The reveal of March 2011's ban list

Hey, guys! I would like to share an instant news to you guys about the March 2011's ban list. This time the ban list does not much affected all the popular decks among OCG and TCG. However, Konami did trying to slow down the speed of OTK and FTK decks such as Six Samurai, Psychic, Blackwings, Angel, and Debris Plant too. The most unexpected cards included in this list were Goyou Guardian and Royal Tribute.

Cards that are listed in the below are just the cards that was changes in the current ban list.

Forbidden/Banned Cards:
Goyo Guardian
Cold Wave
Mass Driver

Restricted/Limited Cards:
Honest
Dandylion
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Book of Moon
Gateway of the Six

Semi-Restricted/Limited Cards:
Card Trooper
Archlord Kristya
Spirit Reaper
Debris Dragon
Royal Tribute
Overload Fusion
Megamorph
Solemn Warning
Icarus Attack

No longer restricted or limited cards:
Chaos Sorcerer
Demise, King of Armageddon
Snipe Hunter
Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
Gold Sarcophagus
Skill Drain
Ultimate Offering

Based on the ban list, I can see that the release of Exceed Monster will be a big hit to the OCG plus TCG. With the limit of Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow and semi-limit of Icarus Attack, Blackwings will be a bit slower and the chances of OTK also drop too. The limit of Honest and semi-limit of Archlord Kristya also weaken the Angel deck. Once again, Dandylion limit to one and Debris Dragon being semi-limit will reduce the speed of Debris Plant deck.

With this ban list, Machina deck does not hit much and they can even fusion summon with the Cyber Dragon using Overload Fusion. Thus, Karakuri and Machina deck will be more powerful after the apply of this ban list. Psychic deck also not much affected by this ban list thus they can OTK more frequent compare with the Blackwings. Besides, the banned of Goyou Guardian also means Exceed Monster can be play more safely. The banned of Cold Wave also mean no more afraid of back row cards being destroyed. Overall, this ban list does make some hits to the current circumstances.

Apart from that, I will share the news regarding the Exceed Monster. This is the Exceed monster that will be released in the Starter deck 2011. All Exceed monsters are black color and they required 2 and above monsters(token can be used) which have the same star level and face-up on the field to Exceed Summon it from the Extra Deck(In this case, this card required 2 star level 4 monsters). The Exceed material will be stack together under the Exceed monster instead of sending the Exceed material to the graveyard. When the Exceed material is being removed, it will be sent to the graveyard and these Exceed material will not be consider as monster when they are stack under the Exceed monster but it can be use like the counter. Lastly, the Exceed Monster will not have star level thus those cards that applying on certain star level monster will not have effect on them. For example, Level Limit - Area B will not have effect on all Exceed Monster. Those star level is named as Rank.

Okay, that's all the latest news of today! Let's us await the arrival of Exceed Monster. Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.