“Can it be unbanned?” ✨no✨

"Metamorphosis was banned in September of 2007, and with it's banning, players could no longer properly summon elemental hero neo bubbleman" 😔

I just find it funny that dimension fusion isn’t a fusion card that can fuse from the banish zone...

Another way to “fix” Metamorphosis is to have it negate the effects of the summoned monster for the turn. Which would prevent effect burn.

Surprised you didn't comment about heavy storm being able to destroy your pendulums that love being destroyed

"a whole bunch of advantage"- the channel love it

When you said "subscribe to my Myspace" I was caught so off guard I choked on my drink and my mom had to come check on me.

Powerful card without a once per turn clause: *exists* Cannon Soldier: "It's free real estate"

Another restriction for Metamorphosis is similar restrictions like Rank-up Magic Astral force,The monster should share level,type and attribute.

4:21 Before people mention using Dimension Fusion after a Pot of Desires, that doesn't work. Face down cards don't count as any card type, don't have any effects, and are nameless for other effects. That's how they made banishing face down an actual downside.

I find it really interesting to watch these videos and see all the cards I thought were stupid as a kid be banned 10-15 years later for being way too overpowered for whatever monstrosity this game has become

me, not playing yu gi oh for more than 10 years : mmm, yes

For metamorphosis I recommend restrict it to non-effect fusion monsters. That would make it more unique and give a chance to a large chunk of terrible fusion monsters that haven't seen a single moment of glory since their inception (cough St. Joan cough). Brilliant Fusion is easy to fix. Just negate the effects of the summoned monster, and maybe let you have access to the effects of the monster if you use the effect of discarding a spell card to restore the original Atk and Def values. EDIT: Also, make Brillant Fusion only able to mill Gem-Knight monsters. Metamorphosis cannot have the same change as Brillant Fusion because you can simply Book of Eclipse on the summoned monster to reset it whenever you want. EDIT 2: Alternatively, since the background art and the gemstones are VERY obviously from the Crystal Beast archetype instead of the Gem-Knight archetype, change the effect to summoning Rainbow Overdragon instead, who is LONG overdue for getting a decent fusion card. EDIT 3: and then Konami made Ready Fusion and a continous spell that gives you my nerfed Brilliant Fusion every turn.

One way they could at least prevent Brilliant Fusion from being abused by a million decks, would be to instead errata Seraphinite, so that it's effect either only let's you normal summon an additional Gem-knight monster, or prevents you from special summoning monsters that aren't Gem-knight.

I'm happy that Harpie's Feather Duster got unbanned.

Here is a topic that might be interesting: Top 10 booster sets with the best commons.

Okay here's my question, is the dude in metamorphosis' artwork turning into a wolf or back from being a wolf.

I really hope you make a series about why certain cards are limited/semi-limited.

Loved how lapis is free but at 1 in Duel Links

I don't even play the game anymore, but your videos are so informative, it makes the topic a lot more interesting and fun to watch. Keep up the good work.

Duel Logs wants more friends than Tom on Myspace. Let's help this man out.

It still makes me sad how soul charge getting banned completely killed my world chalice deck of all things. It was necessary to be banned, but I didn't realise how much it kept that deck together. (Before the current rulings of course, i stopped using it pre the current master rule.)

How to fix Cold Wave: Any damage your opponent takes is halved until the start of your next turn. This would make the damage threshold you need to meet MUCH higher and add some risk because that threshold would not be applied to your opponent. Additionally, it carves a niche as a "I want to be sure I win" card or possibly "I can use this to buy time by disabling my opponent's spell/trap cards".

Something interesting to note: Bujins have a version of Cold Wave called “The Mirror”. It requires you to use it at the start of your turn just the same, but you need to control a Beast-Warrior Bujin. Super neat.

The solution to many Broken Yu-gi-oh Cards is the cold wave condition.

Last warrior still being used today put a smile on my face I love it

I'm really grateful that you summarize each point after you make them, bc I tend to zone out during longer video analyses, and when I re-focus it's really nice to be able to understand what was said without needing to frantically rewind.

"DMoC" was used in an FTK" Me: Let me guess, Cannon Soldier? Yup, of course. Fucking dumb card should've been banned eons ago.

does someone remember when banish was "out of the game"

i dont know why, i havent played for like 10 years, but ive been enjoying seeing your videos on how the game has evolved. I also love your voice!

Cold Wave was such a non card back in the day that it was a common. I had at least a dozen of them.

you forgot to mention Anti-Magic arrows for anther cold wave retrain LOL!

The fact that you still have a MySpace account is actually hilarious af 😂😂😂

Great video duel logs loving the content at the monent

These videos have helped me create my last where are you from another planet deck. I had this card since 2003-ish and it’s good to know that I could still play my favorite soul card. Thx for your all your work n vids

To fix "Dimension Fusion" you could have the stipulation that "All monsters special summoned by the effect of 'Dimension Fusion' lose their effects." This way, the card still gives you the swarm effect, but effects can't be abused.

A cool fix to cold wave would be to have your opponent choose a monster from their deck to draw as a cost, so you prevent them from using spell/trap cards but help them do stuff with monsters in return.

Fun fact about Cold Wave and Cold Feet: They have a hard once per turn on their effects, even thou the card itself dosen't tay it.

I know really little about Yugioh, but I'm binge watching this channnel. Voice good, me likey.

"For ten years, the game was slow enough" Oh how I love those years

Heavy storm could be changed so that it can only destroy your own Set backrow cards, but all of your opponent's. Then it couldnt be used to destroy floodgates

I love this guys channel because I can do other things while I’m just listening to him talk about yugioh. Also I learn a lot about yugioh too

HUGE series

A card like dimension fusion basically needs a your turn ends when this card resolves clause.

Everyone talking about banning VFD, but nobody says anything about Utopic ZEXAL, which has already gotten a card banned and is even keeping it there. The fact that it's actually banned in the OCG and that konami released generic RUM support as soon as they did it is just salt on the wounds.

one thing that comes to mind for me with cold wave to fix it, is that, after i'ts activation, monsters that you already haave on the field can't attack nor could activate their effects.

I like how in the first episode of gx the professor uses heavy storm in a beneficial way

A good way to allow Cold Wave to be unbanned is if it had an effect where if the player discards/banishes a spell or trap, the effects of Cold Wave would be negated.

Brilliant fusion could come back to 3 if it locked you into summoning only gem knight monsters for that turn

I think it'd be interesting if Cold Wave became some kind of ritual-spell card in that you have to "ritual" play it using Cold Feet first. Something like "Active only when" Cold Feet" is activated:" with it keeping its effect, part of which is that it cancels cold feet and maybe if its played alone is just locks your opponent out of spells or traps. I feel like requiring another specific card is fair for how much advantage that would generate and Cold Wave would still be playable on its own in the same way. I literally haven't played in years though lol, these videos are just interesting and well done.

One day after all the banned cards have been covered, you'll do all the limited cards as a new series? And semi limited? I'd watch it. I rewatch the ban list play list all the time as it is

I think heavy storm, metamorphosis, and cold wave could go to limited for a while just to experiment. Heavy storm and cold wave really don't need much to fix them, something like letting your opponent draw one card or maybe giving them lifepoints would probably do the trick. Metamorphosis is a bit trickier. In theory you could just give it a 5000LP cost like cyber stein and that should fix everything, in practice though i'd just have to see it play tested.

Maybe if heavy storm shuffled the cards back into the decks, yes it shuts down the floodgates but it also means that the spell/traps wont get their destroyed effect and makes the deck more inconsistent as they can draw them again instead of a card they actually want to top deck

fix for cold wave: quick play spell without the restriction of when you can play it. The activation requirements become "reveal the top 10 cards of your deck (or your entire deck, if it has less than 10 cards), if 4 or less of those cards were monsters, [apply the effect], then put the revealed cards on the bottom of the deck in any order. This way it could become a card in gimmick decks that need to know/decide what card they're about to draw, but it won't help any ftk since i t lock you out of spell cards for the turn.

Damn I remember basing my deck around metamorphosis in early to mid 2000s. Always thought that card was broken back then. Crazy to see how much the game has changed since I quit.

Heavy storm could definitely come back to 1

I really want Heavy Storm back for my Ancient Gear deck, but I understand why it's banned and will probably stay that way for a while.

For cold wave. Maybe making the effect to only be "during the damage step" or "during battle phase" so at least you can stop some special summons etc.

Good video bro

To fix Cold Wave, have it so that the person activating it can't activate monster effects.

0:22 the funny thing is: HFD was banned for the longest time, while HS wasn't. All because of the 'then' downside of also removing your cards.

I absolutely loved using cold wave in my deck back in the day.

For cold wave, the effect could be extended to the end of your next turn, so your opponent gets first crack at spell/traps in exchange for being locked out and/or preventing extra deck special summons. Not sure of either or both additions would be enough though as you could probably still win easily.

I think a better "restriction" on Heavy Storm would be to make it destroy your own back row during the end phase, that way it can still be used in it's intended way for no cost, but can't be used to abuse flood gates

Its funny how the banlist basically shows my childhood

It's so interesting to see how dramatically the game has changed since I last played competitively.

How about a top ten specific rulings? I don’t know if you’ve covered this in the past, but I’d love to see a video about cards that had their very own rulings put in place because of them, be it Red-Eyes Fusion only able to be use to summon Dragoon if you actually have Red-Eyes as Material. But really I’d like an explanation of why a ruling is in place for “Protector of the Sanctuary” that doesn’t allow one to play “Card Destruction” “Disturbance Strategy” etc. when it’s already on the field, but a card like “Jowgen the Spiritualist” doesn’t have any such rulings against playing a card that contradicts its effect like “Last Turn”... you could go over more broad rulings that aren’t tied to one card, but maybe a specific type of card or activation requirement, like how you can’t activate more than one hand effect at a time.. a ruling that murdered my dreams of summoning three “Watapon” with “Photon Veil” 😭😭😭🤣

Just a random thought but maybe make cold wave a trap and it starts when activated until the end of the next players turn.

I feel Heavy Storm should be limited, it's not too much powerful than Dark Hole.

I was thinking about metamorphosis, I think it could be fine if it had to tribute a normal monster and the no damage effect you mentioned. I was going to say a hard once per turn but making it normal only I think wouldn't make it need it and cause some fun play.

I remember back in the day using fusilier dragon with meta for king dragun. Shit was fun looking at people who tried to ring him XD

I've got a pretty generic question, being an outsider who hasn't played the game for probably over 15 years : Can a game actually still be "fun", if the strongest recipe for winning is basically preventing your opponent to play along at all??...

25 seconds Damn I'm early

A couple restrictions for Cold Wave popped up in my head but I'm not sure if they would make sense. You could make it where you can only attack once or only allow you to attack with Monsters that have 2000 or less ATK.

I love these type of videos :D! My opinion in how to fix Cold Wave: Discard 2 cards, also the player who uses the card cannot Special Summon until the End Phase of their next turn. Yeah, it is a Huge downside, but Cold Wave is far too broken to be released from the banlist. And even with that downside I suggested, Cold Wave would still be broken, so it would also need to prevent the player who uses Cold Wave from attacking for a turn, which would make the card almost useless, but the effect of Cold Wave is so broken (as locking out the opponent from using Spell or Trap Cards is just an auto-win against decks which rely on those cards) that I don't think such an effect should exist in the game. For Brilliant Fusion: Just slap that restriction you suggested where the user of Brilliant Fusion can only summon Gem-Knight monsters for the rest of that turn, and also ban Lady Lapis Lazuli and/or slap a Hard Once Per Turn on her effect.

Fix for Cold Wave: The player that activates this card must explain what pot of greed does or automatically lose the duel.

Can tell its been a while since I played regular ygo. I thought heavy storm couldn't be unbanned cause of artifacts

"Cold wave" fix (the exception for during the end of turn clause) can only be activated right after you draw it for your normal draw like rank-up-magic: the seventh one

For cold wave, you can put a restriction on it where you need to have a certain amount of life points to play it or something similar, OR have a certain monster count/ cannot have special summoned monsters that turn you use it

*Lillie holds Harpie’s Father Storm* I been waiting for this card to be unbanned... Now I can destroy every spell and trap on my opponents side.

Back in my day, we called them magic cards.... ehh, now get off my lawn.

This is so interesting. I stopped with yu-gi-oh during the early cycle of xyz monsters and coming like „back“ is a blast. I mean is just watched your banned spell card videos. Like heavy storm. I never thought this card would become so powerful, that it will get banned. Like wtf and the same with the „straight up better effect“ that they don’t got banned. Wow :|

fun fact, in the very first episode of the gx anime, a character used heavy storm to trigger his two copies of statue of the wicked and then bring out ancient gear golem with the tokens on his first turn. the protagonist consistently used emergency provisions to destroy mirage of nightmare before he had to ditch the cards he drew. the potential for abuse was there from the beginning, and yet, here we are

Metamorphosis can't bring out Naturia Exterio. The specifically has a condition of fusion summin whereas Metamorphosis doesn't treat the summon as fusion summon. I think Edit : Nevermind. I actually misremembered the card and thought it had a proper restriction. My bad

Kinda disagree with you a bit here. Heavy storm can DEFINITELY back to 1. Yes plenty of your spells and traps can now float, but ultimately it won't anything too unhealthy.

Heavy storm is still banned due to it helping remove your own spell and trap cards i.e floodgates, pendulums, cards that have positive effects being destroyed/removed from the field and, those with graveyard effects they can use even when they leave the field. Duster coming back because of you the player doesn't get the chance to destroy their own spells and traps. Also the fact most decks don't run massive amounts of back row however, the few that due have outs to it.

Heavy Storm could also have the clause that any card removed from the field has any floating effects negated

Cold Wave possible fix: "If you control no cards on the field: *effect*. You can only use this during the start of Main Phase 1."

Dimension Fusion could be limited to 1 copy + pay life points until you only had 10 LP left.

For metamorphosis... maybe it could negate the effect of the monster it brings out and halves its attack until the start of your next turn. Alternatively it could be equipped to a card and at the start of your next turn it’s tributes and the effect could take place normally... it would give your opponent a turn to blow it up before you bring something out

For Cold Wave, I think that if they make it so that it locks both players down for just the turn of the player's turn and not until their opponent's end phase, that should fix the problem of locking your opponent out of playing the game and only be used to stop their disruption spells and traps, considering we have cards like Dark Ruler No More which is a spell speed 4 spell that negates your opponent's face up monsters for the turn and is unlimited.

why don't they, and hear me out, ban lapi, then errata the double summon to only summon gem knights

Could Metamorphosis be fixed with the single caveat that the monster brought out has it's effects negated?

Gosh imagine heavy storm being released with artifacts still in the mix. Just clear out your opponents back row while also just activating a ton of effects from monsters that could be set in the spell and trap zones

You could add the restriction for cold wave at the end as. The turn you activate this card you cannot conduct bp or ss for the rest of the turn. you can only use this card once per duel.

Why is the only solution to unbanning cards is to make them unplayable

Top 10 cards with a "twice per turn" restriction?

For Brilliant Fusion, I've had this fix for a while, but you Ban Lapis Lauzuli, and then force the effect of the Gem Knight to also be locked behind the attack, with the discard of a Spell card.

For brilliant fusion, if it banished the materials (to reduce advantage) and maybe alter it so the effect is negated unless spell is discarded like the attack reduction

I think Brilliant Fusion and Metamorphosis could come back if they nerfed their effects or they can reduce them to 1 copy.