Prediction List

Hey Guys,

It's August, so you know what that means. Every player will spend the first 2 weeks of the month speculating on the banned list and hope for certain cards to be hit because the format has become so dull. Well I'm no different so let’s get to it.

Firstly these are the changes that I hope will occur:

Banned

Heavy Storm
 

Super Rejuvenation

Inzektor Dragonfly

Gateway of the Six

Card Destruction

 

Restricted

Rescue Rabbit

Atlantean Dragoon

Spellbook Magician of Prophecy

Spellbook of Secrets

Fire Formation – Tenki

Wind-Up Factory

Semi-Restricted

Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos

Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms

Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls

Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders

Unlimited

Scapegoat

Giant Trunade

Book of Moon

 

People will probably disagree with the choices I've made and everyone has their own opinion, but hopefully a small explanation will allow you guys to see it from my point of view.

BANNED

Heavy Storm

The first card is Heavy Storm. This card should not co-exist with Mystical Space Typhoon because of the sheer advantage it gives if used at the right time. There were too many situations where you just lose to Storm because you're worried about MST. Also the fact that Heavy Storm destroys and sends S/Ts to the graveyard making them useless makes this card too broken and therefore should be banned. However to compensate the loss of Heavy Storm, I have made Giant Trunade unrestricted which I know would raise a couple of eyebrows.

Super Rejuvenation

Probably every man and their dogs know how much I hate this card. I mean if Pot of Greed is banned, why is this even legal? Don't get me wrong, it's not the cards fault, it's actually the Baby Dragons that made this card broken, but instead of banning all 4 of them and hurting multiple decks, I just thought banning the source would be a better solution. I mean there is a limit on how much advantage you can come back from and Dragossack with +4 of Rejuvenation is not one of them in most cases

Inzektor Dragonfly

 
With Transmodify and the way I want the format to look with 3 Giant Trunades. Inzektors are too broken and hence this card should be banned

Gateway of Six

 
Even at 1, a free swarm, deck-thinner and spell/trap negators turn one is just too much. Also the deck can still work without Gateway. I don't know why this card hasn't been hit in previous banned list

Card Destruction

 
Dragons and especially Dark World get too much advantage of this card. It's pretty much Dark World's version of Gateway but better and hence shouldn't even exist.

RESTRICTED

Rescue Rabbit

 
With Dragons and Prophecy being slowed down, Ophion will once again become a strong turn one play. Rescue Rabbit is put down to one to prevent this play to become very common and also, let’s not forget Laggia is a card.

Atlantean Dragoon

 

It's pretty much 3 Witch of the Black Forest for Mermail. The ability to search for any monster (apart from Teus or itself) is too broken. It should be cut to 1 just to slow down the deck and prevent common OTK plays.

Spellbook of Secrets and Spellbook Magician of Prophecy

     
 
Spellbook is pretty much equal tier 1 with Dragons. The deck is combo based and the major piece to this combo is Spellbook of Judgment. To use Judgment however, you will need other Spellbooks and that's where Spellbook of Secrets and Spellbook Magician of Prophecy helps because they can search for other Spellbooks without any drawback

I always find it weird that Konami has restricted search cards such as Reinforcement of the Army but let cards such as these and Tenki exist at 3. I think it's time to slow the deck down and the way to do it is to restrict these two to 1 because they also make Spellbook of Judgment plays less broken

Fire Formation - Tenki and Wind-Up Factory

   

As mentioned above. Cards like Reinforcement of the Army and Black Whirlwind are at 1 so why should these stay as 3. Especially with the release of Bujins

 

SEMI-RESTRICTED

Dragon Rulers

   

    

The deck is still really good even without Super Rejuvenation. I would semi restrict all the big Dragons so they can be run in other decks such as Lavals and Mermail while hurting Elemental Dragon as a deck by getting rid of some of their resources. It also means that if players want to run 2 of each babies as well. It could leave them with dead cards in hand.

 

UNLIMITED

Scapegoat

I am a massive advocate of this card. Without Metamorphosis and TER all it does is prevents OTKs and punishes your opponent for over extending. Also with triple MST, reading a Scapegoat can be prevented if you end-phase destroy it. The only concern for this card is that it promotes slow play but so does Spellbook in general.

Giant Trunade

I'm pretty sure people will disagree on this but hear me out first. The problem with Heavy Storm being banned is a lot of people will turn back to GK, Macro Rabbit, E-Hero etc. and then the format will become too boring and players will complain because they can't get over x set multiple.

I just think the concept of having 3 Giant Trunade is pretty neat because:

1. It simplifies the game because you won't need to worry about setting 1 or 2 cards in case of Heavy Storm or MST. If they blind MST you can protect yourself with your other card and if they Trunade, they technically just -1 themselves because both cards go back to your hand and not the graveyard

2. The game won't be spell or trap reliant. It's actually going to be about summoning monsters and attacking over other monsters and/or using their effects.

3. It can break soft locks such as Master Key Beetle + Safe Zone for example

4. It promotes smarter use of MST because it's the only spell and trap destruction that people would main

 

Book of Moon

This is another card I would like to be back at 3. I personally never really like this card because of the minus factor but even I have to admit it's one of the most versatile cards in the game. I think this card should be at 3 to be able to prevent or break up plays.

Well that's pretty much my prediction. There are probably things I overlook and I apologise for that, but this is all I can think of the top of my head. Hopefully you guys enjoy it and take care

Peace