The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Trading Card Game consists of three formats. There is Standard, which is on a rotation with a cutoff point for a certain set all the way to the latest one. Another format is Unlimited, where any card in the game can be played regardless of when it came out. And lastly there is Expanded, in which every set from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black & White onward is legal.
Of the three, only the Expanded format has any kind of banl🐽ist. While Standard usually gets rid of problem cards by the way of its set rotation (meaning older sets become illegal to use in that format), Expanded, in turn, inherits them. As such, some cards become too problematic for the format to handle and they get banned. Some bans are just, and others can realistically c💎ome off the banlist.
10 �﷽� Stay Banned: Delinquent (XY - BREAKpoint)
Delinquent is one of the prime examples of a card that should have never been printed. "Hand looping" is a TCG action where a player rips cards from their opponent's hand and moves them to the discard pile, meaning that they never get a chance to use it. Delinquent makes this iꦡncredibly easy to do, as all it requires you to do is have a Stadium card on the field (of which doesn't even need to be yours). Doing so forces your opponent to dis🍷card 3 cards from their hand with no downside for you. Hand looping is never fun and creates a bad environment for the metagame if it exists, especially one so devastating.
9 Come Off The Banlist: Wally (XY - Roaring Skies/Generations) 🥂 ✃
"Wally" is a card that allo🌌ws you to evolve a 🐓on your field using its evolution straight from your deck. This allows for a lot of decks to be able to get to their evolved Pokemon quickly and be able to get their gameplan going. The reason it was banned was due to the fact you could use "Wally" to evolve a Pokemon on your first turn and potentially lock out your opponent from items with "Trevenant." Many decks rely on getting to their evolutions to function, so it makes sense for "Wally" to return and "Trevenant" to instead be banned.
8 💯 Stay Banned: Unown (Lost Thunder)
This is a double-entry, since the two versions of "Unown" do the same thing, albeit in different ways. Both versions of "Unown" came out in Lost Thunder and both feature "instant win" abilities. One of them will win you the game if you have📖 66 (or more) damage counters on your benched Pokemon.
The other automatically wins you the game if you have 35 or more cards in your hand. Both of these effects are𝓡 rather easy to pull off, especially in the Expanded format. Due to the card pool of Expanded making it easy to defeat your opponent before they even get to play, this is not a card that should be legal.
7 Come Off The Banlist: Lysandre's Tru✱mp Card (XY - Phantom Forces)
"Lysandre♚'s Trump Card" is essentially one giant "reset" button. Its effect has both players shuffle their discard pile back into their deck for no extra effect. The best it can do it recycle the item cards you had used (and other trainer cards if it isn't your first turn). Your opponent also benefits from this, as their items are also recycled into their deck, assuming it isn't the first turn. It does boost draw power on the later turns, however, by that point your opponent likely has their established board already.
6 ﷽ Stay Banned: Archeops (Black & White - Noble Victories/Black & White - Dark E🐬xplorers)
Cards that simply shut off a core aspect of the game should not exist if a metagame is to remain healthy. And that's exactl🉐y why "Archeops" should never leave the banlist. While its stats and move aren't anything special, its ability "Ancient Power" is what makes it so broken. "Ancient Power" prevents either player from evolving their Pokemon from their hand.
While this does affect the player using it as well, they can simply make their last play evolving into Archeops so that they don't have 🃏to worry about the restriction on their Pokemon once they're fully evolved.
5 Come Off The Banlist: Marshadow (Shining Legends/Black𝔍 Star Promo)
"Marshadow" is far from anything special, with its main use being its ability "Let Loose," which can make each player shuffle their hand into the deck and draw four new cards. While "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marshadow" can force certain cards back into your opponent's deck, there is no guarantee t🍎hey won't draw back into them again since the deck is shuffled before re-drawing. ꦅIt allows for more interesting game states and playstyles, and the cards it was used with are also banned that were much easier to use. "Marshadow" also has to go on your bench to use its ability, making it dead if its the only Basic Pokemon you have in your hand at the start of the game.
4 Stay Banned: Puzzle of Time (XY - BREAKpoint) 🎐 ཧ
"Puzzle of Time" might be one of the most broken item cards ever printed. Pokémon's TCG has access to a ton of powerful draw spells, making it very easy to resolve both effects of "Puzzle of Time." If you have two in your hand, you get to use both the effects listed on it. For starters, you get to look at the top three cards of your deck and return them in any order, sett൩ing up for either your next turn or for a draw card. The second effect allows the user ♍to take any 2 cards from the discard pile and re-add them to the hand. With how easy it is to get two copies of "Puzzle of Time" in your hand, it's incredibly easy to recycle your most powerful cards. There's no way it should leave the banlist anytime soon.
3 🧸 Come Off The Banlist: Mismagius (Sun & Moon - Unbroken Bonds)
"Mismagius" has an interesting ability where it can knock itself out (and give your opponent a prize card in the process) in order to draw cards until you have 7 in your hand. While this may seem like a balanced trade-off, "Mismagius" was abused with a ton of other cards to hand loop your opponent that cultivated in all the cards in the combo being banne🎶d.
However, "Mismagius" can r🅰eturn so long as the other cards from that combo ("Lt. Surge's Strategy, Reset Stamp) remain banned. "Mismagius" isn't the problem card, it's car♌ds that take advantage of the number of prize cards your opponent has taken.
2 Stay Banned: Lt. Surge's Strategy (Sun &aꦺmp; Moon - Unbroken Bonds)
Touched upon in the last entry, "Lt. Surge's Strategy" has perhaps one of the best effects on a Pokémon card. It allows you to play 3 "Supporter" cards for the turn, which have some of the greatest effects in the whole game. They are normally balan𝓀ced out by the fact you can only activate 1 per turn, with the only condition being that your opponent has fewer prize cards than you do. It's a very easy condition to meet and allows for a ton of unhealthy combos using the powerful "Supporter" card pool.
1 Come Off The Banlis༒t: Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick (XY - Primal Clash)
"Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick" is a card that has a hefty condition to use it, and can rarely be used at the start of the game. "Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick" can only be played when it is the only card in your hand. Its effect lets you place a Fighti🌼ng-type Pokémon from your discard pile onto your bench, and then draw 5 cards. If anything, it is a comeback card that is severely hampered by its activation requirement. It's a "Supporter" card, meaning if it's in an early hand, it will take 🧸some time to be able to activate if you have multiple "Supporter" cards in your hand or draw into any. It's was a cautionary ban for something that likely would never be a real issue, due to how hard it would be to resolve devastatingly.