The beginning of the year was the end of the Lightsworn/Zombie format. It was actually a comparatively good format, considering that you could side so easily against the top decks.
Anyway, the March ban list brought an end to that, leaving the format open for practically every deck. Synchro Cat, Flamvells, and Quickdraw Plants were fairly popular, but all very inconsistent. It was a slow format, so anything could potentially be good.
But then, The Shining Darkness arrived. This lead to a post-TSHD format, with Infernities receiving all of the hype, because they were doing so well in the OCG. But when people figured out that they weren't as good without Trishula, even with Infernity Barrier, they moved on to X-Sabers and Frog Monarchs. Both of those decks should not have existed, but then an even worse deck came about to ruin the format.
Frog FTK went on to force people to Side Deck silly cards like Hanewata. The deck even won the World Championship.
But then Substitoad was rightfully banned, and Duelist Revolution was released.
DREV brought some of the most expensive cards that TCG players have seen for a while in Pot of Duality and Solemn Warning. Effect Veiler was arguably one of those cards, but it's relatively cheap compared to the other two.
The banning of Heavy Storm and the release of Pot of Duality allowed many decks to be able to compete, making it so that no one deck has dominated any YCS this format.
That's basically it. This year has been relatively uneventful, which makes it kind of good for the game. Starstrike Blast didn't break any decks, although it did give a little too much support to Plant decks.
So yeah, this post is probably pretty boring because nothing really happened this year. Next year will probably be more exciting with Storm of Ragnarok, Trishula, and ZEXAL around the corner.
I wouldn't go as far to say this year was uneventful. Infernity with 3 Launchers, X Sabers with Rescue Cat, and Frog FTK were some of the best decks ever made. January and February were zombies and LS, so I'd say this year was half ridiculous and half healthy (I use healthy cautiously, because it is Yugioh we are talking about lol). Happy New Year!
ReplyDelete@Michael Bonacini
ReplyDeleteI donno, it just didn't feel very exciting to me.
Lightsworn and Zombies were comparatively slow to what came before. Infernities, X-Sabers, and Frogs were all just ridiculous, but it didn't really feel all that bad to me.
I didn't play against Infernities all that much, and the duels I did play were fairly easy victories.
X-Sabers and Frogs were much more annoying, since they were a lot harder to stop. I wouldn't consider that exciting, though.
The comparatively "healthy" formats weren't all that exciting either. Sure, it was cool to go to a tournament and play against a different deck each round. And, it was nice to be able to play whatever deck I wanted to, but it got boring because everyone started to use Scraps after seeing me wreck with them.
I've been trying to switch decks, but there's just nothing as good that I want to play right now.
Regardless, it just felt to me like not much happened this year. It might just be the staleness in the game recently due to the annoyingly high amount of Stun decks that have been seeing play. It's just so boring to play against them...
That's probably it, since it's the most recent thing that happened, and also because Stun has been around for a while, it has probably shaped my perception the most.
There's also the fact that I feel bad for my opponent when I win. That's obviously because they had to lose. But I won't go into that.