They dropped this on us today and is getting a rather harsh welcome.

this is not a new banlist, it is an alternate format and that's why we shouldn't feel intimidated by it. Having a critical mass of decks balanced out of the format is completely fine because it means unusual suspects will get a try.

And most important of all:

GOOD BYE FOREVER YOU STANKY BITCH AND MARBLE

Not only that, we also get rid of the very cringey Xros Heart deck that became stupidly oppressive on BT11 after a huge banlist hit... SOMEHOW

BWGX will have to now decide between playing Greymon X Antibody or Yuuya to protect it's stack making it extremely less strong too.

We will mourn the lost of some (based) decks though:

Jesmon

Mastemon (my beloved)

Imperialdramon

Examon

Sakuyamon

4GD

etc (I literally cant think of any others lol)

The specific banlist directly hits MelgaX, Grandis and MinervaLoop

Which is FUN.

This is a hit to the core aspects that make the strategies themselves annoying, It is most likely we wont see any of this decks now that they are escentially losing their wincon. But I like to imagine, a MelgaX deck that actually plays like MelgaX intends you to play, a big fucking blocker that controls the board. Or a Grandis that actually cares about combat instead of beating you in turn 3. Minerva losing the rusher completely is sad, when you take in count the other two decks only got a limit. Because having 1 lv5 rusher in the deck that uses the lv5 as a toolbox would have been very fun, but I am biased.

as well as generic good tools like Chaos degrade and DeathX which is an indirect hit to dead animals.

DeathX makes sense because it is a generic tool for black and purple decks that forces the entire format to be wrap around it... in advanced, here it just means black and purple have an upper hand, which they very much need lmao. The lack of a DeathX means that two of the decks I can see shredding in this format will have no checks, Bloomlord and Ulforce.

But Chaos Degrade is a weird choice, the decks that can utilize it the most have an inherent cap by the mono color format, decks that could use it will have to jump hurdles to do so, and then we have to ask, what are we checking with this? Alphamon and WargreyX? (okay those decks are scary) But for your consideration, we have already have a Chaos degrade replacement for monocolor. If you have any idea of the purpose behind this one just tell me.

-That only leave us with theory crafting-

Sadly Bandai dropped this one on us after the Ulticup slots have been purchased for most people, so lots of people were kind of trapped into it, and god forbid TCG players are forced to build a different deck.

I am really seeing Bloomlord-Hydra and Ulforce as a force to be reckon, specially after Mulligan has been confirmed, Thankfully Gallantmon is also there to keep Bloomlord in check, but without Zwart Defeat and a very hindered BWGX, tamer span is very strong, who will check ulforce? Darknigthmon? hell Merva and Bagraa army seem playable in this landscape even, I cannot think of any competent Yellow deck though, maybe there's a build for Ophanimon loop, but do you really wanna play a deck which relies on [on deletion] when the best deck can just bounce you back into your deck?.