Realistic Banlist Predictions for December 2020
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:38 am
Hi, since I haven't really seen realistic banlist predictions here, I'm going to post mine. They are mostly the wide-spread opinion too.
Banned:
Dragon Buster Destruction Sword
Used by most DARK and/or Dragon decks, noticably by Dragon Link. Accessed using Union Carrier, it locks the opponent out of the Extra Deck.
Smoke Grenade of the Thief
Used primarily by Infernoble Knights. It allows them to rip cards out of the opponent's hand. This is usually done twice before the opponent gets to play.
True King of all Calamities
Used by a lot of rogue strategies like Fluffals, but it is noticably played in the meta by Virtual World. It is essentially preventing the opponent from activating monster effects or attack with them for two turns. For the health of the game, this card should get banned, however Konami might not ban this card yet as the newly released deck Virtual World is getting a lot of its power from it.
Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
Dragoon is the boss monster of a splashable engine easily accessible by "Predaplant Verte Anaconda". Expecting Konami to try getting a control format, the existance of Dragoon would be very devestating for that plan because most control decks struggle beating Dragoon.
Limited:
Miscellaneousaurus:
This card is one of the key cards for the Dinosaur strategy. It prevents many kind of interactions the opponent might have by making Dinosaurs on your field unaffected by the opponent's activated card effects during a Main Phase. It also allows the player to search for "Double Evolution Pill" using "Animadorned Archosaur". Limiting Miscellaneousaurus would force the Dinosaur pilot to use their search cards (Fossil Dig, Oviraptor) to access Miscellaneousaurus and makes them less likely to open it.
Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine:
Eldlich has been a very good deck or engine since its release and nowadays part of most control decks. Scarlet Sanguine accesses the Golden Lord while also being able to set a Golden Land Trap. Limiting Scarlet might force Eldlich players to play "Eldlixir of Black Awakening", giving it similar consistency but not as a Spell Speed 2 card.
Other Theories
banning Linkross
Banning Linkross would hurt the synchro combos (e.g. in Infernoble Knights and Dragon Link) a lot.
limiting Aleister the Invoker:
The Invoked engine released a couple of years ago has been extremely popular this year. It has seen play in the same deck with Shaddolls, Eldlich and/or Dogmatika. Limiting Aleister reduces the consistency of the engine that can result in an omni negate in Mechaba, an OTK monster in Purgatrio and many more powerful Fusion monsters.
limiting Nadir's Servant:
Dogmatika has also been a very popular engine ever since it came out. This change is less likely to happen this banlist because the Dogmatika deck theme is fairly new. Limiting Nadir's Servant turns down its consistency and strengths.
limiting Fire Formation - Tenki:
This limit is dedicated to the popular Zoodiac strategy. Tenki searches all Zoodiac main deck monsters. The goal of this limit is reducing the accessibility of the different Zoodiac monsters, but it is not really impacting the deck that much, so I honestly struggle to find a solution to Zoodiacs. The time writing this post, it is by far the most played deck on DB.
Banned:
Dragon Buster Destruction Sword
Used by most DARK and/or Dragon decks, noticably by Dragon Link. Accessed using Union Carrier, it locks the opponent out of the Extra Deck.
Smoke Grenade of the Thief
Used primarily by Infernoble Knights. It allows them to rip cards out of the opponent's hand. This is usually done twice before the opponent gets to play.
True King of all Calamities
Used by a lot of rogue strategies like Fluffals, but it is noticably played in the meta by Virtual World. It is essentially preventing the opponent from activating monster effects or attack with them for two turns. For the health of the game, this card should get banned, however Konami might not ban this card yet as the newly released deck Virtual World is getting a lot of its power from it.
Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
Dragoon is the boss monster of a splashable engine easily accessible by "Predaplant Verte Anaconda". Expecting Konami to try getting a control format, the existance of Dragoon would be very devestating for that plan because most control decks struggle beating Dragoon.
Limited:
Miscellaneousaurus:
This card is one of the key cards for the Dinosaur strategy. It prevents many kind of interactions the opponent might have by making Dinosaurs on your field unaffected by the opponent's activated card effects during a Main Phase. It also allows the player to search for "Double Evolution Pill" using "Animadorned Archosaur". Limiting Miscellaneousaurus would force the Dinosaur pilot to use their search cards (Fossil Dig, Oviraptor) to access Miscellaneousaurus and makes them less likely to open it.
Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine:
Eldlich has been a very good deck or engine since its release and nowadays part of most control decks. Scarlet Sanguine accesses the Golden Lord while also being able to set a Golden Land Trap. Limiting Scarlet might force Eldlich players to play "Eldlixir of Black Awakening", giving it similar consistency but not as a Spell Speed 2 card.
Other Theories
banning Linkross
Banning Linkross would hurt the synchro combos (e.g. in Infernoble Knights and Dragon Link) a lot.
limiting Aleister the Invoker:
The Invoked engine released a couple of years ago has been extremely popular this year. It has seen play in the same deck with Shaddolls, Eldlich and/or Dogmatika. Limiting Aleister reduces the consistency of the engine that can result in an omni negate in Mechaba, an OTK monster in Purgatrio and many more powerful Fusion monsters.
limiting Nadir's Servant:
Dogmatika has also been a very popular engine ever since it came out. This change is less likely to happen this banlist because the Dogmatika deck theme is fairly new. Limiting Nadir's Servant turns down its consistency and strengths.
limiting Fire Formation - Tenki:
This limit is dedicated to the popular Zoodiac strategy. Tenki searches all Zoodiac main deck monsters. The goal of this limit is reducing the accessibility of the different Zoodiac monsters, but it is not really impacting the deck that much, so I honestly struggle to find a solution to Zoodiacs. The time writing this post, it is by far the most played deck on DB.