With the theme of hand advantage, Konami was inclined to make a card that’s the reverse of Pot of Greed. This is also another out to Robbin Goblin, which may have been too abusable.ĭelinquent Duo. While Heavy Storm was needed as an out to many annoying spells/traps out there, MST is a more balanced and consistent 1-for-1 option. There weren’t graveyard effects or Special Summon from graveyard effects and Monster Reborn was the only recovery card. While one of the most overpowered banned cards in the game by today’s standards, it wasn’t as abusable. Few to no viable traps: even Spellbinding Circle was mediocre at best. Overall, how monsters interact with each other in this format are still similar to Medal Raiders. The elemental battle recruiters like Giant Rat and Mother Grizzly are introduced but these attributes don’t have any worthwhile monsters to search out (apart from maybe Mystic Tomato to search out Witch or Sangan).
Not a lot of great monsters aside from Cyber Jar. While this set doesn’t totally revolutionize the meta, it does add power creep. This set is known for introducing many of the Spell staples. The set was later renamed to Spell Ruler after Magic the Gathering sued Yugioh.