How does that bible verse go?

And BLS brought the duelist to the mountaintop and proclaimed, “All that you see, Shonen Jump, Regionals, Nationals, Worlds! All that I ask of you is that you serve me by using me in every duel, every deck, and every victory from now until you die or I am banned.” -Pharaoh Atem 12:27

Just kidding; but comedy aside, I think everyone who plays Yu-gi-oh out there

knows what I mean.

Most duelists out there have in fact sold their souls as well as “the heart of the

cards” and the price was cheap.

I speak of course to all of you out there relying solely on BLS to win the duel for

you and as a win condition for your deck.


What’s a ‘win condition’?

It is literally, the way your deck wins.

If you run an Exodia deck, your win condition is getting all five pieces in your hand.

If you run a Beatdown deck, your win condition is attacking your opponent’s life

points or overpowering their field.

If you run Burn, your win condition is effect damage to your opponent.

If you run any kind of Chaos, your win condition is getting a chaos monster to the

field and keeping it there.


The title speaks to what I have observed more and more while dueling lately.

Most duelists out there rely way too heavily on BLS to win duels for them.

I’ve seen it first hand. For example, I attended the past week’s Shonen Jump

Championship in New Jersey.

It was like a chaos pride parade.


I observed hundreds of otherwise good, if not great, players all of whom were

using the same strategy to win.

“Oh here we go again!”

“Stop hating on BLS!”

“He’s one of the best cards in the game, why not use him?”


I don’t disagree with any of these arguments however I do disagree with the

helplessness I see in my opponents eyes when he doesn’t draw BLS just in time

to finish me off.


This to me is disgusting to watch and saddens me deeply. Only now do I begin to

see why people refer to the card as a golden crutch. One after the other of my

opponents used the same card to best me in almost every duel.


After a while, I began preaching to them that there were other ways to win even

in their current Chaos decks. I pleaded with more than one opponent to not do

me the dishonor of using a ‘wheelchair’ to run my over when they had two

fully ‘functioning legs’ to kick my butt with in a duel. My pleas for the most part fell

on deaf ears. I only hope that at least a few got what I was trying to tell them.

This disturbing trend I discovered has prompted me to reconsider my dueling in

major events. For those of you out there who know me, you can appreciate how

bad it must be for me to even entertain the idea of cutting back on dueling.


As most of you know from my last article, almost everyone I know knows I play yu-

gi-oh and enjoy (almost) every minute of it. Some of my friends I have now I

would have never met were it not for the game. Unfortunately, local tournaments

and fun games amongst friends it would seem are the only way to observe any

semblance of originality or challenge anymore. At larger events, it seems

everyone is either too programmed or too afraid to not run BLS.


A sad day for yu-gi-oh indeed.

Quote : Originally Posted by Morpheus1981

So everyone agrees... But everyone still uses the card... (Sigh)! :( My favorite version of denial: "I don't rely on/use BLS that much."