The 1 Card Combo Conundrum 

Regardless of what you think about 1 card combos, I think we can all agree playing a game where you get hand trapped 3 or 4 times and pass your turn only for the opponent to normal summon 1 monster that leads to full combo/OTK is the worst feeling in just about any card game.

I wish we'd get less "fifteen nonengine" and more instances of "more than one engine".

Pettingcesseur has been a 1 card +8 with an otk attached to it for ages. But the archetype is so fragile that it doesn't matter. The problem is the resilience of Snake-Eyes and the idea of 15-18 handtraps that just chokes out everything that can't play something simillar.

For reasons i'll explain in the future, we actually do need to ban Poplar. Any other singular ban won't significantly nerf the deck aside from Ash, and it just got an OTS UTR print.

I do feel like YuGiOh's identity is found within this forever ongoing powercreep and ever more efficient card design. But I would kill for konami to have a rotating format where they would craft higher or lower powered formats at will. Wanna nuke the format into the stone age? Go ahead. We'll be playing with pebbles for a year or so. Wanna have a format were everything is combo and nothing is banned? Of course Mr Konami. Or maybe you want all matches to become a grindy 30-40 minute control mirror? Please do so.

I think 1 card combos are a case of the Genie being out of the bottle. Konami can ban all generic negates (and they probably will), but they can't exactly ban every deck's centerpiece.

I wanna thank MBT for an answer to a question nobody asked

Theoratically speaking we've had 1 card starters for 10+ years, like tour guide into dante or shaddoll fusion into construct. And if we go by 1 card combos we've had stuff like Zoodiac Ratpier 7 years ago. The concept itself is really damn old, the difference is that the consistency is much higher now since instead of 1 one card starter, we now got 15 one card starters and the end board is much more broken. Getting a 1 card XYZ into Dante is a joke compared to the stuff SE or SHS can do with 1 card. (Heck even normal ratpier ending on like emeral + 2 drident is a joke compared to that) The deck which started this stupid trend was Prank kids with meow meow mu, somehow konami saw this and thought that it would be funny if a bunch of decks get to do this stuff, so they printed shit like circular and wakaushi.

I do think the problem has to do with generic ED monsters and how easy most Decks can access them.

its time for the tabletop meta to shine once more

At this point just print multiple tier 0 options, im tired of feeling like I have to play 1 deck in order to have the best chance at winning

Either lower the power of one-card combos or outright ban them. That simple

I think the fact 1 card combos now give you full boards and can do this through heavy hand traps is absurd

To think Mathmech never won anything important but Snake Eyes did, by miles. Can anyone explain why is Circular banned again?

1 card combos that when resolve create an insane amount of advantage are a mistake, especially when you have 10 different ways to access it. Unfortunately, it does not look like Konami is going to stop making archetypes that have little to no weaknesses that are also incredibly resilient.

I'm just waiting til they introduce skills into the game and we reach the fabled 0 card starters.

Shout out to king sarcophagus for creating one of the least skilled decks ive ever seen.

Couldn't agree more. It just kinda is what it is, there's no real way to fix it without a several hundred card banlist and a hard reset of design philosophy. Bring rush duel to the west btw.

If the common take on tear is good mirror but bad coz its the only playable deck in tear format. Wouldnt the solution be multiple tear level decks that have good interplay with the other decks?

We need to ban whoever is making this cards in konami card design department.

Banning "Original Sinful Spoils - Snake Eye" is the most logical answer, but we know that Konami doesn't follow logic, at least not the metagame logic.

Rescue cat op

Better than stun

one card combo's should only be a feature of mid range decks. Like chimera and swordsoul. There is a hard cap on how much advantage their starters can get you in one turn. Combo decks should never have one card starters.

We need straight up a new master rule that slows down the game, like a permanent 5 summon limit per turn

I still haven't had fun like I did with tear format. Not only was it fun to play but it was extremely targeted. Being able to cut ash and just play bystials and crow was simple.

We need set rotation. Like seriously, this is getting out of hand.

I disagree with engine vs engine being unhealthy. Adventure prankkids was not a “play on your opponents turn” deck. They didn’t actually play on your opponents turn, they just triggered effects to gain advantage on your opponents turn, similar to how flamberge works. There’s no decision making, you’re just triggering prankkids off of a fusion summon for value. Tearlament, labrynth, fire king, Paleozoic, ghoti and probly some others I’m not thinking of atm, actually have decision making, and in some of those cases, it’s also nonlinear. This is what the engine vs engine should look like. If engine vs engine is always hyper linear combos like modern designs have had them be, then the result of that engine vs engine is all but predetermined. Yugioh biggest problem, imo, isn’t even the one card combo (it is a massive problem) - it’s linearity. When every single engine is designed to try and do the exact same thing every game, then that’s 1) either unhealthy for the opponent, 2) unsatisfying for the player that got stopped by hand traps since their deck didn’t get to do its “thing”, or 3) just not strong enough to see play. A nonlinear deck like tearlament has the perfect design space for modern yugioh because it’s powerful enough to compete with hyper linear single-card combos, but also has a nonlinear gameplan which makes every game different to a certain extent. How do you do this without milling in modern cards? Card draw. Look at runick - i do have problems with that archetype, and no it’s not because it banishes cards. Runick’s main form of card advantage by far comes from fountain. My main problem with runick is simply hugin, and runick tip. I think it’d be much more interesting if the deck drew cards from other means and it wasn’t all focused down onto one field spell that can be removed, which usually immediately wins you the game against it.

Everybody complain modern yugioh is too much powerfull, and that old decks cannot keep up, due to them needed a combination of 2 or 3 specific cards. Of course 1 card combos are broken

Just play Dino. It stomps Snake-Eye. They can't do anything if you flip their cards upside-down and have a Lars for the OSS.

There’s a way to nerf fire without banning anything *UNCAGE TEAR*

Pretty soon, YuGiOh will end up becoming a single coin-flip game. I'd say within 3 years we're going to hit that power creep limit, and then the game will collapse. After all, you'll end up spending (by that point) $4000 for a pile of colorful cardboard that you don't even get to use as everyone who loses the coinflip will just surrender given that FTK will be the only way to win, so there's no point in going second.

I'm telling you, unban Mystic Mine and the format will be fair and balanced. Its the only way

Time for Konami Yugioh to evolve. Introduce a new format. The Advanced Format has been around for far too long as the mainstay for competitive play. Set rotation would be nice. Players may complain that would force players to spend money, but they're already complaining about the prices already.

Okay so u want to get rid of 1 card starters ... fine ... but that just means snake eyes will be tier 0 for the next 5 years and theres no reason for me to play absolutely anything else ... and that means konami makes exactly 0 money ... and that means yugioh doesnt work anymore fundamentaly ... the moment they printed the first ever 1 card starters they forced themselfes to continue doing it and theres no way around it u can never ever make anything weaker than what you have already done or ppl just stick with the current tier 0 ...

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