The World's Entirety is a Duel

In that case we should consider every banned card and construct our own ban list based on our own meta. And then we'd have to build special cyoa-verse decks in addition to normal play decks. It'd be a lot of work that I don't care to put in...but like I said, my contribution is unban Heavy Storm.

I'm ok with adapting to the current banlist. That's all. You can have an RP banlist too which I won't be using.

I use decks- particularly my Ante deck- that with just a tiny fraction of luck become so incredibly powerful and usable. It's filled with cards for that purpose. Are you going to ban those cards too?

I forget Raigeki exists. There are cards with much better utility than it. I don't care about Raigeki, quite honestly. If I can't make a comeback after that it's because my opponent timed it well. Someone can use Raigeki and end up causing more trouble for themselves than it's worth just as easily as they can finish you off with it. It's a difference of knowing what to use and when. Don't confuse the opponent's good timing for a broken card.

Except that Raigeki's "good timing" is 80% of the time. It being Limited instead of Unlimited is its only "balanced" quality.

Well, that's a fairly long list, but thank you for illustrating how slippery that slope is.

I want to duel nekroz and shaddols and things like that. They're challenges to overcome. And I have points for heavy storm and I was just waiting for you to bring it up so I didn't just randomly go off.

1. Backrow is more frightening and powerful now than Frontrow. I am rarely concerned with monsters since removing them is so easy. Heavy Storm would actually make me worried when someone starts setting up a big synchro. Yugioh should have impressive monsters IMO.
2. Leaving traps on the field is now relatively safe unless someone is running 3 MST, and 3 MST is really deck cloggy. I'd rather introduce Heavy Storm and allow more interesting cards into the deck than MST, and promote more thought in just laying facedowns forever.
3. Power plays are fun. Nobody enjoys having a boss monster immediately bottomlessed, so that should be made more difficult. I'd prefer a play-based format than a counter-play one (Unless I'm playing Traptrix in which case the point is counter play. But even then the threat of heavy storm makes me think more before just spamming trap holes facedown)
4. Heavy Storm justifies Raigeki even more. Less opportunity for traps means immediate removal is more valuable. And again, this puts more focus on the monsters.

Also, having 3 Raigeki would be more harmful to yourself than anything else. Fewer actual cards, and imagine opening with 2. They're dead unsearchable cards that don't lead anywhere on their own. I'd rather draw Miracle Fusion (in a hero deck) over Raigeki in a pinch any day.

You know what?

Feel free to disagree with me, but that's no reason to be a total smart-ass about it.

Georgia was fine, she didn't act snide and "misquote" me to "prove" her point.

But you, Crow and HHD, you stepped out of line.

And a slippery slope argument contributes nothing. Raigeki is a huge power play in a single, zero risk card. No other cards are really like that. Even Solemn Judgement is far more balanced, since it's a single target and has a cost.

EDIT: What other cards have excellent field-clearing effects, no cost, no requirements, no set-up needed, and no downsides that aren't banned? What about cards like that, but can be placed into almost every deck with ease? Cards that require little strategy to use to an incredible effect? Cards that can easily and often completely change the side of a duel just by having it in hand? Cards that aren't entirely situational and almost always effective when not played stupidly? A card that was thought to stay banned forever but unearthed because of the advent of cards that we've banned? A card that always has a huge impact when played reasonably? A card that quite literally renders a very huge portion of decks much more inconsistent and less viable? A card that allows practically effortless OTKs? 

That's Raigeki. 

But here's what I don't understand. 

You people are against the banning of Raigeki, when the reason why Raigeki is even legal at all is because of things we've already banned, and even then, Raigeki shouldn't be legal since that just hurts the decks that couldn't reliably stand up to it even more and not at all helps deal with higher-tier decks. 

Calling me out for being a smartass is one thing, but Mr Bunny's being perfectly reasonable.