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[quote name='Shard' timestamp='1320428399' post='5616799']
Possibly the most simplistic card in the game can be the most Broken. Generic Draw for no cost. I'd say this is, by far the most powerful spell card in the game.
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[quote name='Yuzuru Otonashi' timestamp='1320428551' post='5616807']
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Well, I can make a few exceptions. I'd say it's close enough that it fits in with the strongest spell card around. I worded it really stupidly. What I meant to say is that it is one of the most powerful spell cards in the game. I completely forgot about Raigeki and so forth. Sorry.

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It's become a joke with me and a friend to exaggerate how we have to explain what PoG does. This is the ONLY card we tell the other the effect of (casual Traditional decks).

Pot of Greed is...costless, generic drawpower that is a +1. There is practically no deck in existence that cannot use this. Thus, banned for being overly generic while being a +1.

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i bet that the Writers had to explain what this card does each time just in case someone new was to watch the series
if i was to write an episode with Pot of Greed this would happen:

[b]Generic Person[/b]: "now i activate my Pot of Greed which........."
[b]Main Character[/b]: "i know what it does, i mean who doesn't"
[b]Generic Person[/b]: "sooooooooory...." *[i]draws 2 cards[/i]*

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Technically, the Japanese episodes do tell people what the card does, so the English version is probably on the mark with that, but it got so repetitive as to be ridiculous. The puns in the dub actually made it better, especially since players tended to get Pot of Greed shortly after their opponent did, and would often comment on that. Same thing with Polymerization.

Really, GX overused this because Fusions were a big thing, and that drained your hand advantage significantly, so comebacks often required drawing 2 cards. This always bothered me because I could usually predict a Pot of Greed being drawn (or Bubbleman, if not that).

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It's not really significantly overpowering or even broken, it's just that you get too much for too little effort. This card alone usually won't win you the duel like Raigeki/Feather Duster/CED/Exchange of the Spirits would, but the fact that having it in your deck essentially means your deck only has 37 cards is what's wrong with it.

/stating the obvious unless you're shard

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[quote name='Nightmare Zarkus' timestamp='1320429800' post='5616859']
It's not really significantly overpowering or even broken, it's just that you get too much for too little effort. This card alone usually won't win you the duel like Raigeki/Feather Duster/CED/Exchange of the Spirits would, but the fact that having it in your deck essentially means your deck only has 37 cards is what's wrong with it.

/stating the obvious unless you're shard
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Well yes, but isn't having a 37-Card deck in theory not incredibly overpowered? While cards like Raigeki and so forth actually focus on winning the duel, this card is more focused on setting up to win the duel.

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[quote name='Nightmare Zarkus' timestamp='1320429800' post='5616859']
It's not really significantly overpowering or even broken, [b]it's just that you get too much for too little effort[/b]. This card alone usually won't win you the duel like Raigeki/Feather Duster/CED/Exchange of the Spirits would, but the fact that having it in your deck essentially means your deck only has 37 cards is what's wrong with it.

/stating the obvious unless you're shard
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That's almost the definition of OPed/broken.

Pot of Greed gets you a free +1, and it's generic. That's HOW it's broken. Free. Generic. Draw Power.

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[quote name='Shard' timestamp='1320430075' post='5616874']
Well yes, but isn't having a 37-Card deck in theory not incredibly overpowered? While cards like Raigeki and so forth actually focus on winning the duel, this card is more focused on setting up to win the duel.
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are you implying that setup is superior to actually trying to win? Or am I getting the wrong idea?

I mean, I guess this card is superior to Raigeki in that you can and should always use it when you have it,

also I don't really consider cards broken unless they usually (not can) near-irrevocably tip the duel in your favor by simply playing them.

overpowered? yeah. broken? not imo.

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[quote name='Nightmare Zarkus' timestamp='1320430355' post='5616884']
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are you implying that setup is superior to actually trying to win? Or am I getting the wrong idea?

I mean, I guess this card is superior to Raigeki in that you can and should always use it when you have it,

also I don't really consider cards broken unless they usually (not can) tip the duel in your favor by simply playing them.

overpowered? yeah. broken? not imo.
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What I'm implying it's generally easier and faster to win after setting up. If you just tootle around and wait till you draw a game ender, you could be there for a while without significant searchers or Draw Cards. This card will normally tip the duel in your favor, you get an extra card over the opponent. That's still an hand advantage.

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[quote name='evilfusion' timestamp='1320430484' post='5616887']
From a card advantage standpoint, a +1 is by nature able to tip the duel in your favor. Plants with Pot of Avarice were nuts.
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>fableds with triple pot of avarice
oh god

To clarify, I don't think a card is broken unless using it puts your opponent in a significantly worse situation that they themselves didn't do anything to deserve (Heavy Storm nuking a 4-5 back row or Dark Hole nuking a swarmed field), and if not dealt with will lose them the duel.

So basically I think DAD/BLS/JD/Shi En are all worse than this

What I'm saying is that I don't think it's fair to call this card the most broken card in the game because it alone will probably never win you the duel unlike the above examples.

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[quote name='Nightmare Zarkus' timestamp='1320430867' post='5616891']
>fableds with triple pot of avarice
oh god

To clarify, I don't think a card is broken unless using it puts your opponent in a significantly worse situation that they themselves didn't do anything to deserve (Heavy Storm nuking a 4-5 back row or Dark Hole nuking a swarmed field), and if not dealt with will lose them the duel.

So basically I think DAD/BLS/JD/Shi En are all worse than this

What I'm saying is that I don't think it's fair to call this card the most broken card in the game because it alone will probably never win you the duel unlike the above examples.
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That's a valid clarification. But this is one of the best Setup cards in the game, as I've stated previously. I think we can agree on that.

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