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Safer_777 posted...

@Emeraldegg This is to speed up the game thus you can play more matches. I mean if you are good and manage to special summon a lot of monsters in 1 turn and the opponent hasn't anything good to counter you, you deserve to win.

I think there are good and bad points in this stance. I agree that more matches faster is part of what's so appealing with DL. I also agree for the most part with the "if you can't stop the opponent's combo, you deserve to lose." The caveat to me is, did you even have the chance to stop the combo in the first place in a way that determines your skill? Fur hire specifically as an example is a turn 1 full board combo. For starters, you need to do both of the following to stop it:
A) Even be able to go before the opponent which is luck-based
B) Draw a monster negation card in your opening hand, which is luck-based

If you fail to do either of these beyond-your-control things, you end up with an enemy board of:
A 2700 beatstick that can change your attack targets to itself and thus protect the squishier bits via direct attack
A monster that can negate any spell/trap card OR any other type of effect (including monster cards, no man-eater bugging this chick)
A monster that can either destroy any spell/trap card or any monster card, either way opening you up for a OTK

Neither of these things determine your skill, and yet they often times decide the outcome against such decks. In no world should the opening coin flip determine the outcome of a game. Now, if we're talking maybe a combo like this that gets set up in like 4 turns, and you didn't draw what you needed? Hey, luck happens sometimes, maybe take a look at your deck and see how you can tweak it to draw the card you need more often. Deck building is a part of skill, no doubt. But even stuff like destiny heroes or blue eyes doesn't reach the level of stuff like fur hire and its ilk. At least, not when I played.
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