I remember my buddy somehow pulling a Christia (Archlord Christia, right?) from... like... his third pack. :|
He promptly sold it to people who WOULD pay outrageous prices about that.
So about that ban list: i haven't played regularly for a few months (Too much tourney mentality at my usual place, everyone's running metadecks and OTKs and crap), but I haven't heard anyone happy about this.
Speaking of OTKs: I think that's why Toad was banned.
Konami's has been screwing fairies over since the beginning, all the good one's have been secret rare(cept the ****blocking ritual.) Recently, some of them were made Championship prizes.
Oh. I know why toad is banned, frog varients completely raped the OCG(the Japanese tournament scene), it's just he was fun. Frogs are fun. People making OTKs out of him doesn't change that(I don't OTK, there's no fun in that, and I can't afford it.) Wouldn't be a big deal, but there's no other way to play yugioh other than competitively, as Traditional is a complete mess. Fortunately, my school decided that the banlist is shit, so we're keeping the old one (no one has bought anything post-Stardust Overdrive), and the format back then was wonderful, too bad The Shining Darkness turned it into a sackfest.
This card more or less killed off my willingness to take YGO remotely seriously.
I don't see what's so bad about Goyo (he was in one of my first packs getting back in to Yugioh)... errr I mean, he's overpowered, yes, but Black Rose Dragon is much worse IMO.
Meh, there are plenty of ways to handle Synchro monsters, easiest being good ol' CED
The thing that makes Synchros balanced overall is the fact that you sacrifice card advantage for power. That power leads to eventaully regaining advantage but if you run a lot of one for one destruction cards, then you can handle them no problem (gadgets anyone?)
Personally, I favor Mole. Same thing happened to me(remembers fond memories of Ehren, Ultimate Elphin, and double Chalice.) I traded the Elphin for a secret Rai-Oh.
Also random people who don't know anything about the game always pull the best cards. Some little kid pulled Naturia Pineapple in a pack, traded it for 5 booster packs and pulled FREAKING ANOTHER ONE. :colonveeplusalpha:
Also I split a box between my brother and some other people. We all pulled shit but my brother's girlfriend pulled a Pot of Duality in the first pack she opened. :colonveeplusalpha: :colonveeplusalpha: :colonveeplusalpha:
I thought that would work at the SOVR, I had two other people open them for me.
One of them pulled Dark Rabbit.
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