I...have and had a lot of things to say about the restricted list, but as most of them have gone up on other sites already it just feels like I'm repeating myself.
The new model for Tsukuyomi does work as Amaterasu support if you want CEO's megablast as an option, since Inaba ties back to both Tsuku and the new Goddess crossride, but if you're looking to focus solely on Goddess of the Sun then you might instead accept LuLu as a default FVG because of her guaranteed +2 versus Ichibyoshi's sometimes-on sometimes-off increase in advantage. The Tsukuyomi fusion feels more coherent as a strategy, but I think we'd need to try mirror match testing on whether LuLu's guaranteed extra card and access to Silent Tom or Godhawk-Tsuku's soul support with Tagitsuhime is more beneficial to the Goddess deck.
I feel that the fact that Barcgal and his restriction was accepted without controversy compared to the various reactions to the new list does show that this is not necessarily a needed adjustment to the game. How many of us were calling out for Tsukuyomi and Alfred to be restricted before this? Has anyone ever actually called these two cards broken? I don't think that being able to run Tsuku at four is a bad thing, Tanaka-type decks are innovation at work and this strategy keeps an old deck contemporary. The fact that
every first-place national championship deck has now been made unusable...the way that this new list works, it seems that Bushiroad is just going to restrict whatever makes it to the championship finals from now on, to make it impossible for any deck from a previous year to top in the following ones.
I consider assuming a massive, ever-changing restricted list to be inevitable the wrong attitude. It's not an organic evolution of the game rules. One of the unique points about Cardfight is that up to now, there hasn't been a real "restricted" list. The game balance was praised for this reason, and I think my sister described it best when she asked me why these cards weren't just not printed in the first place. The institution of heavy restrictions means that in the future, we could be headed towards a similar situation to the previous Big 3 card games, where you're playing an entirely different game every four months because of the new restricted list or set rotation. And it's doubtful that the new list won't eventually come to the EN scene, considering that the Barcgal restriction that for so long seemed to not be coming did finally enter into our format. Would we be complaining if the list were instead;
- Majesty Lord Blaster
- Wingal Brave
- Lizard Soldier Conroe
- Dragonic Overlord The End
While on one hand it's good that Bushi pays attention to the pro scene, on the other I can't rationalize sacrificing the average fighters that are doing this for fun as the right way to go about it. These restrictions apply at the shop level, so it's not like they're unaffected by the restricted list. And if shops
don't obey the restricted list so that these players can participate, that only goes further to highlight the sentiment of it as illegitimate. My deck isn't personally affected by this, but I don't like the idea of my friends eventually being excluded from using the decks that they put so much time and money into designing, and I think it sets a dangerous precedent for the future of the game to have a large number of cards restricted. What if designers start designing cards
intending for them being restricted? Cardfight doesn't have an "item" or "magic" card mechanic like other games, something like Pokemon's ACE SPECs wouldn't fly the same way here. Having a restricted list also makes it difficult for new players to get into the game; Yu-Gi-Oh! by comparison is very difficult to get into because kids and adults alike don't enjoy the bureaucracy of having to memorize an everchanging lineup of illegal cards to know what of their collection is permitted in a deck. From my perspective, it's a Pandora's box that we'd be better off having not opened.
This isn't something that I think is worth quitting the game over, but it's discouraging, you know?
HiveNet wrote:Not a shock that this was coming. However, I think it's
a trial thing personally. The logic some players are putting to it are
atributting it to a letter sent by someone complaining about Majesty
Lord Blaster, DOTE and PBO being to powerful and that they should be
changed for the english edition.
I'd like to clarify with some details about this particular point before I stop, that someone is Alice, a very prolific cardfighter and writer who's been influencing the English side of the game. It's not just one letter that she wrote--Alice created a forum thread to try and convince as many people as possible to fill out a form letter and send it to Bushiroad's EN facilities, and as I recall Bushi eventually responded, saying that they forwarded the letters to the "relevant department." Currently it's unknown if this carried a concrete impact since it could be a typical company dismissal reply and if Bushi modified those cards then they'd have to modify all future crossrides, but that's the basic summary of what went down with this. It seems unlikely that her letters were the motivation behind the list though, because Bushiroad's English and Japanese divisions are managed separately and the list coincided with Eboshida Hiromi's The End deck taking the junior national title while Nakamura Seishirou's (no relation to the Nakamura Seishirou from the Winter tournaments, different kanji same reading) Majesty Lord deck became the senior national one. Alice also asked for Phantom Blaster Overlord to be restricted or modified, and that being the one deck that
didn't make it to the senior or junior finals, nothing's happened to it.
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