From: Kclostsouls07@aol.com [mailto:Kclostsouls07@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:33 PM
To: yugiohcrew@pojo.com
Subject: Article one- The Third Format: by Dark Marik 07

Okay hello, I decided to start submitting a bunch of tips to you all here on pojo.com to read. These tips will be in a series, which will involve a new format of the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! I will call these articles the Third Format Articles by DarkMarik07.

 

Some Friends and I have been getting sick and tired of the current format in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card game, for some time now. So one of my friends came up with the idea that we play our own way, in a new format where original decks have more power to stand up to the cookie cutter decks.

How does this work? Well not only did we excessively add cards to the banned/restricted list, but also we decided to ban every card the Booster pack Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon Through Invasion of Chaos. We didn’t stop there ether. We also decided to ban the Tournament Packs and The Hobby League Promo Cards. The Reprint Sets of Dark Beginnings and Dark Revelations also were banned, except for cards originally from video games, or Ancient Sanctuary. Starter and Structure Decks cards were also limited. All cards in decks that were found in booster sets that were banned were decided not allowed to be used in decks.

In the end the following Sets/Types of Promos were found legal to be used in the new format we created:

1.      Mcdonold’s Pack 1

2.      Ancient Sanctuary

3.      Exclusive Pack 1

4.      Soul of The Duelist

5.      Rise of Destiny

6.      Flaming Eternity

7.      The Lost Millennium

8.      Cybernetic Revolution

9.      Elemental Energy

10.  Duelist Packs 1 and 2

11.  Shadow of Infinity

12.  Enemy of Justice

13.  Power of The Duelist (When Released)

14.   Duelist Pack Special Edition

15.  All Tin Promo Cards

16.  All Duelist League Promos

17.  Movie Promo Cards

18.  Duel Master’s Guide Promo Card

19.  All Magazine Promo Cards

20.  All Sneak Preview Cards

21.  All Video Game Promo Cards

22.  The Following Cards Found in Starter Decks are Legal:

·        Ancient Elf

·        Ancient Telescope

·        Ansatsu

·        Baron The Fiend Sword

·        Black Luster Ritual

·        Black Luster Solider

·        Canyon

·        Card Destruction

·        Castle Walls

·        Claw Reacher

·        D. Human

·        Dark Assailant

·        Dark Eradicator Warlock

·        Dian Keto The Cure Master

·        Divine Sword Phoenix Blade

·        Dragon Zombie

·        Exxod- The Great Protector

·        Gilford The Legend

·        Great Spirit

·        Great White

·        Gyakutenno Megami

·        Gython’s Wing

·        Infernal Flame Emperor

·        Kaiser Sea Horse

·        Judge Man

·        Just Desserts

·        La Jinn The Mystical Genie of The Lamp

·        Lord of D.

·        Magical Blast

·        Magical Dimension

·        Magical Ghost

·        Man-Eating Treasure Chest

·        Mysterious Puppeteer

·        Mystic Box

·        Mystic Clown

·        Mystical Beast Cerberus

·        Neo The Magic Swordsmen

·        Nightmare Steal Cage

·        Ocean Dragon Lord- Neo Deadalus

·        Ookazi

·        Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon

·        Reinforcements

·        Reverse Trap

·        Rouge Doll

·        Ryu-Kishin

·        Shadow Spell

·        Skelengel

·        Swordstalker

·        The Flute of Summoning Dragons

·        The Inexperienced Spy

·        The Stern Mystic

·        Toon Alligator

·        Trap Master

·        Ultimate Offering

·        Vampire Genesis

·        Wabboku

·        Warrior Lady of the Wasteland

 

Additional Cards Allowed to allow deck themes:

• Elegant Egotist
• Harpie Ladies Sister
• Skull Servant

 

 

Any Card found anywhere in the above list can be places in your deck. After three obvious card banning (Jinzo only due to wanting to change the Metagame a lot) we played a bunch of games with many different deck types and created the list for card banning and restrictions.

 

Banned Cards: (besides the forbidden Booster sets)

Harpie’s Feather Duster

Jinzo

Sinister Serpent

Wall of Revealing Light

 

Limited Cards (one per deck):

Brain Control

Card Destruction

Curse of Anubis

D. D. Assailant

Dark Mimic Lv 1

Dekoichi the Battlechannted Locomotive

Enemy Controller

Exchange of the Spirit

Granmarg the Rock Monarch

Horus the Black Flame Dragon Lv 6

Horus the Black Flame Dragon Lv 8

Level Limit Area - B

Lightning Vortex

Mobius the Frost Monarch

Night Assailant

Pot of Avarice

Return from a Different Dimension

Scared Phoenix of Nephthys

Silent Swordsman Lv 5

Skelengel

Slate Warrior

The End of Anubis

Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch

Treeborn Frog

Unity

Widespread Ruin

Yu-Jyo Friendship

Zaborg the Thunder Monarch

 

Semi Limited Cards:

Deck Devastation Virus

Dimension Magic

Doom Dozer

Gear Golem the Moving Fortress

Good Goblin Housekeeping

Hammer Shot

Legendary Jujitsu Master

Nightmare Steel cage

The Creator

 

Some of the restrictions and banned cards may seem weird to you, but trust me, they are there for a reason.

1. Exchange of The Spirit Was removed from the banned list due to most of it’s support taken away from it in the booster set banning.
2. Wall of Revealing Light is an extremely powerful card in this format. Why? Because of the lack of spell and trap removal, Heavy Storm, Harpie’s Feather Duster, Breaker The Magical Warrior, Mystical Space Typhoon are all banned. The only real good spell/Trap removal is Mobius The Frost Monarch and he is limited to one.
3. The Drawing power of Dekotchi The Battlechannted Locomotive, Skelengel, and Dark Mimic Lv 1 X3 each made it too easy to draw the cards you needed, so by limiting them all to a total of one per deck it makes it harder to draw.
4. The power of the Four Monarchs was shown in the October 2005 format and now with out the power of many other cookie cutter cards, the Monarch would be abused and override the game, so we limited them one each per deck.
5. Brain Control also supports “mad-Monarch Control” and is also a main field control card, so it too is now limited.
6. With Widespread Ruin being the only trap card that destroys monsters when they attack, Horus Lv 8 becomes very deadly. Making him virtually unbeatable with Lord of Dragons.
7. Horus LV 6 and Mystic Swordsmen LV5 are almost immortal cards when almost nothing can destroy them.
8. Doom Dozer is semi-limited due to it’s easy summoning cost, like the Envoys it can be summoned and easily abused.

That is all for this week’s intro to the “Third Format of Yu-Gi-Oh!” I will be back next week with a look at a few deck types and how they work in the new format. Also I will run you by some card techs which work very well in the new format. IF you have any questions, email me at kclostsouls07@aol.com

 

 -Darkmarik07