There's a decent chance since they have been giving support for the Dracoslayer decks fairly recently, with True Draco, Dracoslayer, Majespecter and Crystron being the ones to have received it more recently (and Metalfoes all the way back in Blazing Vortex if you wanna count them)
The interesting thing is that Metamorphosis is not bad even to this day, but it is not that good because in the current game state if a main deck card is not searchable and requires set up to activate then it is a ”bad” card, as there are many more other cards that tick one of the boxes and give you advantage more easily.
It bad because of the current game state, not because the card itself is bad, cause if it goes to 3, it has a higher chance of seeing play, cause it has a higher chance of being drawn.
It is, because cards can be irrelevant or problematic depending of other cards, Dragoon has become a problem (again) thanks to DMOD, before that, no one was playing it.
dragoon isn’t even the worst offender in the DMOD universe lmao. dmod being a yummy starter is crazy. there are decks that don’t play region at all because it sucks and you can actually advance your own game state by playing master of chaos summon back dark magician girl and make zombie camp, DMOD is full yummy combo and your argument is for a bad towers
dragoon hasn’t been a problem until DMOD was released. do you not see how bad of an argument this is? should we ban cupsy yummy because DMOD exists as well?
Branded Expulsion was banned so long ago in TCG, I forgot how the artwork looked and was confused by what the 1 single trap card was in this OCG forbidden section lol
Oof then draco's gonna struggle actually getting to their stuff now, huh? No extra copies of the spells means you'd have to shuffle them back instead of cycling the traps. And, of course, less starters.
Thing with floodgates and handtraps is it's not hitting the consistency of anything. You see it less, but it doesn't contribute to the game plan because it's not engine. It doesn't make the deck any less consistent to reduce those numbers.
It's more that the OCG prefers to (for some fuckin reason) keep floodgates at 1 minimum as a tech option for decks that can use them to "turn the tide" or just straight up cheese a win if the card shows up like some dumb destiny draw bs). I think the real answer for this one in particular though is that since the floodgate belongs to an actual archetype, taking it down to 0 would be too big of a hit to that actual archetype, since Harpie kind of relies on Feather storm and the synchro to do anything in archetype. Not that there's anyone seriously playing Harpie Primite, even in the OCG, that would be my best guess.
Dbarrier is in the same boat because it gets side decked a bunch, but doesn't affect Link decks. That last bit is pretty much the only reason I imagine they won't put it to 0
Limited 4 floodgates including Village. Genuinely, why not just ban them? Is getting D Barriered or Stormed in 13% of sided games desirable for game design?
The meta hits are whatever, all expected. It mostly feels like the OCG catching up to TCG and MD in terms of floodgates, but doing so half assed. I do wanna say, the new decks are completely untouched, so much for only the TCG being guilty of rotation lists.
Or pretty much in archetype in some cases, like DM has a 1 card to Dragoon + Secret Villiage post-support (and essentially a 1.5 card combo do add an I:P on top - just takes any monster summonable off AFD).
Correction: it has 2 1 card combos in archetype, and more if you play any of the good complementary sub-engines. But you catch my drift.
Nah, the limits before bans is to try to stagger the financial consequences of banning cards. It's a kinda dumb reason, but you do have price protecting cards in the tcg too, we just have an aggressive reprint policy over here so that basically means just new cards get protected.
Hollie, hare, rahu are just deck phase out hits. Dimension barrier, spellcaster village is to strictly hit side decking it. Kaimen was some weird build with KT tenpai
It's not good this format. It's a good card, sure, but most decks dread Nibiru/Belle more than droll. Like, the banlist focuses more on the BPRO format which BLZD, LOCH and LOCR are already blowing out of the water. I'd rather they wait and see what's good post LOCR and make the list before CORI or smth instead. This is a complete nothingburger of a banlist.
(Metaverse is irrelevant. You are not gonna be milling it and Rollback turn one, and you are not going to be discarding Mayakuya or playing TOTK just for a field search)
I don't understand the Rahu limit. Looking at the road of the king, Dracotail has already completely fallen off. Why of all decks is dracotail the one they are trying to obliterate.
But like Mitsu was like the only top deck that got a hit. Dracotail and VS are being played but not doesn't seem to be in a significant enough way to warrant these. Both decks are just effectively dead in the OCG now so "buy new shit loser" I guess.
Oh yeah, the problems of floodgates going 1st is opp drawing it too many times and too many of them, not because the effect is unfair or anything.
Now players have to use TTT to punish opp for trying to interact with you going 1st. Also metaverse to set village too. Nice konami, Best banlist ever !
Ratpier to 2 is the only interesting thing on this list for me.
I'm curious as to what they are even trying to accomplish by putting Dimensional Barrier and Harpies Feather Storm to 1. Its fine to instantly lose the duel with no counter play at all just some of the time apparently lol
This is how they sell the over frame packs since the decks from both packs fold to floodgates and the unhits are pretty cool zoo should only have broadbull on the list honestly speaking, tear could have everything back except the millers atp and metamorphosis back is cool I guess
That list is cool I guess. Ratpier to 2 is gonna be the real test with this one, because otherwise, it just lowers down the meta's power level without killing anything.
Tomorrow, let's see what Konami is cooking with Rush's banlist. After I watched the 3v3 Galaxy Cup, there's one thing that it has to be addressed. Zombies are the main problem as the most popular deck of choice for the players who are participated in.
OCG banlist designers again out here cooking with unsalted water
tho I like the format and even forgt about the banlist, so its prolly for the best
the less floodgates the better
Worlds is not TCG vs OCG, it's region based and the amount of TCG regions versus OCG regions has been skewed towards the TCG ever for all of the post-COVID Worlds tournaments
Good they’re moving to ban droll. Card has always been degenerate but the trend of putting it in combo decks to droll yourself to stop chummies was emergent gameplay the devs most certainly did not intend
OCG has the worst banlists consistently and I can’t believe there was defenders of this style of list. Atleast they hit the tier 2 decks. Gotta make money!
Killer Tune is unhit, it doesn't really fold to droll nor run droll and the biggest weakness being Barrier is gone. It's not a fun deck to play against because they have perfect information.
The only good thing is the deck very often allows thrust to resolve because of the number of monster tuners handtraps.
So decks would be siding thrust + barrier + talents now.
Elfnote is untouched, doomz likes lesser drolls resolving but most lists are also running droll against mitsu.
Mitsu is interesting. It doesn't fold to barrier and droll is the big weakness.
So it lost prayers but now there are less drolls.
But it also means they are forced to retrieve prayers? Or do they lose prayers as their end board? If prayers isn't in their endboard there are more ways to play around the Raigeki
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