March 1st 2009 Ban List

Thanks to aivdov for providing me with a link to this. Here is the ban list. Will be analyzing, saying what will impact us the most. My comments are going to be in color.

I. Forbidden Cards

BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER - ENVOY OF THE BEGINNING
BUTTERFLY DAGGER - ELMA
CALL OF THE HAUNTED
CHANGE OF HEART
CHAOS EMPEROR DRAGON - ENVOY OF THE END
CONFISCATION
CYBER JAR
CYBER-STEIN
DARK HOLE
DARK MAGICIAN OF CHAOS
DELINQUENT DUO
DESTINY HERO - DISK COMMANDER
DIMENSION FUSION
EXCHANGE OF THE SPIRIT
FIBER JAR
GRACEFUL CHARITY
HARPIE'S FEATHER DUSTER
IMPERIAL ORDER
LAST TURN
LAST WILL
MAGICAL SCIENTIST
MAGICIAN OF FAITH
MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR
METAMORPHOSIS
MIRAGE OF NIGHTMARE
PAINFUL CHOICE
POT OF GREED
PREMATURE BURIAL
RAIGEKI
RING OF DESTRUCTION
SINISTER SERPENT
SNATCH STEAL
THE FORCEFUL SENTRY
THOUSAND-EYES RESTRICT
TIME SEAL
TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS
TSUKUYOMI
VICTORY DRAGON
WITCH OF THE BLACK FOREST
YATA-GARASU

NEW! - (nothing)

Okay. Nothing new here, that's good, no MAJOR changes to the metagame so far.


II. Limited Cards

ADVANCED RITUAL ART
BRAIN CONTROL
BREAKER THE MAGICAL WARRIOR
BRIONAC, DRAGON OF THE ICE BOUNDARY
CARD DESTRUCTION
CARD OF SAFE RETURN
CARD TROOPER
CEASEFIRE
CHAOS SORCERER
CRUSH CARD VIRUS
CYBER DRAGON
D.D. WARRIOR LADY
DANDYLION
DARK ARMED DRAGON
ELEMENTAL HERO STRATOS
EMERGENCY TELEPORT
EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE
FISSURE
FUTURE FUSION
GIANT TRUNADE
GLADIATOR BEAST BESTIARI
GORZ THE EMISSARY OF DARKNESS
GOYO GUARDIAN
GRAVITY BIND
HEAVY STORM
LEFT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEVEL LIMIT - AREA B
MAGIC CYLINDER
MARSHMALLON
MEGAMORPH
MEZUKI
MIRROR FORCE
MONSTER REBORN
MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON
NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE
NIGHT ASSAILANT
OJAMA TRIO
OVERLOAD FUSION
PLAGUESPREADER ZOMBIE
REASONING
REINFORCEMENT OF THE ARMY
RETURN FROM THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION
RIGHT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
RIGHT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
SANGAN
SCAPEGOAT
SMASHING GROUND
SNIPE HUNTER
SPIRIT REAPER
SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT
THE TRANSMIGRATION PROPHECY
TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE
TRAP DUSTSHOOT
TREEBORN FROG
UNITED WE STAND
WALL OF REVEALING LIGHT

NEW! - Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Boundary, Card of Safe Return, Chaos Sorcerer, Dark Armed Dragon, Emergency Teleport, Gladiator Beast Bestiari, Goyo Guardian, Mezuki, Plaguespreader Zombie, Reinforcement of the Army

Okay. I am seeing some MAJOR changes here. First of all, Chaos Sorcerer is unbanned. This is going to cause a major change in Spellcaster and Chaos decks. (woot). Dark Armed Dragon being limited is absolutely huge. The chance of drawing it, with no ability to search is going to be small, hugely decreasing the success rate of DaD decks and effectively ruining TeleDaD. I am angry that as of now, ROTA is limited. My Malicious Draw Engine is RUINED due to this. No more easy searching for Warriors. This is going to warrant a lot of deck changes, and decrease the success rate of decks using Stratos to get their Malicious.. people might want to start using E-Emergency Call!

III. Semi-Limited Cards
You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck, Extra Deck & Side Deck combined.

ALLURE OF DARKNESS
CHAIN STRIKE
DESTINY DRAW
DESTINY HERO - MALICIOUS
GOBLIN ZOMBIE
GOLD SARCOPHAGUS
GREEN BABOON, DEFENDER OF THE FOREST
FOOLISH BURIAL
JUDGMENT DRAGON
MAGICAL STONE EXCAVATION
MASK OF DARKNESS
MIND CRUSH
NECROFACE
RAIZA THE STORM MONARCH
RESCUE CAT
ULTIMATE OFFERING

NEW! - Allure of Darkness, Destiny Draw, Destiny Hero - Malicious, Goblin Zombie, Gold Sarcophagus, Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest, Mind Crush, Raiza the Storm Monarch, Ultimate Offering

Allure of Darkness semi-limited screws up shit. Again, destroying TeleDaD. Destiny Draw limited, and Malicious limited.. good bye TeleDaD's dominance. Good bye any successful draw strategies in KCVDS 1.15a. *cries*
Also, nice new thing-Ultimate Offering's only semi limited! YAY!

NEW! - The following cards are no longer Limited: Book of Moon, Manticore of Darkness, Nobleman of Crossout, Phantom of Chaos, Twin-Headed Behemoth

Also nice that Book of Moon and Nobleman of Crossout are un-limited. Going to see less sets with many decks running 3 Noblemans.

All together, this ban list is going to have a huge impact on the metagame in my opinion. Hope i helped =).

THis new ban list doesn't affect my deck one bit.

Man this sucks so i can use only 1 DAD

DaD i'm sorry that your DaD deck is absolutely destroyed by that ban list. May i suggest you start playing Dark Creator or something like that instead? *cries* no more DaD decks.

Dude DAD must stay 2 but Red eyes darkness metal dragon should be 1 i think Konami dont know about Red eyes darkness metal dragon lol

Nope, DaD has a way more destructive effect then REDMD. All REDMD can do is Special Summon dragons. DaD can clear fields..>_< it makes sense that DaD was limited, i'm sorry. Hey, you can still play Dark Nephthys, dark creator.

no dude Red eyes is more than powerfull every turn special summon dragon and how easly came to the field for exsample remove baby dragon (1200 attack) summon red eyes darkness metal dragon (2800 attack) and then every turn special summon dragon from hand or grave thats sucks

DAD maybe you don't play in real life and don't know metagame? Look, nobody use red eyes because this card's just a lame... It's effect is not so good and it can really be a deadly draw. By the way it's lots easier to destroy, and in real life allmost every noob could beat deck with this card. Anyway, you should leave card grand mole in rest and let it be played... You should unban decks too because that's why konami made this banlist, to make people play with other decks. So don't worry about DAD, in next ban list t probably will be semi limited because of new support to other decks

I think it should stay limited. Basically if someone gets out DaD and you don't have Bottomless/Judgment, you
're fucked. You're going to take 2800 damage to your Life Points. And there's not much you can do about it.

Kingkiller, that was very inappropriate. Post deleted. You will be temp-banned if you do that again.

Dude this list like just to destroy DAD Deck DAD limit Destiny draw , DESTINY HERO - MALICIOUS

... Because it was too good, then why they don't unban all cards that were good? Because they're too good and they're broken... DAD, yes they did that because of thing that players should play in other strategies with other decks... Life is not put on only with dad decks..

hmmm new ban list there good news and bad news the bad that almost of my deck are missed up the good news this ban list can change my missed up deck and make it even stronger thx for sharing mate

No problem guys. On another note, @DaD, TeleDaD dominated the metagame. All TeleDaD decks also sided into Macro, the ONLY counter. Therefore, there is NO bad matchup for DaD decks. They have unrivaled field presence, card destruction, and draw power. The Malicious draw engine was incredibly broken. ROTA gave people too many opportunities. I completely agree with this ban list. Sure, i love raping people with DaD. But do you like getting f**d over by it? No, i really don't think you do. You can have a TON of good cards on your field-Horus LV8, Armed Dragon, w/e. Then DaD comes along, boom, you get blown up. Any more comments?

not bad list
btw it doesnt affect my decks
i realised that some of the cards are not in kcvds 1.15

New ban list = whole new duel? well DaD u might have to update ur ban list
Lets see urm 3 of my decks RUINED but 2 more..mwuhaha gets better....i've waited so long for my real-life chaos deck to get revived...

Dude... it's still not revived. YAY, i can have 1 Chaos Sorcerer.. no.. just no.. Chaos decks still are fail. I wish they were better, but they're not.

.......Darn for it to get revived u wil prob need all the other chaos counterparts and i doubt konami would revive such a deck

That's because Yata-Lock. Summon a Sangan, active Chaos Emperor Dragon effect, destroys all cards on field hand, then, you active Sangan effect to get Yata-Garasu.... and they can't draw anymore, so duel's over. =D.

Come on people! REDMD is not that powerful.
In my opinion. DAD just is too good. First of all no strategy to use... Second of all you get a 2800 monster... And you get to destroy 3 cards on the field. Almost nobody has more than 3 cards on the field.

Althought a DAD may not survive on the field more than 2 turns.

I do not agree about using Emergency Call. I mean, you have Stratos in the first turn... Then Emergency Call would be a Dead Draw.


Concerning Nobleman of Crossout, not more than 2 copies should be run.

Concerning Chaos Decks, COME ON! They are not revived. They will never be!

Goodbye to Zombie Decks too. How could you not to put in red CoSR?

With ROTA... Just to many posibilities to be unlimited... They couldn't do that.

Finally... Those who are sad about the banlist... Too bad for depending so much in the Metagame. NEVER trust the Metagame... It will always be destroyed in a ban list.