Thunder King Rai-Oh

[J-Max]

Neither player can add cards from their Deck to their hand except by drawing them. During either player's turn, when your opponent would Special Summon exactly 1 monster: You can send this face-up card to the Graveyard; negate the Special Summon, and if you do, destroy it.

 

Only found out about this guy while looking up the Rulings for Terraforming. A 1900 Beatstick, stops Gadgets dead in its tracks along with other add to hand Decks and can even Tribute itself to destroy cards like JD. This screams staple to me.... Thank God its Limited

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

It certainly had it's moment to shine in the past.

[the_engineer]

Completely screws over Prophecy decks and Yamato, Negates any special summon that isn't Star-Eater like and has a spicy 1900 ATK body

 

Staple? yes

Needs to be limited? nah, at 2 would be better (but ya know, LOLnami had to release Mistake for $$$)

[Goose]

Splashable =/= staple

[Azuh]

Hardest use I giving up your Rai-Oh to block that Special Summon. Do I want to keep deck locking the opponent or counterattack his current move?

DECISION TO HARD!

[newhat]

Like Veiler, it's only as good as what it stops, and at the moment it stops something in every major Deck. Not great against HAT though.

[Agro]

I still don't feel this should be on the list.

[Delibirb]

I still don't feel this should be on the list.

Well I think 3 is definitely too much to have him at, but I can definitely see 2 being just right. 1 just makes him too much of a liability, as it could be a dead draw if it's late in the game. With 2, you have a greater chance of getting it early game, but it isn't so common that you cripple your opponent every match, not to mention it gives you two summon negations. But 3 is simply too many for doing both of the things he does.

[Toffee.]

I still don't feel this should be on the list.

Lets be hponest;
Do we REALLY need everyone under the sun maindecking this in 3s?
Boring as shit format, right?

[Lunar Origins]

This isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be, and, to be quite honest, it'd be fine at 3.

[Wildflame]

I want this at 3 and there's probably no way to making me think that it is a bad idea.

[the_engineer]

I want this at 3 and there's probably no way to making me think that it is a bad idea.

Konami has to sell Mistake for $$$, so it will stay at 1

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

This is a hunder target, which is super cool, though it interferes with Kingremlin and 9v, which are arguably the deck's 2 strongest engines

[Synchronized]

There is absolutely no reason that this card should be at anything other than 3.

 

It's a perfectly balanced card that requires skill to use to the most effective capacity and can punish delinquent cards that reward players with plusses then they don't actually do anything deserving said pluses.

 

(I.e. Prophecy, Bujin, Fire Fist) 

 

The only reason it's even on the list is because Konami wants to push new product and the Decks they have been focusing on the past few formats have all been royally fucked against this card.

[Zauls]

^Pretty much that. There is no reason as far as the gamestate is concerned for Rai-Oh to be on the list. If it was at 3, few decks would be maining it anyway because it either conflicts with their playstyle or doesn't have synergy, or they simply don't have room. It would just be a good side deck card like any other. It would actually help lesser decks compete with the ridiculous mass searching decks that dominate the meta.