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Banning Pot of Greed reshaped competitive Yu-Gi-Oh

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Taking one absurdly broken card out of circulation doesn't fix a game; it just crowns a new tyrant. When Yu-Gi-Oh! finally banned Pot of Greed, the ripple effect violently shifted the entire competitive metagame. Decks that relied on its effortless draw power collapsed overnight, forcing players to dig up obscure, convoluted engines just to replicate a fraction of its banned glory.

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