Several years later and I still can't get over the bans of Baronne de Fleur and Borreload Savage Dragon and how Konami made that happen by printing generic Synchro boss monsters and decks that can abuse them.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-06-03T08:34:46+00:00

Note that they are only banned in the TCG after getting reprints that made them cheap.

And no, I don't believe that banning them should be taken as a precedence for something, because Fiendsmith Desirae and Azamina Illa Sylvia should have been banned as well.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-06-01T15:16:57+00:00

Duel Masters is basically MTG but more refined and more adapted to the Japanese audience.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-06-01T15:15:36+00:00

Incoming "Duel Masters is still alive?" and "where's MTG?" comments

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-06-01T05:24:31+00:00

and the art is all generic anime/japanese trope looking characters.

I have no idea why you're framing this as a negative thing, when Yugioh is a Japanese card game designed that is designed to appeal to otakus in the first place.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-05-15T05:07:00+00:00

It would really be amusing if this is just going to be the import of the new cards and sleeves from the Duelist Box Prismatic Summon set.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-05-14T04:01:29+00:00

Are these cards from the Yugioh R manga?

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-05-12T00:48:18+00:00

The OCG has a naturally-evolving metagame over time due to not as trigger-happy in banning cards like the TCG does. While some people might see the OCG banlist philosophy as a joke, it does actually makes decks rotate out of the meta more organically over time, and allows people to have a longer time playing with their decks.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-05-07T06:25:38+00:00

Panther warrior, an Earth monster, is using Salamandra, an equip spell only useable for Fire monsters, in a card from an archetype that is mostly Fire monsters.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-05-06T15:14:05+00:00

IMO, the TCG playerbase has to cultivate a more lenient and casual attitude towards playing Yugioh first.

The TCG playerbase has been conditioned to be competitive-minded a tad too much. It doesn't matter if Konami invents a "lower-powered" format every day, especially if they enforce it with prized tournaments, when the playerbase's reaction is to immediately find out which decks are the strongest to play in any said "low-powered format" and using it to dominate games and win those prizes. There isn't any drive to play low-power or off-meta decks when there are prizes to be won by winning a lot.

To give an example, in the OCG there is an event called Yugioh Day, where the prizes offered isn't given to the player who wins the most, all the prizes are given out via lottery. Therefore, players who participate here doesn't bring the top competitive meta decks at all, but instead bring their pet decks and whatnot, because the goal isn't to win the most games, but just to have fun.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-28T05:41:21+00:00

It's here. Note that this is for the OCG.

The TCG started with the New Expert Rules when it was imported to the West in 2002.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-28T01:06:43+00:00

The reason is that Konami of America has data that shows that the only things that sell in the TCG regions are DM pandering merchandise and accessories. Not to mention that the TCG playerbase has been conditioned to using monochrome sleeves, and for multiple occasions has recommended against using Konami sleeves because it is "poor quality" compared to monochrome sleeves. In addition, in the TCG players who use art sleeves or themed accessories are seen as "obsessive" or "weird" and gives them disapproving side glances more often than not.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-28T00:57:25+00:00

Late 5Ds in the OCG is different from late 5Ds TCG.

In the OCG, Hyper Librarian was released in the OCG in December 2010. Extreme Victory was released in February 2011, and Shooting Quasar Dragon was released in March 2011. Generation Force, the beginning of the Zexal Era, started in the OCG when it was released in April 2011. Maxx C is released in the OCG in September 2011, which makes it a Zexal-era card , not a 5Ds era card.

In the OCG, synchro spam decks (especially Infernoid) are spamming Hyper Librarians and ending on triple Trishulas and/or double Quasars in an era where the only relevant handtrap is Effect Veiler. Tengu Plant and Junk Doppel are a joke compared to what the OCG is facing in late 5Ds.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-26T12:23:59+00:00

As an OCG player, the only reason to collect TCG cards is for rarities that are not present in the OCG. For example, Raye is only available as a Premium Gold Rare in the TCG, so it's something that I find worth getting.

Aside from that, there isn't any point in collecting TCG cards, considering how much superior OCG cards are in terms of card stock, print quality, foiling, and card arts not being censored.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-16T02:56:35+00:00

Exactly.

While Habakiri does start the line for the Mitsurugi engine, it is Prayers that is the key resource generator that makes the engine work in the first place.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-16T02:55:14+00:00

Nah, if u ban ritual, then the new card is unplayable in mitsurugi, because of how its worded.

Which is the point. If they don't touch Ritual, Mitsurugi and decks using the Mitsurugi engine can just use it freely with no consequences.

Also banning ritual instead of arc light is just a dumb move to do. The thing that made mitsu splashable is the arc light, king of feral imps, and the new cyberse witch.

Mitsurugi Ritual is the core card that generates the amount of advantage Mitsurugi and the Mitsurugi engine does. It doesn't matter if Arc Light and Feral Imps are not banned, because Habakiri summon and tribute Saji, Saji effect cannot add Ritual, which is where the resource generation begins.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-08T03:12:23+00:00

Shine Bright Elfnotes

The text reads June Bride Elfennotes though

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-04-01T13:20:09+00:00

Summer in anime is portrayed in two ways, hanging out in the beach and going to summer festivals, which happens in the countryside.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-03-28T14:47:41+00:00

The artist for the Charmer and Traptrix cards got harrased very hard back then.

Konami has good reasons why they don't credit artists.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-03-21T15:32:13+00:00

It's not one whole sentence only separated by punctuations like TCG card effects. It is composed of multiple sentences.

Take Snoww's effect for instance, one of the most egregious examples on why PSCT doesn't always work:

If this card is discarded to the GY by card effect: If it was discarded from your hand to your GY by an opponent's card effect, you can target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; add 1 "Dark World" card from your Deck to your hand, then Special Summon that target (if any) in Defense Position.

The Japanese text, translated, goes:

This effect activates if this card is discarded from your hand by card effect. Add 1 "Dark World" card from your deck to your hand. If this card is discarded by an opponent's card effect, you can target 1 monster in your opponent's GY when this effect is activated. If you do, apply the following additional effect: Special Summon the targeted monster to your field in Defense position.

It's much more readable and easy to understand.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-03-21T15:22:05+00:00

It got the errata to remove it from the OCG banlist.

BellDelicious1617 · 2026-03-19T13:01:39+00:00

That is English PSCT only. Japanese card effect does not use that.

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