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| ~Dante~ did write a final article for DHQ; I found this in a folder on our computer | |
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| ~Virgil~ | Aug 18 2006, 02:30 AM Post #1 |
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(Hey all, I was just rooting through some old files and I found an article by my brother ~Dante~. The date was such that he wrote it about 4 days ago. He marked it as “ghost article for DHQ”, so I’m guessing he intended to post it but never got around to it. Anyways, the article is about his thoughts on the September 1st Ban List. Enjoy.) The Sept. 1st Ban List, whether I like it or not. (which I don’t) To start off with, I’m going to say flat out I’m glad I quit after seeing this piece of trash Konami calls a list. 90% of what I have to say about it is disdain, clearly no brains were put into the creation of this thing at all. Now that that’s out of the way, read on and enjoy. Firstly, I’m going to start with the Forbidden list, here’s a copy of it if you for some reason haven’t seen it yet. I. Forbidden Cards You cannot use these cards in your Deck or Side Deck: BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER - ENVOY OF THE BEGINNING BUTTERFLY DAGGER - ELMA CHANGE OF HEART CHAOS EMPEROR DRAGON - ENVOY OF THE END CHAOS SORCERER CYBER JAR DARK HOLE DELINQUENT DUO EXCHANGE OF THE SPIRIT FIBER JAR HARPIE'S FEATHER DUSTER IMPERIAL ORDER LAST TURN MAGICAL SCIENTIST MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR MIRAGE OF NIGHTMARE MONSTER REBORN PAINFUL CHOICE POT OF GREED RAIGEKI SINISTER SERPENT SNATCH STEAL THE FORCEFUL SENTRY THOUSAND-EYES RESTRICT TIME SEAL TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS TSUKUYOMI WITCH OF THE BLACK FOREST YATA-GARASU NEW! - Chaos Sorcerer, Snatch Steal, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, Tsukuyomi Chaos Sorcerer - Anyone who knew me, would automatically know my first problem is with the banning of this card. He was not broken, Chaos was fair, the only reason he was banned was to make people who couldn’t handle the deck type shut up. No matter how many times you say CS was broken, it won’t make it true, most people only thought of him as broken because everyone used him. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that since everyone is using him, it just becomes easier to think of a way to beat him. (well, for some people, sadly the majority of the YGO community is made up of whiny lazy noobs.) Snatch Steal - Banning this is just a stupid idea, I fail to see how a card that can turn the tide of an entire duel is bad. To me that just makes it more interesting, not to mention challenging. But again the reason this card was banned draws back to CS. Thousand-Eyes Restrict - Umm, why? Limiting this guy was a good idea, but banning him? Who the hell uses this as part of their main strategy anymore anyway? I mean maybe there’s some card out now that makes this a good idea, but from my current standpoint, it seems this decision was not thought out all to well. Tsukuyomi - No comment Alright, now that I’ve moved past the additions to the Ban List, lets check on how moronic the Limited section will be. II. Limited Cards You can ONLY use one of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined: BOOK OF MOON BREAKER THE MAGICAL WARRIOR CALL OF THE HAUNTED CARD DESTRUCTION CEASEFIRE CONFISCATION D. D. ASSAILANT D. D. WARRIOR LADY DARK MAGICIAN OF CHAOS EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE FUTURE FUSION GRACEFUL CHARITY GRAVITY BIND HEAVY STORM INJECTION FAIRY LILY JINZO LAST WILL LEFT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE LEVEL LIMIT - AREA B LIMITER REMOVAL MAGE POWER MAGIC CYLINDER MAGICIAN OF FAITH MASK OF DARKNESS METAMORPHOSIS MIRROR FORCE MORPHING JAR MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON NIGHT ASSAILANT NOBLEMAN OF CROSSOUT POT OF AVARICE PREMATURE BURIAL PROTECTOR OF THE SANCTUARY RIGHT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE RIGHT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE RING OF DESTRUCTION SACRED PHOENIX OF NEPHTHYS SANGAN SCAPEGOAT SPIRIT REAPER SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE TREEBORN FROG TWIN-HEADED BEHEMOTH ULTIMATE OFFERING UNITED WE STAND NEW! - Future Fusion, Gravity Bind, Magician of Faith, Nobleman of Crossout, Ring of Destruction, Spirit Reaper, Ultimate Offering Future Fusion - I know about Chimeratech, this is one of the few good points. Gravity Bind - First the OTK, now they’re trying to terminate stalls chances. Konami is killing off my favourite deck types competitive chances. Mind you I can see why limiting this would be good, my dislike for this choice is mostly biased. Nobleman of Crossout / Magician of Faith - These both should’ve stayed limited, way to go Konami, it took 6 months to correct mistakes that should never have happened in the first place. Ring of Destruction - Are you ****ing serious? The only reason they’re bringing this back is to prevent a possible Stein Domination. I can’t believe even Konami would be stupid enough to see this just doesn’t counter Stein, it makes it stronger. We have Sakuretsu, and it can be run in threes, there is no reason period this should’ve been unbanned. Spirit Reaper - Why do I even try and see a good point to what Konami does? Reaper isn’t a big enough threat to Konami’s desired perfect meta that it has to be limited. Semi limited maybe, but cutting it to 1 is just stupid. Ultimate Offering - This is another good choice given what will be popular in the next meta, however with Vortex at 3 I wonder if this shouldn’t have just been semi limited. That’s it for the limited list, and we’re getting ever closer to the end, and the part where I tell you my favorite mistake on this list. III. Semi-Limited Cards You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined: APPRENTICE MAGICIAN CREATURE SWAP DECK DEVASTATION VIRUS EXILED FORCE GIANT TRUNADE GOOD GOBLIN HOUSEKEEPING MANTICORE OF DARKNESS RECKLESS GREED REINFORCEMENT OF THE ARMY UPSTART GOBLIN WALL OF REVEALING LIGHT NEW! - Exiled Force, Giant Trunade, Reckless Greed, Wall of Revealing Light Exiled Force - No comment, I don’t really care about what happens with this piece of crap. It sucks in any deck but Warrior or Rat Control anyways. Giant Trunade - This really had no point other than trying to eliminate some OTK decks, but zomg, look Konami, Stein and Chimeratech will still be going. Idiots, the only way to stop people from playing that deck competitively is to ban Stein and Chimera themselves. Reckless Greed - oh wow, you’ve added some extra easy draw power to the game, I thought the whole point of the ban list was to make people play creatively, you have failed yet again. Wall of Revealing Light - Personally I like this change, keep it. That does it for the semi limited list, now last but not least, the unlimited additions. NEW! - The following cards are no longer Limited: Drop Off, Emergency Provisions, Lightning Vortex, Reflect Bounder Drop Off - Like MoF and NoC, this shouldn’t have been changed from it’s former position last ban list anyway. Emergency Provisions - If I was still playing I’d love this change for my Agent OTK deck. This is a total of 4 decisions I like, wow, I’m kind of impressed. (kind of) Lightning Vortex - Honestly Konami, do you hate burn players that much? Warrior decks pay as well, not the diluted CC ones but pure warrior, you guys have killed off most of the fun aspects about this game. Reflect Bounder - This is a stupid decision for the sole reason that machines don’t need another friggin boost. Honestly Konami why do you insist on helping those who don’t need it? Anyway, thus brings me to the end of my review and my favorite mistake of all. The worst possible decision Konami could’ve made, and that decision, was to ban Chaos Sorcerer. It was banned solely because people were too lazy to try and beat it themselves. Anyone who would argue against that would be an idiot to do so, and I really don’t care if that sounds rude. The reason being that it’s the truth. I give this list a 2 / 10, in other words, worst one yet. Good bye and good night YGO, I have better things to do than spend time playing a game with rules designed by idiots. ~Dante~ Haha, well there you have it, my brother’s thoughts on the ban list, I think he’s serious about not coming back this time. |
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| Twisted.Angel | Aug 18 2006, 01:45 PM Post #2 |
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Wow...this means alot to me that you posted this, as dante was kinda my mentor in a way as I was his. I appreciate this on countless levels. Thankyou Virgil. Dante You will be missed. T.A |
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| TopDecking Samurai | Aug 18 2006, 02:14 PM Post #3 |
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Thank you for posting this lost gem! |
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| Elemental Hero Master | Aug 18 2006, 07:05 PM Post #4 |
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A very informative and opinionated article. Well done, dante. This whole list is ridiculous. I can see Snatch Steal getting banned as it is one of the luckiest topdecks out there late in the game. I'm not particularly fond of Chaos Sorceror and I could have seen semi-limiting him at best.........but banning him is a bit harsher than even I would have suggested though he does rank up there with Snatch Steal as far as topdecks. Kinda pissed at Tsukuyomi getting the axe considering she's pretty much Ms. Monarch Killer. As previously stated, they should have done something about Stein and Chimeratech OTK. And Ring of Destruction........one of the cheapest ways to force a three turn sudden death. Thank you, Konami. You have successfully screwed us over again. |
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| Kai Hiwatari | Aug 19 2006, 01:18 PM Post #5 |
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Good Article. Chaos Sorcerer was like one of the only Deck Types that could keep up with Stein, I would rather have people running chaos over stein. |
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| Donut | Aug 19 2006, 10:35 PM Post #6 |
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great article! where is dante? |
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| |Loaded Dice| | Aug 20 2006, 06:29 AM Post #7 |
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Wow, it's so true all the points he made. It's like everyone is lazy to make a new competative deck. It also proves that most of the dueling community net decks. Well I hated that ban list from the start. I was totally dicusted. Well anyways, gj with the article. |
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| Kay19 | Aug 20 2006, 05:18 PM Post #8 |
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I was going to post a similar article, but my pre-ban list article was deleted :na1: , ah well, but good article still. |
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| Rising | Aug 20 2006, 09:53 PM Post #9 |
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Nice article. BTW, you look like your from omega international, are you FroaenHeart or w/e there? |
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| ~Love | Aug 21 2006, 11:00 AM Post #10 |
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You can still post it we would love to see your opinion. Great article though thanks for posting it. |
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| ~Virgil~ | Aug 23 2006, 12:11 AM Post #11 |
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My brother's on permanent vacation from YGO dude, he won't be on anymore. |
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| kelly | Aug 23 2006, 12:45 AM Post #12 |
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Like dang dude totally great article... Hope to see him do more.. :?:?:??: |
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| ~Timaeus | Aug 23 2006, 01:23 PM Post #13 |
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Thats to bad Dante was a great writer. |
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| Twisted.Angel | Aug 23 2006, 05:14 PM Post #14 |
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That he was. Tell dante to get on once in a while to give me his msn or aim or something lol. Thanks again. T.A |
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| Side Step | Aug 23 2006, 05:43 PM Post #15 |
l e g E N D.
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=\ My opinion still stands, this guy is one of the chaos-freaks who thinks it's the best thing in the world and If it doesn't stay then he quits YGO. /yourself. |
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