I find it funny as soon as "Number 7: Big Eye" got reprinted, everyone starts pulling him out out of his native pack. Before, he was worth nearly a hundred dollars (and was one of the few cards to ever reach that threshold), and after his reprint as a PROMO card, his price hiked down to 30$, and will probably continue to spiral downwards. Most of the other secret rare cards that were reprinted as promos are now worth less than 10$, when at their peaks could have been worth upwards of 50$. It really sucks when one of your expensive cards gets reprinted, but that's Yugioh for you: A bet, or a an investment. You pull an expensive or good card you don't need, your objective is to sell or trade it as fast as possible (unless you want to keep it to make your trade binder look pretty, like me). To put this cards value in perspective, "Big Eye" had the effect to take any monster from the opponent field, and allowed Big Eye's controller to use it as its own. Since there are not many legal cards that have this effect, Big Eye was believed, and is still considered, one of the strongest monsters of all time. For me personally, he is on my list of cards that NEEDS to go to one via the ban list. Only having to worry about one Big Eye is not nearly as bad as having to worry about 3 that could all sometimes be made in one turn. He was partly broken, and shot up in price, due to Dragon Rulers, and Dragon Rulers alone. Big Eye was originally a ten dollar card, until word got out that you could make rank 7 Xyz's easily with Dragon Rulers, and before Draccosac, Big Eye was the only good rank 7 Xyz. Then Draccosac himself was released, and all hell was unleashed with the unstoppable power of Dragon Rulers. So one could say, Dragon Rulers would not be what they are today without the assistance of Big Eye. And vice-versa.
Recently on DN, I've been playing with Lightsworns, an old archetype that recently just got support. Overall, the new reformed deck is not as good as it used to be, and perhaps even worse since you have to sacrifice many cards in the deck to squeeze all the new cards and the cards that you now have to run to make the most of them. The deck definitely has had me some awesome duels, but some equally disappointing ones as well. Right now I am just trying to enjoy dueling with it, and not worrying much about how good or bad it is. The deck works and can hold its own and that's mostly all that matters. Like most decks on DN, I will eventually lose interest in it, but if I deem it to be competitive, it will most likely remain on my list of favorite decks.
Not much else to speak about. Nothing Yu-Gi-Oh noteworthy is occurring in the coming weeks, except the ban list in about a month's time. I've been talking about it for a while now, and now that its approaching I feel weird getting a ban list so quickly after another. Originally, another ban list would not have been released until March, but this new system is much more copacetic for me, and likely for everyone else as well---Simply for the fact Dragon Rulers, and any other broken cards, will hopefully have a much shorter life span, thereby improving the Yu-Gi-Oh game, and meta in general. So yeah, only a few weeks left until then, and until then. Or a little before lol.
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