The new ban list-what's what by Sean ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: seanslcars@comcast.net Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:12:31 +0000 Hey everyone Sean’s back. Time for me to put my two cents in on the new ban list, which I want to go on record as saying is far superior to the old one. Now Banned: Butterfly Dagger-Elma: Gotta agree with Upper Deck here. This little equips got way too much combo potential, and killing this and Magical Scientist pretty much kills the most prominent and aggravating deck in the game, One-Turn Kill Change of Heart: Another one I agree with Upper Deck on. Taking control of an opponent’s monster with no drawbacks is just nuts. CoH is awesome, and too powerful for advanced. Confiscation and The Forceful Sentry: I’m going to review these two together. I think one should be banned, the other restricted. The choice of which is which I don’t particularly care about. Control and Hand Destruction needed to be taken down a notch, but they needed to be taken down one notch, not two. Fiber Jar: THANK YOU UPPER DECK!!!! Why this wasn’t banned originally I don’t know. Fiber Jar is simply a way to drastically extend game times. If there was one card in the entire game originally, even before the first ban list, that was meant to be banned, this was it. Magical Scientist: Another combo-crazy card gone. I was running it in my chaos deck, so it hurts me a bit, but I admit this guy is too powerful. Plus, as I stated before, it seriously weakens OTK, which I’m always glad to see. Makyura the Destructor: Gotta disagree with Upper Deck here. Maybe if we had Reversal of Worlds, this would deserve a spot on the banlist. But without it, Makyura’s powerful, but no ban list material. He should have been left as restricted. Mirage of Nightmare: Another one where I disagree with Upper Deck. When we had 3 MSTs, MoN was worthy of a ban spot. But with only one, and Imperial Order gone, playing Mirage of Nightmare is like juggling hand grenades. Can be impressive and work out great, or your thumb could grab the pin by accident and BOOM. Mirage is just too unstable to be considered ban list material. Painful Choice: As someone who loves chaos, I was sad to see this go, but I reluctantly concur with Upper Deck. Chaos, Dump-‘n-Revive, Exodia, just to name a few, all abuse this card. It had to go Now restricted to 1: D.D. Warrior Lady: Should have been banned outright, and D.D. Assailant restricted to 1. These monsters are just too powerful. Keep it up, Upper Deck, you’re halfway there. Deck Devastation Virus: Why can’t we get the good one? I was looking forward to combo’ing it with Cyber Jar. This card is powerful, but not nearly as much as the Deck Destruction Virus of Death, the famous Crush card. Upper Deck was wise in restricting it. But how come we couldn’t get the real one? Although, the real one’s probably ban list material, so it’s kind of a moot point. Delinquent Duo: Will someone PLEASE explain to me the reasoning behind restricting this and banning Confiscation and The Forceful Sentry?! Delinquent Duo kills two for 1000 points. THIS should be on the ban list. Upper Deck, you did great with the banlist, but you really screwed up the hand destruction cards part. Graceful Chairty: Good to have it back. I was sad to see Charity go. This card is powerful and has plenty of combos, but it’s not quite ban list material. Lightning Vortex: See my article about Flaming Eternity for my full thoughts on this card. This Raigeki-replacement is powerful, but not quite powerful enough to be banned. If they were looking for a cool mass monster removal, they created the perfect one. This card belongs in the restricted list. It’s right at home now. Mirror Force: With MST down to one and HFD gone, I gotta disagree with Upper Deck here. Mirror Force is too powerful to be running around with only 1 MST in each deck. Dust tornado, Jinzo, and Breaker hurt it, but MST and HFD were it’s main weakness, and they’re gone. Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys: Again, check out my flaming eternity article, where I detail this card’s strengths and weaknesses and give a sample deck around it. This guy is just like Lightning Vortex-he’s right at home in the restricted list. He has enough weaknesses to not be banned, but if we could have more than one, it would just be nuts. Expect him to stay right where he is for a good long time. Sangan: Upper Deck may have screwed up dividing up the hand destruction cards, but they got the searchers right. Witch and Sangan was too much, but neither was too little. That meant one had to come back, and Witch just has too much potential. Welcome back to the furry fuzzball. United We Stand: This card mainly helped beatdown decks, which have started to wind down. United we Stand is a good card, and Upper Deck was right to take it off the ban list. A couple more notables: Black Luster Soldier, Envoy of the Beginning: I was shocked to see this guy still on the block. As a chaos user, it hurts me to say it, but he IS a little too powerful. Sorry my fellow chaos users, but he really does have to go. Sinister Serpent: I said he needed to go, and to that I hold. Sinister has too much combo potential. Again, I use him, so I’m kinda shooting myself in the foot, but he does have to go. Injection Fairy Lily: 3400 ATK potential, searchable by Sangan, immune to Bottomless Trap Hole, too much power. Gotta go. D.D. Assailant: As I mentioned, D.D. Warrior Lady has to go, and D.D. Assailant needs to be one per deck. These monsters have way too much power. Well that’s it for my thoughts on the banlist. Comments? Questions? My email is seanslcars@comcast.net and my AIM screenname is NazGul0010. I’m not one of those people that says "No hatemail please". I love reading that stuff. Until next time-SetoKaibafan13