Okay so this is going to be an attempt at an in-depth analysis of that
question, how did the banlist affect the meta. I will try to cover both
OCG and TCG, so bear with me!
What Decks Did Konami Kill?
hurt Agents by the limiting of their 2 Star tuners. For Agents, this is
a major impact on the consistency of the deck, however the mindset must
have been geared towards worlds or just the OCG meta for this hit. For
the Striker, more specifically, it was hit in order to knock off the
T.G. aspect of T.G. Agents. Agents did win worlds after all, and as a
result should be hit, or just nocked down a peg.
they hit Agents, T.G., & Plants. Agents really didn't have that big
of an impact in TCG, although they could topdeck out of a windup loop
well so they were hyped for the first YCS with Wind-ups in full force.
T.G. was really the only anti-meta archtype deck of the meta, but was
only hit indirectly cause of the hits to agents and plants. And now onto
plants... oh god, a massacre happened: Bye Glow-Up, Bye Spore, Bye
Trish, Bye Tengu... (images knife cutting through poor plants). So they
decided to kill a deck, big whoop. But this was just, Atomic bomb vs.
paper... This showed that konami is not kidding around when they want
sychros gone. They lined-up and fired and shot down 2 synchro heavy
decks, T.G. and Plants. So they eliminated one of the best decks at
maintaining advantage, plant synchro aka synchrocentric.
What Decks Were Left Untouched
But Konami left Inzektors, Laval, Hero, and Rabbit Variants still
kicking strong. Now inzektors were a major threat to Agent domination in
Japan. The power of Hornet + Dragonfly + all of their new support in
the newest pack... oh my. Anyways, the deck is crazy good, netting +'s
like noone's business. This just shows how much the power creep has
reached, a deck like this untouched, well actually helped but that will
be covered later. Anyways, Laval was just too inconsistant i guess, but
it had finally begun to win its first tournaments. TBH, i think it was
about time that a Duel Terminal deck began to top in japan, but thats
just me :D
Moving on to Hero, i really don't know how the deck operates so much
better over there. Guess it has to deal with our meta, so... yeah. Now
the Rabbit Variants, more specifically Dino-Verz. The power behind this
deck is the fact that it can lock down Special Summoning lv 5 or highers
+ back it up with a Laggia. Now either of the 2 XYZ's are powerful in
their own right, putting em together = epic deck. Rabbits really aren't
the issue in OCG as they are in TCG, so thats probs why they were not
touched.
coming, i hope. WHY THE HELL DID YOU NO TOUCH Inzektors, Wabbitz, OR
Wind-Up. Inzektors are just as powerful here, except for the fact that
we have tour guides to throw in as well. But that deck is covered by the
same shadow imprisioning mirror that shuts DW down. But moving onto
Wabbitz. Wabbitz in the TCG is a problem. I mean, look at the top 32
#'s. It is ridiculous. And the deck wasn't touched. The issue with the
TCG Version is the chance to make ur 1st turn laggia, then either use
Tour Guide or another rabbit to force opponent into a corner through
Laggia and Dolkka. The deck is slightly sacky, but overall there is a
reason why so many are topping, it is powerful. Getting basically 'free'
negations and crap is just so OP... i just cannot describe how OP it
is. But moving onto Wind-Up. You know what, really 2 words sum up the
issue with Wind-Ups: Hand Loop. Once they loop whole hand or maybe only 3
if you are lucky, you are basically dead no matter how good your
sacking skillz are. Once Daigusto Emeral hits TCG... a full loop has so
many more ways to occur. But that is a story for another day. Lets leave
this dreaded paragraph behind.
Decks Konami Helped
Psychics, LS/Twilight, & Inzektors got a boost. Samurai remained a
competitive deck recently, and the fact that it got a boost is so
depressing. Psychics i have obviously been testing a lot (look at my
deck profile gosh), and if they get a good build down, IMO they are
effectively another Samruai deck that gains advantage from synchros, but
loses the ease of dropping beast and barkion early. LS/Twilight has
been getting so much love over the last couple banlists. After being
neutered, the deck is slowly working back its best cards: this time it
was lumina. Now the deck is a lot more consistant, and only time will
tell if that is enough to bring LS back to the tournament scene. And 3
COH means inzektors more happy now :D
So
what should/does this banlist do? It effectively speeds up previously
slowed down decks to match the speed and power of the big 3. And when
have you EVER heard of konami speeding up a format with the banlist.
Effectively this means that there is going to be variety, but sadly this
variety is going to cause many headaches when deciding a Side deck, as
the good decks the opponent could be playing is just... so much more
diverse now. I cannot wait to see the first YCS and which comes out on
top, a defined meta deck, or a deck that can run skill drain to ruin the
day of the meta decks, as it almost completely cripples them.
Anyways, thats my article, hoped you like it.
-Quincy signing off.
question, how did the banlist affect the meta. I will try to cover both
OCG and TCG, so bear with me!
What Decks Did Konami Kill?
- OCG
hurt Agents by the limiting of their 2 Star tuners. For Agents, this is
a major impact on the consistency of the deck, however the mindset must
have been geared towards worlds or just the OCG meta for this hit. For
the Striker, more specifically, it was hit in order to knock off the
T.G. aspect of T.G. Agents. Agents did win worlds after all, and as a
result should be hit, or just nocked down a peg.
- TCG
they hit Agents, T.G., & Plants. Agents really didn't have that big
of an impact in TCG, although they could topdeck out of a windup loop
well so they were hyped for the first YCS with Wind-ups in full force.
T.G. was really the only anti-meta archtype deck of the meta, but was
only hit indirectly cause of the hits to agents and plants. And now onto
plants... oh god, a massacre happened: Bye Glow-Up, Bye Spore, Bye
Trish, Bye Tengu... (images knife cutting through poor plants). So they
decided to kill a deck, big whoop. But this was just, Atomic bomb vs.
paper... This showed that konami is not kidding around when they want
sychros gone. They lined-up and fired and shot down 2 synchro heavy
decks, T.G. and Plants. So they eliminated one of the best decks at
maintaining advantage, plant synchro aka synchrocentric.
What Decks Were Left Untouched
- OCG
But Konami left Inzektors, Laval, Hero, and Rabbit Variants still
kicking strong. Now inzektors were a major threat to Agent domination in
Japan. The power of Hornet + Dragonfly + all of their new support in
the newest pack... oh my. Anyways, the deck is crazy good, netting +'s
like noone's business. This just shows how much the power creep has
reached, a deck like this untouched, well actually helped but that will
be covered later. Anyways, Laval was just too inconsistant i guess, but
it had finally begun to win its first tournaments. TBH, i think it was
about time that a Duel Terminal deck began to top in japan, but thats
just me :D
Moving on to Hero, i really don't know how the deck operates so much
better over there. Guess it has to deal with our meta, so... yeah. Now
the Rabbit Variants, more specifically Dino-Verz. The power behind this
deck is the fact that it can lock down Special Summoning lv 5 or highers
+ back it up with a Laggia. Now either of the 2 XYZ's are powerful in
their own right, putting em together = epic deck. Rabbits really aren't
the issue in OCG as they are in TCG, so thats probs why they were not
touched.
- TCG
coming, i hope. WHY THE HELL DID YOU NO TOUCH Inzektors, Wabbitz, OR
Wind-Up. Inzektors are just as powerful here, except for the fact that
we have tour guides to throw in as well. But that deck is covered by the
same shadow imprisioning mirror that shuts DW down. But moving onto
Wabbitz. Wabbitz in the TCG is a problem. I mean, look at the top 32
#'s. It is ridiculous. And the deck wasn't touched. The issue with the
TCG Version is the chance to make ur 1st turn laggia, then either use
Tour Guide or another rabbit to force opponent into a corner through
Laggia and Dolkka. The deck is slightly sacky, but overall there is a
reason why so many are topping, it is powerful. Getting basically 'free'
negations and crap is just so OP... i just cannot describe how OP it
is. But moving onto Wind-Up. You know what, really 2 words sum up the
issue with Wind-Ups: Hand Loop. Once they loop whole hand or maybe only 3
if you are lucky, you are basically dead no matter how good your
sacking skillz are. Once Daigusto Emeral hits TCG... a full loop has so
many more ways to occur. But that is a story for another day. Lets leave
this dreaded paragraph behind.
Decks Konami Helped
- OCG
Psychics, LS/Twilight, & Inzektors got a boost. Samurai remained a
competitive deck recently, and the fact that it got a boost is so
depressing. Psychics i have obviously been testing a lot (look at my
deck profile gosh), and if they get a good build down, IMO they are
effectively another Samruai deck that gains advantage from synchros, but
loses the ease of dropping beast and barkion early. LS/Twilight has
been getting so much love over the last couple banlists. After being
neutered, the deck is slowly working back its best cards: this time it
was lumina. Now the deck is a lot more consistant, and only time will
tell if that is enough to bring LS back to the tournament scene. And 3
COH means inzektors more happy now :D
- TCG
So
what should/does this banlist do? It effectively speeds up previously
slowed down decks to match the speed and power of the big 3. And when
have you EVER heard of konami speeding up a format with the banlist.
Effectively this means that there is going to be variety, but sadly this
variety is going to cause many headaches when deciding a Side deck, as
the good decks the opponent could be playing is just... so much more
diverse now. I cannot wait to see the first YCS and which comes out on
top, a defined meta deck, or a deck that can run skill drain to ruin the
day of the meta decks, as it almost completely cripples them.
Anyways, thats my article, hoped you like it.
-Quincy signing off.
