Which Cards would you Ban Poll Results - Metagame Update - Ban List Update

(Anther Great Metagame, Konami reigns in the heat to let us play on a leveled playing field. If you're a player of skill you just received an early birthday gift.)

Fire days allow us west coasters to actually get a break from the hectic beat of the world. There are still snow days all around California, and even Southern Cali, but they're impossible in my particular neck of the woods.

Regardless a huge update had to come sooner and later, especially after a ban list. Lets get to the results:

Which of the following cards would you ban?

Monster Reborn	80 (11%)
Crush Card Virus	201 (27%)
Judgment Dragon	196 (27%)
Charge of the Light Brigade	88 (12%)
Heavy Storm	44 (6%)
Dark Armed Dragon	91 (12%)
Mirror force	44 (6%)
Brain Control	65 (8%)
Torrential Tribute	35 (4%)
Blackwing Armor Master	65 (8%)
Rescue Cat	161 (22%)
Test Tiger	71 (9%)
Solemn Judgment	81 (11%)
Dark Strike Fighter	317 (43%)
None of the Above	87 (12%)

Votes so far: 723
Poll closed

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Ranked

• 1) Dark Strike ~ 43%
• 2) Crush Card Virus ~ 27%
• 3) Judgment Dragon ~ 27%
• 4) Rescue Cat ~ 22%
• 5) Dark Armed Dragon ~ 12%
• 6) Charge of the Light Brigade ~ 12%
• 7) None of the Above ~ 12% ***********
• 8) Solemn Judgment ~ 11%
• 9) Monster Reborn ~ 11%
• 10) Test Tiger ~ 9%
• 11) Blackwing Armor Master ~ 8%
• 12) Brain Control ~ 8%
• 13) Heavy Storm ~ 6%
• 14) Mirror Force ~ 6%
• 15) Torrential Tribute ~ 4%
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Red= Banned
Blue= Limited
Green = Anomaly
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Ban List v.s Poll

So how did our poll fare against the actual ban list? The most significant items of interest were indeed banned. Dark strike and Crush it seemed could not survive in our new era and as a result were kicked to the curb.

The limited cards a bit more interesting though. You'd expect them to be right after the cards that were banned but that trend isn't exactly as it should be.

4 things remained sandwiched in between the cards that were limited and they were:

• 1) Judgment Dragon
• 2) Dark Armed Dragon
• 3) Charge of the Light brigade
• 4) No changes to the list

None of the above choices were taken into effect by Konami and each deserves it's own section of analysis.

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Judgment Dragon & Charge of the Light Brigade

Judgment dragon, logically looking from the poll should have been banned or limited at the very least. Yet what did Konami end up doing? For the second Ban list in a row lightsworn was unaffected.

So what were the effects of that back in March? Were lightsworn on top, was UniMetagame's Analysis wrong? No, as predicted, Lightsworn was too inconsistent to win any SJC and frequently got out topped by Rescue cat, glads, and Blackwings.

The same pattern emerges now. Again Lightsworn is not on top, and still Lightsworn is too inconsistent to win an SJC. Since the Sneak peak, til now, no one has gotten higher than 3rd place at our local Tournies and played Lightsworn.

After the sneak and before the ban list you could blame that on Gottoms and being able to play 3 rescue cat's and 3 one for one's. But since then, til basically the end of this month, there is no scapegoat. Who do we blame for the lack of Lightsworn at the top? What do we blame? It's inconsistency, plain and simple, and we have enough data by now to stop the bickering.

Regardless off all of this though, the reason why lightsworn got polled as the most hated deck in the game by 2 different sites and over 750 votes, and the reason why Lightsworn's Judgment Dragon is continuosly attacked is for one reason:

They explode too unfairly and Luck sack more consistently than any other deck alive.

It has been that way for more than a year and while Konami understand that we hate OTK decks, they do not understand that we hate Luck sacking even more.

To play every single turn right, and watch your opponent make mistake after mistake and still coming out the victor because of 1 or 2 cards, is completely unjust and takes a huge portion of fun out of the game.

Konami needs to deal with this right away or by the next ban list, all the people who complained will be gone instead of just annoyed.

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Dark Armed Dragon

This becomes more of an opinionated call really. Is it just too powerful to counter against or is it too hard to bring out, and draw, to worry about? Honestly I can't speak for everyone but Dark Armed Dragon doesn't lose me games.

If you go into a game without a way to deal with cards like Dark Armed, then you probably won't do very well anyways. No one can probably say that their deck is well suited against every other deck and yet for some reason it can't handle Dark Armed.

Dark armed isn't that special and the way you deal with it is about the same as a lot of cards. Also Dark armed punishes players for not playing chainable traps.

My personal verdict, at 1, it's an annoyance but you should be able to take it down pretty quickly. There's always one pesky and strong monster in a particular type of deck and for most dark decks that ends up being Dark Armed. There is one last note though, and that has to do with the future and with Dark Simorgh. If Dark armed in the future is too easily comboed with another deck, possibly a Dark Simorgh one, then it will have a reason to be banned because it's ability to come out would be too easy. As long as it remains challenging to bring out, it should remain in play.

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Nothing Banned on the List

What can I say about these players who voted that way. What can I say to the players that consider Dark Strike and 3 Rescue cats a good thing? What can I say to the people begging Konami to allow broken decks to rule the land?

Honestly what can we do with players who don't care about Yugioh and only care about winning.

What should we as a community do with the players who are too lazy to try and win on their own and would rather broken decks live so they can luck their way to glory?

To such players I ask: Do you want a horrible game? Do you want it unbalanced? Do you want it completely luck based? Are you scared of skill? Do you have any skill? Is that why you rely so much on luck?

According to the poll these leeches made up about 12% of the voters. These lazy, skilless, lifeless leeches who want nothing to do with the game and care only about winning, were a very strong base.

Now this isn't intended at anyone who likes to win, but for those who would keep Dark strike alive and keep Rescue cat at 3, something the VAST majority of the community disagrees with. Why do they disagree, because they want a balanced game.

Most of the community wants:

• 1) Skill
• 2) Patience
• 3) Actual Deck Building
• 4) Fun
• 5) Originality

The Majority of the community is strongly in favor of the above 5 tenants. The problem is we still have the 12% of leeches who want to chip away at the others. These leeches also were the loudest heard in the past. Luckily Konami doesn't pay much attention to such foolish people and the ban list was much more balanced than said leeches would have liked.

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The Ban List and Brain Control

The last significant topics remaining are the overall view of the new ban list and Brain control.

Brain control probably wasn't banned because there isn't enough information about why it should be banned in the first place. If the vast majority of the yugioh community knew and read about it's power, by now it would be banned. Hopefully this will occur by the next ban list but no one can say for sure if it will happen.

For analysis as to why Brain control should be banned and to help the community trend in that direction check out one of our recent articles dedicated to this topic.

The Ban list though gets a very strong grade.
The most significant positives included:

1) Solemn at 1
2) Mind control at 1
3) Monster reborn banned
4) Rescue cat totally annihilated
5) Card of Safe gone
6) Chaos Sorcerer at 2

The only critique really that can be given is that D Draw probably shouldn't have hit 3 and Brain control definitely should not have been allowed to stick around.

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New Poll

A new poll has now graced the front page of the site. It will run for at least a week and depending on the voting result it'll either continue to run for another week or a new poll will be put up.

It says:

How do you feel about Konami's themed decks? (Gladiator beasts, Lightsworn, Blackwings)

1) Do away with the powerful, unoriginal, pre-built, easy to play decks.
2) Keep them coming in the new packs.

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Final Thoughts - An ode to Zombie players

As a final note, and to all zombie players, I'm glad Mezuki is back at 3 so zombie players have false hope that they can actually win an SJC this cycle.

Originality has been removed from zombies for years and there should be some punishment for being a zombie player in one of the most original meta's we've ever had.

That punishment is manifested in the false hope of 3 mezuki's actually beating the rest of the community. Enjoy your hope and maybe by the next ban list those zombie players will finally change to something more original and slightly fun.

This is Yugioh, you play to have fun. Most players don't play zombies to have fun; most players play zombies to win.

In this Meta, they'll do neither.