From the SotG for July from GD: www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp

The following cards are BANNED:

• Bitter Rivals
• Fei Long’s Forward Kick
• Chun Li
• Juni’s Spiral Arrow
• Rejection
• Forethought

The following cards are errata'd:

• Feline Spike - has the following change: "Felicia Multiple:2"
• Chinese Boxing - has the following text added: "Only playable during your attack
• Tiger Fury - add the following: "Sagat Only

The meta has just turned upon itself! All bets are off, all old decks are changed. Old win conditions have evolved.

Bring it.

Can I be the first to say OOOOOMMMMMMGGGGG!!!!!!
That was a seriously heavy SOTG, a total turn around from the gently gently approach of the past. The only one I see no point to is Tiger Fury, no one has been complaining about it and it never seemed broken to me.

Lets hope this is enough to get the game back to its roots, without extending the banned list further.

Peace all!

Fiddle-diddle-iddlestix

Fiddlestix said:

If you compare Tiger Fury to Concealed Shallow Swipe and Steve's reasons for banning 'Swipe last year. One of his intentions is to remove one hit kill decks from the meta and to encourage multiple-attack play. Hence Tiger Fury's errata.

I'm gonna take this opportunity to say:

Chinese Boxing... SUCK IT!

I think I just wet myself.

Seriously, the UFS environment just became interesting again for the first time since Cutting Edge (well, other than the fact that BRT will still be in every deck...).

All I can say is: YAY! SAGAT IS PLAYABLE AGAIN!

But yeah, the unexpected hammering of these cards has changed things bigtime. Luckily I wasn't running any of them at the time.

One word, WHOA!

This is just slightly huge news. And good news at that.

The only one I've got any issue with at all is Fei Long's Forward Kick. Since they were handing out errata anyway they could have made it Fei Long Only instead of banning it, but that's a fairly minor gripe in the middle of an otherwise excellent SotG.

On top of last month's bannings, this really is going to blow things wide open. The new bans have immediate effect as well, so really it's one big ban list spread over 2 months.

Already planning the replacement for my Sakura deck.

I'm pretty much in a state of shock over these, but I'm not disappointed.

Spike - tbh I think they should have just "Felicia Only"'d the whole card, given it's multiple was always it's main benefit, it's as good as anyways.

Rivals and Rejection - guess I won't bother digging copies of those out for any new decks

Overall, some good decisions and I think a definite boost for the game.

Kev

Wow... So glad I decided to hang up my CC hacking boots after Kula's many failures at Steve's Regional.

Awesome list, but agree that BRT could have done with being on errata or ban.

Rejection had to go (as much as I really like the card for ultimate defence)... Bitter Rivals could have been erratad to simple "E Commit, reveal your hand:" cost, but i'm not going to argue about a great progression in the meta

May I be the first to say: GTFO SPIRAL ARROW

bugger

bugger

dam

That sums it up for me.

Tuesday said:

Bitter, Rejection and Tiger all featured in your Akuma deck?

yes but i couldn't care less about 2 of the 3. I love tiger fury as an attack and thats the only one i wanna keep. Bitter was only used to look into peoples hands and rejection was a back side deck card that very rarly can in. (plus i understand it going with bitter going not fussed)

I shall morn 100 days and 100 nights for tiger fury

how long till uk nats

Mark, did you see the comment on GD blaming you for the loss of Tiger Fury?

These bannings plus last months make me want to play again

then get off ur ass and play with ur self

And yes yes i did see that tis was most asome lol

Tuesday, its all your fault, now Kyoshiro is also truly dead to me!!!!!

I will mourn 101 days, just to appear more hardcore than thou (and fail miserably!)

UK NATS WILL BE AWESOME!!!!

Hewittzil said:

So what you're saying is, Felicia can now Multiple 4 it, right?

Speedsta said:

Now that would be a reason to run Felicia

isn't the fact that she can run the card a good enough one then???

Maybe. I've got to do something with my playset after all.

Zzasikar said:

Your charcter will be awesome in the new meta

Mark told me about the bannings and errates my hart stooped when i realised it did not change my deck much i did a little dance.

wow.. I'm tempted to keep a spare deck now... hmm.

scatterbrains said:

DO IT