You'd end up with a meta revolving Dark magician, Blue eyes, Eldlich, and a TON of FTK meme decks. Balancing a game around the tons of different support that would remain if you banned link monsters(I think Konami's biggest mistake), xyz monsters, pendulum, syncrhos, and contact fusions is a HUGE ask. Short of releasing a game that only focused on cards released pre-20XX, there's not alot of options. I feel that has more to do with the current state of the game. Trust me i havent played yugioh since i was a kid too, last time played yugioh was during GX era 15 years ago and i was playing Duel academy on GBA emolator You can still play casualy and use old cards but you gotta adapt a little bit to the modern style yugioh, the game is 20 years old after all You can play old school gamble/luck deck and get a winstreak with it > Here some example, i just beat someone with old school BLUE EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON fusion deck against meta deck and still win > You can play simple " Normal Monster" Beatdown deck and still managed to win agaisnt modern deck Another example ,my OG Old School Black luster soldier deck that can win against meta deck> You can play a deck with only normal monster( no extra deck monster or effect monster) and get to highest rank platinum 1 with it > You can just play " beaver warrior" deck and still win Welcome to modern yugioh!, dont worry thou ,since you can still play old deck(blue eyes ,dark magician,monarch, egyptian god, harpies or whatever) or play casualy and still win with it
TLDR: The game is online and you have access you almost every card, unlike before where you play offline with friend and dont have access to every card in the game If you were to compete with those decks back then against actual competitive deck, you'd most likely get slapped by everyone running the meta decks with 100 summon and OTK at that time And yes, that means by extension going second can likely be a death sentence if your deck isn't set up right Since inception, the game by and large has revolved around establishing a board state that fundamentally denies your opponent the ability to play the game and summon tons of monster. you were playing with friends or against easy bot where you both were playing playground rules, and you’d be up against other friend who’d buy some packs and just threw their best cards together to make a random card deck (AKA Joey Deck) or easy bot from a video game "Summon a few monsters, set a few cards, pass" was the realm of the playground and anime.
The game was unbalanced garbage from the start because konami first started making the game as an anime cashgrab ,they never thought the game would be popular for years come The game was always extremely degenerate at the highest level of play,you dont know this yet because you were playing playground yugioh with random cards as a kid or against easy ai bot THE GAME WAS OVER!!!Ĭhaos, TeleDAD, Zoo, Pepe, Glad Beast, Lightsworn, there's always something at some time where the players go "Yugioh is too fast now! Your opponent summons Chaos Emperor Dragon/Gyzarus/Drident/DAD/Judgment Dragon/Monkeyboard and the game is over! It should go back to how it was!"Įxcept the issue is that it was always that fastĮven back then the so called "old style deck" would be destroyed by "old style meta deck" OTK/100 summon plays always exist back in old yugioh, When someone Yata locked you / summoned Magical scientist / played Cyber Stein / summoned Chaos emperor Dragon / TeleDAD / messenger of peace burned you / etc. People still summon 100 monster/OTK back then Welcome to the state of Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! since 2003Įven in the old days, even without syncro,xyz,pendulum and link