Ignition Priority has been Removed from the TCG

So, I have to make a post here because of this, because this is pretty major. The Yu-Gi-Oh TCG no longer has ignition priority upon summons.

For those who were not aware, the TCG (basically America and Europe) and the OCG (Asia and Japan) have long had metagames that were slowly growing apart, with the TCG becoming widely regarded as faster and more 'broken' than the OCG. There have been a number of factors in this, but one of the main ones was the existence of a rule in the TCG that did not exist in the OCG; ignition priority, the ability to use an ignition monster effect immediately after a monster was summoned.

Ignition priority has been a major factor in the TCG in what decks made it to the top. Dino-Rabbit, which this format has been fairly dominant as the best deck, was extremely capable of abusing it. The signature card, Rescue Rabbit, avoided a great deal of the most common counter cards to it, most notably Effect Veiler, by banishing itself before they could be used.

With it gone, Rescue Rabbit decks become much easier to counter. Veiler can be dropped on Rescue Rabbit to prevent a turn 1 Laggia play, which is fantastic news in general (though maybe not so much for Rabbit players).

Of the others two decks in the big three this format, Wind-Ups are also nerfed. Hunter and Zenmaighty losing their priority effects is a fairly major hit, though not quite as major. Inzektors though, previously the weakest of the big three, are virtually unaffected by the new ruling, and have the potential to gain power from this.

May seem a bit of a downside, considering how hated Inzektors are anyway, but I’m viewing this as a very good thing on the whole. This will give rogue decks more of a chance against the big decks, and create more variety. I personally am greatly looking forward to the changes coming from this rule.

Source: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/articles/?p=3799

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