1) ANY. SUFFICIENTLY. GENERIC. ANTI-META CARD. Will inevitably become not only meta, but the most disgusting type of meta. (Also called the "Royal Oppression Rule".)
2) Monsters that substitute for Counter Traps, without the limitation of Counter Traps (disposability/heavy cost) are
cancer, and those in the Extra Deck are
Patient Zero.
3) It's not THAT a card searches that makes it OP or no: IT'S. WHAT. IT SEARCHES.
4) There are 3 subcategories of Meta, there be:
Meta that Creates (Category A, creating/defining a new direction for the game; Jinzo cutting down the Traps in the average player's Deck by a factor of magnitude)
Meta that Breaks (Category B, making a facet of the game OP; Ultimate Offering, Spellbook of Judgment, Firewall Dragon) and
Meta that Unmakes (Category C, preventing crucial parts of a Duel-or Dueling in particular-from playing, like Vanity's Emptiness, Cold Wave, Yata-Garasu). More of A. plz.
5) Turning removal into a playstyle wasn't funny or sustainable when Super Rejuvenation did it and it's not funny now that Kaijus, Dinos, and Metalfoes are (among others).
6) Breaking open this old chestnut again because it's that important: THE ONLY. LIFE POINT. THAT MATTERS. IS. YOUR.
LAST.
7) ...And
If you're paying LP as an Archetype's mechanic, the only PAID Life Point that matters is one that puts another card on the board or negates one.
8) Resource-reliant games are overrated. Yes, I include M:TG in this. Yes, I'm an M:TG fan/player as well, so I speak from experience.
9) There is a difference, and a significant one to understanding balance in cardmaking, between a card that's bad because of
what it is, and one that's bad because of
what it supports. To confuse the two is to end by comparing
Golden Apples to
Space Gifts, the latter of whom EVERY Archetype would give arms, legs and firstborn for.
10) I dedicate this final credo to DrJack,
who in his review of Dream Halls, basically explained what the downward trend of both his native card game and this one stemmed from. The parallels to Yu-Gi-Oh in it are easy to put together.
Most of the time, it's not the cards that break the meta, it's the meta that breaks the cards.
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