Time to take a spin in the time machine! We’re going way back to the year 2003. Mystical Space Typhoon was still confusing people, Jinzo was burning up Trap Cards with his laser beam eyes, and everywhere I went, the same conversation kept coming up: Should Pot of Greed really stay Limited?

If you’re having a “What is he TALKING about!?” moment, I will explain!

Pot of Greed: One or Three?

The debate would go like this:

1. Pot of Greed is a very strong card and is the ONE card you are always happy to draw.
2. Pot of Greed Limited to 1 per Deck means the game relies more on luck, since whichever player draws it (when the other does not) always has an advantage.
3. Therefore, Pot of Greed should be at 3 to reduce the luck element by increasing odds of both players drawing at least one copy.

This was before there was a Forbidden Cards list, and the whole thing quieted down after the card was Forbidden. But what if it stuck around? Should it have stayed Limited at 1? Or gone to 3 to balance out the luck factor between Duelists?

Greed is Good?

In Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Genesys, Pot of Greed is back, baby! But what do you think of its 30 point cost? A full set of 3 copies of this card will give you a lot of card-drawing capability. And maybe more important, it will be consistent, since with 3 copies, you’ll see at least one of them in a lot more Duels.

But it will also price out most other power cards for your Deck in a 100-point cap tournament. Is drawing a lot of cards good, if you’re missing out on the power cards TO draw? What if you’re playing a themed Deck, where most of your utility cards won’t have point costs at all? If you have free substitutes for the card effects that other players are spending points on, because they’re using the generic equivalents, that frees up budget for you to spend on other cards, instead.

If you don’t think 90 points is worth it for a set of 3 Pot of Greed, what if (or maybe, WHEN) the cost drops to 20 per copy? How about 10? There’s a number, somewhere.

What’s that number for you? Something to think about!

Speaking of Which

Yes, this is why Pot of Greed is in the 2025 Mega-Packs! Along with a few other cards that are Forbidden in Advanced Format play, like Chaos Ruler, the Chaotic Magical Dragon and Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon (currently priced at 50 points each), Card of Safe Return (40 points), and Metamorphosis and Mirage of Nightmare (only 10 points each!). So if you hear anyone ask, “Are they going to reprint some of these older cards so we can get them for Genesys?” Yes. We’ve already started!