Forum:My predictions/hopes of the September Banlist

Banned:

Crush Card Virus- The fact that it clears 1500+ ATK monsters on your opponents field and their hand, and also grants you the ability to see what's in their hand (which I think is most harmful with Mind Crush running at 2), this card needs to go. Way too powerful.

Dark Strike Fighter- I'd rather them limit this card, but I can see them banning it due to the fact that it has made Blackwings, Cat Synchros, and more very OTK happy. Since it seems that Konami has been attempting to slow the game down, I see them banning this.

Limitted:

Pot of Greed- Not sure about this one, but I think that it would be good for the game to see either this or Graceful Charity come back, and seeing as how Graceful Charity is far more broken in today's game, Pot of Greed has more chance to see it's return.

Rescue Cat- Slows down the Cat Synchro deck, while also putting a little bit of a limit on GBs, which will be touched on in a sec.

Charge of the Light Brigade- So, they limitted Reinforcement of the Army (which was SEMI-reasonable), and let this ROTA-on-steroids at 3 for LS? Really? No, no, no, this must go to 1. LS can search for Lumina, Lyla, Ehren, Ryko, etc at will? AND it mills? Give me a break.

Judgment Dragon- They don't NEED to touch Judgment, but they might, seeing as how players have managed to find ways to get judgment back from the grave anyway, so limitting Judgment shouldn't hurt LS TERRIBLY.

Mind Control- Dunno about this one. Just for the pure and simple fact that, to anyone who runs 5+ tuners in their deck, this card is basically a change of heart to help them for synchros, and it's basically Christmas come early when the opponent has a f/d monster and you have a tuner in your hand. To slow the game down if nothing else, though they may not touch this card.

Tribe Infecting Virus- Well, this may be stretching it, but I think it's a good time right about now to bring this card back. Since BWs are running wild ATM, this would be a good crowd control card, especially since they probably won't do TOO much to Blackwings to slow them down, if anything at all. I think this would be an interesting reintroduction.

Black Whirlwind- So they gave arguably the best archetype in the game a reusable ROTA? Nice job, guys. Imagine 2 or 3 of these on the field at the same time. Wait, you probably don't have to, since you've probably SEEN it in person and already know what a pain it is for BW players to summon a Sirroco, Shura, etc and get a +1 to their hand. Even for the people that run 2, it seems to come to their hand all the time, whether or not they stack. Limited, please...

Tragoedia- Super Saiyan Gorz, anyone? For those of you who don't know about this card, basically it functions like Gorz, except you can summon it anytime you take battle damage, regardless of whether you control cards or not. It can also take permanent control of an opponent's monster by discarding one of the same level, and change it's own level to equal that of one of you monsters in your graveyard. BTW, ATK and DEF= 600 x cards in hand. If they limited Gorz, how are they NOT going to limit this?

Semi-Limit:

Lumina- 3 is just way too much. Sorry, but the LUMINA, pitch LUMINA, special summon LUMINA, pitch LUMINA, special summon LUMINA, pitch GAROTH, special summon GAROTH, next turn JD too annoying (though that would be kinda stupid if you think about it cause if they keep that field, they basically HAVE to do JD or something or they will mil themselves out in 3- turns.

Blackwing Gale- The huge problems with this card as that it is terribly easy to summon, it is searchable by many things, and worst of all, it's halving effect is permanent. They won't completely kill this card, but they will probably bring it down to 2. If they limit it to 1, though, I'd be very surprised.

D.D Warrior Lady- Good Problem solver, and not TERRIBLY broken at all, contrary to the opinion of some. It would be nice to see this at 2

Reinforcement of the Army- Ok, made your point Konami...this card is broken. Now how about you RETURN this card to Semi-Limit like you had it a couple years back, where it won't kill anybody, but it can still be very effective? Most BWs won't use it, Cat Synchro MIGHT, but I doubt it, and for those ridiculous people who still believe that the Prisma Glad build is the most effective, humor them

Gladiator Beast Bestiari- Speaking of Glads, Bestiari at 2 would not make Glads unstoppable by any means (never thought that they were when Bestiari was at 3, but w/e), and it would help greatly against other top tiers, Mostly Blackwings so that Glads can survive against them somewhat.

Cyber Dragon- HEY! I was kinda hoping this would've happened a while ago, but they never did it. So uh, how about NOW? Cyber Dragon is great fuel for Level 8 synchros. Right, get it. And so are a MILLION other things that are not banned and are much better than Cydra...so, how about letting this at least touch 2 again? "Oh no, you can't do that, cause then Chimeratech OTK deck will come back!" Uh.... sorry, but it won't do much against Armor Master or any LS/JD backed by Honest, will it? And if you're so worried about it, then how about this- Ban Chimeratech?

No Longer Limitted-

Destiny Draw- With malicious at 2, there is no need to keep this semi'd. Yes, a powerful draw engine card, I know, but it is MONSTER (not DECK) specific, as in you have to discard a Destiny Hero. Dark Decks are great and all, but they aren't anywhere near what TeleDAD was. Plus, Solar Recharge, which does a hell of a lot more for LS than D-Draw does for Dark Decks, is still at 3, so unless Konami is willing to Semi THAT, which they shouldn't, I'd bring this back to 3.--Phoenix25 21:37, 9 July 2009 (UTC)