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(Unbanned if Changed?) Painful Choice


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Been quite a while since I last did one of these.

 

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"Select 5 cards from your Deck and reveal them to your opponent. Your opponent selects 1 card among them. Add that card to your hand and discard the other cards."

 

Back in the day this card was a horribly Broken Mess. Back when not many cards at all were Forbidden and people would just pick the 5 Spell or Trap Cards they liked. Also being in the Graveyard made the sent cards easy pickings for cards like Monster Reborn and Call of the Haunted. With a larger amount of cards now Banned, I may just be able to salvage this......

 

"Select 5 cards from your Deck and reveal them to your opponent. Your opponent selects 1 card among them. Add that card to your hand and return the others to your Deck. Your opponent can Draw 1 card. You can only use the effect of "Painful Choice" once per Duel.

 

This gives the opponent a +1 and you get one of the cards for yourself. Returning to the Deck also avoids Graveyard abuse.

 

Current Errata: BANNED

Errata after revised effect: LIMITED

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At the very least, it should be "5 cards with different names" to avoid combos like what Black just said. Even then:

"Reveal 5 Igknights".

"Reveal Brio, Manju, Senju, Clausolas, Prep of Rites".

Making literally any card in your Deck searchable is absurd, and I don't think there's a restriction you can put on it that won't take it to Single Purchase-level bad.

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OR we could just not try to errata cards beyond a hard OPT.

 

The only 'good' errata is Ring of Destruction and, arguably, DMoC.

 

Chaos Emperor is still a 3K for Chaosdolls and consistency, Temple of the Kings is (IMO) fucking stupid as a card, Crush Card's a side card but its identity was ruined in the process, Sinister Serpent's bad, Dark Strike Fighter is a waste of ink, Exchange of the Spirit is an idea that can't do anything positive for the game.

 

Erratas either change the identity of a card or make it awful, in most scenarios. Ring is a fine 1-of in the current gamestate, and DMoC remains to be seen but seems llike it was nerfed just enough. Even so, this isn't a reason to try and changed every fucking banned card. Just let them rot. They were mistakes, we don't need cards like this to exist. 

 

Even if you banished them face-down, it would still be a 5 card deck thin that's a +0. Sure, you lose some cards, but you choose what cards, so it's a terrible idea in concept, though less powerful.

 

There is no point in trying to errata cards and change what was done, as it steadily makes the mistakes of the past forgotten while ruining the card's identity at worst. Just leave them be.

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