Ok this is pretty much my first blog post.  My goal here is just to state my opinions on Yu-Gi-Oh and try to give in depth analysis on each deck in the metagame  (I'll probably fail as there are better writers and I'm not the best at making arguments).  Hopefully I get a following and will be able to write a post once a week.  This week I'm going to analyze the past ban-list and try to determine each change.

First lets look at what changed from March 2011 to September 2011

Ban

Fishborg  Blaster

Mind Master
Giant Trunade

Royal Oppression

Limited

Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning

Debris Dragon

Lonefire Blossom

Formula Synchron

Legendary Six Samurai-Shi En

T.G. Hyper Librarian

Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Heavy Storm

Pot of Avarice

Primal Seed

Shien's Smoke Signal

Semi-Limited

Necro Gardna

Summoner Monk

Tragoedia

Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier

Destiny Draw

Swords of Revealing Light

Call of the Haunted

Mind Crush

Unlimited

Judgment Dragon

Spirit Reaper

Megamorph

Mystical Space Typhoon

Overload Fusion

Gravity Bind

Icarus Attack

First Lets go over the Cards that where Banned

Fishborg Blaster: For those that don't know, there was a very easy way to get out Shooting Quasar Dragon using this card and Rescue Rabbit.  You needed this card and Treeborn Frog in grave.
1.  Revive Treeborn Frog
2.  Discard a card to special summon Fishborg Blaster from grave
3.  Summon Rescue Rabbit and use your turn player priority to special summon 2x Kabazauls
4.  Synchro Symmon T.G. Hyper Librarian using Fishborg Blaster and Kabazauls
5.  Discard a card to special summon Fishborg Blaster
6.  Synchro Summon a second T.G. Hyper Librarian using Fishborg Blaster and Kabazauls, Draw 1.
7.  Discard a card to special Summon Fishborg Blaster
8.  Synchro Summon Formula Synchron using Fishborg Blaster and Treeborn Frog, Draw 3.
9.  Synchro Summon Shooting Quasar Dragon and attempt to win.

Bit too easy to pull off so they banned Fishborg Blaster.  Smart move though I can definitely see Fishborg Blaster as a card that comes off the list as other, more powerful and consistent strategies, come out in the TCG.

Mind Master:  I don't know much about the Exodia OTK with Mind Master.  I just know Mind Master is extremely powerful in Psychics though I'm not quite sure how good they would have been with all the Maxx "C" running around.  So not sure what to say about this one.

Giant Trunade:  We lost Giant Trunade (which allowed many OTK's last format) and gained back Heavy Storm which controls the number of back row people set in the current format.  I'm not sure which I prefer but it honestly seems like Heavy has taken the diversity out of the format.  But in place of that we don't have decks setting 5, summoning a Thunder King Rai-Oh and passing. 


Royal Oppression:  THANK YOU KONAMI FOR FINALLY BANNING THIS CARD.  Honestly this was the best thing to come out of this ban list.  Now decks can't set up fields such as Shi En/Laggia/Heraklinos/White Dragon Ninja/random beater protected by a ton of back row and an Oppression.  This card single pretty much made the game who can get their boss monster out first and get an Oppression behind it.  Now if your opponent gets out a big monster, you can still make plays to try to get over it (which is how the game should be, the winner shouldn't be the first to gain control).  I pray to god that Konami keeps this card banned.

Part 2 I'll discuss the limitations and the affect on the Meta they had.