I'm gonna try my own list.

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Airbellum over Kitty?

 

Airbellum's only use is in Cat Synchro. Rescue Cat works in other Decks' date=' and contributes more to the game.

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Rescue Cat is designed to field 3200 ATK for a single Normal Summon, creates 2-card OTKs, and provides ludicrous advantage with Samnite; it invites abuse by its very nature.

 

How do you figure, though? Without Airbellum, there's no Beast Tuner that Rescue Cat can bring out, meaning it's not going to bring out much at all.

 

There was a topic recently where I posted my full thoughts on the matter.

 

Trio over AOA and Battlemania based solely on two cards versus one card?

 

I wasn't really sure which to ban' date=' as I said earlier, and Ojama Trio seemed like the better decision since it does play a role in more than one OTK.

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What's its other OTK, the one with Ultimate Tyranno and H - Heated Heart?

 

Also, All-Out Attacks is involved in multiple OTK's too; I can think of two others (Morphing Jar #2 and Cactus Fighter).

 

There's the new Reptiless monster as well, the one that destroys all 0 ATK monsters on the field and lets you draw 1 card for each, which works extremely well with Ojama Trio.

 

Never heard of it. *looks it up* You mean that Synchro Monster that forces you to main the terrible Reptiless Viper?

 

Instead of counting OTK's and seeing which is in more of them' date=' or counting how many cards you'll need to ban, examine instead what the cards will bring to the game.

 

Random lone TIV?

 

It can't really be at three' date=' but there should be something to take out Blackwings, and Tribe-Infecting Virus can do that without ruining the game.

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You have abandoned the fundamental philosophy of banlist construction.

 

Tribe-Infecting Virus is worse than Lightning Vortex in that it's weak, so it can easily be destroyed in battle. It'll get its effect what, once? Then it'll be destroyed and that'll be the end of it.

 

First of all, Lightning Vortex itself gets its effect once and is then sent to the Graveyard and that's the end of it.

 

Second of all, you have abandoned the fundamental philosophy of banlist construction.

 

And Phantom of Chaos in what is clearly not an extreme list?

 

I didn't want to go ban Norleras and Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo Daedalus and the other cards that Phantom of Chaos combos with' date=' so I just banned Phantom of Chaos.

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If you're going for moderate 3-0 (which many of the absent changes imply), Phantom isn't exactly your top priority. If you're going for extreme 3-0, you'll find that Norleras is a problem without Phantom and Neo-Daedalus's status depends on how extreme your list is but is the same regardless of Phantom's position.

 

How is Norleras a problem without Phantom of Chaos? It requires a lot of setup to Summon, so much so that I don't see it as much of an issue.

 

It's not all that hard to set up, especially now that we have Lightlords running around, and the reward for setting it up - CED, draw a card - is disproportionate to the difficulty involved in doing so.