@TomasPita183010@DistantCoder You're overlooking the fact that they can hit all of the effects on the same chain right? Look at the hand, see what you have to interact/and play on your turn, then mess with your topdeck, and then rip from extra. Perfect hand knowledge is incredibly strong.
@PitouIsCute@LadyLabsPits@SaffronOlive Also should add: turn 1 you can full combo and then last action of the turn set/activate the floodgate. Some will be played because your deck isn't affected by the restriction or can play under. Its an additional interaction your opponent needs to kill in order to win.
@PitouIsCute@LadyLabsPits@SaffronOlive most top decks sideboard in floodgates that are relevant to the meta. A lot have been banned/restricted in the recent years though. It's stuff akin to a blood moon or chalice. If you draw it going first, it can completely shut out your opp. Then you just kill on the next turn
@NotExactlyBacon@jamesey_r@MillThat Tutoring is a fundamental aspect of Yu-Gi-Oh and its "resource system" (the cards). The best decks are the ones that are the most consistent. Searching for extension, interaction. The ability to win on a crackback. To make a full board and still have cards left over.
@Ken_carson57@jamesey_r@MillThat YGO had several FTKs from cards being able to dump any card from deck to GY. Some have been incredibly consistent because you can basically "buried alive" combo enablers whilst doing a normal sequence of play, only deviating to send the ftk enablers and not regular extenders
@Ken_carson57@jamesey_r@MillThat The GY in Yu-Gi-Oh is also functionally a second hand. Lots of cards have effects when they get sent to the GY, and modern card design has given a lot of cards extra effects that can be used while they're in the GY, as a way to continue the resource loop and generate advantage
@AlphaNightmare_@fedginator firstly, count the side deck. if its not 15 something is clearly wrong then. my issue comes from time. If its game 2 with 20 mins left and they spend 3-4 mins pile shuffle into riffle its gonna bug me.
@fedginator Our ISP/steam also thought that back in the day. I remember when I used to play CS:GO in like 2013/4 I would end up in SEA servers 90% of the time
@Gnurrgard I happened to pull a full core from my case, figured I might as well grab medius, so I can either play it after Blazing dominion or sell it for a good price
@Jacsbadopinions@DistantCoder More iconic and more memorable to the surface level enjoyers, or the people that only watched DM anime and that's about it.
"you just activated my trap card" has somewhat broken into a wider population
@pykmku I like to think of it as consensual manipulation. I wish it worked like it does in fiction, but its more like a lot of brain training and trickery. But still lots of fun