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

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

“Can it be unbanned?” ✨no✨

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.)

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

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".

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

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.

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!

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

Loved how lapis is free but at 1 in Duel Links

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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??...

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

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.

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

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

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.

Metamorphosis can have the restriction of you cannot summon/set any other monster during the turn.

For Cold Wave, just add the following restrictions and it'll be fine. * You cannot special summon Monsters during this turn. * You can only activate this named card's effect once per 3 turns. That alone is more then enough to keep it from being problematic.

Its funny how the banlist basically shows my childhood

HUGE series

I think one way to fix Cold Wave and to make it more balance is by making it prevent both player to use or set a spell / trap card until your next end phase instead of your next turn. You can also add a restriction to prevent you to attack until your next end phase as well (so blocking you from attacking for 2 turns). So you can't use Cold wave to win a game by summoning lots of monsters and still keeping the theme of "freezing the field"

Cold Wave really captures that "slightly off-feeling early Yu-Gi-Oh card art" vibe.

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

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

I haven't played Yugioh since late 2005 or early 2006. I think the game is far too complex yet boring in the current state, but I still love watching all these videos. Nice job.

Heavy storm/Dimension fusion fix: Only destroy/summon the same number of your and your opponents cards. Meaning you need setup for both. Cold wave fix (I don't know how to do problem solving card text but here goes): Must be activated at the start of your main phase 1, You and your opponent cat set any number of spell or trap cards from your hand face down, until the end of your opponents turn neither player can play nor set additional spell or trap cards except those set down by this effect. So it pretty much locks you out of any spells/traps for the turn as cards placed face down cannot be used that turn, and allows you to snipe your opponents combo pieces with monster effects (or traps during their turn) before they can be activated for combos.

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

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."

A restriction for Cold Wave could be that the person who activates it can't play or set Spells and Traps until the end of their next turn, locking the user out of it for 2 turns while their opponent is locked out of it for just 1 turn

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

*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.

Heavy storm could definitely come back to 1

I have an idea for fixing Cold Wave: "Activate this card at the start of Main Phase 1. Until the end of the next turn, neither player can activate or Set any Spell or Trap Cards. After this effect resolves, any damage your opponent takes this turn is halved. You must control no cards in your Spell and Trap Zone to activate this effect. You can only activate 1 "Cold Wave" per 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.

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

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

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

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.

25 seconds Damn I'm early

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

Brilliant Fusion: 1) add the can only special summon Gem Knight monsters clause. 2) the cards from the deck must be Gem Knights 3) errata the problem card that got this one banned.

I don't know if someone commented this already, but one way to fix Brilliant Fusion would be to also have the restriction of having the Fusion summoned monster to have its effects negated along with the "You can't summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except 'Gem-Knight' Monsters" clause.

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

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

Change to Cold Wave, for every card disabled on the field (both players) your opponent draws a card

Great video duel logs loving the content at the monent

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

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

Slight correction on Dimension Fusion. Dark magician of chaos was actually banned after Dimension Fusion in September 2008 alongside Destiny hero disk commander and premature burial bringing a close to the pre-synchro era while fusion died in the may 08 emergency banlist. They originally limited limited dimension fusion in 2007 and later magical stone excavations because the latters ability to retrieve fusion was considered the broken component. When phantom darkness released in 08 this would prove lacking as the destiny and reasoning gate engines alongside DDR and allure of darkess to reach dmoc and fusion easily conglomerated to create a playerbase destroying horror known as DDT. Just figured id point it out. As for fixes. Dimension Fusion should be made A hard OPT and monsters that have already been summoned this turn cant be summoned by its effect. This prevents loops and doubling up on effects as seen by the infamous dmoc loop's while letting the card of performing its intended mass summon role. Not sure if its enough but it goes along way. Also for a video idea do top 10 most broken pre errata cards

The true reason why Heavy Storm was banned because of the introduction of Pendulum monster cards. Before Pendulums were released, it was still legal to use in duels.

Dimmension fusion: instead of "all monsters", change to "all level 11 monsters"

If you activate cold wave you are a *S I M P*

You could change Brilliant Fusions effect to draw 2 cards to allow it to be unbanned. If there’s already a card that has that effect, nobody knows what it is.

It's possible you could fix cold wave, not by making it weaker, but by making it stronger but then make it lopsided so there's a major downside. Like, add the additional downsides to it since you'll be able to plan your deck around the possibility, but if you locked your opponent out of spells and traps for two turns, and yourself for five turns, the game won't always make it that long by then but you're functionally giving up spells and traps for the rest of the duel. Give it a niche activation requirement, largely just to make it more interesting to build a deck around and further restrict who can make use of such a powerful card, like maybe you need to tribute a dinosaur and a water monster with ice in it's name or card text to activate it's effect. You might also want to still mystical refpanel it because then your opponent is locked for 5 turns and you're fine two turns from now

Gem knight fusion fix could be "you cannot normal summon for the rest of the turn except gem monsters" and of course, ban problem monsters like lapis lazuli, cannon soldiers, etc.