From: qaza@mail.gr [mailto:qaza@mail.gr]
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:03 PM
Subject: Thoughts on the new ban list -qazaa
I am playing just 6 months so this is the first time
i change a ban list.
It is funny we recieved what was proper for japan.I
guess konami never saw any difference between japan
and the other countries.
When i first listened the banned list I felt like
the victory dragon was part of our metagame. And
then as i was sitting there looking at the nothing
and thinking the cards that were lost, a voice came
from a kid in our store : but we don't have victory
dragon. Right Mr. and Misses we don't have him. But
i soon realised that the bad things didn't stopped
to the cards that where banned or limited only from
the existance of the V.Dragon. Many key cards that
allow alternative decks to exist were banned or
limited. Cyber jar was banned,exchange of the spirit
was banned, last turn (being something like tier 5
was banned too though this will make the judges
happy) mask of darkness, last will and level limit
area B where limited. Combo decks will count the
loss of the cyber and perhaps even mask of darkness,
burn decks will count the loss of the 1 level limit
and cyberstein decks + some others weird decks will
certainly suffer from the limitation of last will.
I remember that 4 weeks ago i build a finalcount
down deck that i am proud of it and i took it to our
local tournament which has a very strong field of
players. In every match i played i won the first
game and lost the other 2. I didn't had a chainable
sidedeck and when all the mobius, mystic swordsmen,
and dust's where sided from my opps i would loose .
Now one day when i get the right cards i plan to
take it again to the tournament and see if it does
better with a more chainable side deck(wabokus
threatening roar etc.etc). But the other thing i
learned from my finalcount deck was that an exchange
of the spirit deck was possible. Lot's of the cards
that i used in that deck could be used well in an
exchange of the spirit deck, that now i will never
make.
But konami simply is afraid everything she is not
used to. They are afraid that these or that might
get too powerfull. And they have the solution. They
just ban the cards the like they are taking medicine
,they just haven't learned that taking pills without
having a problem isn't good at all. And then we have
the limitation of the d. d. assailant.
However if we look at our decks in the last past
month we will find that most of us put in dekoichis
and /or magical merchants in the spots of the d. d.
assailant. And this why? simply because they are
more broken in this very slow format. At this point
i really believe there was no reason for limiting
the assailants (exept perhaps that people were
whinning too much about them).
How are we supposed to think outside of the box and
create original competitive decks when they are
cutting key cards from us. I know my cyberstein deck
just got ruined. I will run it this saturday for the
last time and i know i will be sad as i will have to
leave my cyber jar and the last wills out of my
options when i try to create a deck.
sorry for my english i know they are not that good
but with the weather they are becoming bester and
bester sorry if this shouldn't be send as a tip I
just had to tell those somewhere ty
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