_Intermittent reinforcement._

For ppl telling Paul that Purrely is pronounced pure-ly, it's a cat deck. Cats purr. They don't pure.

I wish that Borreload Savage wasn't generic and required a rokket to summon

Seeing this list is sad. There are cards still banned from 5 years ago when i quit. Cards that made budget players capable of keeping up with top meta decks.

I can't wait for Baronne de Little Knight, which basically does what Baronne did but on a link two.

Never would’ve guessed Baronne De Fleur would be banned.

Fenrir be dodging banlists left and right

I'm really worried about Protos and Colossus now. And Snake-Eyes got hardly touched either.

Call it now Baronne and Savage Dragon going to come back after the Mage tins

Ya flood gates aren't fun 100% agree, but so is special summoning impossible boards.

Shifter dodge the banlist once again 😂

honestly, I would say cards like barrone and savage are much less problematic than the busted spells they negate. Youll literally lose a game to any spell without an omni. Spells do entirely too much now. You let any spell resolve and its GGs most of the time

If you ask me, it was a pretty lousy list. Same problem as the OCG: not a single direct snake-eyes hit.

I’m sure pure snake eyes is still good, and I’m sure there will be new combo lines to learn, but I’m feeling Fire king snake eyes is gonna be the way to go

Personally I like the omni negate and floodgate hits (but not the colossus...) BUT WHY LINKURIBOH MY BELOVED 😭😭😭 He was my first linkmonster

Colossus came back before Simorgh, and if I didn’t take Konami TCG seriously/couldn’t stand them before, I DEFINITELY don’t now. It’s almost insulting at this point. And I have nothing against colossus either! I’m HAPPY it’s back.

As a branded player I am completely shocked they didn't ban Gimmick Puppet or Sanctfire. Both of those were completely dodged. Otherwise list was pretty good.

I’ve been on a Fleur deck since it came out waiting for Konami to give support waves to my favorite decks. Losing my ace is a severe morale hit and makes me not want to play the deck anymore. I want to do Sherry things with the Sherry cards, now there’s no “goal” in-theme. And Konami *still* hasn’t given my favorite decks waves!

So none of my main competitive decks got hit. I play Furniture Labrynth, Branded , Vanquish Soul and Voiceless so happy for that. I’m torn on the Baronne and Borreload Savage hits … really it’s the Baronne hit for me. Something about it really doesn’t sit right with me. My lower power decks being Scareclaw , Ghoti and a few more decks I feel like auto lose to Nib or any other equalizer card like Duster , Evenly and LS. I’m perfectly fine with easily accessible omni negates being benched but in turn I think that these oppressive / you cannot respond to going 2nd cards might have to be looked at in the future. Especially if Konami is going to make more decks like Tenpai that thrive going 2nd.

Baronne was one of the monsters I was using a lot when forced to go first as Shinobirds, at least I can still Bagooska.

Note to self. Buy Baronne De Fleur. The ban list will make the price drop fully. Through kinda nervious about attraction towards the level 10 sword soul so may need to get one asap.

“Fixing yugioh” yet didn’t touch the tier 0 deck at all.

Colossus to one without having hit certain other cards first isn't good for the game.

This banlist sucks ass. Linkuriboh got banned for Snake Eyes sins.

Honestly was hoping Meow Meow would go back to 1.

I hope they come back with erratas like: baronne needs chevalier de fleur if it fits her lore like a promote but makes it harder to summon, and borreload savage can only equip only rokket monster link(make a good new one to buff dlink) to fit their gun theming.

Classical fight against symptoms, disgusting decisions by Konami

I remember people saying the format in 2019 was pretty good, and from memory, I don’t remember a lot of omni negates, or negations in general, it felt more like the recourse management format.

I might really miss borreload savage dragon

While I hope this means a move away from super strong generic ED staples, I fully expect Konami to print even stronger versions of baronne/savage in the future.

I don't understand why Reinforcement of the Army is limited but Bonfire manages to avoid the same treatment.

Now decks will be built around more than “can I turbo out baronne?”

These bans are meaningful, personally I'd also like to see a hit to Apollousa. Maybe if it and it's Alt Art get reprinted in RC2 we could see a hit by the end of the year.

I currently run a Traptrix deck and I wanna swap over to the Diabellstar archetype.

Good video I didn't expect to see Chicken Game back. I use to play that card Hope for Escape Exodia

If you think baronne and borrel savage getting hit was a long time coming then more power to you but the unhitting of protos and colossus shows me this wasn't about hitting the generic ED bosses. To be honest I prefer an omni like baronne over floodgates like protos and colossus, but again that's besides the point. I can only see their hitting as being attempts to hit snake-eyes without putting a dent in their super profitable cards and using that logic and hitting baronne and borrel savage is infuriating to me since this doesn't hit snake-eyes who can just bring out the next best thing or rely on other cards in their endboard. meanwhile alot of lower to the ground decks have a much harder time dealing with baronne or savage's absence. Also these were two major reprints from the rarity collection and they are now banned and replaced with two cards that weren't in it and that's just scummy

I bought savage and baroness today, the seller sent it 30 minutes later, 2 hours later the ban list came out... The shipping cost was higher when the cards in Brazil, I guess I ripped some bucks... Fck you Konami

I would be interested in seeing retrains of the floodgate cards with the restriction that you can only use them at the start of your first main phase or something similair to prevent people from circumventing the floodgate themselves. Although that would probably require them to be reworked as spells.

I have mixed feelings about the Baronne and Savage hits - I get the argument about powerful extra deck monsters centralising decks around the same end boards but it's the same issue as any powerful staple - they give weaker decks a route to compete but they make the good decks even stronger. So the best decks have lost a few tools but some rogue strategies have been crippled.

That opening was so subtle yet so amazing.

Lmao, they effectively buffed Snake Eye with their ability to run the Striker engine with Engage to 3 in spite of not hitting the engine pieces like Ash and banning the omni negates. Heck, most even had High Avatar Kirin getting hit in some capacity as far as the Fire Kings are concerned. Still have Apollousa chillin. 🤣🤦‍♂️

One thing I will say is I will continue to play decks like Spright where Nibiru isn't a factor because of cards like Gigantic Spright and Spright Red and White Woods will buff this deck a lot when it comes out. I've already done a ton of testing and for hand traps to invalidate your turn your opponent will almost always need Nibiru, Ash Blossom, and Droll in their opening hand to stop you because despite having enough plenty of room for non-engine it almost never runs out of gas. You summon or special summon a White Woods lv.2 and you almost never have to normal Spright Blue or Spright Jet. You just keep searching cards and special summon from hand, deck, and grave. Special summoning Arturia during your opponents turn gives you fuel for Spright Red and Spright Carrot and the other cards in grave can come back and fuel for I:P into Little Knight or I:P into a easy 3 material Apollousa. Most people will say 9 non-engine isn't good enough but when people see it in practice and realize it has more gas than Branded when Branded goes uninterrupted despite my version being a 40 card deck they'll see how much having more than 9 non-engine matters for this deck.

With all the new and upcoming archetype that has several one-card starters, can play through multiple handtraps, and can OTK and even FTK, these cards from 2019 banlist aren't scary anymore

This might be just me, and i am someone who likes floodgates because i play non-competitive decks, but i feel that a good way to make the game more approachable and to help with deck construction, is to do what duel links does with the limited lists. A person can only have 1 card on the limited list and can only have 2 from semi-limited. So lets say you have monster Reborn in your deck, that would mean you can't use anti-spell fragrance or another card on the limited list. Same thing for the semi-limited list.

The first few seconds creeped me out, Paul… I think you’d be a good writer

I gotta say im not a fan of hitting these floodgates. As someone who is forced to play on a budget, stun strategies off a cheap way of actually being able to play. These hits a couple of these hit feel like attacks on anyone who cant put 200-300-400 £/$ into a deck.

Bow goddess and IP is in rarity collection 2 soooo imma assume after that they will be gone too

ngl I was very relieved to see Baron and Borreload go. Digimon did something recently that I've lowkey always wish that Yugioh would do, in that they've taken certain cards that are only busted when used together, and just disallowed them to be used together instead of banning them outright.

TCG KoMoney targets cheap cards and NOT the expensive broken cards. And cares about money and Unban unicorn kirin and doesnt touch snake eyes. 0 balls smooth brain mentality. Linkuriboh did nothing wrong. And TD Colossus and Archnemeses Protos?? Bruh, make the game more toxic with Calamity still here.

I'm just mad they make affordable reprints of cards like Borreload Savage and Baronne, only to ban it less than a year later. I waited to get them cheap and... I totally agree they were overtuned and needed to be restricted somehow. But it just sucks. Wait all this time and... it's gone.

Let's be honest here: Control strategies have been disproportionately shredded by both power creep AND the ban list over at least the last ten years. We went from having things like Tomato control and Monarchs all the way to just repeated OTK decks.

Very dirty of them to reprint and then ban. But this isn't their first rodeo so....also I agree about giving reasons for their changes. Bandai gives a reason why cards get banned limited and errata'd and the transparency is much appreciated.

'Hit because Paul didn't like it.' - Konami

Well thats 80% of decks not playable anymore. Except snake eyes.

i just hope that they don't hit apo next because then Pendulum and Mannadium are basically almost dead and the thing is it is good that the are going more towards in-archetype boss monster but the problem is deck like Pendulum just don't have good in-archetype bossmonsters except maybe vortex which is just not enough and also Nibiru is now a huge problem for these kinds of decks to the point that it's borderline unfair. So unless they give these decks good in-archtype boss monsters, this just makes bad decks even worse

Yugioh has over 10,000 cards. The Banlist should be very big, like at least 500, to even balance the game.

I'm thinking White Woods will use Red Dragon Archfiend to wipe opponents boards after using Witch Wolf to flip all of your opponents monsters to facedown defense position. It might not look like a great idea at first but a well timed Witch Wolf during opponents turn can turn Red Dragon Archfiend into a Otk enabler and the faster younend the game the less likely you are to lose. Its has a high chance of working because Witch Wolf isn't once per turn and the deck can bring it out 3 times during opponents pretty easily.

Did little to none to help the format though

baronne and savage are just going to get replaced by the next generic thing. Let's face it if your deck is able to turbo those two cards there is no shortage of options when it comes to extra deck monsters to choose from. Whether they are synchros or links or even xyzs.

KONAMI PLEASE just slap a Dark Dragon Tuner on Savage

Savage dragon did nothing wrong and I'll die on this hill

"fixing" Not really. The barrier between accessible decks and the top tier stuff has grown even wider not only price but power harder now

Malicious “yea helps hero players do whatever they do” 😂 yea that sounds about right

Boss monster are basically hard to summon but barone is a boss that allows you to combo into other bosses without being interrupted

Linkuriboh getting hit makes me sad. He enabled the starting combos of my Skull Servant deck by giving me an easy (and cheap) link 1 to use as a way of getting witghtprinces and wightbakings into the graveyard. Soo.....what are my options now? Salamangret almirag and relinquished anima?

i'm just crying my eyes out because i was literally trying to get my hands on a baronne de flur and now it's banned😭

i'm happy they don't hit Link Hiita, i'm a Charmer player and i would be very upset if they ban a card from my archetype (which isn't even so broken) just for hit Snake eyes

problem with baronne is that even tho it belong in 'synchro warrior' series, it doesnt need any synchron. baronne also fleur version of shooting star dragon, but, while shooting star dragon need stardust dragon for mats (and sync tuner too), baronne not even need chevalier de fleur as mats

The one thing I don't agree with is the savage dragon hit. It at least requires set up before getting the negates and could get hit with nib before hand unlike baronne. Not to mention dragon link became way more budget friendly with all the reprints and now has lost one of its best cards.

As someone that came back to Yugioh thanks to Master Duel after many years, I would say that pvp is broken with the overpowered combos that take an eternity. I watched an older video of yours on how to fix it and thought of the following 3 general rules that I believe can fix it without changing card texts and potentially eliminating a need for ban lists: 1- You can only summon 1 new monster on every monster zone slot each turn, expect for normal monsters. I believe this will massively reduce the length of combos as you will only be able to summon up to 6 effect/extra deck/token monsters per turn. And will potentially breath new life to vanilla normal monster cards who are immune to this rule. 2- Inspired by your Summoning sickness idea on the other video, maybe a general rule that Special Summoned monsters from deck or gy (except normal monsters) have their ATK and/or DEF reduced. So, you get your favourite monster on the board with a trick, but it is weakened. This could also breath new life on vanilla normal monsters as they would be unaffected by this rule. 3- Can have only one copy per card in each deck except when you use monsters or cards that specifically require more copies of cards. Like blue eyes ultimate dragon, thunder dragon, nimble momonga etc. This should eliminate having a deck made up of just 12-14 different cards and their copies. More variety and creativity. This rule would potentially eliminate the need for ban lists.

The Baronne hit is so massive for mannadium sadly my favorite deck has been gutted...

😭Man why they have to banish one of my number synchro monsters of Baronne De Fleur. She ain’t hurt no body forreal because she was just riding her horse to save the crew and protect them as well.😭😭😭😭😭😭💯

As a ROKKET lover I give my salute 🫡 to Borreload savage dragon! But this was definitely the right hit. Monsters like that should have an in archetype requirement to summon.

Is Summon Limit a hit on Labrinth? Cause when I think about it after their initial setup is done they only bring back their 2 boss monsters every turn

Chicken Game limit is pretty devastating to my Exodia deck. Big shame tbh considering the low win rate already.

I definitely think getting rid of the big generic synchro boss monsters is both good for the game and also possibly a business play on konami's part. The White woods archetype just so happens to be a synchro related archetype that is really powerful and this will help sell that product even more.

while I find the ban on the two synchros to generally be more good than bad, it's konami's solution they sell you to the problem(s) they created. That being card design and printing policy.

"On the 15th if you're in the United States and the 22th if you're anywhere else" I guess Central America, South America and the rest of North America don't exist then.

Bruh homie went immediatly to the full changes and not one by one😅

Gotta admit i checked the title of the video about 4 times during the first 30 seconds

This is way better than the MtG banlist. While MtG is still iffy on banning The One Ring or Orcish Bowmasters, Yu-Gi-Oh! is doing a lot more. Granted, YGO's more volatile, but still, they're doing more to the banlist.

man I'll miss using baronne and summon limit in level 8 turbo :^(

Will this ban list be implemented on master duel???

I’d be hesitant. This feels like more of a design space decision than a gameplay or game health decision to me. Even if the TCG side of the company understands that the US/Europe/Oceania/C-S-A does not like generic boss monsters on end boards, it doesn’t signal a fundamental shift in gameplay direction, in my opinion. The main OCG side of the game is still designing cards reminiscent of Poplar and the TCG doesn’t have the latitude to go outside the desires of the main company’s overall plan. Also, the Yugioh community deserves to understand the banlist hits and to understand the R&D’s decision making. Don’t be afraid to say it’s needed or that you all want it more loudly (and respectfully).

Both Borrel and Baronne just need Errata’s for their material costs. Baronne just needs to be used with ‘Fleur Syncron’ But honestly a Synchron that substitutes itself for other Syncrons works too (ie Quickdraw). Borrel needs either a dragon Tuner or a Rokket Tuner.

I don't really know why borreload savage dragon is getting banned. Like its negate requires a link monster and its the link rating that gives the number of times it can negate which I recall is a once per turn. Maybe I'm missing something?

Gunna add Protos to my Tenyi deck

Both Baronne and Borreload could easily come back with erratas to the required materials.

I don’t understand how snake eye ash dodged the limit. This list is dumb.

I'm just happy Engage and Harp are free. TOSS format was fun as hell and 3 copies of both makes striker horus orcust a strangely powerful deck both going 1st and 2nd.

Linkuriboh getting banned, RIP easy way of popping my white stone of ancients/legend for my casual blue eyes chaos max deck.

Honestly i feel this way every banlist (because my decks are usually untouched), but this banlist is fine. I dont mind it. The plus is definitely maybe more original end boards instead of all same ones

I can see Konami's approach in experimenting TOSS with Snake-Eyes. They don't want to ban Snake-Eyes cards because its profit. They unban most TOSS cards to check if it can withstand and balance the Tier 0 of Snake-Eyes. Probably a somewhat TOSS-SE Format.

The easiest way to fix Baronne for good is to give it Goyo Guardian treatment with the errata

Ice barrier bout to abuse tidal XD

I literally just started running Baronne so I could keep up with the meta, and they ban it literally right as I started using it... Where tf was this banlist 2 years ago when I needed it??

not a fan of baronne being hit as I don't think its too problematic personally, BUT I am a fan of TD being back =D TD decks are so fun for interactive beatdown decks to play against because they shut down the boring solitaire decks and allow for actual back and forth between creative decks. This meta is gonna get alot healthier. Konami NEEDS TO KEEP TD DECKS ALIVE. They are very healthy for the game and completely gut check decks that just want to do the same search engine loop over and over.

I'm honestly sad about Linkuriboh, because I would often use him in my Rikka deck on the rare occasions when everything but the summon of my Petal were negated and removed. (Also, he's cute). Glad I never got around to buying Barone.

You know what would make trap cards better if they banned every monster with a negate and made it strictly trapped based effect

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