Is the anime worth watching?
I officially can't be bothered playing the TCG anymore. The March banlist just destroyed all the useful synchros but didn't even touch the XYZ/exceed cards. Not even those that are 2x as imbalanced as synchros. Pure marketing greed.
It's the fourth series and the author still uses the Draw Ex Machina…
I personally like Zexal but you really have to watch it to better get a opinion. And for the record you have to consider that XYZ monsters are limited to the number of materials use up the usually 2 or 3 materials on the monsters effect and it becomes useless.
The ban-list didn't affect me that much, since my deck doesn't revolve around Ice Barriers, but…is it just me, or is Dimensional Prison really broken?
Bottomless Trap Hole does basically the same thing, but triggers during a monster summon. Only two are allowed per deck, but three for Dimensional Prison, which is worse than Mirror Force. Yes, Mirror Force can nuke a field, but as a card destruction trap it's more easily negated than something that removes a card from play.
You have to consider things other than negating destruction cards for instance cards like Red Nova Dragon and other monsters that can't be destroyed by card effects and monsters that are unaffected by traps such as E Hero Wild Heart or monsters that can negate trap card activation when they attack such as Gadjiltron Dragon. Not to mention D Prison is one of a kind it isn't like they have other cards with the same or similar effect to put into the deck to only remove the monster when it attacks.
When you consider things like that D Prison ins't really that broken.