In the begining, there were starter decks, and it was good. Konami bestowed upon us tidings in each set they would release. Yes, there was much confusion as to the "actual" rules of the game, but we got along well enough. The Age of the Begining commenced and the people played with the mosnters they could in LOB.

The release of MRD gave us the begining of the Age of Beatdown. 7 Coloured Fish and La Jinn in a deck ment you had a great edge, and those of us blessed with tallent eventualy got a player's set of Mechanical Chasers. Higher attack monsters just kept coming untill LOD, and Gemeni Elf coming to America seemed to seal the fate for the American game. Most of us Didnt see a light beyond the brief Age of the Forbidden One, which lasted from PSV to the end of LON, where Exodia decks could actualy win. The incorrect text on Kycoo, Bazoo, and Skull Lair didnt help matters much either, as beatdown consumed the game almot entirely.

Weeks before the release of LOD I was seen running around my comic shop, proclaiming about Yata-Garasu like the Rapture was coming. Noone in my store could see why a low attack monster that doesn't even stay on the field would change the game. I had seen it though, from the world champion's deck I had seen it myself. I knew what was to come, and braced my Exodia close to my chest. The age of Control had arived, and with it, the end of Originality. There was a lot to learn from contributing to that particular age, and I grew to love the little bird. Control was here to stay it seemed, as tomatos and Angels swarmed the field with Dons and DD Warrior Ladies. Everyone watched their hands with furvur and being left cardless made you more afraid than anything else.

From LOD on up untill IOC, we see differant varriations of the same deck. MFC gave us a load of important cards, as well as the Magical Scientist FTK deck, while DCR gave us Butterfly Dagger. The Age of Control lead head first into our current age.

IOC's realease gave us a dark age indeed. The Age of Chaos began, and if Yata-lock decks saw the end of originality, Chaos decks truely saw the end of skill. Lights, darks, chaos mosnters. This was all you needed to win tourniments. Manticore gave us another way to win with Exodia, Stike Ninja loomed in the Shadows, and Umi decks got a major boost.

From then on, its been only Chaos. We've seen the Age of Chaos turn to the Age of Chaos Soldier due to the forbidden card list. What could possably loom on the horizon for our plucky game that could? Could we see the Age of Goat Control on the horizon if BLS gets banned? Could Cybernetic Revolution hold brokenness that we dont see? All we can do is stay tuned, and sit on our carpets and watch. This is going to be a heck of a ride.

What looms on the horizon though? What age can be brough about if the Soldier is placed on the forbidden list along with his brother? Could Chaos Sorceror/Goat Control decks make that many waves? Would beast down, sporting Sacred Phoenix, take the meta by storm? Will monsters go back to actualy being destroyed as a result of battle? Will beatdown grab the game by the throat, with every intention of keeping its hold perminate? All we can do is sit and watch. The game is coming to a sharp turn, and who knows what lay on the other side of that turn.

::::::sigh::::always the soldier. though i must admit, even in the age of chaos i still pwned with 1800's and 1850's, i want to run my machine deck again!

yea i actually would like to see BLS go, but i agree the Sorcerer would have to go as well. goat control prolly would rise above as the next cookie, i doubt phoenix would be much more than it is now.

sometimes i feel like konami should jus scratch all the broken cards all at once, not give us crappy replacements at all, instead jus give us less overall cards. chaos decks aren't really chaos decks at all, they're just a collection of the best cards in the game, and fact is, they can work in almost all decks. you wanna see originality give us a reason to think we can win with an insect deck (or any theme deck).

speaking of the crappy replacemments, they're still overall cards, they jus have some crappy cost attached to them now. if everything starts, reading pay this amount of lp or discard a card, everyone is jus gonna move on to running night assailants and spell economics(yeah it could get that bad). they need to make cards that read in order to activate you must have a ---- on the field, or in order to summon, w/e, ya know what im saying, that also helps to define the types/attributes better. maybe this way somebody would stop and say well i wanna run an earth deck b/c they got that mean Beast card, but Dragons have some mean spells.

another good idea i heard was the point system. you get a set amount of points and to put things like Pot or Rageiki is gonna cost a lil more points than say oh, Archfiend Marmot? lol, and its not like it isn't obvious whats broken, be it card or ruling.

this next ban list had better be a good one, not like this last one, they let too many things slip by. come on, Duo, Graceful, but no Imperisal Order??? everyone's a step away from 2 Dust Tornadoes anyway how bad could it have been?

it also seems like the game is slowing down, there's been more and more crappy fillers in the last couple sets. this last set for example was almost entirely about building a rock deck and i wouldn't even use half the rock cards from this set. they even went so far as to copy card effects from the earlier sets, like that self flipper that returns a monster to the hand, i forget his name, and make them crappier or just as crappy. and lets not forget Space Mambo, why, why would they waste the cardboard? the old sets had plenty to use, cookie or not, the new sets seem to be poorly support anything.

CRV will prolly jus support the cookie more but at least i'll get to play my machines again, whether they win or not, lol.

I must agree, im anxious to see the new ban list, i hope it changes things. Even though i hate it when they ban cards, because i feel like iv wasted money or something like that, i want the next list to be good... im just so board playing chaos, and goat control regaurldess of what people say is ALOT like chaos. and i was also disappointed in TLM, brain control and one or two other cards .

Agent Mage....you're a genius.

Control = end of originality; Chaos = end of skill! How true! Looking at the Shonen Jump decks, you could see that all of the decks had pretty much the same cards (the only semi-original cards were the Night Assailant / Slate Warrior combo).

Tis a sad day....I mean, when are we going to see something that can consistently own Chaos?

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the day you start complaining about the thing that owns chaos, besides chaos isn't one card ppl!!! chaos decks are a collection of the best cards in the game, not just BLS. sorry we can't errata losing, skilled players will win BLS ban or not.

anyways Insane Gremlin, i couldn't agree more, im tired of seeing the same deck over and over, and its not the players' fault, its the limited card pool and lack of fresh card effects that allow for more in the game.

Hey...I'm not saying "Oh, let's get another deck to all copy and win with". I'm trying to say that the game has lost a vast amount of its originality.

If you really try and play anything but Chaos in its current metagame, you will most likely lose. I know from experience: I've played Master of Oz, Bounceback deck, Warrior, Water-control Decks, Final Countdown, all of which couldn't stand at the stores I go to. I play Chaos for a day, and begin winning.

That's more of what I'm saying: Where's the competitive, creative deck?

BTW....your statement about "errata losing"....very well said!

Can I sig that? :p

Look at it this way. Take average Joe Chaos Drone. Take away chaos, and he might say "Oh, I dont need this white ninja now, I'll side in X card. I dont need this don now, I'll side in Y Card."

Wait..... I need better examples. I keep forgetting we actualy HAVE X card and Y card.... and they've been IN chaos decks before.

You all get the point. People will start taking out cards they had "just for Luster" and put in off-types. People may start putting chiron in decks to combat stall decks, because not only does chiron get priority to use the m/t destruction effect over breaker, not only is it reusable, its a stable attack monster. Heck, with the sinister abuse, you could say water would own with Abyss and Tribe.

Yeah you can sig that ;)! It's true...

I agree. If it weren't for "I need Lights and Darks", some decks would be a lot more interesting (or at least turned to what worked before).

2300 sephcloud, but I understand. Look at it this way, there are a lot of main-deckable cards that deal with goats (not to sound like a choas drone, but there are) and scapegoat isnt devistating on its own. Scapegoat is a combo card, and thus it gives much more chances to eliminate.

i agree forthesavior, im saying to build an original, competitve deck now would take whole lot more cards to come out or a lot of changing to the current game state.

i mean one could say without BLS/Sorcerer decks would be different but not too much, i mean everyone's the same 5-6 card difference now, why would it change all that much without them?

agent i can't think of a single card in my deck that i have just for BLS.

You dont keep kycoo around just in case? THat bottomless has never stuck around for a specific 3000 attacker.....

I have a theory as to why we are stuck in the age of chaos. it's not becuase of laziness. it's not becuase of fear

It's because the trend breakers are smart.

There ae many duelists I have seen runnign powerful, orginal decks. But they refuse to reveal them, becuase they don't want to make the next cookie cutter. Look at the first control deck. LOok at the first chaos deck (Sadly, I take fault for some of it's liking on the realms, thanks to my preaching the envoy's power a year ago)

You might as well call me Mr.Yata then Mr. Chaos, because I was the one running around preaching about Yata before his release.

And about the trend breakers, they eventualy get out. Look at my friend Ben Mc Crae. At the NJ SJC, he got an interview from metagame and he was the only non-chaos deck featured that day. His deck has inspired a greater use of last turn and skill drain in my area, and I've seen a lot more decks using either/both of those.

i kill your annoying recursion monster via "insert card effect here" now kycoo attacks and removes it, good bye! a forgotten/discarded serpent? peace! DD Assailant?? ah well i'll lose my kycoo but you'll feel the cost as well.

bottomless taking out BLS too, is just a plus, i actually don't run BTH anyway(cept for recursion decks), there are far worse things i'd rather stop from happening.