Darkest Night

Elemental Heroes has been one of the longest lasting old archetypes in the game. With Konami’s constant support despite the change of seasons in the Yugioh world, the archetype itself has seen success and failure according to the change of time. However, the fact is, Elemental Heroes plays an uncommon role in the Meta as sort of a stabilizer deck among the top tiers. According to the different variants the archetype is capable of transforming to. Heroes has served a very important role to keep track of every Meta ever existed in the game. But today we receive different views as of what the deck is meant to do. Heroes, like every resilient archetype in Yugioh, are now a part of the dominant Meta. May it be in OCG or TCG, Elemental Heroes are becoming more and more overpowered as more and more cards are being created. Are they still the stabilizers of Meta or does the world of YGO have too many super heroes now? So, has Heroes turn into villains? That is today’s question. 

With so much support, this deck is definitely one of the hardest decks to defeat in today’s Meta. Since the release of omnipotent Fusion Heroes, the many names with their powers increased has continued to make a strong showing with the help of one of Yugioh-nature’s freak, Super Polymerization. Much like Kamen Rider receiving the power to transform into another level, Super Polymerization says more than fuck you to every deck in the game. That card alone and the omnipotent fusions has somewhat gave Heroes a certain victory if I may exaggerate. The ultimate defense and offense describes Super Polymerization. Though even in dead, miracles happens for the allies of justice. Miracle Fusion being another super-weapon in Heroes has broken and set more matches compared to the likes of Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning or Monster Reborn. With great power comes great responsibility so said Voltaire and later Spidey. Clearly Heroes are smoking something wrong at the moment. Or is Konami that has been smoking weird crap?

Being one of the top decks that makes Effect Veiler look like a little bitch, Heroes continues to receive more support as of today. With the recruitment of Blade Heart and Excalibur into their ranks, Elemental Heroes continue to grow as one of the triumvirate of the Meta. Even though this growth has given life to smaller heroes like Bubbleman, this justice of theirs can no longer be ignored. Or has justice turned into another form of greed and manipulation? The amount of Emergency Calls made looks to me like it should be reduced. The battle has been fought and won. Now, my question is has these heroes served their purpose or do we humans still require their alliance to fight the battles we never could? Seems to me it is time to give our heroes the rest and peace they have earned. But the problems lies in the fact that Konami has been feeding these beasts of theirs to a point whereby only drastic measures can deal with them. Or so it seems? My answer to this is limiting E-Call and Miracle Fusion. Heroes had their special privileges long enough. 

The ability to consistently search out cards they need to fuel their OTKs and a card that is miraculously game breaking to epic proportion should not be allowed to be at three. Super Polymerization aside, the two cards that should be hit at this moment, in my opinion, is Miracle Fusion and E-Call. Stratos is already at one. Outright banning that card will hurt the archetype a lot. With E-Call at one, Heroes still have A Hero Lives to rely on at a substantial amount of Life Points. The card is not a free gift in comparison to E-Call. Super Polymerization is a problem but not as much as Miracle Fusion. Super Poly opens up a lot of different plays in a Hero-based deck but it requires both sides to have monsters and it comes with a cost. Using it at the right time shows how well you play your deck but if activated at the wrong time it becomes a card that might possibly bring catastrophic results to your side. Unlike Miracle Fusion which in many ways a more superior card. It is an OTK card, a miraculous top-deck, and basically something that saves your ass for free. Although unlikely to be seen, Miracle Fusion has the ability to be played alongside cards that revives cards that bring back monsters from the banished zone. At the very least, Konami’s concern with Heroes at this point should be limiting E-Call and Miracle Fusion though that is only my opinion. It’s time for a change of guard. That is all for today and hopefully you have found it informative and interesting. Thanks for reading!