Saturday 14 July 2012

Banlist Talk - Rabbit/Verz Ragia & Dark World

I'll be talking on two decks today cos I may not be able to cover everything I want to in time. Anw, the above are both control decks, and I can't think of any other intelligent similarities so next paragraph pls.

The standard plays of Rabbit is to farm alot of shit and make Ragia/Dolkka/Ophion using Rabbit or
Sabersarus normal summons. For Dark World they focus on feeding Grapha into grave and using him as a recurring 2700 beater, whilst controling the gand and board of opponents with Skill Drain/Mind Crush.

Both decks have managed to allow us to look at old forms of YGO, as consistentcy levels in recent formats aren't great, it is actually viable to first turn Heliolope and sit on it the entire game, something that would have been laughed at 3 formats ago. Also, an old card Dragged Down to the Grave has been singled out to the key card in Dark World allowing them to fully utilise Mind Crush's potential even without Dustshoot.

There aren't really any problematic big plays for Rabbit as the deck is focused on controlling and Rabbit is a once per turn effect, Dark World however can be focused on gaining ridiculous advantage over time and the card that enables it all in one turn is ofc Card Destruction. And being a deck that fucking ABUSES Reborn, Dark World has shown that it has near limitless capabilites, just shitlike consistency, as in the early game, no single card in the engine works by itself.

Final verdict: Due to being overplayed in the TCG, as well as a slighty above average win ratio in the OCG, Rescue Rabbit it likely to take a hit to 2, similar to Cat originally. Card Destruction should also really be banned, but if not the only other hit Dark World should take is to Dragged Down.

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