Konami: Okay. We allowed You to take Circular behind the shed. BUT Runick Destruction to 1 in MD.

Now there can literally only be one.

If dragon rulers were printed this year they'd have made them each effect once per turn rather than one effect per turn.

Hopefully they release a secret pack with all the dragon rulers instead of taking up space in a selection pack.

The august banlist had my hopes up and they immediately dashed them. I'm hoping that this is an indicator we will get more lists that actually impact the game

Konami stole Josh's diary at the last YCS.

Yeah Konami beginning to realize how making everything a UR to encourage people to spend for gems would bite them in the butt when said URs are ruining the game and they have no choice but to hit the URs. They wanted to have their cake and eat it too, but now they're being forced to have to settle for needing to listen to player demand for the longevity of the game. This is a really good list!

I feel you when it comes to desires. The only deck I really used it in was sword soul. Even in that deck I only felt good about using it when cheng ying was on the feild to get the extra attack and banishes.

Even with some of the floodgates getting hit to 1, Master Duel RNG your opponent is going to somehow hard draw the one of that they need every time. lol

Terrortop at 3 is tempting me to pick the Speedroid deck I use for the Legend Anthology and other events and go above the speed limit in ranked

Kinda hoping they put the dragon rulers in a secret pack after the selection pack is gone.

Ygo players when they see a floodgate: 😭 Ygo players when they combo into floodgates: 🤑

I will admit my current deck in master duel is based off of your runnick/bystail deck (with a few minor changes of course) that you won ycs with, honestly runnick destruction, is basically a reverse painful choice in a way, a 1 for 5 hit is pretty insane/advantageous, and even runnick smiting storm to an extent could be like that, if not more, granted you are running the risk of allowing your opponent to create an unbreakable board to be able to hit 5-ish cards. (Also that isn't even a guarantee as they could have a negate available to nuke the smiting storm.) Also I am in agreement with you about pot cards, even the one that allows you to choose which ones you toss away, they are good, but the drawbacks are always a bit risky imho. - I honestly kind of feel the same way about cards like tripe tactics talent/thrust, lightning storm etc, they are good/great if your are in a position you can use them, but often they are "dead" or useless cards that are simply just sitting in your hand. Though again that is just my opinion on them, they are good when they are good, bad when they are bad. xD

Konami saw me getting my ever loving ass kicked while I was playing Dragon Rulers vs Lab in the duelist cup. Little do they know this changes absolutely nothing llol

5:12 That reaction dude! The disappointment overflow!!! KEKW

Hopefully this is a harsh lesson for Konami to realize that making EVERY GODDAMN CARD UR LIKE SAKITAMA is a horrible idea and will hurt them in the long run and us in the short run. It's not good for any body.

My poor Zombie Punk deck catching strays with that Chaos ruler ban.

I'm pretty sure the change in Chaos Ruler was in part due to Dis Pater coming out. I played against a deck that was using Bystials and lv 2 tuners to make Dis Pater to loop him and make a big annoying board. I don't know if it was super strong and consistent or if they just had a great hand vs my bad hand, but in the game I played it felt like Chaos Ruler was worth banning.

I mean a friend went Master 1 entirely with Floow this season so apparently wasn't dead xD Don't think Duality was here for Floow but it indeed hurts Floow.

Dragon Link went down but the Supreme King engine will allow us to still play the deck competitively. We’re just less likely to win tournaments but we can still top. We will be back at full power when we get Scarred Dragon Archfiend

"What's missing from this list?" The roach...

guys i had an idea this night and idk if it could work, with longyuan at 3 i was planning about making a swordsould deck with a little dogmatika engine with maximus, quem, nadir servant and fallen of alba do you think it could work? They are connected with ecclesia that could either summon alba going second to possibly make a mirror jade and sword soul combo pieces

7:58 “Purrely is suffering from severe memory loss. Purrely has acquired dementia” 😂

very unrelated- but may i ask where you got that framed BEChaos Dragon? I've seen a Linkuriboh one too and im curious to check where to get them :>

All those floodgates hit but evenly matched is still at 3 😔

I would like a dedicated video to what you think should be hit if maxx c is gone because I remember you mentioning before

Bro plays Runick and says HE'S suffering LMAO 🤣

5:09 His smile & optimism gone.

"Purrely has acquired dementia" BLESS

These are the kind of lists we needed week 1 post release of MD

the fact that they didn’t touch gimmick puppet is mildly sadge but ig it’s not popular so sUre?? Doesn’t make sense with all the other stun hits though Also 3 terrortop and 3 scorpio WITH invoker/isolde in the game is terrifying

Im really surprised they hit floodgates. Just last month i made a complaint saying they were cool minus the fact that the same people were just shoving as many in some decks that they could. Followed by the irony that as they made cards that played around them, they were able to play with them too

At this point I’m questioning whether or not it’s even worth it to run the small Kashtira package in VS. Fenrir being able to grab either an earth or fire while providing an extra interruption going first was huge. Now I’d be stuck running something stupid like Scarekash if I wanted another earth off Fenrir, but both the Riseheart and Scarekash do pretty much nothing in the deck aside from sitting in hand. Might be worth throwing in Pank to hedge against going second as a frankly way better board breaker than Fenrir but the thing is useless going first. Same goes for Kaijus to make up for attribute deficits and even then those aren’t that good rn either. If you cut the Kashtira package you lose 4 cards plus the 1 TCBOO so that’s 5 slots to try and fill. Not an insignificant hit unfortunately

my wishlist for next year is to see bloodshed on the january banlist for the following next year

Banning chaos ruler and white dragon hurts a lot for chaos / light n dark decks. I mainly enjoy those but dragon link was the main reason those two cards got hit. The changes in the banlist are pretty fair and will shift the meta around.

I completely agree with the nostalgia argument. I kinda wanna play Dragon Ruler vs Spellbook of Judgment in current format.

Konami made a bunch of changes that any player could have (and did) tell them to make two years ago, and then took a shotgun to a bunch of pot cards and tier 2 strategies. Objectively, it's one of the best lists we've ever had for the game, but it also INFURIATES me, because I don't think Konami deserves praise for making a lot of decent changes after 2 years of them just being allowed to be problems, and then continuing to kinda ignore a lot of the more recent problems. I don't want to play a game that feels like it's working on a several month delay on solving issues that the playerbase can VERY easily identify, I love YuGiOh, it will usually be at least some part of my life, and MD being accessible makes it kibd of given that I would play it pretty consistently. But the fact that I don't WANT to play every day is kind of telling, I am literally the easiest target for Konami to entice to play, and the fact that they have ANY issue at all getting me to want to play every day means that it is failing on some level. I am that big of a fan, I am the lowest hanging fruit and they sometimes struggle to keep me invested, that does not bode well for retention of players who aren't already heavily invested in Yu-Gi-Oh as a IP.

soulbreaker armor only needed to go to 1 to stop the ftk but it's a common so konami doesn't care as usual

sad dragon linkers noises

"Dragon Rulers won't do anything". Dlink guy completely rebuilds board through nib on his turn after nibiru and on his next turn after I clear it again.

Need clipped pic of when Josh actually sees the Runick hit. Man i felt it lmao

A cute deck idea is Dragon Ruler Kashtira. You can keep attaching banished Rulers to Arise-Heart, use the extra level 7 bodies for a second Shingra-La, and keep detaching Rulers to add 1-3 cards to hand per turn for more bodies. The Kash bodies are the main elemental attributes, so that helps synergize further with the Dragon Rulers, and with them all being level 7, you can use Birth to normal summon Dragon Rulers without tribute if they're stuck in hand, too.

I guess Konami wants us to make Arise-Heart with the Dragon Rulers. Might be cool, actually.

The last games i lost in MD duel was against runick stun. Tcabo + skill drain + kaiser colosseum.

They still need to ban Destruct Potion to get rid of the Numeron Dragon OTK.

I’ve been playing D Link without Chaos Ruler for months now, still lines, but was a impactful hit. If you respect other decks with H/Ts Seals pass is still decent

Honestly a very good ban list. I would have outright banned the floodgates and pots, but it's close enough. The one thing I really do question here is the Wyverburster hit, as I feel like there are better ways to nerf Dragon Link. Wyverburster is used in other decks, like say Red-Eyes, which are now punished unnecessarily. Still a good ban list though for sure.

they kill my deck oohh well i suppose i jus go to change for mark and build the manadium

Idk. Tempest is dragunity support for sure lol

I craft 1 wyverburster for my chaos deck and got royal, only for it to get banned

Bro so stressed he grew practically a beard

Has anyone tried Tidal in Tearlaments? I think Tidal has some hidden potential

konami please..... my cats can't even remember my face anymore....

So I finally decide to start aiming towards crafting for a Kashira deck and then this happens....I will never be allowed to play in the meta lol.

Terrortop to 3 is the most targeted change in the banlist

Tidal has been great for me in Marincess. Foolishing the barrier statue to revive with Anemone is better than praying you hit it with Springirl.

Fenrir, my boy... You lost your twin but you will always remain in my deck.

:( my 60 card lightsworn zombie chaos mill is just taking hits and hits i need that dragon

If they’re going to go hard on floodgates, could they please go after the generic extra deck Omni negates that contribute to the screw off turn 1 boards?

chaos ruler had it coming for a long time tho

We will sadly hope again to bee maxc band Patients My Brothers😢

Even if i think as a tcg player, the hits are going in the right direction, they are really messing with the playerbase. The kashtira core is so dammn expensive, same with the purrely core, if they really want to murder these decks they need to totally refund all related cards. This would be a step in the right direction. One they would admit they did a bad misstake, two they wouldnt do such a dick move again in master duel.

Poor Pot of desires our favorites -9 card 😢

Bruh... Baby dragon ban is too much. They murdered the deck.

POD imo should be at 3. It makes semi-limiting and limiting cards much more of a lost and having it at 1 opens a lot more engine pieces in Decks.

Destruction to 1 is the second most questionable decision on this list, someone just HATES getting their engine pieces milled by the thing I guess. Birth going to 1 literally only hits "pure" Kashtira, I've NEVER seen or used an engine build with more than one of it, but I still find it funny so it gets a pass.

A lot of those limit 1s should’ve been bans.

pot of anxietis to 1, longyuan to 3, protos free, let's go boys

Hitting Wyverbuster was a mistake and what should have happened is Bystial engine getting another hit/change by Saronir going to 1 (because let's face it they would not hit UR Lubellion if there is another option). I think Bystials are ok as Handtraps but are problematic as an engine and if Sanorir goes to 1 then Druiswurm could probably go to 3. A change like this would have addressed both DLink and Branded but instead DLink got severely nerfed and Branded's power level is once again off charts.

They did this because dragon link won the last duelist cup and stun always is fantastic in the duelist cups. Why play combo when your opponent who isn’t playing stun will scoop turn 1 when they don’t draw the out to your floodgate.

Really good banlist

All that’s left is the roach. Let’s hope that 2024 gets it done

Yeah I don't like pot of desires either. I play it a few times but, not much.

Why is Pot of Duality Limited?😂

those dlink players will just switch to draguinity variant which combos forever to finish

All i ever face is kashtira and lab. So seeing the kashtira hit was fine with me man.

Why are all the draw cards getting hit?? 😭

rip dementia kitties for now

My friend and I predict that the reason for Synchro Zone being limited is to potentially promote another N/R format event. I can't foresee this card being played in any competitive strategies, and I can see some synchro piles try this card as a permanent Swords of Revealing Light that also gives you a synchro on your opponent's turn, and a recovery tool.

BRO AT LEAST GIVE ME THE NEW SCAR RED AND RDA SUPPORT BEFORE BANNING THE PEPEGA RULER 😭😭😭

Really sad to see wyverburster banned… he was an important guy in my red eyes deck

Banlist lawsuit

Soooo many Synchro Decks got murdered by the Chaos Ruler Ban. Punk Bystial’s endboard is now surpassed by median SS-Tenyi, so no reason to build the Deck. Chaos-Thunder Dragon is only playable as the version that uses the non-Colossus Fusion, which is tough, because it eats up another ED slot and two more main deck slots. Pure Chaos is absolutely dead. RDA/Resonators is also dead. Pretty much every Synchro Deck except Swordsoul and Blackwings has been reduced to either Gold-only or completely unplayable. Edit: I loathe the fact we’re heading into another Branded Meta. If they were going to go this far, Ban Super Poly to reign Branded in.

RIP P.U.N.K. engine, Chaos Ruler into Zombie Vampire was kind of funny before you died...

Dragon link is still veeeeery playable

All floodgates back to 3

I almost feel bad for the Kashtira players, first Konami makes it the most expensive deck in the game and it turns out to be really mid, with a lot of weaknesses that can easily be exploited in deck building (for the other decks) and now it is even less playable than before. The thing is, it is still freaking everywhere so Konami really wants these people to buy something else.

Kashtira can still survive as long as they have Ariseheart.

kashtira was the worst investment i've ever made

the same ppl that shit on "floodgates" don't realize that yugioh for years has been creating situations in which your opponent cant play. floodgates in the forms of slow trap cards scare people but searchable, consistent, combo lines that can create big negate boards with monsters is okay! :))))

Kinda hate how the kash and purrley hits are just making the decks completely inconsistent instead of addressing a part of their endboard while leaving them consistent. Same with what happened to branded. Though I guess the meta might be more lenient on lesser powered deck, oh wait mathmech is unhit.

Hey Joshua its time to paleozoic runick

Not birth😭

I’m still convinced someone with alot of sway at Konami HQ lives and dies by One Bad Day and various other Stun decks and fights tooth and nail to keep floodgates off the ban list. Its the only explanation for why these damn cards are still legal.

Im really sad about the chaosruler hit but I understand why it should be banned. What I don't get is why the same logic doesn't aply to maxx c

Nothing to address circular?????

Anything but chaos ruler please 😞

All the Rulers are URs 💀

i think mo ye should be at 4

Really hate past banlist purrely to 2 make it hard to get 1 utopic and 2 noir we need to ditch yeap! first Delicious to 1 really sad too sometimes we need that 2nd memory so happiness can pound opponent monster to lethal Purrely keep losing good memorys man.. Sad cat getting dementia