"This is probably the best format for yu-gi-oh since the ban list started!" -GrandMaster at Pojo.com

This is not the first time I've heard the comments made in the this particular thread. And personally, while I'm not trying to be a naysayer, or looking at glass half empty, I'm not convinced that we (meaning the meta in general) are making any progress towards the end of CC. No, in fact, I see things as unchanged, and perhaps a little worse off then they were.

I said this on the Lair, but I'll say it here as well. Just because I see 5 or 6 different decks being played at the top tier level, does not say to me that that there is no CC, when all I'm seeing is the same 5 or 6 decks on every site and tourney. Sure, that's a little more variety then Chaos, but "less stagnation" is not the same as "more variety". Not in my eyes. If there were ten to twenty top tier decks, their would still be CC, because everyone would be copy catting those ten to twenty decks. That's not variety in my opinion. That's just more decks to make copies of.

For me to believe that dissolution of CC is on the horizon, what I need to see has nothing to do with the top tier decks. It would certainly influence what happens up their, but that's just the thing. For CC to truly be on it's way out, it's the players who should be shaping the top tier decks, not the top tier decks shaping the players.

Compare it to the state of music at any given generation. For every innovative or just different kind of artist that suddenly takes the industry by storm, there are an army of copy cat artists, or artist deeply influenced by that one, who follow endlessly in his or her wake, dressing, singing, acting and performing using the same template as their forebearer. While not necessarily a bad thing, if this is all we ever saw, we would never have the variety in music that we do today. Everyone wanted to be like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys a few years ago. But what would have happened if everyone was still trying to do that?

Creativity breads positivity in my mind. And I think today's duelists were so sick of seeing one or two deck types, that five or six seems like a wonderful thing. Maybe. At best, all I can think of it as, is a breather. But do I think for a minute our mission charter has changed? Not a bit. There is a still a fight to be fought out there. There is still potential that is being untapped. When the players start making the meta, rather the meta making the players, then, and only then, will I feel our fight is coming to an end.

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