Pre-Reset History Part #1: The Reason

Many of you might not remember the pre-reset game and how it played out. We had some crazy decks, archetypes and cards. So for the LCCG blog, I am going to be doing a series talking about the pre-reset and how it went. Today, I am going to talk about why it reason and the format that caused it.

Personally, I called this Chaos Format. No, not because of a Chaos Deck ruining the game, because every deck was broken in its own way and it was a very annoying format. One deck came away as the most successful though; Starchaster. Starchaser was an archetype, originally submitted by Tomtekorv, which had previously flown under the radar when he left. A couple players had discovered the deck and began to abuse its power. The deck could easily drop lots of their monsters, and had quite a few cards that made them consistently a deadly force. Here is the LCCG Leaderboard deck layout:

Top Decks:

# - Name – Wins – Loses – Draws – Points

1.       Starchaster – 8 – 1 – 0 – 16

2.       Supreme – 7 – 5 – 0 – 14

3.       Aquean – 6 – 2 – 0 – 12

4.       Dark Shock – 4 – 5 – 0 – 8

5.       Alchemic – 3 – 3 – 0 – 6

6.       A Soldiers Glory – 3 – 2 – 1 – 7

7.       Insects – 2 – 0 – 0 – 4

8.       Spirit Oppression – 2 – 1 – 0 – 4

9.       Harmony Mech – 2 – 4 – 0 – 4

10.    FIRE – 1 – 2 – 0 – 2

The rest is pretty irrelevant, as those decks were not great/good in that format. So looking at this, you can see two more decks that were good; Supreme and Aquean. Supreme, being my creation, was a synchro spam archetype that focused on getting monsters from the Graveyard. It also had Supreme Declaration, which shut down your opponent’s special summons, which back than was extremely hard to remove back in the day, which ultimately saw it get edited and moved too one.

Aquean was another big threat back in the day. It was based on bouncing cards back to the deck and could quickly gain advantage over the opponent by doing this. With many cards that could get many Aqueans on the field and bounce the opponent’s cards, it was easily one of the best decks. This archetype was made by another former member, ZeroChill.

This will go down as one of the most hectic formats to every grace LCCG. With many decks that had consistent sacky plays, it was a format not many enjoyed playing at times. The top 3 worst formats (between ban-list changes) were pre-reset, which showed our lenience that we quickly fixed after resetting.

So what caused the reset is probably what we all want to know. Well, me and WereLord were on chat one day, discussing how broken the game had gotten and we came up with the idea to reset (leaving ENIL and FLFS as per Seattleite’s suggestion for a base core and because of Duel Arena progress). We reset the LCCG not to long after, and now we are here, playing, advancing further than last time and still having a good balanced gamestate.

That is part one of these series of articles, next up we will talk about the 2^nd worst format ever, and the deck that ruled the hell.