How do I explain to someone who doesn't play modern Yu-Gi-Oh! that after 25 years of power creep, this is the centerpiece of a deck on the verge of Tier 0?
There aren’t many examples of them, but shoutout to archetypes that are terrible & solely exist to have 1 card be abused by other decks and ruin the game:
I was going to add Nemeses to the lineup but then realized like 1/2 of the cards in this archetype have ruined the game at some point...
Even though as a cohesive strategy there is absolutely zero synergy or value to it.
Imagine doing a 7min combo to summon 3 of the most "unbeatable" towers in history...
Only for your Duel Monsters fanboy opponent to click one button and run them over with an Egyptian God card. 😭😭😭
Context if needed: This is easily a top 5 most annoying cards to deal with.
She can solo entire decks on occasion bc of how hard she is to out.
And The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode is Lava Golem... for 3. 💀
Bad Yu-Gi-Oh! rulings:
I should be able to Super Poly my Enneacraft opponent's board away with this it their facedown is public knowledge and I "KNOW" it meets the requirements.
The new Umi support is so insane. 🌊
Before Dark Reef was mostly unplayable because the deck is inconsistent and couldn't always set up its requirement.
Now it casually has eTele for up to 5 (if Primite) with a guaranteed Omni-negate and Kaiser Colloseum???
These guys are JUST AS ICONIC as the original SDY SDJ SDP SDK decks and get 00.001% of the recognition.
If they each got some form of a retrain with modern support it would do INSANE things for the game's hype.
Super Quant Great Magnus doesn't demand nearly as much respect as he should.
This thing is basically on the same tier as cards like Liger Dancer or Rising Rebellion Falcon.
AND with the new support he's just as easy to make.
Nothing says "Modern Yu-Gi-Oh!" like the need to ban 17 year old pack filler that has never once seen play before today.
Shoutout to Master Duel for having its 2nd ever D.D. Dynamite FTK situation.
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