For reasons unexplained, Time Wizard will now be a less than accurate mirror of the past.
Q: What are the rules for a Time Wizard Tournament?
A: Time Wizard events use the available Cards, Forbidden & Limited List, rule regarding drawing on the first turn, and the Dueling Field of the selected Time Wizard format.
Starting at the NAWCQ, current Game Mechanics and current card text will be used for Time Wizard Events.
There will primarily be three Time Wizard formats offered as Public Events at the North America WCQ 2025
The first format will use the April 2014 Forbidden and Limited List, and the last legal set will be Realm of Light Structure Deck. This will be the “April 2014” format Time Wizard event. (This format will be used for the Time Wizard ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Public Event)
The second format will use the March 2010 Forbidden and Limited List, and the last legal set will be Duelist Pack: Kaiba. This will be the “April 2010” format Time Wizard event.
The third format will use the April 2005 Forbidden and Limited List, and the last legal set will be Dark Beginnings 2. This will be the “July 2005” format Time Wizard event.
While these three formats will be the primary formats offered, they aren’t the only formats possible! If you and your friends would like to play a different format, come chat with event staff at Public Events to get your preferred format started!
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Just plain idiocy.
Bait used to be believable
Time Wizard format is for lame losers, including boomers and millennials alike. Konami is right! I ALWAYS HATED THE TIME WIZARD FORMAT! Ironically nobody said nothing when THAT same format ruined TCG forever, the reason why the first player can’t draw anymore. Did TCG players forget that?
Bait used to be believable
and losers like you is the reason new players play other tcg’s and dont play this crap of a game. keep acting stupid this game will never have a legacy to carry on but other card games will
a yugioh player calling other yugioh players “lame losers” is a bit ironic.
Why hate on a format? Yu-Gi-Oh! has thousands of cards and all sorts of players. Multiple formats are a way to bring fun to everyone in different ways while also keeping relevance to a lot of cards that would be considered trash for those who only think about modern meta. I play both modern Yu-Gi-Oh! and alternative formats and I love them all. You’re just been childish. If you don’t like the game pace or something, just don’t play it. But don’t go around hating it on the internet like some REAL loser.
Interesting, but since I don’t actively go to such events due to not having a car, this does not feel like something I need to be emotional over. The fun of being a casual player is that we can basically make our own formats if we are not satisfied with any currently official ones. You should try it instead of getting upset. Really refreshing to just sit down with some friends and actually have fun instead of tearing you hair out.
Everybody will leave these formats now, Konami.
They will build private communities, and your alternate formats will fail.
You were so close to doing the right thing. You could have had real alternative formats.
Oh well. For you. Not for us. We’ll survive.
why would you signal boost this? this decision is going to kill the game and you’re reporting on it without mentioning that fact. I usually love this site but God damn you seem like you’re on board with the death of this game. shame!
It had been a minute since Konami did something stupid.
You should be catering to the rogue duelists, not the metachumps. The chumps will always support the game, but the rogue duelists will carry it. Good job, you just alienated the majority of the rogue community. Have fun in your echo chamber.
Rouge duelists do NOT carry the game of Yugioh. Regardless, the rules for Time Wizard formats at the local level remain unchanged, this seems to be just a change to large scale tournaments that rouge players aren’t going to attend.
really konami, is it because we won’t buy the errata’d versions? is it because your printers can’t handle different texts? srsly if this is about money why not make time wizard packs with pre-errata versions?
Nah. it’s because Konami wants us to correct rulings. Errata’s exist to make a card more clear on how it functions. Rules pertaining to old errata’s are incorrect by the sheer fact that old errata’s are incorrect.
Honestly though, the most important change this rules change implements is the removal of ignition priority in older formats. Ignition priority was never a real thing. We only had to deal with it for so long because Upperdeck never bothered to correct us on it, and when Konami of America took over the game for the TCG, it took them awhile to get off their butts and correct us on it too.
OCG never had ignition Priority, and it should of been the same for the TCG.
What I’m most interested in is how they’re going to handle the errata’s of cards that were errata’d solely to nerf them so they could come off the banlist, like Crush Card and Sinister Serpent. IMO, those erratas did more harm than good, and shouldn’t be implemented in older formats.
They don’t have judges and won’t make a rulings database (even for current) or acknowledge the databases that exist such as Goat and Edison.
@Oucyan Wrong, OCG had ignition priority, it was removed on 19th March 2011 there. TCG wouldn’t have had such a ruling difference for such a long time (almost 10 years).
True printers cannot handle the full power of different text.
What I’m most interested in is how they’re going to handle the errata’s of cards that were errata’d solely to nerf them so they could come off the banlist, like Crush Card and Sinister Serpent. IMO, those erratas did more harm than good, and shouldn’t be implemented in older formats.
It’s literally right there. Current text will be used, so a number of cards are actually unplayable.
YGO players read challenge (impossible).
im ok with the changes. makes it easier when introducing newer players to these formats
This sounds like rulings will be easier. No more confusion on how the game plays, and new players can go from current to old, or old to current, without being told contradictory information. This sounds healthy, but I guarantee there will be plenty of push back. People don’t like change, that’s a fact.
Theres a guy saying that OCG never had prior that’s a lie, don’t believe. In facts its obvious just for the way the made cards back then. When prio was remove the were a lot more of on summon effects.
You have managed to put out a statement that has united an entire fan base against you, which is rather impressive, to be honest. It’s probably in your best interest to reverse that decision before the outcry gets worse, and people stop playing all together.