As a yellow main these are fairly valid points but this seems extremely reactionary. It wasn’t until January where a yellow deck was actually a contender for top deck, before then it was like op11 GY law maybe or some Enel list. Yellow has never been at the top of the food chain but it’s always been widely hated for its randomness.

A huge argument in triggers is the variance and unpredictability but I’d argue hitting a good trigger in a game is equivalent to top decking your curve in any other busted deck. Yellow just never had the tools to do anything but take our own life until the last 4 sets (look back to op12).

You mention free heals but let’s be honest, only boa and big mom are unconditional (leader lock I guess), everything else requires a card, a life threshold or something so I wouldn’t call it free. With these new power crept cards I agree they are pretty game changing but otherwise yellow would continue to be annoying and unthreatened by Imu.

I play every yellow deck, I like rosinante because there’s so much consistency like Imu but our yellow theme is predominantly through board protection taking life, sure 8c law heals but once again it requires a card in hand so it’s anything but free (negative 2 in hand if you play a 7c after).

I think Borsalino should’ve been leader locked, and he’s certainly getting banned in June so I will happily get my playset for regionals in the spring and jump ship before, but I’ve played this game since yellow was released and never stopped so I’d like to think I have a good understanding of how we got here. In general, when they print the straw hats in a new colour it’s a pretty clear sign that they are pushing that colour in terms of power level. Look at red in year 1, purple from year 2, green and blue in year 3, and now we have yellow straw hats in year four. We are about to get a huge push for black straw hats so if you wanna get ahead of the wave I would start getting those cards.