Well Bandai is certainly wasting no time. Before we even got every single card revealed for Universal Onslaught they have officially come out with some F/L List Updates. What got hit, and what got freed? Well by the title one of those should be obvious but let’s see.

Banned

Objection

Now Bandai’s reasoning is pretty simple. They say that Objection’s existence affects all future card design. Honestly I’ll admit I’m pretty shocked by this one. I always felt Objection was relatively fair in terms of Ramp cards outside of pre-errata Mecha Frieza (which was Frieza’s fault more than anything). It’s a hard minus to your hand, took a deal of commitment and Objection scaled worse and worse towards the end game especially on defense. It seems they simply want to take a new philosophy on Ramp that we see with Blue/Green, which is you’re allowed to Ramp even with no hard minus but you’ll be restricted on what you can actually play. I don’t necessarily agree with this move, but I understand it.

Unyielding Spirit Trunks

Okay this one should’ve happened when it was first hit. While it wasn’t a meta shaker at 1, it always felt wrong to have it there. As Bandai mentioned though, Invoker is now a thing which makes having this a blowout when paired with any of the 3 Drop Invokers. Could not exist in the format anymore.

Tien Shinhan, Returning Fire : Mercenary Tao, Ruthless Trainer

They’re basically the same in their application and Bandai even copy-pasted the reasoning for both. I’m glad that Bandai is really starting to walk back the earlier decisions to have these big silver bullet cards that made life miserable for no reason. As the game goes more and more towards a more interactive state, having these damn near free floodgates in the game was nothing more than a hindrance. Good Riddance.

Errata

Broly/Broly, the Awakened Threat

[Pre-Errata]

[Auto] When this card attacks, draw 1 card.

[Activate: Main][Once per turn] Choose 1 of your opponent’s Battle Cards and switch it to Rest Mode.

[Activate: Main][Once per turn] Choose 1 card from your life and add it to your hand : Choose up to 1 of your cards in Rest Mode and switch it to Active Mode.

[Post-Errata]

[Auto] When this card attacks, draw 1 card.

[Activate: Main] [Once per turn] Choose 1 of your opponent’s Battle Cards and switch it to Rest Mode.

[Activate: Main] [Once per turn] Choose 1 card from your life and add it to your hand : Choose this card or up to 1 of your 〈Broly : Br〉 cards and switch it to Active Mode.

This one I’m surprised by, but am 100% glad for. The Awakened Threat was slowly creeping into SS3 Goku mode, in the sense that there were quite a few decks that he just simply made better by existing. By far the best Yellow Leader in the game there were a bunch of strategies he just surpassed the field in. When this was becoming the Blue/Green Leader of choice (well, prior to Surge Piccolo’s release) that was a problem. It also didn’t hurt that he had arguably the best finishing combo in the game with Mira/Champa requiring opponents to basically have at least two negates every single turn. Failure to do meant certain death at 2 Life.

I will say I am perplexed by the timing as they do this right when some of Broly’s Leader Share was actually starting to be taken by the Surge Leaders. As mentioned Blue/Green went into Piccolo and SurgeKu ended up becoming a monster of both Red/Yellow (though that was Beerus turf) and Tri-Color decks. On top of that they kind of punted with Blue/Yellow being limited to U6 and Green/Yellow…yeah… Bandai will need to step up their Leader quality in the color to make up for the loss of Broly.

So to TL;DR it a bit, I’m happy they made the move but the timing is concerning since Broly was actually receding in usage thanks to the Surge Leaders.

As for Broly potentially being used post-Errata I doubt it. That untap ability was THE reason to use Broly and now it’s all but useless.

Final Thoughts:

This was a more extensive list than expected. Glad to see Trunks, Tao and Tien finally gone. Broly I would’ve been far more overjoyed 3 months ago but I’m not against it now. Objection is probably the big surprise to me personally, so I’m curious as to what they plan on making with it no longer in the game.