I applaud the petition maker for his zeal but the criticism and examples seem a bit off to actually get his point across.
#1. The unoriginality of the Top 8 decks was a product of the broken cards available. And even the envoys weren't any more expensive than most other good secret rares. UDE could easily respond that the true "expensive cards"
Royal Decree,
Morphing Jar,
Needle Worm,
Mechanicalchaser, Mesmeric Control,
Luminous Soldier,
Magical Thorn, etc. were conspicuously absent from the winning decks. Not to mention we just got a new list that should give us a lot of different decks in the top slots. One reason I believe that the "broken" nature of some cards here wasn't better recognized in Japan is the vast disparity between cards available. The TCG baseline for huge attack monster is so incredibly different than OCG that BLS would often have to remove instead of plow over the true heavy hitters we do not get.
#2. I think he is right on track here. I've said many times that the way to fix some of the "Broken" cards would be to put theme restrictions on them (
Harpie's Feather Duster requiring a Harpy on the field,
Raigeki requiring a Thunder type). As evidenced by
Dark Magic Attack and
Burst Stream of Destruction having a pairing of specific card that something this powerful must work with hand-in-hand gives great synergy to support a deck type without "breaking" the card.
#3. Everyone here knows the huge problem UDE/Konami has in this area. However the examples given are no brainer simple rulings with no contestation nor need for clarification. What we need is a "Bible" of what the game mechanics are written in detail with complete accuracy and definitive guidelines on what each card is when it comes out. "Priority" should not have to wait years for explanation. And it really shouldn't be a problem to define "continuous, ignition, trigger, multi-trigger" and what sub-step an effect activates in with each release of new sets. (Well that and a way to communicate with someone that actually knows the answers to the tough questions without having to wait through months of red tape or being ignored.)
#4. Again they just did release a better list so this just comes off as old criticism that was already being fixed.
#5. #5 and #7 actually go hand in hand. There are many dozens of cards in the OCG that have not been released here and we seem to have no hope of getting these any time soon. Instead of giving us the same sets now in both markets drop 20 or so of these "lost cards" that didn't make it to us into the English prints. These "lost cards" contain a huge number of the fusion monsters that justify some of the weak normal monsters that typically are looked at as a complete waste, as well as huge amounts of "Theme Specific Support". Not to mention having cards like Blue Eyes Shining Dragon without any hope of Ultimate so it can be used is a glaring example that the U.S. market is mismanaged and in danger of losing the player base as more and more people see no end in sight to the lack of responsiveness and the seeming inability to follow through with the promise of catching up the rulings and cards to coincide between the OCG and TCG.
#6 is an idea with very little "if any" hope of fruition. We are talking about 2 companies that have a history of leaving outdated and incorrect rulings "officially posted" for as much as a year, that at a core level seem more interested with wording on cards being faithful to
The Creator's wording than to any hope that the card makes sense, and that seem to view all suggestions and attempts to make the game more understandable as a personal attack on their egos and need for absolute control. Sorry but taking constructive criticism seems insanely unlikely.
#7 (see above)
#8 Now here I entirely disagree. The cards should be available to as many duelists as possible if you want to keep players in this game. Dark Beginnings and Dark Revelations have been great for making so many cards available to the masses. If anything we need many more Structure Decks (like they did in Japan) to get good cards out in an affordable format for the players instead of what was mentioned in #1. A tournament quality deck should not cost $300+ to construct. As someone who really sees how price kills deck ideas for the majority of players in their area I'm all for the cheaper alternatives. And anybody who was after the Ultra
Pot of Greed because they didn't have 20 available to them for under a dollar needs mental help. I'm the exact opposite, sure reprint any popular card as an Ultra in reprint sets. Ultras should be popular cards that are sought after, and when you already have a common or regular rare version out there so you aren't restricting who can afford to play it that makes the card valuable to those of us who want to upgrade our deck with some shine. A lot of my earliest decks started out with Starter Deck commons and got upgraded as I could get my hands on the original Supers and Ultras. But what were they thinking upgrading
Susa Soldier to Super Rare?
About that statement of Pojo about S-ABT: it is quite logic, that a face-down one can be attacked... only when it is face-up, its effect can be active (don't you think? Face-down, its effect is hidden, not usable).