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~Dante~ did write a final article for DHQ; I found this in a folder on our computer
Topic Started: Aug 18 2006, 02:30 AM (894 Views)
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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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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.

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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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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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great article! where is dante?
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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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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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I was going to post a similar article, but my pre-ban list article was deleted :na1: , ah well, but good article still.

You can still post it we would love to see your opinion.

Great article though thanks for posting it.
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Aug 19 2006, 10:35 PM
great article! where is dante?

My brother's on permanent vacation from YGO dude, he won't be on anymore.
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My brother's on permanent vacation from YGO dude, he won't be on anymore.

Like dang dude totally great article... Hope to see him do more.. :?:?:??:

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My brother's on permanent vacation from YGO dude, he won't be on anymore.

Thats to bad Dante was a great writer.
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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.

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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.

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