The reborn-abyssqual comparison

I am prepared to receive alot of hate for this.

But it must be said.

PS: Pls ignore why this post mimics a personal diary, or sounds like i'm thinking aloud or that im crazy.

For the past few days preparing for Oceanics and final exams, i have come across a very very contradictory situation : Maining Monster reborn in dragons.

the first thing you must think is this guy is out of his mind, reborn is a staple card and reborn is a very versatile card which aids in many otks, and many comboes, it is hardly ever dead, and you can do so many cool stuff with more than 1 tuner (like the shamir otk!)

The thing is, i couldn't agree more.

i noticed a long long time ago, that reborn was cut from japanese decks and i had no problem with accepting that. One of its primary uses now in TCG is to combat verz by bringing back a dracosack and bringing back level 4s to make that gemknight pearl vs verz. Verz is pretty big here, so reborn is theoretically pretty good (it still is)

However, that decision plaqued me for several days as reborn is the 41st card in my deck, and i have to say, im out of space (i am thinking of playing other cards). It was hardly ever dead, in playtesting on DN, and although i never playtested with my deck much in real life (outside of the last regionals) , i never found it dead and i never regretted drawing it.

However, when i was discussing with a friend about the viablitity of RFTDD once again (i love hearing peoples opinions ), and he came up with a very good metaphor. RFTDD is very much like abyssqual in mermails, its dead early game, it provides alot of leverage but yet it is just somehow not needed. When i was playing mermails, i was a very big fan of squalless builds.

The same goes for reborn. We know its (somehow) not needed, its a card which you would like to have in winning situations (most of the time you're in one), and when i discussed with another friend, he told me :

1) reborn is a winmoar card, meaning that reborn is good when you are in a winning position, and helps aid your victory but it also doesnt do that much if your in a losing position. This argument is very true. Because if i play against dragons and my opponent has 3-4 colours and a maxx c and i have dead cards in hand like reborn, reju, and not enough dragons, what am i going to do? the most i can do is to make a synchro, or if possible, a dracosack/big eye, but what follow up will i have? My opponent will easily overpower me next turn with his own big eye , and more big beaters.

Similarly vs verz, if your opponent has a whole load of traps and you have reborn, whats the point? Although i dont think my points for the verz comparison is solid (you must have as many options as possible), but you get the idea.

Also Reborn Vs Prophecy is very subpar considering how often jowgen is on the field. Builds that play exchange love Reborn in your hand, its free stuff for them !

But still that was not enough to convince me. This whole thing i had considered a while ago, but i still could not bear to cut reborn.

Asking me to cut Reborn was like asking Yugi to cut dark magician from his deck.

Then i started taking out my deck and tutoring some hands.

I drew " 1 Max C 1 Droll Lock bird, 1 Super Reju, 1 baby, 1 reborn, 1  Storm" . I checked my 7th draw and saw Effect veiler.

Yup bye reborn!