My Jan 2014 Predictions

[jabber2033]

So yeah, what the title says.  Feel free to rip this to shreds.  My explanations are in bold.

 

Forbidden:

Honest This has needed to go for a long time.

Morphing Jar Just so Book of Moon can return.  Plus, Empty Jar is a terrible deck for the game.

Dragon Ravine Dragon Rulers; need I say more?

Spellbook of the Master Honestly, This gives them like 6 Secrets, not to mention Powers and so on.  This card can be ridiculous in the right situations.

Return from the Different Dimension  See Ravine

Sixth Sense Why was this even allowed in the first place?

 

Limited:

Blackwing- Kalut the Moon Shadow It's a archetype-specific Honest, which needs to go.

Buijingi Crane See Kalut

Constellar Kaus or Constellar Pollux  Not too sure which would hurt the deck more;  One of the two does need to get hit, though.

Dragunity Dux or Dragunity Phalanx  See Kaus & Pollux

Judgment Dragon  With the new Lightsworn Support, this isn't as necessary.  One is plenty.

Evilswarm Ophion This can be sat on all game and can search its protection.  A hit has been a long time in coming.

Number 11: Big Eye A Snatch Steal with legs.  I'd prefer it banned, honestly.

Rekindling OTK card for Fire Fists.  This makes 3-axis and 3/4-axis lose their punch.

Sacred Sword of the Seven Stars See Ravine.

Abyss-Sphere The obvious Mermail hit.

Vanity's Emptiness Same reasoning they hit Macro, ect.

 

Semi-Limited:

Thunder King Rai-Oh Didn't like this at 1, plus it can disrupt decks like Prophecy.

Book of Moon With Jar gone, this can come back.

Fire Formation - Tensu Fire Fist hit.  Loosing that additional normal summon can hurt.

Dimensional Fissure Not as bad as Macro. 

Royal Decree  One is too low, I think, but does warrant a hit.

Skill Drain See Decree.

 

As for unlimited cards, not sure what I can bring back.  Feel free to suggest stuff.

[mido9]

This IS a prediction.. right?

 

Master/Ravine are sure as hell not going to 0 from 3.

Constellars def. arent getting hit. Like, at all.

Royal decree is not going to be going UP. With how they've been gutting 1 card win conditions they arent doing that.

[Dementuo]

This isn't a prediction list, this is a wish list.

[Zauls]

When "predicting" a list, you have to think about Konami's profit motive in creating the list, not necessarily what is good for the game. This just looks like a wish list and a lot of the choices are actually completely absurd and just plain wrong. For example, Konami would intentionally not limit JD because of new Lightsworn support coming out, in order to sell said Lightsworn support. Bujinji Crane is the same.

 

Also, you've not even touched the Dragon Rulers themselves, which from a prediction point of view is just wrong. They will be semi'd, I almost guarantee it. You've also overkilled Dragunity; banning Ravine? Really? Also, Master is NOT the main problem with Spellbooks. Blue Boy, Secrets or Fate are the only candidates that really could hit and possibly Tower, but the most likely is a limit on Blue Boy/Secrets (not that I agree with that, but that's another story).

 

Some of this list I actually agree with, though, so not the worst I've ever seen.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

At least predict some cards to go to three, I ignore most of the rest of the list. Honest? Kalut? Pass.

[Zincoshine]

So yeah, what the title says.  Feel free to rip this to shreds.  My explanations are in bold.

 

Forbidden:

Honest This has needed to go for a long time.

Morphing Jar Just so Book of Moon can return.  Plus, Empty Jar is a terrible deck for the game.

Dragon Ravine Dragon Rulers; need I say more?

Spellbook of the Master Honestly, This gives them like 6 Secrets, not to mention Powers and so on.  This card can be ridiculous in the right situations.

Return from the Different Dimension  See Ravine

Sixth Sense Why was this even allowed in the first place?

 

Limited:

Blackwing- Kalut the Moon Shadow It's a archetype-specific Honest, which needs to go.

Buijingi Crane See Kalut

Constellar Kaus or Constellar Pollux  Not too sure which would hurt the deck more;  One of the two does need to get hit, though.

Dragunity Dux or Dragunity Phalanx  See Kaus & Pollux

Judgment Dragon  With the new Lightsworn Support, this isn't as necessary.  One is plenty.

Evilswarm Ophion This can be sat on all game and can search its protection.  A hit has been a long time in coming.

Number 11: Big Eye A Snatch Steal with legs.  I'd prefer it banned, honestly.

Rekindling OTK card for Fire Fists.  This makes 3-axis and 3/4-axis lose their punch.

Sacred Sword of the Seven Stars See Ravine.

Abyss-Sphere The obvious Mermail hit.

Vanity's Emptiness Same reasoning they hit Macro, ect.

 

Semi-Limited:

Thunder King Rai-Oh Didn't like this at 1, plus it can disrupt decks like Prophecy.

Book of Moon With Jar gone, this can come back.

Fire Formation - Tensu Fire Fist hit.  Loosing that additional normal summon can hurt.

Dimensional Fissure Not as bad as Macro. 

Royal Decree  One is too low, I think, but does warrant a hit.

Skill Drain See Decree.

 

As for unlimited cards, not sure what I can bring back.  Feel free to suggest stuff.

Honest: There was a discussion about this in my thread and we generally agreed it should not be banned.
morphing jar: yes.
Dragon ravine: I don't believe that this is the main cause of the problems in e-drags. dumb suggestion. ok it's not dumb, sorry for being harsh on you here.
Spellbook of the master: I have no opinion on this.
return from the different dimention is a bit of a lucksack card, but it's still not the problem with e-drags.
sixth sense was allowed because konami wants to make money and care more about money than game quality.

 

Kalut: There are a plenty of ways to deal with this. Personally my favorite way is to summon colossal.
crane: I solve this the same way. Although, if kaiser coloseum is on the field then you can't really do anything at all. The problem here is kaiser Colosseum not crane.
The only problem with those two constellars is they can summon pleidas very easily, a card that is extremely powerful. I think pleidas is what should be limited.
judgment dragon: It wouldn't make a difference, there are so many damn light monsters that can summon when a certain number of light monsters with different names are in the grave.
Ophion: see my thread, we generally agree with you.
Big eye: It does not need to be limited, it needs to be banned, end of.
Rekindling: It's an OTK card for pretty much every single fire attribute deck that is meta or near meta because they all have 200 defence for some reason.
Sacred swords of the seven stars: Finally you have mentioned a card that actually is a problem with e-drags. Yes, this is a good idea it should be limited.
abyss sphere is very slow.
vanity's emptiness: uh, I'm pretty sure that macro cosmos and d fissure don't get destroyed by their own effect easily.

Thunder king: Stupid idea, this needs to stay at limited for a very long time. If it had lower attack then maybe it could go off the list but 1900 is just too much. He is the modern day version of breaker the magical warrior, a 1900 ATK level 4 monster with a overpowered effect and like breaker he will one day be able to come off the list..... in a few years perhaps.
Book of moon: I suggested this, people disagreed with me. By the way, empty jar is not why the card was limited.
tensu: ok.
d fissure: yay, someone who agrees with me. I think it should just go to unlimited though while macro cosmos is banned.
royal decree: This is the worst suggestion you've made. Yeah, I'm sorry but no one is interested in dueling your childish burn deck.
skill drain: no need, you can just use royal decree to.... oh wait, you wanted to get rid of that. Do you see how bad your previous suggestion was?


 

[goddamnit names are a pain]

Honest: There was a discussion about this in my thread and we generally agreed it should not be banned.
morphing jar: yes.
Dragon ravine: This is not the cause of the problems in e-drags. dumb suggestion.
Spellbook of the master: I have no opinion on this.
return from the different dimention is a bit of a lucksack card, but it's still not the problem with e-drags.
sixth sense was allowed because konami wants to make money and care more about money than game quality.

 

Kalut: There are a plenty of ways to deal with this. Personally my favorite way is to summon colossal.
crane: I solve this the same way. Although, if kaiser coloseum is on the field then you can't really do anything at all. The problem here is kaiser Colosseum not crane.
The only problem with those two constellars is they can summon pleidas very easily, a card that is extremely powerful. I think pleidas is what should be limited.
judgment dragon: It wouldn't make a difference, there are so many damn light monsters that can summon when a certain number of light monsters with different names are in the grave.
Ophion: see my thread, we generally agree with you.
Big eye: It does not need to be limited, it needs to be banned, end of.
Rekindling: It's an OTK card for pretty much every single fire attribute deck that is meta or near meta because they all have 200 defence for some reason.
Sacred swords of the seven stars: Finally you have mentioned a card that actually is a problem with e-drags. Yes, this is a good idea it should be limited.
abyss sphere is very slow.
vanity's emptiness: uh, I'm pretty sure that macro cosmos and d fissure don't get destroyed by their own effect easily.

Thunder king: Stupid idea, this needs to stay at limited for a very long time. If it had lower attack then maybe it could go off the list but 1900 is just too much. He is the modern day version of breaker the magical warrior, a 1900 ATK level 4 monster with a overpowered effect and like breaker he will one day be able to come off the list..... in a few years perhaps.
Book of moon: I suggested this, people disagreed with me. By the way, empty jar is not why the card was limited.
tensu: ok.
d fissure: yay, someone who agrees with me. I think it should just go to unlimited though while macro cosmos is banned.
royal decree: This is the dumbest suggestion you've made. Yeah, I'm sorry but no one is interested in dueling your childish burn deck.
skill drain: no need, you can just use royal decree to.... oh wait, you wanted to get rid of that. Do you see how stupid your previous suggestion was?


 

Please don't say someones ideas are stupid, when you also make banlists. Everyone is entitled to their opinions.

And Dragon Ravine does cause problems with DR, are you ok?
It discards a DR, mills another, banishes those two to summon another, and then those banished ones add 2 two your hand. Play from there.

[Zincoshine]

Most people have made much harsher comments than this towards my list.

 

 

And Dragon Ravine does cause problems with DR, are you ok?
It discards a DR, mills another, banishes those two to summon another, and then those banished ones add 2 two your hand. Play from there.

 

 

dragon ravine is more used for assault mode stardust than e-drags though. Whatever, maybe it is a good idea to limit this, it would have the side effect of killing assault mode stardust decks for me.

[Zauls]

Most people have made much harsher comments than this towards my list.

 

 

 

 

dragon ravine is more used for assault mode stardust than e-drags though. Whatever, maybe it is a good idea to limit this, it would have the side effect of killing assault mode stardust decks for me.

 

LOL! "dragon ravine is more used for assault mode stardust than e-drags though"... You clearly have no idea about the state of the metagame and should not be posting in any of these banlist threads.

Ravine is a problem in Dragons, but is most certainly NOT in Assault Mode decks (which have never topped anything). Have you even looked at YCS top 32s?

[ihop]

So yeah, what the title says.  Feel free to rip this to shreds.  My explanations are in bold.

 

Forbidden:

Honest I somewhat agree with this.

Morphing Jar Agreed, should have been banned a long time ago as soon as it stopped being used in normal decks.

Dragon Ravine I agree with a hit on Ravine as it's a problem in Dragunity as well as Dragons, however I'd have put it at 1 because a big problem with Ravine is using it twice per turn, or if you destroy it and your opponent plays another one. When limited it's still usable but it's not worth running dedicated search support for either.

Spellbook of the Master I'd have hit Blue Boy over this.

Return from the Different Dimension Of course

Sixth Sense Of course

 

Limited:

Blackwing- Kalut the Moon Shadow Agreed

Buijingi Crane Agreed

Constellar Kaus or Constellar Pollux  Hit Sombre? Pollux and Kaus aren't problematic cards themselves.

Dragunity Dux or Dragunity Phalanx  Ravine to 1 does the job much better, if they're not searchable they're not amazing.

Judgment Dragon  Ok, i'll agree with that one.

Evilswarm Ophion I'd rather have Kerykeion hit but ok.

Number 11: Big Eye Sounds good.

Rekindling 1 or 0, yes.

Sacred Sword of the Seven Stars Dragons don't need that much of a hit, I'd rather see all Dragons to 1/2. Probably does deserve to be limited though.

Abyss-Sphere Yep.

Vanity's Emptiness Agreed, it's one of those degenerate cards that can shut down an entire playstyle with one card.

 

Semi-Limited:

Thunder King Rai-Oh It's fine at 1 to be honest, TKing 5 backrow is really silly.

Book of Moon Great!

Fire Formation - Tensu Do decks even play more than 2 Tensu? Definitely not the card I would hit.

Dimensional Fissure Should stay at 1, it's essentially the same principle as Macro.

Royal Decree  1 IMO

Skill Drain Also 1 IMO

 

As for unlimited cards, not sure what I can bring back.  Feel free to suggest stuff.