Homework: Balancing the old and new.

What exactly is ther homework? Made a deck with red eyes a threat?

*cough*redeyeswasneveragoodcard

@!Prince Red eyes was a cool looking card though

Randomly going to give my input here. AS for making the older cards come back, it would not be easy. Nor do I even believe Konami intends to do it as a main priority. Here are my arguments for both side.

In Light of the fact that older players want to be nostalgic and play the ever so beloved Dark Magician. It's simply that, nostalgic. If you pull off 1 nice play with him you've done well, but be prepared to eat an XYZ monster effect next turn. The reason for this is because Yugioh is growing old, and like all old things it must evolve. Where as normally nature would take it's course, and push the evolution towards whatever would be best, better than it had been before. Here we rely on writers. Who's to say their ideas are even any good? I'm not saying that XYZ and Synchro are not good, just stating the question that they could, perhaps, not be. They are however faster. Because having all your XYZ and Synchro monster in your extra deck, and not having to draw them making special summoning them a whole lot easier. So the game has evolved to become a bit faster. Thus, making it hard for big beat stick 2 tribute monsters that have to be normal summoned a lot harder to play. Especially since in those cases you have to draw your boss monster from your deck.


Now, on the bright side there are ways to make it... perhaps possible. Like Yeezus said, who knows what all Pendulum summoning will bring to the table. But even beyond that if Konami does wish to make the older cards more playable there are a couple of ways they could go about it.

First and for most, Archtype specific(in most cases) support cards. Look at what Maiden did to blue eyes. And Silvers cry. Not to mention Azure eyes. Just as the game itself can evolve, so can our old favorite cards. And though I believe bring NEW, completely new monsters to the table always will be Konamis FIRST priority, they do in fact bring out new support sometimes. So in summary, to make the older cards more playable, they have to do just that. Make them, more, playable. Easier to summon, easier to search, easier to combo with. Because in todays fast paced format, combos are everything.

Now, the second and less likely scenario, is they slow the game down. How, I'm not exactly sure what with the current formats and such. Putting any sort of break pedal down would likely just cause a mess. But, that is another way it would be easier, and perhaps preferable to tribute summon. Maybe more field cards like Sargaso that penalize people for XYZ summoning etc. In the end, it's all up to time, and Konami, and what they wish to do.


^.^ -Turns in assignment.-