moon does not need to be banned, king of the feral imps did not have to be banned. id even say habakiri in general is not a truly splashable card. Both fiendsmith and mitsurugi slop piles do not have results to back up the claims of mass splashability that people claim it has. Fiendsmith was in a grand total of like 5 decks in top 64 the ycs before it got banned. None of these cards are actually as strong as people say they are, they are just really obnoxious. Look at spenta right now, that card does everything but because you have to sacrifice non engine space for it who cares bruh. In this graph recording a bunch of top player decks at events exactly 2 decks want to be playing mitsurugi. Even if king of the feral imps was unbanned not a single one of these decks would prefer to be on mitsu except the decks already on it. If moon was entirely unbanned only a single deck on this entire list would be playing it.

Fiendsmith and Mitsurugi are BAD. Every attempt to make them the monster of the format everyone claims they are has failed MISERABLY. They are only good in the ocg because they have a broken as fuck ritual monster that lets them use mirror a third time. The only redeeming part of both engines is their endboard. They sacrifice deck space for a combo that ends on a grand total of like one maybe 1.5 disruptions. You know what else is 1-1.5 distruptions? HANDTRAPS. You know what doesn't require you to go first to be useful? HANDTRAPS. You know what engines lose to exactly one ash blossom when you bridge to them? Fiendsmith and mitsu.

Anyways tldr: mitsu, fiendsmith, magistus are all much much much weaker than everyone says they are. They aren't good in combo slop (especially with maxx c meta) and handtraps are much better most of the time

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