LogFAQs > #972290500

Philip027 posted...

IDK, but in what little I've dabbled in of the Pokemon TCG (that is, the Game Boy game), I remember feeling the same way about the Bill trainer card, which does literally the exact same thing as this. Putting 4 Bills into the deck (the max it allows) was practically a given for me.

Its basically this, its because if it was legal theres literally no reason not to put it in your deck. Even a card that only had the effect to draw you one card effortlessly would likely be banned or limited (and i think the closest thing upstart goblin IS limited). It basically means you get to have a 37 card deck instead of a 40 card deck with no downside or complications, which makes your deck more consistent so theres no reason not to run 3 copies of it. And of course the problem is worse since you get 2 cards instead of 1, ESPECIALLY in yugioh which doesn't have a recourse system like pokemon's energy or mtg's mana: that card might be just what you needed to pull off a big combo.
Basically, it would just be an auto include in every deck and make the game much mire explosive and about who goes first which is why its banned