The Forbidden & Limited Cards List has been updated. You can find it here. This list will take effect on September 1st, 2013, however a special exception has been made for YCS Toronto. YCS Toronto will use the new Forbidden & Limited Cards List even though the event begins before September 1st.
Welcome back! Today, we’re going to talk about some of the hidden elements to the F&L List that aren’t immediately obvious to the general observer.
The “bandwagon effect” is a documented psychological phenomenon wherein the more people are doing something, the more likely other people are to start doing it, too. (Other names for this include “groupthink,” “sheeple,” “keeping up with the Joneses,” etc.)
Today I’m going to talk about how the bandwagon effect applies to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, and specifically about how it can distort appearances of tournament performance, and how that impacts our decisions on the Forbidden & Limited Cards list.
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Yesterday we talked about some of the changes to the March 1, 2012 Forbidden & Limited Cards List. Equally important to changes are things that didn’t change. Here are a few cards we talked about changing, but haven’t taken action on at this time.
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Almost three months ago, on March 1, the Forbidden & Limited Cards List was updated again. Now that things have settled down a bit, we wanted to share some of our thought processes behind the F&L List creation.
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