5. Thousand-Eyes Restrict
So you the effect of Restrict and you go "Big Dub are you insane? A monster that can take one of my monsters and prevent me from attacking it? You want it to be legal?". Yes I do and here's the reason why.
To summon it, you need two monsters (Thousand-Eyes Idol and Relinquished) and one of those is a Ritual monster so unless you're using a Fusion Substitute you're already using 5 cards just to get this on the field. Back in the old days it was worth it, but now with Xyz's and Synchro's you can get rid of this card very easily so it's not really viable in the game, can't really hurt the game and just who in their right mind is going to run TER? The answer is no one.
4. Graceful Charity
So, Graceful Charity was banned due to a combo known as The Trinity. The Trinity used Delinquent Duo, Graceful Charity and Pot of Greed. Now, how it worked was like this: Delinquent Duo forced your opponent to go -2, Graceful Charity allowed you to draw 3 cards and discard two (very good in Dark World's) and then lastly Pot of Greed gave you two cards for free. It was a very powerful combo that generated a lot of hand advantage for you while putting your opponent at a disadvantage.
The Trinity can't work now because Delinquent Duo is banned and will probably stay banned for a long time. Dark World's aren't played a lot anymore, even though Charity can be thrown into anything, that's the only deck I can see it doing reasonable damage in. I don't think it should come back at 3 but Limited should be fine for the game.
3. Ultimate Offering
This card shouldn't even be on the Banlist, it really just needs a re-errata, but I suppose Konami doesn't want to errata it a fifth time but just give it some sort of condition like "You can only use this effect once per turn" or "you cannot conduct your Battle Phase during the turn you use this effect" or just some downside to the card because at the moment it is really good. If it does come back, it'll be re-errated and it'll be Limited.
2. Premature Burial
Burial was one of my personal favourites and yeah, I know it's abusable, but there are a lot of better cards that exist now that didn't back then because for those of you who don't know, this is a really old card. It's Yugi era old so that's at least a decade and some older cards are coming back into the game with the new Red-Eyes support. I'd love to see some new Dark Magician support though I think that's pretty much done, but Burial is something that I feel is viable and outside of its abuse, it's not particularly ban worthy. Pay 800 lp, if this card is destroyed, destroy the equipped monster it's not too good that players are going to use like they did before and there are much better resurrection cards out there that are legal.
1. Monster Reborn
Back in the day, this was the ultimate card to have, get the right combo and it was just free monsters for days which is why it was banned but the driver of that craziness (Dark Magician of Chaos, though some claim that it was Magician of Faith) is banned and will probably stay banned because it is just too good. Reborn was, I feel anyway, everyone's personal favourite card because it was just "have a free monster" and you could steal with it as well. probably needs a re-errata to become legal, something like "You can only use this card once per Duel" would do.
Anyway, that's my list finally done. I do have assignments to work on so the next post probably won't be for a month maybe
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