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ACAST. ACAST.com. Hey everybody. While we have decided to take the week off to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with our families, we decided that it would be a disservice to not put out a small video to talk about the newly released December 2022 for bid in the midlist.
So let's go ahead and dig on into the new banlist. After getting a banlist in early October, I think that a majority of the player base assumed that we would have a banlist sometime around mid-January. While many calls for an emergency banlist in reaction to the newly settled Acheezy Tier Tier Zero format, this banlist doesn't really fill that role. In fact, it's fairly difficult to tell what role this banlist was intended to fill at all.
On the surface, it seems too shallow to really impact the format, and I believe that that will largely be the case. However, I think that this banlist does exactly what it is intended to do. It will throw an interesting spin into what otherwise would have resulted in a very stale and uninteresting format in due time. But let's go ahead and review the banlist itself for those that may not have seen it.
Your newly banned cards are Curious, Light-Torn Dominion, and Mystic Mine. Curious initially feels like a hit that comes entirely too late. It was a powerful card in early September as it saw a drastic rise in play in the danger of Tier Deck. And while I do tend to agree that this card should have been banned on the previous list, I don't think that it is out of place on the Forbidden Unlimited list as a whole.
Curious is an imminently powerful card that can tutor any card out of the deck. This can be used for powerful setups using Nightmare Griffin to essentially let you add any spell or trap card to your end board. Even extremely powerful spell and trap cards, such as a Radikator Epidemic Virus, for example. It can also be used for something as simple as sending a tier limit name to your graveyard.
Just to extend your combo. This card also saw play in another very dangerous deck in the past as well in the danger Dark World decks from a few years ago. In what I'm assuming is an enormous coincidence, I am very much looking forward to the release of the Dark World Structure decks a few days from now. It will also include all the danger cards, so I'm sure that has nothing to do with the Curious, Light-Torn Dominion ban.
Mystic Mine being banned also makes an enormous amount of sense. To be quite frank, this card is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the least fun cards that I've ever had the pleasure of not interacting with. Mystic Mine allowing you to totally lock your opponent out of Act A monster effects, attacking or generally having fun would have been right at place in 2006. But in today's meta game which revolves around the use of powerful monster effects to not only advance your immediate game state, but also to interact with your opponent in pretty much any meaningful way, this card simply does not have a place.
While there is a reasonable argument to be made, that Mystic Mine can slow down a game state to a pace where lesser decks are allowed to compete, it can also give high level combo decks the time they need to draw into appropriate combo pieces. This card warped the entire meta to a point where every topping duelist from any of the most recent events had to make very specific decklist choices to account for this one card. So while the card isn't highly represented, and it didn't have an overwhelming win rate post side, at least in the last month or so, the impact this card had on the meta as a whole through deck building was undeniable. It was time for this card to go.
A year ago. Your only newly limited card is Paral the Vorn's Light. At first glance, Harold might seem out of place on this list. Digging a little deeper though, I think that this hit makes quite a bit of sense.
In conjunction with the Ishizu cards, Harold is potentially the most impactful it has ever been. Interacting with the Ishizu tier deck was already not an easy thing to do, and with the threat of Harold always looming, it became even more difficult to pinpoint exactly what spots were best to even attempt to interact with. Even if you have a bit still to interrupt your opponent, Harold can potentially put a quick end to that. Insulating the deck seems to have been the final straw for this card.
While I don't necessarily think this was the right time to hit Harold, that was probably last summer during Drytron format. I think that this card is a fine hit. Index where cutting Harold are moving into the side already for various reasons, but I think that looking back on the YCS Pasadena finals, the impact that this card can have is fairly evident. Your only semi-limited card is Leerless Recital Starlin.
This card was limited earlier this year in response to the Leerless Driver Gate or Burt Up deck. The card being a soft ones per turn allows easy extension and allows for the deck to easily make an early Utopic Draco future as an omninigate to insulate their combo. Despite this, I think that removing the Samorg Link 3 was probably the most impactful hit to the deck. This was so capable of making the early Utopic Draco future by using a different Leerless Monster as the other material.
So I think that while this will allow the Burt Up deck even more easily to extend their plays, I do not think that this will have a large impact in the overall meta. This is probably fine. Your unlimited cards are Telenite Tulumas, Dimensional Fisher, Fire Formation Tenkey, Macrocosmos, and Metaverse. Fire Formation Tenkey will serve a similar role to Recital Starlin.
It was limited for the same reason and I think it's unlimited will have roughly the same impact. It has a small amount of consistency to what was already still a very consistent deck and a very consistent engine. Tulumas is much more interesting to me. This card was initially banned for allowing Rank 4 Spam decks, namely Pendlendex, to easily access Outer Entity Azophot and Cyber Dragon Infinity.
Azophot has since been banned and Infinity has largely been power crept. I think that Tulumas can still have an impact on the meta. It will always give Rank 4 decks an option for a different inboard monster. Namely, it can currently allow decks like Exosister to make something like the Tulumas and Dimensional.
I am quite interested to see how this card gets utilized moving forward and seeing if it's okay to be off the list at all. Especially being the rare move from banned to unlimited, which makes sense for an extra deck monster but it's still not something we see often. Dimensional Fisher and Macrocosmos I think feel the same role. They allow decks to have more ways to slow down or stop the Aschisu tier deck.
Most notably, Flowanderese seems to have the largest boost from these cards being at 3. To be honest though, I don't think that these cards will have a large impact in the current meta. Dimensional Fisher is certainly the more impactful of the two in my opinion. It is playable as a going first or second option and can be main decked.
Going first is an incredibly powerful card that you can start your turn with to insulate yourself immediately. Going second, it can be played with to start your turn to insulate yourself. Or sorry, going second, it can be played at the start of your turn to prevent your opponent from using your turn essentially their main phase 3. Macro is a bit harder to justify though.
The card is certainly powerful going first but going second is honestly pretty bad. It immediately makes it a side war option over a main deck inclusion and in addition to that, the main deck you would play for until it has an inherent way to stop the card with real callos. As it turns out, being able to summon Helios the Promordial Sun as part of this card's effect has been one of its biggest downfalls for over a decade now and I hope it never changes. The last card is Metaverse.
While I don't think this card will have any measurable impact at 3 since it can no longer to do a mystic mine, I am still quite interested to see what duelists come up with here. There are quite a few impactful field spells that can be played such as Necrovali or Secret Village with the spellcasters. But at the end of the day, I don't really think that this card will break anything. Overall, I think that this list is far more interesting than many people give it credit for.
While I can't understand that many players want more meaningful hits to Ishi Zu-tier, being that it's currently tier 0, I think that this is potentially the least toxic tier 0 deck that Yu-Gi-Oh has ever had. Ishi Zu-tier mirrors are incredibly back and forth. They have a ton of cool interactions and are, above all, extremely skill intensive. And at the end of the day, these are all the things that we love about Yu-Gi-Oh and that we prize in good formats.
Variety is great and it certainly has its place in the overall scope of the Yu-Gi-Oh meta game. And that's the format that we live in. With YCS Pass, with YCS Season largely over and no new sets set to be released until Photon Hyper Nova in mid February, love it or hate it, this is the format that we have for the next couple of months. Thank you all so much for watching or listening.
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