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All right' date=' skip that.

 

Good:Jinzo

Horrible:Jinzo Lord

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Jinzo - Lord was in no way horrible until the September 2008 banlist screwed him over.

 

But you admit that he is currently horrible.

 

Yes.

 

All right' date=' skip that.

 

Good:Jinzo

Horrible:Jinzo Lord

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Jinzo - Lord was in no way horrible until the September 2008 banlist screwed him over.

 

I meant he was horrible for his intended purpose.

 

A card can be horrible for its intended purpose without actually being horrible.

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Usually' date=' a card is made to be horrible, but then an amazing use for it is found, and it becomes amazing, thus deserving to be banned or limited. Apparently that wasn't the case with our friend Jinzo-Lord.

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An excellent use was found for Jinzo - Lord that made it perfectly playable, though not ban- or limit-worthy in any way. However, changes to the banlist made this use impractical.

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Limiting Reasoning and Monster Gate was a move designed to destroy all forms of the "Turbo Deck" archetype. Chimeratech' date=' DDT, Magical Explosion, RDDT, yeah if you wanted to stop all of these you would have to ban a ton of cards.

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None of them were strong enough to have a chance of making an impact - the only exception would have been DDT, but when you've already (rightfully) banned Dark Magician of Chaos and Dimension Fusion, you've already killed DDT, making any further attacks against DDT akin to banning Gearfried the Iron Knight just to be absolutely certain that Butterfly Dagger OTK doesn't damage the meta.

 

Besides, the cards at fault were Chimeratech Overdragon, Dimension Fusion, and Magical Explosion, all of which were practically built for the purpose of pulling off an OTK, and none of which have any real other purpose. (I'm ignoring Rainbow Dark Dragon here because it is less effective at OTKing as Celestial Reckless Saturn.) Reasoning and Monster Gate just make the OTK easier to pull off than it would be otherwise, in the same way that Dark Grepher makes it easier to summon Dark Armed Dragon.

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