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From: Zak Turchansky [mailto:darkmagegirl@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:37 PM

Subject: A Rant on the Ban Lists-darkmagegirl

A Rant on the Ban List - By darkmagegirl

Well I'm going to take a break from 'Lesser Played Decks' for a bit and give my two cents (more like a dollar) on the new ban list. For those of you who just want me to get to my point here it is: We are exactly a year back in time and this gives us little or no progress in the evolving meta.

For those of you who want to know why, I'll explain, but let's start with the banned cards.

NEW: Cyber Jar, Time Seal, Exchange of the Spirit, Last Turn, Dark Hole

First off, Cyber Jar, the only reason this card was banned was over-use. It has never been banned before and it has been running rampant in duels and if a player topdecks this beast, most likely they can hold out or win the duel. However, I can expect to see this card come back in October. Truly I think they are experimenting with this list and that, like Dark Hole, it will revert to its original position, that is, limited to 1.

Time Seal, now this card saw a huge burst of popularity as soon as it was announced that it would be banned. Most people (I think) had forgotten about this card and did not realize the power of skipping that draw phase. Of course, It should not have been banned on the account that we do not have Victory Dragon over here.

Exchange of the Spirit, Come on, just come on. Is Kevin Tewart against this card as a mortal enemy? This card was prerestricted and now banned after one format change. Just as I was thinking that a EotS deck was possible, even with only 1, they go ahead and ban it.
This card has not caused any major upsets and any ones it would have caused are the duelists fault for not preparing to counter EotS. Poor decision here.

Last Turn, See Above.

Dark Hole, The Only card that really and truly deserved to be banned here. It was too much of an upset and too easy to get. Also, the opponent can't shift his best monsters to defense to save them from Dark Hole, can he? Anyway, wise choice to ban this one.

Now for the Limited Cards.

NEW: D. D. Assailant, Drop Off, Graceful Charity, Last Will, Level Limit - Area B, Mask of Darkness, Mirror Force, Pot of Avarice, Treeborn Frog

Okay D.D. Assailant, we all saw this coming a mile away. Kinda obvious.

Drop Off, again, without victory dragon, almost useless but it did see some sideboard play at tournaments.

Graceful Charity, This card should read 'You may not dicard any card with "Dark World" in the name by this cards effect'. But it doesn't, and so we have to deal with DW for the next six months. W/e, I just need to find a card I call 'Exile of The Wicked', lol

Last Will, is it really that good. Sure I got pwned nin one turn when my opponent plays last will, sacs his fd for levia dragon, calls cyber stein, uses a storm, summons cyber twin, but that's it. IN my VWXYZ deck, I discard this more often than not.

Level Limit - Area B, this was an ok limit, I don't see it played much and just when I remembered that some monsters can attack while in defense mode, annoy opponent as hell, they decide to restrict it.

Mask of Darkness, I never saw this get used in tournament play, not once. Again, give us Victory Dragon, and maybe.

Mirror Force, Yay, more balanced than Dark Hole, harder to come by, and just an all out better card except for the fact that it can be negated by Jinzo

Pot of Avarice, this could have been semi-limited. I finally created a deck with lots of firepower and could afford to run two of these babies, but it's stuck at one unfortunately.

Treeborn Frog, if this wasn't limited, Monarch control would run rampant, good idea.

Just a note, I'm surprised to not see 'Magical Dimension' on the list, when it first came out there was lotsof talk about it, now I guess there isn't really enough spellcasters that are tourney-worthy.

Semi Limits, probably the best ideas were here.

New! Apprentice Magician, Deck Devastation Virus, Magician of Faith, Nobleman of Crossout, Reflect Bounder

Apprentice Magician was a must because with MoF coming back to two, good idea.

I never saw deck devastation virus but it may see play with Dark World.

Magician of Faith, good, this and noblemen will bring us up a notch with game speed, also instead of Cyber Jar, we can topdeck this!

Nobleman of Crossout balances out the MoF's, so this is also a good choice.

Reflect Bounder, god it was hard enough to get one, but I never saw another duelist use this aside form myself, we can do this.

Well theres my thoughts, email me at darkmagegirl@gmail.com for your thoughts or a request for lesser played decks.


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