I feel like discussing an old rule the TCG and OCG had.

[Lonk]

Discuss what would happen if 61-80 card Decks were still legal.

[Mr. Judgment Dragon]

Good decks would still be good and terrible decks would still be terrible. All it would do is increase the size of holy pile of random fail Decks that would appear at lolocals.

[Just Crouton]

Noobs would play 80 card decks just because they could.

 

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[Sephiroth_The_Legend]

i'd still play a 40 card deck.

 

What difference would it make?

 

Topic Hijack.

 

What would happen if the deck MINIMUM went up to 60?

[Dr. Cakey]

Wasn't there some reason a maximum was set? Or was it just to stop people from trying to build card towers?

[玄魔の王]

Noobs would play 80 card decks just because they could.

 

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Yep' date=' that sound about right.

 

What would happen if the deck MINIMUM went up to 60?

 

I`d quit the game.

[WithTheWind]

I'd mash 2 decks together, to make 1 super special awesome deck.

[iAmNateXero]

Wasn't there some reason a maximum was set? Or was it just to stop people from trying to build card towers?

 

I only heard of one time this caused a problem. Somebody made an 80 card deck but only played with 40. After he got deck checked and received the game 1 lost he was able to complete his deck however he wanted from those 80 cards and continue playing. Imagine going 6 rounds knowing what all the top players were running and basically allowed to modify your deck at the cost of game 1.

 

That and it would probably take forever to check 50 noobs decks at 96 cards.

[burnpsy]

What would happen if the deck MINIMUM went up to 60?

 

It would ruin the balance of deck sizes between the card games.

 

YGO: 40-60

PKMN: Exactly 60

MtG: 60+

[Just Crouton]

I remember someone posted a deck a few months ago that ran 100 cards, and he linked to the official site about something called the Pegasus League where you run EXACTLY 100 cards.

[TechnoDoomedOne]

Yeah, the Pegasus League is pretty strange. I think the first challenge was to make a deck with all cards of the same rarity, including Side and Extra Deck.

[Tronta]

increasing deck minimum to 50 or 60 might actually balance this game out a bit. it would definitely slow it, for one... not to mention the virtual elimination of ftk decks like mine...

[iAmNateXero]

@Tronta: Id stop playing the game altogether.

[Tronta]

@nate:

if they implemented a minimum 50 card deck? why?

[JadenxAtemYAOI]

increasing deck minimum to 50 or 60 might actually balance this game out a bit. it would definitely slow it' date=' for one... not to mention the virtual elimination of ftk decks like mine...

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Burn decks like mine would dominate due to the amount of burn I could put into a deck.

[Great Unclean One: VK]

My old Reactor deck would be fast.

[iAmNateXero]

@nate:

if they implemented a minimum 50 card deck? why?

 

Larger decks in games with larger hand limits = ok. But not in my 6 card max UGO's!

[burnpsy]

@nate:

if they implemented a minimum 50 card deck? why?

 

Larger decks in games with larger hand limits = ok. But not in my 6 card max UGO's!

 

That makes sense' date=' but MtG has 7 as its limit with 60+ size decks. The difference is almost unnoticeable.

 

(although PKMN's hand size limit of [b']58[/b] sorta helps your point)

[Tronta]

i dont see hand difference as being a problem. the reason pokemon gets away with 60 is that you can draw and search a lot. like, a LOT. so maybe with 50-60 card decks, it would be legal to run things like a pot of greed at 1, or something similar perhaps.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

Long ago, 200 card decks were legal.

 

Long ago.

[Lonk]

I guess Pot of Greed got banned as a result of this Deck Rule. It was @1 when the Decks reached up to 80. After a Deck's Max became 60, PoG became banned.

[Catterjune]

Wasn't there some reason a maximum was set? Or was it just to stop people from trying to build card towers?

 

It's honestly a huge hassle to duel against. I once dueled a guy who had a deck about (no exaggeration here) 2 feet high. Shuffling his deck before the duel started was the worst thing ever. Then' date=' on his turn (since he won the dice roll) he activated RoTA. I was really damn mad after he got the card he wanted and I spent about two minutes shuffling the pile of cards. It was only when I finished shuffling that I realized the card he searched for was Elemental Hero Stratos, and I'd have to do it again. To top it off, he ditched Malicious with Grepher and sent something to drop off Necro Gardna.

 

So like, 10 minutes into the duel, and it was still this guy's first turn.

 

I only heard of one time this caused a problem. Somebody made an 80 card deck but only played with 40. After he got deck checked and received the game 1 lost he was able to complete his deck however he wanted from those 80 cards and continue playing. Imagine going 6 rounds knowing what all the top players were running and basically allowed to modify your deck at the cost of game 1.

 

Maybe I don't quite understand the rules behind deck checking, but that strategy doesn't seem sound. They'd make an 80 card deck, present the 80 card deck at the registration or w/e, and then when they went into the duel they'd only go in with 40 or something? Wouldn't being deck checked auto-put-him-back at 80? And if he entered with 40, why wouldn't he just get deck checked twice in a row? Maybe a combination with the way you're phrasing it or the way the rule works or something... but it seems that strategy could easily be patched up.

[byak]

If there was no limit I would put all of my ygo cards in one deck (taking out cards that would make the deck illegal) and bring it to lolcals every week.

 

I'll run every recruiter and searcher in existence.

[LuffyLaxer]

Lightsworns deckouts would be non-existent if the minimum was 60.

[Tronta]

they're already nonexistent in competitive play.