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"We're outta Cookie Dough!?"

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For those who haven't noticed yet. Whenever you duel someone using our CCG. You never see the same Deck twice in a row. Infact you normally never see that deck again til you duel that person again. Unless you're like me, the one person whom everyone decided to beat down on with my own cards*sniff*. However, I don't feel bad about losing to my cards. You know why? I almost always lose to a new decks. Sometimes even to combos I hadn't thought of myself. Only in the beginning did I see the same deck beat me on a daily basis over and over again. It was called "Fruit Angel Beatdown". And I still don't know why. This deck was pretty devastating in the early days. And now it would be alot worse. But then something happened: I created a Banlist. And becuase most of the cards in the Fruit Angel Beatdown deck were very much godly, I was allowed to ban them without much cussing out via e-mails. I believe I only have gotten about 10 or so e-mails explaining how the Fruit Angels aren't overpowered/broken. None of which held much point. Anyways: Why is there no Cookie Cutter currently? Surely there must be a deck more powerful than others, right? Well I'm going to break this down into seven good reasons why there is no Cookie Cutter in CCG, and there never will be hopefully. I. There is a banlist to ban/limit certain cards that are too powerful and would otherwise would be staples or have decks built around them. With them banned, they're unplayable. Likewise with certain other cards being limited, they aren't nearly as much a power in decks such as Rune Holder, Aria From Beyond, Gathering of the Followers. II. Most of the very powerful cards are either under the Anime Rule*See the ACG Card Packs section for information*, or only work with a certain Theme such as Chibi, Envoy, Forgotten, etc. That or they're Banned, Limited, or Semi-limited *See Point I.* III. There are no large CCG tournaments online. And I refuse to host one here or show the results of one. What does this have to do with anything? If you held a tournament that had it so you could only use CCG Cards and Cards that are mentioned in the text of CCG cards, we would eventually have a Victor in the tournament and a runner-up. Which means anyone who knew about this would probabley run the same deck as the Tournament Winner or Runner-Up. It works the same way IRL. IV. Almost All of the Cards go through a week to three week process of me looking over, testing in duels, and doing errata on them before they are released. During the process, if I find something that would make the card want to be run commonly, or that would make the card Highly more powerful than most other cards. One of three things is done: 1.The card's effect is completely changed. 2. The cost to use the effect/activate/summon the card is very high and makes it not worth playing too much. 3. The Card is added to the banlist immediately. Normally while adding cards to UAC set, the 3rd option is applied the most often. V. Under normal circumstances I go into the mIRC Channel #yvd and ask for opinions on certain cards I'm not sure about from people I believe to give good advice(Basically people who are as much of losers as I am). If its commonly agreed, or if a certain unnamed individual, states that the card is overpowered/needs a higher cost/should never been typed. The Card is changed and modified with their help until it is aggreed the card is now utterly useless, or only fairly powerful. VI. There is no reason VI. VII. Becuase I wish it to be so obviously. And that about covers anything. Anything important anyways.