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i thought of this a while ago, but what you failed to notice is that most of the time they release nerfed versions of the cards immediately afterward.

 

when the chaos cards were banned, they released sky scourges.

 

when raigeki was banned, they released vortex.

etc

(i may have my timelines screwed up)

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actually, it is necessary. rewriting a card is difficult, it screws up tournaments and casual play globally. people walk in with cards with the wrong effects on em and suddenly players and then judges are making bad calls and rulings. it would cause a lot of confusion. banlists and remakes are just simpler.

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yet how many people are using first version soul exchanges, stratos, and wabokus?

 

ignoring the confusion of it, consider:

by rereleasing the same cards, they make less money.

instead they can just release a brand new card, and have everyone clambering for that.

 

also, consider the lovely possibility that the new rewrite/version is still broken.

what are they gonna do hm? ban or list it and make a new one, or re-re-release it? come on, that would cause some problems.

 

and lastly of all, traditional format. your more or less talking about obliterating it.

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actually' date=' it is necessary. rewriting a card is difficult, it screws up tournaments and casual play globally. people walk in with cards with the wrong effects on em and suddenly players and then judges are making bad calls and rulings. it would cause a lot of confusion. banlists and remakes are just simpler.

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I agree 100% with what this guy wrote. It's one thing to make an errata to slightly alter an effect or to fix ruling confusion. It's another to completely change the card's effect.

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actually' date=' it is necessary. rewriting a card is difficult, it screws up tournaments and casual play globally. people walk in with cards with the wrong effects on em and suddenly players and then judges are making bad calls and rulings. it would cause a lot of confusion. banlists and remakes are just simpler.

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I agree 100% with what this guy wrote. It's one thing to make an errata to slightly alter an effect or to fix ruling confusion. It's another to completely change the card's effect.

 

Third'd. Unless it's an incredibly minor edit, as with every actual nerf so far - they're all tiny changes like Semi-Nomi to Nomi, cards to monsters, all effects to opponent's effects, or the ruling on whether Zombie Master can be used with an empty Graveyard - you should just make a new card. After all, with major changes (i.e. any change that would make Raigeki balanced), you're essentially making a completely new card anyhow; the only difference is that you're confusing everyone by making it keep the name of an old card. And if you're worried about the new card losing some sort of support that specifically names the old card (like Dedication through Light and Darkness), just give the new card an effect that makes it treated as having the other card's name under the appropriate conditions.

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actually' date=' it is necessary. rewriting a card is difficult, it screws up tournaments and casual play globally. people walk in with cards with the wrong effects on em and suddenly players and then judges are making bad calls and rulings. it would cause a lot of confusion. banlists and remakes are just simpler.

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I agree 100% with what this guy wrote. It's one thing to make an errata to slightly alter an effect or to fix ruling confusion. It's another to completely change the card's effect.

 

Third'd. Unless it's an incredibly minor edit, as with every actual nerf so far - they're all tiny changes like Semi-Nomi to Nomi, cards to monsters, all effects to opponent's effects, or the ruling on whether Zombie Master can be used with an empty Graveyard - you should just make a new card. After all, with major changes (i.e. any change that would make Raigeki balanced), you're essentially making a completely new card anyhow; the only difference is that you're confusing everyone by making it keep the name of an old card. And if you're worried about the new card losing some sort of support that specifically names the old card (like Dedication through Light and Darkness), just give the new card an effect that makes it treated as having the other card's name under the appropriate conditions.

 

Card of Sanctity wasn't minor. Were there a nerf list I don't see why the confusion should be more than for banlists.

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actually' date=' it is necessary. rewriting a card is difficult, it screws up tournaments and casual play globally. people walk in with cards with the wrong effects on em and suddenly players and then judges are making bad calls and rulings. it would cause a lot of confusion. banlists and remakes are just simpler.

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I agree 100% with what this guy wrote. It's one thing to make an errata to slightly alter an effect or to fix ruling confusion. It's another to completely change the card's effect.

 

Third'd. Unless it's an incredibly minor edit, as with every actual nerf so far - they're all tiny changes like Semi-Nomi to Nomi, cards to monsters, all effects to opponent's effects, or the ruling on whether Zombie Master can be used with an empty Graveyard - you should just make a new card. After all, with major changes (i.e. any change that would make Raigeki balanced), you're essentially making a completely new card anyhow; the only difference is that you're confusing everyone by making it keep the name of an old card. And if you're worried about the new card losing some sort of support that specifically names the old card (like Dedication through Light and Darkness), just give the new card an effect that makes it treated as having the other card's name under the appropriate conditions.

 

Card of Sanctity wasn't minor.

 

Card of Sanctity was never nerfed. Stop spouting nonsense.

 

Were there a nerf list I don't see why the confusion should be more than for banlists.

 

A banlist merely says what cards can and cannot be used; a nerf list contradicts the text written directly on the cards. Because of the drastic nature of the changes that would need to be made, all banworthy cards would essentially serve as proxies for a completely unrelated card - and in that case, why not just print the unrelated card instead?

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stratos was one who had his errata changed to include some other heros for searching' date=' right?

they do do stuff like that all the time.

 

waboku was altered simply to avoid its wordy, confusing text.

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Stratos was changed because the OCG could already search for any HERO monster with Stratos.

 

Oh, and nerfing is unneeded and over complicates everything. You're better off just releasing a new card.

 

Oh, and in response to Crab: Kycoo and Bazoo.

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Oh' date=' and in response to Crab: Kycoo and Bazoo.

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I already mentioned Bazoo specifically; it just replaced cards with monsters.

 

What was Kycoo's change?

 

same as bazoo's change, card removed from play to monsters.

 

personally, in kycoo's case it does not effect his usefulness since it has always been a better idea to remove the opponent's monsters than their spells and trap, since spells and traps are not as revivable as monsters,

and few cards count spells and traps to activate effects.

 

however in bazoo's case, it nerfs his power up ability greatly.

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