Imperial Order could and should come back realistically

[Lazer]

-The card got only banned in the TCG because of whining combo and mid range meta players, when a Swordsoul player pulled it all the time in a questionable YCS remote duel.

-Anti Spell Fragrance is literally the same, the only reason why people are okay with that card apparently is because it benefits combo players more than control players. And the vast majority of YGO players are combo oriented because thats what Youtube feeds them on a daily basis.
If you flip Fragrance as any meta combo/midrange deck you will lock your opponent out of spell cards and OTK them the following turn, so the fact that IO does floodgates forever wouldnt even matter except for anti meta decks like trap decks who need several turns to win the duel etc.
So it would give a much needed boosts for trap decks over combo players who only would get another copy of Fragrance.

-Put Fragrance to 1 and unban Imperial Order if you are worried so much of this card, literally nothing would change. Combo players wont play this card because its a best of 1 in Master Duel just like they dont play Fragrance. IO does absolutely nothing when going second. In fact its even more fair because it lets people still Pendulum summon. And again would give Trap decks amuch needed boost of having a floodgate and a backrow protection

-Runick cant play it and it crews them over

-IO has a 3D animation

There is literally nothing toxic about this card if Village of the Spellcaster or Fragrance are still legal and will be legal. Every floodgate was now put to 1 where IO should come back because Trap decks suffer right now except for Labyrinth.

[Soji]

no

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

Card came out in 2002, limited 2 months after and then banned 2 years after, but supposedly it was only banned due to combo decks whining and not cause it's an extremely broken card

[Takasaur]

Shutting down a 1/3 of the game is totally fine. Especially with the 2 upcoming FIRE META decks rely on Spell.

Also Fragance and Imperial Order is different. Fragance at least allow you to use Spell after Setting, while Order just shut down any attempt to.

[Takasaur]

The thing with Imperial Order is that it can just be slapped onto any Decks, Fragance is a similar case but you can counter it easily and play the Spell. While with Spellcasters, you need to play one of the worst Types in the game for its effect to proc.

[SpaceWombat]

Spell Fragrence is important because decks that cant set up backrow negates on their first turn would be useless otherwise. Prime example being dinomorphia.

I thing SF is fair because you can still use cards it floodgates, just with a delay. IO on the otherhand totally shuts down entire archytpes revolving around traps so it's understandable to me that it's banned. Not to mention that most meta decks don't use conventional traps ( at least to combo ) so running IO could be an easy 1x to get a free win with zero downsides depending on who you're up against.

[Astrallight]

These posts reminds me why im happy that no one on this forum dont work for Konami. Or decides what should be banned or not.

[Ehgk-Zakhari]

this guy is better at satire than gredora lmao

[Lasagna]

great bait mate

[Merilirem]

Clearly we need to ban anti spell fragrance immediately.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by SpaceWombat:

Spell Fragrence is important because decks that cant set up backrow negates on their first turn would be useless otherwise. Prime example being dinomorphia.

I thing SF is fair because you can still use cards it floodgates, just with a delay. IO on the otherhand totally shuts down entire archytpes revolving around traps so it's understandable to me that it's banned. Not to mention that most meta decks don't use conventional traps ( at least to combo ) so running IO could be an easy 1x to get a free win with zero downsides depending on who you're up against.

Those decks need support, not reliance on floodgate that shuts down spells and forces you to put them on the field so they can be destroyed before you get to use them.

[Papa Shekels]

Originally posted by Ehgk-Zakhari:

this guy is better at satire than gredora lmao

Unfortunately, I don't think it's satire

[𝔼ℂℂℍ𝕀 ℤ𝕆ℕ𝔼]

Anyone who plays imperial order just will get timer stall as they deserve too

[Filipino Enjoyer]

its okay to be unbanned???? yeah no ♥♥♥♥♥♥ way lol

[Zephyr]

For once I agree with the hivemind, IO would just shut down any deck that's built around spells or traps and further exacerbate the current issue of everyone playing solitaire combo slop.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Clearly we need to ban anti spell fragrance immediately.

If Konami did do so, it'd be to sell copies of that new monster version and the deck that uses it. Not, y'know, for the health of the game.

The OCG/MD will ban stun because the roach isn't an autowin against it. The TCG will ban stun when it shows up in a high level tournament and results in spectators bored out of their mind. Neither cares decks reducing the opponent to just one more spectator, because they already have your money at that point.