Episode 33: JRB Podcast - April 2024 Banlist

Jeff, Ryan, and Bohdan discuss the new April 2024 Forbidden & Limited List

[@ck49vgc]

Pokemon said they'd announce their worlds dates at the end of the European Championships last weekend as a way to get people to watch the closing ceremony. Yugioh could 100% say "Raleigh is the last event of the current format, watch til the end of the YCS stream for a banlist" and everyone would be watching.

[@khoap98]

TubTakes x JRB collab when 😮

[@TiTuS0]

SILENCE... THE THREE KINGS ARE SPEAKING

[@TiTuS0]

i was thinking about baronne's release date and it was literally only 3 years ago it feels like that card has been in the game for like way longer because of how often it gets summoned i myself didn't start playing it until like march last year with superheavy but it feels like i've been playing it for way longer than that

[@TheShapestofSnatches]

1:29:24 Literally every one of Shunping Xu's Snake-Eye builds played Parallel Exceed for Linkuriboh 🤣

[@drummerjames91]

I feel for you Ryan. I deleted teitter off my phone a couple weeks ago solely because of the complaining. It was impossible to avoid because it was minimum 75% of posts

[@jirachi4765]

The discussion about striker dragon felt so weird because I think you all forgot that guardragon pisty still exists and has the same material line ^^

[@Gin41]

Kinda impressive how much you guys spoke about colossus without mentioning sp as an out every deck has

[@CosmicDogoran]

That was fast

[@diegourbina5083]

I got the plate hot and ready for you Ryan.

[@user-of8gd2ix5i]

good stuff !! :3

[@en5102]

Give me misc

[@NobStop]

I really like the list, maybe could've included some more targeted hits at degen strategies, but hitting generic cards like linkuriboh, baronne, and borreload it feels like konami is future proofing the game somewhat

[@geek593]

The Linkuriboh talk feels like overanalysis. The card was fine. If the card was fine until two months ago and only became a "problem" as engine grease for a deck that does literally everything you have to look at what made that engine broken. Snake Eyes is busted with or without Linkuriboh so banning it instead of hitting something more specific that limits collateral damage to decks that used the card completely fairly is scapegoating. I know the rebuttal to this is probably "but my rogue deck can't win without Rivalry/Gozen/TCBOO/Summon Limit" but Linkuriboh is very niche. Niche enough that it was easy not to print cards that broke it. Not a fully generic card everyone can play for zero deck building cost. (Baronne and Savage aren't that generic either.) Snake Eyes was the issue. It will continue to be an issue. Engine power creep is the problem and Konami pushing engines by not giving them any locks or restrictions has caused nearly every non-floodgate problem they've had to deal with for the entire power creep era. Was Linkuriboh really busted when it was tributing Meluseek and Drytron Alpha? Absolutely not.

[@geek593]

Rendering decks people have a huge fondness for actually functionally unplayable instead of just unviable is a problem. People weren't playing Scythe in a rogue deck they took to locals because they already owned it and want to keep playing it because they enjoy whatever it is about the deck while also feeling like they can actually show up and play without instantly losing because that deck happens to be able to make cards like Savage or Baronne, cards a lot of casuals just got their hands on like two months before the format became unplayable for them because of the broken new deck. So when the broken new deck becomes the banned deck they'll still be out cards that make them feel like they didn't waste their time showing up to locals. Seriously, it's amazing just how disconnected people are from the concept of casual play in a card game. No other card game laughs at its players and tells them to get fucked as often as Yugioh players do. Hitting around the problem is always worse in this regard. You can knock engine agnostic cards like floodgates and staples all you want. The "my deck would be able to compete if it had Pot of Greed" comments are able to be dismissed as nonsense since every deck can actually play those cards better than a rogue deck. Boss monsters that aren't summonable in every deck due to the way engines are designed? That's a harder sell.

[@diegourbina5083]

Agreed with you except the barrone and savage not being generic. That’s just incorrect.

[@999spot5]

Linkuriboh was broken in drytron bro

[@geek593]

@@999spot5 It was played in Drytron. A card being played doesn't mean it's broken.