Kazuo Abe

Yutoku Abe (安倍尤徳 Abe Yūtoku) is the protagonist of Five. His initial epithet is "The Rookie" due to his amateur skills and lack of a distinct playing style, however, after conquering the Earth domain, it becomes "The Miracle".

On his character

 * He doesn't sing anymore, but he's got a killer voice and everyone is impressed by it. He could also make lots of song references. He says the fastest way to know more about a person is asking them what their favorite song is.
 * He's a nice guy, but he deems making a good impression very important and thus is very serious about always trying to look cool, though this makes him clumsy or awkward at times.
 * He could act like a kind of Robin Hood; he doesn't feel guilty about using schemes to get money from rich people, and even though he needs money himself, he always spares some to help poor kids from his neighborhood.

Backstory

 * His father had a problem with gambling. It started getting worse once Yutoku was born and his wife was fired. With financial problems making things rough, his father started getting involved in more serious gambling until he eventually started cheating and even robbing. One day, when his wife couldn't stand it anymore, she left him, though the custody of Yutoku ended up with his father.
 * Yutoku hates his father's actions but he ended up inheriting lots of his tricks and tools. Now, Yutoku wants to make money to earn back his mother's goods which his father lost on gambling.
 * Used to have a band, but he left them after a get-rich-quick scheme gone wrong that made everyone turn on him. He hasn't performer ever since.
 * Chapter 1 Yutoku is going through a really rough phase of his life where he's trying to figure things out and doesn't know where he is headed to. After being selected for the "Winner Five", he starts thinking he may actually be someone outstanding, but as he gets to know the other members of the 'Winner Five', he starts feeling more and more inferior, feeling like he won't ever be like those perfect-ish champions. But he gradually starts realizing that they aren't that perfect and are regular, flawed human beings just like him, and he starts growing stronger accompanying them.
 * His relationship with his father is also one point directly linked to the Phase 1 plot, which will be resolved soon and give lots of development to his character, allowing him to get over that stain in his heart and start moving forward.

Canon Deck
Yutoku runs a Cheap Bandit Deck, a Deck with generic, mostly Commmon-rarity cards with no specific playing style. Since Yutoku can't afford Rare cards, he basically collects generic cards with a handful of defined combos which he tries to pull. This leads to a lack of a consistent Deck, with him only being able to run two copies of Nimble Momonga, for example.

Yutoku tends to like cards that increase his LP, since he believes that winning with low LP is very uncool, and ATK-boosting cards, that would let him inflict high amounts of damage with a single attack. He also uses cards like "Witch's Strike" and "Draw Discharge" as a counter to "Rare" cards; since he can't afford them, he adds cards that are useful against common staple effects of Rare cards such as drawing and countering actions.

The only iconic characteristic of Yutoku's Deck is the presence of bandit cards, such as the Robbin' Goblin series of Spells, Pillager, Magical Trick Mirror, etc, which let him steal his opponent's powerful and Rare cards for himself. Many of his bandit cards, including his Link Monsters - the only Ultra Rare cards in his Deck - are in fact a legacy from his father. His ace monster is "Robin Hook of the Silent Nights" (name might change), a monster Yutoku adores whose theme is based on the legend of Robin Hood - as well as a monster who, unnoticed by him, reflects his own nature.

Discarded first concept
Yutoku runs an Honor Deck, composed of only small monsters. This deck reflects the meaning of his name which his father gave to him, representing how Yutoku believes that he's weak, but even so he can live with honor.

Yutoku uses extremely versatile tactics, using his low-Level monsters for stalling or getting rid of the opponent's monsters with varied effects. He also uses many cards such as "Double Spell" and "Formula Statue" to re-use the opponent's cards, adding even more versatility to his combos.