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As a Rexterm-Dinomorphia player a consistent play pattern I have been facing is "Summon Rexterm -> protect Rexterm? Y= Win, N= Lose" and the rise of Blitzclique has me considering proactive protection cards. Are these good options? I know Blitz could just blow these up but I can activate them both in response to fizzle the removal which fizzles the "if destroy" effects and is removal not being used on more important cards. I had also considered Dark Kuriboh but that doesn't have the untargetable of Dress or the battle-protection of Curtain

Also are battle-protection effects any good? Another consistent way I lose with Dinomorphia is just getting direct-attacked and something like Vampire Fraulein seems like a decent way to protect my life points and reduce them when I need to to pump up Kentregina

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Thoughts?

All of their main cards remove something then summon themselves from hand. Why are there cards that simultanenously act as removal and plus? These cards suck in Advanced because they are far more easily interacted with and extra-locking is a much bigger deal with links but in the context of Genesys even Grain Blitzclique is a MST that summon itself; wtf? There is also no real downside because there's enough redundancy within the archetype that you're probably only summoning from the hand. Also why are all of the points only on the bad spell and worse "boss" monster??? What is going on with Konami. Am I crazy?

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Hello everyone, hope you're doing well~

The more I play Genesys as a Dinomorphia OTP the more a specific situation occurs: every time I resolve either Dolkka and/or Laggia my opponent will usually say to some extent, "That shit's broken, how can you afford that with Rexterm?" then gets visibly upset when I say they're both 0 points. The same thing occurs with Lord of the Heavenly Prison, Eradicator Epidemic Virus, Wannabee, Pot of Duality... the list goes on. My question then is such: Do these cards require points? What is the baseline for a single point?

I've talked about my thoughts on the Genesys points list already in a previous post but in it I detail three reasons why cards get pointed/banned: power level, play rate, and play patterns. I would argue that neither Dolka nor Laggia facilitate bad play patterns as their negates are limited and costly. I would also argue that they definitely not played enough to justify a play rate hit. The only argument then is power level, but what consitutes "just a little too good"? Lars has points because it is a 2-time Omni-negate unlike Laggia's 1 and Dolkka's monster-lock and Lars also isn't Dino-locked. It's also hard to compare to the list when Gameciel is 3 points and Lancea is 1; I'd say Dolkka/Laggia are about as good as Gameciel, maybe, but probably not as good as Lancea.

In my opinion the 1-point "slot" should be reserved for two types of cards: archetypal balancing to spread points among a few cards and not have an archetype's entire points be concentrated in 1 card and allow players to make meaningful deckbuilding choices (AKA Clown Crew Biancaviso) or generic staples (AKA Dark Hole). Evolzar Dolkka/Laggia then are neither generic, being dinosaur-locked, and their archetype already has points with Miscellaneousaurus and Fossil Dig being pointed. If they were to point Dolkka and/or Laggia I would hope they would also unpoint at least Fossil Dig a bit. I think it's important to not view non-generic cards in a vacuum but look at the archetype's, in this case dinosaur's, points as a whole. I'd also then say cards like Heavenly Prison, Wannabee, and EEV are also fine because they are not generically playable and trap-archetypal cards like Trap Holic and Trap Tracks are already pointed. I also wouldn't wack generic consistency cards like Pot of Duality because all that does is make the game more RNG; Konami should instead focus their efforts on removal cards and game-enders.

Let me know what you think and I hope you have a nice day:)

Hello everyone, hope you're doing well!

Recently the newest Genesys points update came out. Overall, I think it's a good change; plenty of format warping cards got points and plenty of undeserving cards lost points. I think the format is in a better position now because of this points update than it was without it. However, there are a lot of interesting and potentially concerning choices made with this points update. Choices such as: pointing Gameciel to 3 and not touching any other Kaiju, pointing Interrupted Kaiju Slumber all the way down to 0, and pussyfooting around Dimensional Fissure because it's not played or doing well enough. These choices lead me to question Konami's inherent philosophy and wonder what really constitutes needing points for them. As such I figured I'd share my thoughts and potentially have a discussion about it. Let me know what you think.

Firstly, why should a card get banned, or in this case pointed? I believe it all boils down to three things: power level concerns, playrate concerns, and play pattern concerns. If a card is too powerful games can feel like "nothing matters if I don't resolve or negate X card" which reduces player agency, if cards are played too much then games end up feeling too samey and your four round locals starts to feel like 4 hours of repeating round 1 which repels players from longer events and reduces overall player retention, and if cards have inherently toxic play patterns then even if a game is winnable or won players still feel "cheated" or "scammed". I also believe that the #1 reason why cards get banned boils down to play pattern or play experience concerns; the only reason power level or playrate is a concern at all is because it effects the way the game actually plays out and the way players perceive the game. Overpowered cards lead to overplayed cards which leads to the bad play patterns of "repeating" games. Even if a card isn't broken though, a card that is overrepresented can still create that feeling of "same-ness" and even if a card is barely played at all getting scammed by a toxic cards only needs to happen once to warp someone's perspective of an entire event.

With that said, I'm pretty sure Konami recognizes this fact and there are examples of cards in Genesys that are pointed based on power level, playrate, and play patterns. Pot of Greed is probably a power level ban, Cosmic Cyclone is a playrate ban, and Archlord Kristya is a play pattern ban. My issue then comes with the lack of consistency within these banning philosophies. If something like Kristya is so toxic it needs to be at 100 points why is Konami so hesitant to put Dimensional Fissure any higher, Kristya literally wasn't played at all, and why are generic floodgates like Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror still at 0? Why is Gameciel now at 3 and not 1 like Lancea which is an actual floodgate? Why is Interrupted Kaiju Slumber now at 0 but Dark Hole is still at 1? I don't know, I'm not Konami.

What I do know though is that the point list consistency is very inconsistent. What I would really appreciate is a solid baseline for each of these categories. What is the baseline power level for 1 point? What is the baseline power level for 5, 15, 20, etc? If cards are pointed based on play rate how long until they get un-pointed based on diminishing play rate (Right now the only example of a card really losing points based on play rate is Kaiju Slumber and Forbidden Chalice but those were both pointed as soon as the format came out)? And what determines a "toxic" card?

In my opinion I think the way they handle playrate concerns is kind of fine but poorly communicated. I think Cosmic Cyclone going to 1 is fine actually, but only if it goes back to 0 eventually. Genesys is not truly a retro format so players should expect their decks to ebb and flow as a liquid format that is supposed to mix new and old will need [potentially unnecessary] changes to maintain newness. If it were me though I'd say something like "We're aware Cosmic Cyclone isn't broken so this is only a temporary pointing to keep things fresh" and then give some sort of threshold and timeline. I do think this only works because Cosmic Cyclone can be easily replaced by MST, Twin Twisters, and Double Cyclone and the differences between these four cards can cause actual meta shifts based on which S/T removals are and aren't available at the time. However I think the pointing D.D. Crow or potentially Skull Meister, Lava Golem, and Sphere Mode would be a bad thing because there is no real redundancy to these cards so the effects of their pointing's is far more overt and just reduces players options instead of forcing them to consider slightly different effects.

As for play pattern (IE floodgates); I really wish Konami would stop pussyfooting. As a Dinomorphia player if all Konami cares about is playrate than Rexterm should go to 30~ because it sees no play and that's how they're handling Shifter and Fissure. Obviously, this won't happen and I think letting Rexterm be more or less generically splashable would be a bad thing. Right now Konami has three options: point things purely on power level & playrate, point things purely on play patterns, or point things on power level & playrate then add more if the play patterns are bad. It seems like they've chose the third option but only sometimes. In my opinion they should choose one of the first two: either point cards purely on meta relevance or just overpoint them if they're toxic regardless if they're topping events or not. Dimensional Fissure should be at 30+ minimum because it's toxic or it can stay 10 because it's not warping the format and every other floodgate like Rexterm and Kristya should also go down in points.

And again, please establish a better power level floor and ceiling, it is kind of all over the place what Konami does with cards that aren't toxic nor overplayed but are just strong.

Anyways, those are my thoughts on the Genesys points. I hope you let me know what you think and have a good day:)