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davidponte posted...

At the end of the day I play the game to have fun, and I've never had a floodgate trap flipped on me and said, "Wow, that really upped the fun factor of this duel".

It's the same thing with Drytron putting out a board of Herald's with a half dozen negates. I feel like the list of people who see that and say, "This is an enjoyable experience" must be low.

Every top deck has some sort of Omni-Negate they can get out, yes, but Drytron and Eldlich, in terms of decks at the top, are the only two that seemingly strive to only do that and nothing else.

My idea of what any format of Yugioh looks like, of which I've dabbled heavily in from 2006-2016, is one that provides the opportunity to have that fun. You're absolutely right that anti-meta decks have been around forever, but they were just as unfun to play against back then as they are now, even when "Set 3 pass" was the ideal play.

If you tell me that you think playing against anti-meta is fun I'd be inclined to not believe you.

Hey, I don't like playing against Eldlich either. Nor do I want to play it. But none of the top tier decks really feel like something I'd have fun playing with or against. I don't think getting locked out of the game by Skill Drain instantly is particularly less fun than having my opponent summon a full board of Links and Xyz with useful effects while retaining a full hand. They're similarly demoralizing. Herald is, uh, on another level though, that card sucks. In that case I think it's just that the cost of using Herald was clearly not properly evaluated, so it really does feel unfair.

I've always been a midrange player at heart. And it's a deck type YGO isn't generally friendly to. But I guess part of that mindset is thinking that any kind of opponent is fair game.