You might be wondering why we’re adding a completely new style of Deck-building for Genesys. After all, Forbidden & Limited Card Lists have worked just fine for over 20 years. So let’s go over some of the ways it makes things different!

No Forbidden Cards

There’s no individual card in the game that’s so incredibly powerful that it can never be allowed. Not even long-time members of the Forbidden Cards List like Painful Choice.It’s not that it’s powerful by itself, it’s powerful because it lets you get other powerful cards. With Painful Choice sitting at a 95 point cost, you can’t really combo it with other power cards in Genesys. But if you really want to play with it, you can – it will just take up most of your Deck’s point budget by itself.

Specific Combos Can Be Priced Out

If a multi-card combo results in an undesirable interaction, like an FTK, it can be removed by just pricing the card most responsible at 100 points and the other needed components at 1 point. This puts the combo over the standard 100 point cap, so it can’t go in the same Deck.

But at locals or side events, the Tournament Organizer can set the point cap to whatever the players want it to be, so if you want to run a high-power tournament with a 500-point cap you’re free to do that and use those combos. (We’ll talk about multiple point cap variants in another article!)

You Can’t Put Every Single Power Card in Your Deck

With a point cap, there’s a real trade-off when deciding if you want to play extraordinarily powerful cards like Maxx “C” or Graceful Charity in your Deck. You can certainly do it, and you can play multiples if you want! However, if you do, you’re giving up other important tools your Deck might need in order to function, like cards that enable turn 1 interaction going second (Ash Blossom, etc.).

Do you really want to spend 50 points per Maxx “C”? Maybe! If the rest of your Deck is 0 cost and you’re confident the extra cards from it will surely let you win. Or you could spend 51 points and get full playsets of both Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia (3 copies of each). This is lower power, but you’ll see at least one of those Mulcharmy cards far more often than you would that single Maxx “C”, and it costs only 1 point more than playing a single Maxx “C”.

Another example, you could play 3 copies of Pot of Greed, if you want. (This card allows you to draw 2 cards from your Deck.) But at 30 points each, that will take 90 of your Deck-building points. The choice is yours!

More Choices to Make = More Fun For Deck-building Enthusiasts

For many Duelists, building Decks is the most fun part of the game! The point system in Genesys is similar to the salary cap system used by professional sports. Just like how individual players can earn a bigger payday and may take more of the cap to re-sign, the point cost of cards will change based on their usage and performance in competition. Genesys makes you the general manager of your own Deck, giving you much more to think about, and more reasons to use cards you might not consider otherwise! Have you tried building a Genesys Deck yet? Get started from the landing page here!