Special Post - Investments for the banlist

Once again, we are just months away from the next banlist. Through this article, I hope you will all be better at predicting what will go up and what will go down after the official list is announced. I'm going to state some things you should all be watching out for:

#1 - Dark Magician of Chaos UNBANNED


Konami seems to be pushing the whole Chaos theme more now than ever, through the Dragon Structure Deck and Order of Chaos. The release date for the structure deck in the TCG is enough to prove that we'll have Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning around for another format, but I'll go as far as to say they would want to bring even MORE cards for Chaos back. Dark Magician of Chaos is an amazing card that isn't quite broken enough to stay hammered forever. It has "Chaos" literally in its name, and would be a fun card that it seems like they would bring back.

#2 - What would happen if Heavy Storm gets BANNED

Heavy Storm's position on the banlist changes frequently. It's not unreasonable to imagine that it might get banned again, for as great of a "Set 2 end" format this is Konami is trying to push a lot of Field Spells in the Structure Decks and Inzektors love their equip monsters. The main card that could spike, if this happens, is Shard of Greed. Right now, Shard is a core set Secret that is only worth $10, and "sucks" because it is too slow in a format of 1 Heavy Storm and 3 Mystical Space Typhoon. If Heavy was banned, then this card would, all of a sudden, be a fine speed for most decks in the format. Tell me, what happens when a core set Secret is a staple at 2-3?

#3 - What the **** is going on with ORCS?

Order of Chaos is a premature child. A set that's supposed to be released in February is coming out in January? What is this...

I'll tell you what this is. Look at the tournament tops in the OCG. Pretty much EVERY deck that's winning is Inzektors, and sometimes Agents. They are obviously going to hit Inzektors, money or no money, so the reason that they are releasing Order of Chaos early to the TCG is obvious. They want to milk Inzektors (and to an extent, the Wind-Up loop) as much as they can before the banlist comes out. The hits most likely won't be enough to knock the deck out of a top-tier spot, they are releasing new Inzektors in Galactic Overlord after all, but the hits will be there. Watch out.

#4 - Are Plants going to burn? 

For a good time before Inzektors were out in the OCG, Plants pretty much dominated the meta alongside Agents. It's much worse in the TCG, and I honestly don't know if they're willing to hit TCG exclusives yet. So I'm here to debate the universal hit on Plants, if any. The obvious choices are Dandylion and Lonefire Blossom. Either of them could honestly get hit, I don't know. Lonefire obviously has the more broken card design, but is less essential to the deck than Dandy. If Dandy got banned, the deck wouldn't be that great anymore, and cards like Debris Dragon and Formula Synchron. In the end, though I'd rather only broken cards get banned, Dandy is more likely to be banned. Dandylion encourages Synchros more than Lonefire, and that's something the game is going away from. Because of this, Debris holo might be a decent card to invest in.

TL;DR VERSION

Invest:
Dark Magician of Chaos
Debris Dragon
Shard of Greed

Drop:
Dandylion
Lonefire Blossom
Future Fusion (deck seems to be growing apart from this)
Order of Chaos during February