Forum:Should Burst Stream of Destruction be Banned?

I've looked over the discussion for ban-list cards, but didn't see any mentions of Burst Stream of Destruction, and I'm curious as to why. In a blue eyes focused deck (especially the starter deck that includes this card) it's almost ridiculously easy to ensure that you can summon a blue eyes, which means it's very difficult to prevent burst stream from being activated.

I do have a fair number of cards that I can use to protect single monsters against spells, and some more powerful ones like Magic Deflector, but since the same starter deck comes with A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon and I think a few other effects that can target my spells/traps, it can be very hard to actually use these to prevent burst stream from taking effect.

Plenty of people seem to list Dark Hole for banning, but that card at least has a more major downside (destroys all your own monsters as well), so needs to be set-up a lot more carefully, or be used as a panic button to try to level the playing field again. Burst stream seems to have the same advantage of dark hole, but with the only penalty being that your blue eyes can't attack in the same turn, but you can pretty much have any monster do the attacking instead since you'll be unopposed, and there are also plenty of tricks to get around the disadvantage such as using the Blue Eyes to Synchro Summon Azure Eyes Silver Dragon which can attack normally. -- Haravikk (talk • contribs) 12:00, December 12, 2013 (UTC)