Winter for Lockdowns, Springtime for Combo Pieces
Forbidden:
Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess (Unlimited to Forbidden)
Number 67: Pair-a-Dice Smasher (Unlimited to Forbidden)
Limited:
Anti-Spell Fragrance (Unlimited to Limited)
Wandering Gryphon Rider (Forbidden to Limited)
Knightmare Goblin (Forbidden to Limited)
Semi-Limited:
Spright Jet (Limited to Semi-Limited)
Mask Change II (Limited to Semi-Limited)
Unlimited:
Cyber Jar (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
Zoodiac Drident (Limited to Unlimited)
Speedroid Terrortop (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
Rescue-ACE Air Lifter (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
Nightmare Throne (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
Fusion Destiny (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
Big Welcome Labrynth (Semi-Limited to Unlimited)
36 Comments
<3 Throne
Nothingburger list that does very little to address VSK9’s dominance. Also they think Knightmare Mermaid is still banworthy in big 2025 for some reason.
How dominant and oppresive is vsk9 in ocg?
VSK9 is definitely the best deck, it takes up maybe 40% of top cuts but other decks definitely do have a shot. Pair-a-dice smasher going does help stop the times where it just automatically wins the game at least.
Mermaid could probably come back if Knightmare Corruptor Iblee gets banned in return, because I think the big concern is that Mermaid gives instant access to a floodgate card (Iblee).
Big Welcome coming back probably means nothing but I’m still on the cope that we finally see the last servant get a card instead of just being a silhouette teased in Big Welcome and the ref art
Not even coping it’s totally that, same for R-ACE and adventure
A list that once again means nothing except looking back on how much the game had been power crept that several Decks and staples got their cards back at 3.
Maybe the real banlist was the deck build packs we met along the way.
Oh wow, Knightmare Goblin got powercrept into being allowed to come back…
All that just for an extra NS, it should’ve come back ages ago.
It only got banned in the first place when they were doing everything possible to not ban Firewall
VFD: lingering floodgate
Azathot: lingering floodgate
Shock Master: lingering floodgate
Abyss Dweller: lingering floodgate
Rhongo: unaffected floodgate
Utopic Zexal: lingering floodgate
Ariseheart: floodgate with an interruption
Pair-a-Dice: lingering floodgate
yet Pendulum ruined the game kekw
Bro sneaked ariseheart in there and thought no one would notice
TF you mean “sneaked in” he deserves it lol
^Ariseheart is very strong but he’s nowhere as problematic as lingering YOU CANNOT PLAY LULZ kind of effect (and Rhongo which has even fewer outs). You can bet that he’ll eventually come back to 3 like how Colossus eventually came back before anything else on that list aside from maybe Dweller sees the light of day.
Wait, Mask Change II was LIMITED in the OCG? When and why?
If judging by Road of the King, it was a hit to Burning Abyss in 2016, to probably prevent the deck from accessing Masked HERO Dark Law, and subsequently having Macro Cosmon on legs, too often.
A (relatively speaking) long time ago, when folks were using it to go into Dark Law generically, which was frustrating to deal with back then.
Ocg moment
Now get ready to ban either dark law or mask change.
They could have unbanned more stuff tbh
I see the OCG is agreeing with the TCG’s decision to ban Apollousa and is now following suit.
They don’t “argue” with TCG, OCG makes the banlist based on their schedule so most likely Apollusa will interfere with the performance of an new archetype in the near future or could be highly abusable by some new product similar as is the case with number 67
OCG is also in charge of both banlists. So it’s just agreeing with yourself at best. But it’s always based upon various product and other factors, with the tiniest bit of balance(sometimes) being in.
I’m pretty sure tcg is in charge of itself. America doesn’t need to listen to Japan for their branch of yugioh.
Incorrect. Once Upperdeck was removed from the TCG, the OCG took full charge of it. That was over 10 years ago. This is also why the banlists no longer have easy set dates in the TCG; it’s more complicated than before.
Is so Bower
Guess it’s only a matter of time until MD bans Apo. Rip alt art when the time comes.
They’re going to stop printing counter traps with atk and def right? Right?
So many banned nanbazu, sad! This wouldn’t have happened if they gave nanbazu to Droite and Cathy instead.
Why is PARADICE SMASHER BANNED??
That card never did anything to anyone.
Did you READ the card? It is a turn skip for the opponent and is being abused by K9VS.
Turn skip? Try being flexible and playing some spells and traps that do stuff, like dark hole.
I guess Pair-a-Dice was just abusable in K9
So innocent number card suffers because of a new archtype. I despise when that happens.