Hello, DGA its darkness evil, I know I havent been active here in a while. So I've decided to write an article to give something in return.
Its around the end of the format and I'm so bored, it usually happens around the end of the format, but this format has made me super bored, and I've actually stopped playing advanced format, till next format is here.
I will start off the article with a list of what made the format so boring to me, and give examples proving my points.
1.The lack of skill, I started playing YGO to show how good i am, and out playing my opponent, now I actually dont put thought into my place, and still able to win, and sometimes I play against someone who doesn't know basic rulings and lose.
2. I shouldn't complain about this, since I hated the set 5 pass format, but we really have to much S/T hate.
3. This goes with the above point, the lack of backrows forces us to play hand traps, Effect Veiler, is the best example, I really dont like the card at all, will talk more about it in a sec.
4. Losing, I know its part of the game, but losing to someone better than you makes you work hard, losing to someone worse just pisses me off.
5. No room for techs, or being creative, too much OVER USED cards
6. Game is too fast, you cant use deck that require set up, its kill or be killed, you dont have time to draw into cards, at times.
All the above reasons, and more have made me bored with the games current state, I will go into details and examples.
1. The game has lost its skill factor it used to be more skill than luck now its just the opposite, I've actually lost my skill, game is too auto-pilot for me to play it differently, I've actually stopped dueling in the competitive area now.
Lets give an example of a Skilled player in and older format, and a so called skilled player today.(not even gonna go far back with the old format, just couple formats ago)
Old Format Player:
I've lost game 1 due to my opponents Thunder King Rai-Oh aka TKR, your going first, you know your opponent has a TKR, hes playing an Anti meta deck, While your playing X-sabers, you open XX-saber Darksoul, Mystical Space Typhoon, Bottomless trap Hole, Dimensional Prison, and X-saber Airebellum,
you expect your opponent to side in cards like Macro Cosmos, and Dimensional Fissure. Now you have options to think about, set you Darksoul, and set BTH or prison to get rid of ThunderKing so it doesn't Stop your Darksoul search later on, or your attempt to synchro summon, you have the option on summoning Airbellum and setting BTH or D-prison, then using MST on what ever backrow the set to attack directly and make them lose a card from hand. Or you can save the MST for a Macro, and risk attacking and losing your Airbellum, you can set 1 of your traps and lose it to a MST, or set both to protect yourself from a random MST. See that 1 turn may effect the game, your trying to get into your opponents head and figuring out what he will do to try and out play him, there is so many moves you can make, and not every player thinks the same way, even if they open with the same hand.
Now todays format:
You've lost game 1 you know a lot of opponents play style and cards, you open with Rescue rabbit, Solemn Warning, MST, BTH, and D-priosn, here you dont care what opponent plays you drop that rabbit and set all your cards you could care less what else you drew, if your lucky and top a TGU, you 90% won that game just for going first, or just because your opponent didnt have a Veiler. These 2 examples show the difference, the first player may be considered average depending on how he played it out, the second player can be considered a pro just because he won a tourney doing that same move over and over again.
The problem is I dont think I can win with a skilled deck anymore, If i dont play auto-pilot I missplay crazy, i got used to the deck playing itself. I played an older format with some friends on DN, I missplayed a lot, its like my first time playing Yugioh.
The Number 2 thing on the list is all the S/T hate, dont take me wrong I never want heavy storm to get banned, but we have too much S/T hate, Heavy storms punishes you for overextending your back row, so set 1 card opponent wont waste heavy on that, but now he can waste an MST, he playes 3, random MST's are played so often, sometime i set 2, after opponent wastes his heavy or mills it, but i get hit by a double mst, and he still has one for any problem later in the duel. Traps are dying out, along with decks like T.g, Gravekeepers, Gladiator Beast, Blackwings, and anyform of stun and control decks, the Game is supposed to be monster vs monster with cards to back them up, now its player vs a dozen monsters after all my protection was gone.
Number 3, this could be really biased, but i HATE Effect Veiler, and do have some hate for Maxx C as well, because of the lack of traps, we use these hand traps, also because the random loops the we have, (Well not random, im talking to you windups), and the first turn power plays that are hard to recover from, aka Rabbit, we are force to main these cards, they take up space, we could use for techs, and they kill of other decks that set up. For example I play a Miracle Diva deck, I play couple of turns setting up and was able to out play my opponent, and set all my pieces, now its time for my power play, i got around all my opponents backrows and im ready to drop my Ace in the whole, or my power play, i summon diva it gets veilered, its hard to play around you dont know if its there or not, and you cant actualy interact with it. So your setting was for nothing, and your stuck with a 200 atk monster, your opponent made bad plays all game now he can just win from there. Same goes for a lot of decks that dont see play anymore because they lose to a veiler, and yes there are decks that lose just to veiler. But if we dont use them we cant play vs meta, I dont like to be forced to main something in my deck.
The forth thing on the list, is the reason i dont play competitive, Last to war matches ive had for DLK, I lost to Noobs, one of them was asking me ruling questions, and if he can do this, and that, during the war match yet i couldnt beat him, that made me feel like a N00b even tho i know im better than him, it makes you feel like quitting
We dont have room for any techs because were forced to play some cards, let me make a deck off the top of my head,
Monsters:
3x Tourgueid
1x Sangan
2-3 Effect veiler
Gorz
BLS(As long as u can play 3 tourguied and 3 effect veiler u can splash this in, but not seen as much play now)
Spells:
2-3 MST
1x Heavy
1x monster reborn
1x Darkhole
1x Book of Moon
0-2 Forbidden lance(sees play in rabbit, inzektors and some chaos dragon builds)
Traps:
1x Solemn Judgement
2x Solemn warning
2x Torential Tribiute
0-2 Bottomless trap hole(seeing more play with no prio)
And then u thro in your inzektors, or your rabbit, and Dinosaurs, you cant be a little creative and put your own twist on the deck, because we are forced to play most of these cards. A couple of days ago, me and scorp tried to make an atlanteans deck but we couldnt, cuz our originality is gone, when i started to make the deck i looked like the thing above, but i didnt like the idea that i cant look into more water support cards and work out something new, just because water decks arent played in the meta. The game is killing people skills instead of letting us show it off.
The fast game pace of the game, the game ends before it begins, there are times where you know youve won from your opening hand, so even if you were able to find space for good techs, you can rarely draw into them and show your techs, i dont want the game to take forever, but it would be nice to play more than 3-4 turns, just saying.
Can we Fix things, well we cant, Konami can, and looking at the new sets coming, Return of the Duelist, and Abyss rising, all the archtypes in them are really bad compared to todays format, which seems like konami is finaly learning its lesson, with broke archtypes. So what they need to sell those packs, and archtypes is to hit, a lot of the things we have now, so i will give my thoughts on a banlist, will go by decks then post a final look for the banlist.
Rabbit Decks:
Main thing to hit is Rabbit and tourgueid,
Rabbit @ 2, and tourguied, at eaither 2 or 1
2 rabbit makes it less likely to be opened with, and 1 or 2 TGU makes it even harder to easily get Laggia or Dolkka.
Wind-Ups:
Hunter banned is what we all ask for, kill the loop. But i think they should be slowed down even with no loop they can be really aggresive deck
Zenmaighty/rat to 1 Kills the loops and slows it the deck a bit down
Magician/Shark and Wind-up rabbit/wind-up factory to 2 shark or magician should be hit, just for summon magician and having a shark in hand u can summon 2 Xyz monsters, rank 4, and rank 3 or 5, thats to much, as for rabbit i feel like its abused with factory so one of them should go down a bit, would prefer rabbit.
Inzektors:
Hornet to 1, making them think before throwing there only hornet away, a d.d crow could end it for them
Centapide to 1 or 2, the reason im hitting centapide over dragonfly is because Konami hits consistency over power, dragonfly is the power tool but centapided is the card the completes the loop. But it doesnt matter much any 2 cards of the 3 key inzektor cards to be hit will slow down the deck a lot.
Heroes:
A lot of people say but there not really good, well in tcg they arent in ocg they won WCQ, what i see may happen, Stratos @ 0 or E-call to 1, again hitting consistency, and i see miracle being hit going to 1 or 2
Six Samurai:
I really want this to happen, Gateway should be banned, it just wins the game just because u draw it, and with the new structure deck coming out the may let SSS go back to 3, if they do this card needs to go.
Gadgets:
They did really well in the WCQ along with heros, there really isnt anything to hit, but Ultimate offering can go to 1, if they pull it off they win, Maybe also Ban Limit removal, its also a card that gives u a win just for drawing into it.
Darkworlds:
They havent done much but with all top decks getting hit, they should hit this deck as well, Card destruction to 0, its just an unfair card in darkworlds.
Snow to 1 or 2, hitting consitency over power, snow over garpha.
Dragon decks:
Future Fusion should be banned, a Painful choice in dragons, and soon we will have all Hero fusions, we dont know how long it will take to get another FTK using this card
Red-eyes Darkness metal dragon to 1, this hits chaos dragons TCG and hieratics for the OCG. Easy to get out 2800 isnt something you can laugh at, and can summon a dragon once per turn. In the OCG get to and get otked by Gustaph, i think it should go to 1.
SO the list im going to post, is more of a hope than a prediction, its going to be big because i will try to slow things down to make the new cards more competitive.
Banned:
BLS ( He had his fun time to go back)
Monster reborn( 1 of the 3 power spells should leave)
Mind Control( its really strong in the Xyz era, aslo konami made a weaker version of it in abyss rising)
Gateway of the Six
Pot Of Avarice(when it was made it was hard to use, now its a sack card gives u a plus and recycles ur loops).
Future Fusion
Card Destruction
Limited:
Wind-up Zenmaighty/Wind-up rat
Tourguied of the Underworld( or at 2)
Mystical Spacee typhoon( night beam was made and we need less S/T hate)
Effect Veiler(I said i dont like it
)
Solemn warning( with MST at 1, this at 1 would be better imo)
Red-eyes Darkness metal dragon
Ultimate Offering
E-call
Inzektor Hornet
Inzektor Centapide
Dark Magician Of chaos( to sell the Spellcaster archtype)
Tribe infecting Virus,(works wonders with Mermail, and Atlanteans)
Semi-Limited:
Rescue Rabbit
Miracle fusion
DW snow
Book of moon(Slows stuff down, but not sure with No more prio if it should move up)
T.G Striker( should'nt have went to 1 in the first place)
Id like to Say Mezuki and Gale, but i dont think konami will want to bring old decks back, but if they will id like to see gale and mezuki at 2.
Unlimted i really dont care, but konami usually unlimits some random cards, a lot of people saying eaither Mali, or destiny draw will be unlimited, D-her Mali can be used to Xyz, but its better for Synchro support so not sure about what will happen.
Anyway Im done complaining and i want to know what you guys think of the format, and what changes you want to see, so feel free to discuss them.
Thats all I have for this time Hope you guys liked it, DE Logging Out .
and I agree with veiler and maxx c. Now that we can play unlimited cards in DN and we can play older formats you really realise how this game was much better back in the days. Oppression is a card that should come back, Opression forces players to do smart moves to play arround it while hand traps just fucks you up no matter if your a noob or a pro. 
