Easily YuGiOh after Konami took over. The banlists quickly went from maintaining the health of the game to maintaining Konami's best interests for their future products.
They had the same old cycle: Create ridiculously OP cards and nerf your older cards, rendering your old cards obselete and nowhere close to being competitive.
Once everyone bought up the new OP cards, they skyrocketed in price thanks to the secondary market. I remember three copies of Tour Guide from the Underworld at their peak costing $500.
Once people got sick of them winning every tournament (formats would have three decks just dominate a meta), Konami would nerf the cards and just come out with more OP archetypes, starting the cycle all over again.
i know that feel... Blue eyes winning a world cup just to become a troll/rogue deck two months later with the release of ABC,
and Zodiac beasts seems like they might vanquish ABC plus the Eidolon fusion spell power creeping Brilliant fusion...it's like ewwww, what game is this now??, while things like stratos and gateway of the six are still banned
and things that make the classic wind-up Loop look like if it wasn't that bad.
altho didn't they make an emergency adjusted list for Pepe? they were banned two weeks after being released or something like that, when it had like almost 100% tournament presence in a particular tournament.
I had already stopped buying cards at this time, but I lost literally all respect for Konami when they released Sixth Sense in Legendary Collection 4, waited for people to buy it up, use it in tournament, complain about it and E-Ban it... all in two short weeks.
Now I'm no card design expert, but there's no way they print a card that has a 33% chance of drawing FIVE OR SIX CARDS in a game like YuGiOh, at literally no cost, without the slightest idea that it would be broken. That one card was by far the star of the set and they pulled the rug right from under the players that spent all that money on it. Shameful.
Easily YuGiOh after Konami took over. The banlists quickly went from maintaining the health of the game to maintaining Konami's best interests for their future products.
They had the same old cycle: Create ridiculously OP cards and nerf your older cards, rendering your old cards obselete and nowhere close to being competitive.
Once everyone bought up the new OP cards, they skyrocketed in price thanks to the secondary market. I remember three copies of Tour Guide from the Underworld at their peak costing $500.
Once people got sick of them winning every tournament (formats would have three decks just dominate a meta), Konami would nerf the cards and just come out with more OP archetypes, starting the cycle all over again.
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I had already stopped buying cards at this time, but I lost literally all respect for Konami when they released Sixth Sense in Legendary Collection 4, waited for people to buy it up, use it in tournament, complain about it and E-Ban it... all in two short weeks.
Now I'm no card design expert, but there's no way they print a card that has a 33% chance of drawing FIVE OR SIX CARDS in a game like YuGiOh, at literally no cost, without the slightest idea that it would be broken. That one card was by far the star of the set and they pulled the rug right from under the players that spent all that money on it. Shameful.
Easily YuGiOh after Konami took over. The banlists quickly went from maintaining the health of the game to maintaining Konami's best interests for their future products.
They had the same old cycle: Create ridiculously OP cards and nerf your older cards, rendering your old cards obselete and nowhere close to being competitive.
Once everyone bought up the new OP cards, they skyrocketed in price thanks to the secondary market. I remember three copies of Tour Guide from the Underworld at their peak costing $500.
Once people got sick of them winning every tournament (formats would have three decks just dominate a meta), Konami would nerf the cards and just come out with more OP archetypes, starting the cycle all over again.