Yu-Gi-Oh: 10 Most Powerful Unbanned Cards In The Game

Released in 2017s Circuit Break as a secret rare Evenly Matched is a trap card unlike any other. It forces your opponent to banish (the term for removing a card from the game) face down all cards they control until both players control the same amount of cards.

The unfair part of Evenly is it can be played directly from the hand if you control no cards. The typical play patters was to allow your opponent to go first and establish a field of monsters and then in your turn drop Evenly and make them banish all but one.

One of the fairer parts of Evenly Matched is even if I play it from my hand and control no other cards upon activation it counts as one card, so if my opponent has four cards and I activate Evenly Matched they'll be forced to banish three cards. It also has to be played at the end of the battle phase which meant if you wanted to play it from your hand you're forced to give up your battle phase.

A problem with Evenly Matched was not just the £60 price tag and the fact that you needed three of them, it was the fact that it went in every competitive deck. It severely stifled deck creativity, especially in the side deck. Didn't know what to include in your side deck for a particular match up? Just jam three copies of Evenly.

Another major problem was the decks it was good against, such as Altergiest and True Draco couldn't stop it, it acted like an alternative win condition against certain decks that couldn't be stopped, it involved zero skill to play and couldn't be played around.