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Today, I want to talk about holes. A significant amount of YGO card design is just... missing. Monsters whose existence would break a whole host of other stuff.
What totally innocuous card could Konami never print because of the ramifications?
I'll start:
Today, I want to talk about holes. A significant amount of YGO card design is just... missing. Monsters whose existence would break a whole host of other stuff.
What totally innocuous card could Konami never print because of the ramifications?
I'll start:
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imagine the possibilities, probably could’ve been the most powerful fusion in the tcg if it came out like a half decade ago or smthn🤔
Look, gimme one good end board piece with a sweet, sweet negate on it, and we are COOKING. Those Masked HEROs might mean we can have Chaos fill this niche, but he's more bandaid than solution. But maybe a Destiny HERO? A Vision??
I can only dream 😔
-alternatively-
what if Snake Rain but for Insects?
What am I supposed to do with Exceed in the TCG with Apollousa banned?
You already link off Gilgamesh with King Tell or little Caesar into another Gilgamesh, cuz locked into D/Ds, for their floating effects.
Even a mediocre or situational effect or summoning condition (like 2+ D/D/Ds) would make it see play simply because you could already make it.
The new Link-3 is literally everything I wanted.
- black card colour already taken up in the extra deck by xyz monsters
- would require designing cards that power creep the fuck out of destrudo to be remotely viable in competitive
- the mere existence of it would be a headache for rulings;
can you dark synchro summon a normal synchro monster?
would dark synchro monsters require specific tuners?
are the ursarctics still synchro monsters? are they dark synchro monsters?
Anything better than Garura as a Super Poly option will likely get the latter banned.
I think Link/Pendulum monsters with link rating other than 1 probably shouldn't ever exist
These would not be at 3 for long
If Dolkka can ever be made easily or we get a good DINOSAUR extra deck monster, it could cause many problems
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is this anything?
There's only one of these things and it's Utopia-locked on both what it can target and what it can summon
Just like a level 3 monster that lets you reborn and immediately synchro with a tuner you just discarded for its own effect
It wouldn't be everywhere but there'd definitely be decks that could use it
Because even with a summon limit, the omni heroes alone would easily set up nonsense from the gy that would make future fusion/Fivehead turbo blush
Take off those restaints and all hell breaks loose
Sure we have options but they come with downsides, hard losing to any interaction, asking us to go second, locking you etc
But HERO is one of the few exceptions to my point that deck does not need more bricky cards that can turn into a combo
A reasonably summonable link 1 in the ragnaraika types that didnt plant lock you would do a lot I think.
Same for tris probably.
Also any raika-trio link 4 with anything on the end board beside bengalancer. Especialy if its an insect.
Mostly thinking of stuff like the former 3 which are already playable and pretty good, but Inferno Reckless Summon is begging to be broken if there was a consistent way to access it.
I had never seen this guy in my life before trying to cook a dueltaining list and he wasnt even usable there.
There seems to be a fear around Gustav being a soft once per turn
So no level 10 is properly machine dupeable or searchable by AG Box
Goldilocks is the closest we got and will explode if machine duped incorrectly.
Current and future Xyz design is defined by this card and any deck that uses 4s, 5s, 8s, 9s, is gonna have to factor this into their balance. They're gonna stumble over themselves trying NOT to print a card with a seventh type/attribute.
The Swordsoul cards SHOULD allow you to search, summon, reveal and discard Aquas, so that they, like in the story, can work together. While Albaz... (1/2)
These two/three additions could make the whole storyline play as ONE DECK, but instead they get to be so close, but so far
People are resorting to mixing it with K9 in the OCG to get anything done, when all we really need is: A Fire Monster That Does Something Good From Hand On Their Turn.
Sacramentum Dragoon already made tachyon splashable in dracotail so It would certainly break some stuff
In addition to the "3k more", any way to get some kind of advantage off of a servant in hand would make me just a little too happy.