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Baneful's Column
Rarity Shuffle
Okay, I'm flat out admitting that Baneful's Column is a
nostalgia column and Pojo is a nostalgia site.
It's great.
People don't go a Rolling Stones concert to primarily
hear their penultimate album.
In this entry, I go back in history and show an alternate
reality of what the card rarities in each set should have
looked like.
It's based on an idea some other reviewer on Pojo did at one
point (forgot his name).
In America, essential cards were bumped up to high rarities
to gouge prices.
But in Japan, the rarity picks seemed completely
random and perhaps too many good cards were commons.
Generally, here are some guidelines I will try to abide by:
•
Each rarity should have something good in it
•
Iconic cards in the anime/lore should be higher rarity
•
Staples should be lowered in rarity usually, since they're
staples.
Below are a list of only the changes I would make.
Anything omitted is presumed to be the same rarity it
always was.
(i.e. Lava Golem is not mentioned, so it stays a Secret
Rare)
Legend of Blue-Eyes
Super Rare
•
Dragon Capture Jar
•
Reaper of the Cards
•
Giant Soldier of Stone
•
Stop Defense
•
Gravedigger Ghoul
Normal Rare
•
Swords of Revealing Light
•
Trap Hole
•
Man-Eater Bug
•
Dark Hole
•
Raigeki
Notes:
Not too much I could do to save this horrible set.
I dare not put Karbonala Warrior as a holo, but at
least more packs will have a worthwhile card in them.
Metal Raiders
Ultra Rare:
•
Kazejin
•
Suijin
•
Sanga of the Thunder
Super Rare:
•
Magic Jammer
•
Seven Tools of the Bandit
•
Horn of Heaven
Normal Rare
•
Soul Release
Common:
•
Muka Muka
Notes:
I made Gate Guardian even harder for the player to assemble,
but I made the better trap cards in the set more accessible.
I also thought Soul Release should be a higher
rarity. I
mulled swapping out bad rares like the elemental boosters
for good commons, but couldn't think of that many.
Maybe Jirai Gumo, Stim Pack, Share the Pain, Ring of
Magnetism?
MAGIC RULER
Ultra Rare
•
Slot Machine
↑↑↑
•
Labyrinth Wall
↑↑↑
•
Hyozanryu
↑↑
Super Rare
•
Mystical Space Typhoon
↓
•
The Forceful Sentry
↓
Normal Rare
•
Confiscation
↓
•
Painful Choice
↓
•
Axe of Despair
↓↓
Common:
•
Hiro's Shadow Scout
↓
•
Ameba
↓
Notes:
At the expense of making some badass monsters holo, I got to
lower rarities of staples so that a player at the time
wouldn't have had to shell out hundreds of dollars for a
competitive deck.
You need incentives at all rarities but making the
only good spell/trap removal card an Ultra Rare is just
mean.
PHARAOH'S SERVANT
Secret Rare
•
Thousand-Eyes Restrict
↑
•
Buster Blader
↑
Ultra Rare
•
Jinzo
↓
•
Imperial Order
↓
•
Graverobber
↑
•
Magical Hats
↑
•
The Eye of Truth
↑↑↑
•
Limiter Removal
↑
Super Rare
•
Goblin Attack Force
↓
•
Premature Burial
↓
•
Ceasefire
↓
•
Prohibition
↑
•
Morphing Jar #2
↑
Normal Rare
•
Nobleman of Crossout
↓
•
Dust Tornado
↓
•
Time Seal
↑
•
Cold Wave
↑
•
4-Starred Ladybug of Doom
↑
•
Burning Land
↑
Common:
•
Red-Moon Baby
•
Skull Invitation
•
Monster Recovery
•
Dimensionhole
Notes:
Spell/trap and monster removal cards should be Normal Rare
so no deck would be without them.
Jinzo and Imperial as Ultras is what I stress the
most here.
Ceasefire and GAF were good deck building additions, but
they're not worth being ultra nor for their badassery nor
their role in the anime.
LABYRINTH OF NIGHTMARE
Secret Rare
•
Dark Necrofear
↑
•
Destiny Board
↑
Ultra Rare
•
Magic Cylinder
↓
•
Summoner of Illusion
↑↑↑
•
Revival Jam
↑
Super Rare
•
torrential tribute
↓
Normal Rare
•
Gemini Elf
↓↓↓
•
Offerings to the Doomed
↑
•
Bait Doll
↑
•
Collected Power
↑
•
Zombyra the Dark
↑
•
the Emperor's Holiday
↑
•
the Dark Door
↑
•
Fusion Gate
↑
•
Skull Lair
↑
Common
•
Spirit Messages "I", "N", "A" and "L" (4 cards)
↓
•
Spirit of the Breeze
↓
•
Jam Breeding Machine
↓
•
Infinite Cards
↓
•
Nuvia the Wicked
↓
•
Destruction Punch
↓
Notes:
Some of the worst Normal Rares I've seen.
1900 beater shouldn't be Secret.
I elevated some of the more interesting cards.
Legacy of Darkness
Secret Rare
•
Dark Ruler Ha Des
↑
•
Tyrant Dragon
↑
Ultra Rare
•
Yata-Garasu
↓
•
Luster Dragon #2
↑
•
Ryu Senshi
↑
•
Dark Balter the terrible
↑
•
Fiend Skull Dragon
↑
Super Rare
•
Injection Fairy Lily
↓↓
•
Marauding Captain
↓
•
Freed the Matchless General
↓
•
Creature Swap
↓
•
Super Rejuvenation
↑↑
•
A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon
↑↑
•
Fiend Comedian
↑↑
Normal Rare
•
Spear Dragon
↓
•
Exiled Force
↓
•
Drop Off
↓
•
Disappear
↑
•
throwstone Unit
↑
•
Stamping Destruction
↑
•
Mysterious Guard
↑
Common:
•
Second Coin Toss
↓
•
Fusion Sword Murasame Blade
↓
•
After Genocide
↓
•
Fatal Abacus
↓
•
Array of Revealing Light
↓
•
the Dragon's Bead
↓
•
Lesser Fiend
↓
Notes:
Ha Des and tyrant Dragon seemed like better fitting boss
monsters. Yata
and Injection were were gouged way too much.
I made great cards that every deck could've used as
lower rarities, and I made more specialized cards (like
Dragon support) at higher rarirty.
Crap rares begone.
PHARAONIC GUARDIAN
Secret
•
Helpoemer
↑
•
Ring of Destruction
↓
•
Dice Jar
↑↑↑
•
Dark Dust Spirit
↑↑↑
Super Rare
•
Metamorphosis
↑↑
•
Trap Dustshoot
↑↑
Normal
•
Raigeki Break
↑
•
Royal Tribute
↑
•
Des Lacooda
↑
•
Terraforming
↑
Common
•
Wandering Mummy
↓
•
Gora Turtle
↓
•
Dark Room of Nightmare
↓↓
•
Dark Designator
↓
•
Winged Sage Falcos
↓
•
Great Dezard
↓
↓
↓
•
Fushioh Richie
↓
↓
↓
Notes:
Opposite to most cases, this set has a lot of good commons
so I made some rarer.
Don Zaloog could've been a Super and Mirage could've
been a Normal Rare, but there's just not enough good holos
in this set to justify lowering anything.
Magician's Force
I will skip this one for several reasons.
First of all, there's not enough good cards in high
rarities to lower (without leaving nothing to aspire to pull
in high rarities).
I could simply move up the good commons (My Body as a
Shield, Automonous Action Unit, Magical Merchant,
Wave-Motion Cannon) for crap rares (Armor Exe, Crazy Beast,
etc.) but it would only make the few good cards in this set
harder to pull.
Dark Crisis
Secret Rare:
•
Exodia Necross
↑
Ultra Rare:
•
Vampire Lord
↓
•
Mirage Knight
↑
Super Rare:
•
Interdimensional Matter Transporter
↓
•
Skill Drain↑
Normal Rare
•
D.D. Warrior Lady
↓
•
Sakuretsu Armor
↑
Common:
•
Des Feral Imp
↓
Notes:
Not much I could do here.
I just lowered the rarities of the good cards, and
added Sakuretsu to at least make 1 Normal Rare worth it.
Otherwise, there's not enough good cards in the set
to alter much else.
Invasion of Chaos
Ultra Rare
•
Big Burn
↑
•
Freed the Brave Wanderer
↑
Super Rare
•
Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell
↑↑
•
Dimension Fusion
↓
•
Strike Ninja
↓
Normal Rare:
•
Gigantes
↑
•
Smashing Ground
↑
•
Chaos Sorcerer
↑
•
Zero Gravity
↑
•
Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands
↑
Common
•
Fuhma Shuriken
↓
•
Curse of Darkness
↓
•
Stray Lambs
↓
•
Lekunga
↓
•
Destruction Ring
↓
•
Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness
↓
↓
Notes:
Higher rarities in this set were generally well decided,
except there was a dearth of good rares.
I lowered two Ultra Rares just to make it fair (my
choices in their place are indeed questionable), but many of
the good cards higher rarities I just couldn't see as low
rares.
I won't even do Ancient Sanctuary and beyond because there
aren't enough good cards in those sets to move up rarities.
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