The official ban list for April 1st 2015!
I listed only the changes:
Banned:
Monsters:
- Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos
- Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders
- Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms
- Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls
Spells:
- Snatch Steal
Limited:
Monsters:
- Sinister Serpent
- Tour Guide From the Underworld
Spells:
- Dragon Ravine
- Preparation of Rites
- Saqlifice
- Symbol of Heritage
- Temple of the Kings
Traps:
- Crush Card Virus
- Exchange of the Spirit
- Ring of Destruction
- Skill Drain
- Vanity’s Emptiness
Semi-Limited:
Monsters:
- Qliphort Scout
- Nekroz of Brionac
- Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En
Spells:
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- Sacred Sword of Seven Stars
No Longer Limited:
Monsters:
- Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Spirit
- Gladiator Beast Bestiari
- Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
- Lonefire Blossom
- Burner, Dragon Ruler of Sparks
- Lightning, Dragon Ruler of Drafts
- Reactan, Dragon Ruler of Pebbles
- Stream, Dragon Ruler of Droplets
- Goyo Guardian
Spells:
- Hieratic Seal of Convocation
It was a sad day for Chaos Emperor Dragon…
Where’s my trish 🙁
Skill drain at 1
emptyness at 1
charge is at 2
its time kyle, its time
Ya, but Rulers are banned :-/ LSRuler is no more…
This is true you can still run lightpular or darkflare and keep the wyvrens and the new lv1 dark in gold series that mills 1 and then stacks your next 3 could be very viable. Is there any monster that summons itself by banishing light monsters?
Ghost Ship and Black Dragon Collapserpent. If I was to attempt a newer build (which I will try my best to do) it would probably us the baby Chaos Dragons. A couple of the Lightray monsters also banish LIGHT monsters.
Damn,,, my deck is gone
So, why were the Rulers hit? Is this to mitigate the new Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon?
Also, Snatch steal being forbidden again is pretty funny.
Now, I don’t speak for Konami, but this is what I’m lead to believe the Dragon Ruler ban is for.
1. Dark Matter, as you said.
2. Dragon Rulers limit Konami’s future card creation.
3. The new Red-Eyes support is supposedly “too powerful” with Dragon Rulers.
4. Potentially to make the OCG and TCG lists more unified as we near closer to the World Championships, and the Dragon Rulers where banned in the OCG.