Two months after their release in Clash of Wings, Fur Hires, the deck that has been completely dominating the meta, will be officially hit for the first time by the Forbidden/Limited List.
In addition to this, Beatdown!, the most popular Skill, will also suffer from some changes: it will now only increase the ATK of the Level 5 or higher monsters on the field rather than of all of the monsters on the field. This last change affects Fur Hire, Vampire, Inzektor and even two decks that are not in the game yet: U.A. and Mermail.
Having an important card such as Donpa in the Semi-Limited List means that Fur Hires will not be able to run Enemy Controller, unless they want to sacrifice copies of one of their lower level monsters, but neither Wall of Disruption nor Treacherous Trap Hole will be touched, so the deck will still have access to some of the best backrow in the game.
Here's an example of a Post-Banlist Fur Hire Deck:
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Set Skill
[Skill] description
User
Beatdown! This turn, the ATK of all face-up monsters on your field increases by the number of monsters of Level 5 or higher on your field times 300. This skill can only be used once per turn
Not all Amazoness decks used to run Amazoness Baby Tiger, but it can't be denied that it was a very good and versatile card: being able to Special Summon it from the hand or Graveyard and just crash into an opponent's monster thanks to Holy Guard and Amazoness Onslaught or just send it to the Graveyard to activate Amazoness Princess’ effect on Attack Declaration were both common plays.
Here's an example of a Post-Banlist Amazoness Deck:
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Set Skill
[Skill] description
User
Holy Guard You receive no battle damage during your turn.
Amazoness Sage is literally a worse version of Swords Woman both in terms of effect and stats; Amazoness Chain Master is an interesting card, but the cost for its effect and the requirement are bit too high and specific; the rest of the archetype is not worth mentioning.
An interesting option would be Amazoness Spy since it can be Special Summoned from the hand and even add back to the hand an Amazoness card from the Graveyard when it's destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard.
Final Thoughts
Fur Hires are still viable and will likely be a good contender for the next month with three copies of Beat, Amazoness will likely rise in popularity and so will Masked HERO.
Vampire may seem a slight decrease in popularity because of the changes to Beatdown! whereas the number of Spellbook decks will probably stay the same rather than increasing because of how expensive the deck is.
It's odd that neither Wall of Disruption nor Treacherous Trap Hole are planned to be touched by the Banlist, but they might end up in it if they don't decrease in popularity after Fur Hires are hit.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you don't adapt to the meta, you're never going to be in KOG. It doesn't matter how much you love your Dark Magicians or Blue-Eyes. Adapt my guys.
Heck, run the new Spellbook with 3 Trickys. No money involved, just open mini-box thrice.
Mask change will never be limited, even if it wasn't an SR. Heroes are one of the most popular archetype in Japan, and konami will most likely release the other mask heroes in the future, they won't shoot themselves in the leg this time.
“It’s odd that neither Wall of D or TTH will be affected by the ban list”? Since when does Komoney hit cards that are box SR? I wish however they would amend their effects so that they’re not so op.
Vampire not that rely much on Beat down compared to Fur Hires. Just thinking about they getting Gozuki out with 1700 AtK if Furry wanna attack him down, they have to use Diana or that Octopus Furries with Beatdown 300atk to become 1900. Vampire instead they have field spell. The only reason if Vampire decrease in play after that updated is the popularity of Amazon is going up.