often Borreload Savage Dragon and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss, and in the OCG, they could even rip your hand with Topologic Gumblar Dragon. Ib, along with the horrifying Guardragon Link monster, made Dragon Link an extremely nasty combo deck that could easily make game-changing Link 4 monsters (a premium at the time, if you can believe it) as long as you could make Ib, which could be made in 1 card with Draconnet. Ib is still an extremely powerful monster, but fortunately there are a few reasons it has barely touched the meta since coming back. Firstly, and I’ll keep saying this, the game has shifted away from combo-intensive decks with a large number of bricks and moving parts. Ib alone demands 2 bricks at minimum (a World Legacy card to search, and a World Chalice monster to summon) and that doesn’t include the Normal monsters you’d have to run to make full use of World Chalice Guardragon (even if Primite is very cool). The second and more important point is that many of the cards and decks that made Ib a menace are currently held back by the banlist. Crystron Halqifibrax, Guardragon Elpy, and Guardragon Agarpain are all currently banned, and Dragon Link has significant hits on the banlist that not even Ib can recuperate. Furthermore, most of the decks that actually can make level 5 Synchros either can’t actually make Ib comfortably (Crystron) or have much better in-house options (White Forest). Ib is still an incredibly powerful card, and has popped up in a few Synchro pile decks since its return, but for now, it’s fortunately a relic of a bygone era. Until the Guardragons come back, that is!
+Devastating pair of effects that can swarm monsters and generate advantage
+Generic and fairly easy to make
-Requires a minimum of 2 bricks for its maximum potential
-Most of its partner cards and decks are either banned or outdated
Advanced: 4.5/5
Art: 4/5 Get her a coat!
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