Comments after March 2013 banlist came out:

Some good, some horrid. They should have limited Tour Guide instead of banning Sangan, only reason why Konami didn’t is to sell the Tour Guide tins :P. BLS should have gotten banned, but Legendary Collection 3 is still out. After that finishes selling, BLS better get banned… Especially with Warning down to 1 :P. I predicted that it would go up to 3 since 3 is too costly lol. Rai-oh getting semied is ok, a bit weird, as most decks don’t play more than 2, if ever 2 in the first place… That hurts my hero beat deck a bit, but it’s still almost as good as it was before anyways :P. Nothing else bothers me besides the Sangan and the Rai-Oh, so overall decent banlist. I only lost $6 from my two gold rare Sangans from GLD2, which I will keep in case Sangan comes back (Don’t say it will never come back, it’s been hopping all over like Chaos Sorcerer over the years). Speaking of decks, I may have deck profiles posted on my site.

 

These are my thoughts of the next Yugioh banlist, which should come out in a few months, with explanations of why for each. I actually thought that a lot of these things should have happened a long time ago. Many of these also allow Konami to make reprints and profit, so this list also benefits their wallets while making the meta super balanced. Here it is:

Banned:

BLS – We get the idea, you brought this back to promote GLD5 in a reprit and Yugi’s World. Guess what, it’s still as broken as before! With 3 mst and night beam and heavy storm, it is unlikely that you’ll warning/BTH this bad boy, so don’t think its “easily countered”. Please ban it again…at least after Yugi’s World stops selling.

Limited:

Brionac – Not so great without priority anymore, Bottomless and Warning and Judgment will get the job done. Effect Veiler/D-prison can be used as a combo to get rid of it, Torrential Tribute as well. That’s 7 individual card slots that can handle it right when it comes out. Plus, if it does come out, 2300 attack isn’t that hard to beat…

Goyo Guardian – BTH/Warning/D-Prison/Judgment/Veiler/Fiendish Chain and the list goes on my friend…

Trishula – Synchros are way more situational as a whole than before, making this card way more situational… When your opponent finally plays it by sacrificing a ton of card advantage, Warning it for game. Plus great reprint fodder!

Snatch Steal – 3 MST, 3 Night Beam, 1 Heavy Storm = 7 outs to this not so broken card anymore. You can even space it on your opponents turn… not very broken at all. If you still think it’s too broken, run Breakerx3. 10 outs, 1/4 chance of drawing an out to this… come on….

Premature Burial – Would be fun and interesting bringing this back with Reborn staying. Great GLD6 Ghost/Gold rare material, too! Same with above as well.

Fishborg Blaster – You banned this to hurt Fish OTK, not Frognarch/Formula monarch. Limiting this would make Frongnarch/Formula monarchs playable again since they only played 1 anyways, plus it will keep Fish OTK unplayable :D. I love Frognarch, and many others do too, or used to before they became useless. Putting this at 1 would be swell for frognarch fans!

(NOTE: Even though this list tries to brings back Plants, I kept Lonefire at 1 per deck).

Semi-Limited:

Six Samurai United – Six sams are still super fast, and another thing on this list makes them faster, so this will make them slower so that they are balanced. This is a Pot of Greed for Six sams that can be played in 3… too much. More situational then PoG however, so doesn’t deserve to get banned

Black Whirlwind – About time BW’s got a boost…

GB Bestiari – GB’s do top every now and then, make the GB lovers happy and make this at 2.

Charge of the Light Brigade – Make LS even more like the old days since they are almost like the old days now and are still barely playable, make them slowly more like the old days. This won’t speed them up enough for the meta if it’s not fast enough with everything but 1 Lumina and 2 Charge…

Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon – 2 is balanced, 3 is too good, 1 is unfair. Future Fusion still banned, can go back up to 2, Warning/BTH/D-Prison/Fiendish Chain/Veiler, etc… So many outs to this.

Miracle Fusion – Hurt Bubblebeat, but will still be good with this at 2.

ROTA – At two would be interesting, most decks that use warriors that use 2 would be dead draw a lot (Like Bubblebeat which already uses 2 E-Call and 1 ROTA, with only 7-12 monsters!) Interesting move.

No longer limited (3 per deck)

Glow-up Bulb – If you really hate it, side triple D.D. Crow lol. Make synchros more playable with a balanced +1 card. Not at all broken. Plus this card really deserves a reprint, and bringing it back would allow reprints to make Konami lots of money, since it would probably skyrocket up to $30 again for a few months before the reprint.

Spore – Why was it limited when you can only use it once per duel in the first place lol

Reborn Tengu – Bring back Tengu now that XYZ’s sucessfully took over… this card will be played more, but not broken at all. Plus great reprint fodder after it goes up again!

Lumina, LS Summoner – Same as COTLB

Blackwing – Kalut the Moon Shadow – 3 Honest for a deck that barely sees play isn’t that bad to me. Worse comes to worse, will make BW’s good again.

Royal Tribute – GK vs DW with triple Tribute sucks that much more than with 2. Play 3 and side them out against DW if you will… Skill Drain in DW will still wreck Spy/Decendant, which is why GK’s see less play now-a-days I guess.

Solemn Warning – Should go back up to 3 because 3 is way too costly on LP for most duelists. If you are good at not letting your opponent deal damage, which most duelists aren’t, run 3.

That’s it. I think that these changes are very logical, and will make more staples in decks, but those staples will be easily countered (Im talking about Snatch Steal and Premature Burial), making an interesting format. I know I have only 1 card banned, but can’t think of anymore cards that are way too good. Most of these are actually bringing back cards that weren’t broken since a year or two ago lol. Any suggestions are welcome. I want to hurt Exodia in a way so that it is not playable anymore too, but don’t know what to hit, since there are several instant-win Exodia decks (Mostly Dragon and Library/Bamboo Sword). So you guys can figure that out for me. I thought about limiting Duality to 1 to get rid of speed, but this format is already so slow, I think we need 2 Duality lol, not 3, 3 is broken and super fast, 2 is balanced and you’ll usually draw 1 anyways. If you have any other advice about the banlist, let me know! I didn’t even hit Mermail/Atlanteans, but the $30 searcher Mermail would be semi-ed or limited. Thanks for reading!