As previously announced, here’s Po-Koro, freshly reworked!
For a detailed introduction to the new cards, best check out the Theme Guide all about them. There, you can also find a sample decklist and Best of Test demo video, so really no reason to repeat any of that stuff here.
Aside from that, the one update of the release is C.C. Matoran Taipu, whose non-OPT ATK boosting effect was adjusted so it can only be used on monsters with less than 2000 ATK. While stats barely matter, the ability to make arbitrary monsters arbitrarily big if you can just repeatedly send this one card from field to GY seemed a bit abusable, so now it’s more limited to its intended purpose. But you can still cheat by using multiple in the same chain 😉
And finally, just one more thing:
A card I did not update, but identified as possibly needing changes, is C.C. Matoran Maku. What I noticed is that the Warrior type does not really have any hand traps with significant effects outside battle, which might be a legitimate Konami design rule due to how searchable Warriors are. Maku’s ability to protect a target from pretty much any one effect stands out as uncharacteristically useful in this light, so I might need to get rid of that ability.
However, I already have the whole lore mapping for making cards unaffected worked out and don’t really want to move away from the idea. So my solution would be to let Maku continue doing that, but from the field rather than the hand, and expanding her self-summoning effect to also work from the hand. That way, you can’t respond quite as immediately and the utility is a lot lower, but the basic concept stays intact.
I have not done anything to implement this yet because it would affect Ga-Koro as a whole enough to make at least a partial rerun of the test circuit necessary, but once I find a good time for that I might just try and see how this change works out. In the meantime, if anyone has a different opinion on this issue, I’d be very happy to hear it – not sure yet if the way I’ve interpreted things is actually the correct one.