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Until recently, this card has stayed banned for no reason other than Pendulums being able to use it to pop their own scales to extend their plays, which is fair enough I suppose. But with the rule changes coming with Links, if Pendulums ever do see play again, the self-destruction strategy doesn't really work so the play-style will be completely different. I'm pretty convinced this card would be fine if it came back now and would probably actually be healthy for the game.

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Duster is less broken.

 

Heavy was used to turn off things you didn't like. In the past it was Skill Drain and Vanity, as well as allowing the double shock play in Qlis

 

Being able to kill your own cards is a + these days

 

Duster breaks Vanity too and Skill Drain is niche and very format dependent. The Qli thing is obsolete now with Links, which was my original point. Heavy forces both players to think and promotes skillful play and resource management. Duster is fairly mindless by comparison.

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Duster breaks Vanity too and Skill Drain is niche and very format dependent. The Qli thing is obsolete now with Links, which was my original point. Heavy forces both players to think and promotes skillful play and resource management. Duster is fairly mindless by comparison.

Well sub in any floodgate not named Imperial order then. 

 

I suppose if TCG wants to be special they can unban heavy over duster given they have fewer floods, but it's still meh

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Limited power cards are no excuse for single-card win-buttons like Vanity's or, to a lesser extent, Skill Drain. It really just makes things more of a coin flip on who gets the win traps and who gets the counter(s) to the win traps.

Bad players and decks are no excuse to label anything uncomfortable as a "win-button"

 

By your logic things like master peace should be considered win buttons because they give so many decks difficulties 

 

In any case, we're not debating Vanity or skill here, merely stating that in the past heavy was unfairly used to turn them off when opportune. 

 

Personally I'd like to see both Harpie and Heavy gone, and wave put at 1, but konami isn't gonna do that

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Bad players and decks are no excuse to label anything uncomfortable as a "win-button"

 

By your logic things like master peace should be considered win buttons because they give so many decks difficulties 

Oh sod off, vanity and skill drain are undeniably win conditions.

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Oh sod off, vanity and skill drain are undeniably win conditions.

Not really. Most decks run some manner of back-row removal that's not monster based, and most also have some manner of method of sending monsters from the field to the grave. 

 

If you're losing to a single vanity or skill drain, you need to re-eval your deck

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Nah artifacts only trigger if you destroy them during opponents turn

 

Imo i don't really buy the "conserving resources" argument as I think (druler v2 format or fire vs water matchup) it was correct to set all your backrow. You'd concede to them drawing Heavy storm regardless as they'd just set up a board that makes it tough to comeback from.

 

I think it is valid when you have weaker decks matching up since you have enough free turns to take advantage of + the backrow was powerful enough to set the other weaker deck for the turn (torrential, compulse, warning etc).

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