You’ll need another way to search Rituals, I suppose.
Forbidden:
Barrier Statue of the Torrent
Maliss <Q> White Binder
Herald of the Arc Light
Harpie’s Feather Storm
Limited:
Dracotail Mululu
K9-66A Jokul
Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue
Yummy★Snatchy
Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi
“A Case For K9”
Ketu Dracotail
Semi-Limited:
Droll & Lock Bird
Unlimited:
Black Dragon Collapserpent
Dark Grepher
Vanquish Soul Razen
White Dragon Wyverburster
Zoodiac Drident
Change of Heart
Crystron Inclusion
Snatch Steal
Stake Your Soul!
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33 Comments
Dark Magician will be Tier 1 and Blue Eyes will also. Seen this type of pattern before. Damn DM is getting the actual 2 new combo starters after the Dark Magic Curtains retrain reveal in TCG.
“Believe me bro, my dad works with John Konami”
Where you see this pattern when Dark Magician has never been good?
Doubt
Now change Droll from 2 to 0 and it will be perfect.
Agreed
So, Rituals really are the shonen girls of Summoning mechanics, ain’t they?
Oh man, that is even funnier when you remember that Yugioh is a shonen and one of the girls runs Cyber Angels. Funnier and far more evil.
My rogue nekroz is paying for mitsurugis crimes
Droll to 2, this is a pendulum buff
list so bad I had to rise from the dead to see it
What is a good list for you?
Not gonna lie, that Droll only went to 2 instead of 1 or actually getting banned kinda bummed me. I am sick of this card, sick of playing it and sick of playing against it. That was the one thing I was hoping to find further up in the list. But I’m not gonna complain too much, I’m happy they recognize it at all and any hit to it is a move in the right direction.
This is why called by and crossout should be at 3
Wanting Crossout and Called by at 3 is crazy. Looks like someone is unable to play unless its solitaire.
Calling literal interaction solitaire is crazy. Yu-Gi-Oh players really are illiterate.
the purpose of called by & crossout is to insulate plays by stopping handtraps. this is functionally uninteractive because the end goal of this is to let you continue your play as if you opponent hadn’t interacted with you
So what do we do now that we have no herald? The Star ham can make Ib to search World Crown, good enough?
Change of heart has now come off lthe tcg banlist, just like the ocg. Even though it’s not nearly as impactful as it used to be due to the power scaling of the metagame, it still feels a bit surreal.
Good job Konami, now ban all normal summoned floodgate e.g. Kristya, Vanity Monsters and Sanctfire (brainded) Dragon. Droll semi? No biggie, I am play only 2 copies after all. Either side or main decking. 😛
And the IRL game gets yet another nail in the coffin. F this combo sht. Duel Links, Goat Format, Edison Format & to an extremely lesser extent Master Duel are keeping YGO alive man, I swear. Shoutout to my two favorite decks of all time: WarriorToolbox in GOAT & Gearfried Gemini in Duel Links.
Imagine thinking Maxx C Simulator is better than TCG
10’000 years more! Tearlament on the list!
I actually like this list
So we’re just taking Justice Hunters out back huh?
About time.
habakiri at 1 not enough, people will put pre preparation at 3 now
Seeing the Water Statue here is like watching Thanos place the final Infinity Stone in the gauntlet
How about support for the few CDIP cards that haven’t been banned yet? Attribute reptiles please.
Think of how many (kilobytes?) would be saved if deck build packs were automatically placed under the highlander rule.
They’re gonna hit every generic ritual support before banning Habakiri
Meh, just okay list, with typical TCG bad moves like banning old generic stuff instead of crippling consistency of the best decks. Metamorphosis and Mirage of Nightmare still banned for no good reason. Anyways, most of it was expected.
F@ck this shid, just ban the only way to search rituals instead of hitting mitsurugi. Good idea. Also lets gatekeep rogue decks even more by removing counter play. Konami can go to hel
Congrats, Konami. You just banned a Synchro monster that should’ve been banned a decade ago at most and finally started hitting the floodgate handtrap that should’ve been banned exactly 8-10 years ago.
No more profit from putting the eXtra deck directly into the trash though this is one of those cases where the monster in question actually hitting the field would make for misrelate gameplay anyway. Alas, ash is a sacred cow so I am condemned to see that animation for at least another 6 months on youtube.