DARK MAGICIAN DECK = CANCER

[Charles M.]

Holy moly guys, it seems that I'm dueling against the same person whenever my opponent uses DM deck...
I mean, all them have a damn luck to get all cards needed to win on first hand. Is this deck SOOO consistent like that?

[Xehmnus Rayne]

About as consistent as these posts made about it, apparently...

[Soda]

Originally posted by Xehmnus Rayne:

About as consistent as these posts made about it, apparently...

+1

[Aries]

DM is just annoying af. It's as annoying as Six Sams were back in the days. Only difference is: Six Sams got hit twice, both times pretty hard, which made them way less popular in no time. DM instead doesn't get hit at all, therefor this abomination of a deck keeps frustrating players all over the world for months now...

The deck itself is actually pretty lame. It's the same braindead "trick" all over and over again. Circle out, Navi out and quick into the grave, DM out, that's all there is to it. Sometimes you get to see a Dark Cavalry, but even that is pretty rare. The deck doesn't even have any fancy Combos. Yet still it's pretty strong and yes, the consistency is pretty good. That's what makes it so popular and that's why every second or third player uses it - at least it feels like half of all the people use it. And that's exactly what makes it so damn annoying.

Shiranui work pretty good against it, so do Traps that prevent the opponent from bringing his DM on the field. Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by Aries:

DM is just annoying af. It's as annoying as Six Sams were back in the days. Only difference is: Six Sams got hit twice, both times pretty hard, which made them way less popular in no time. DM instead doesn't get hit at all, therefor this abomination of a deck keeps frustrating players all over the world for months now...

The deck itself is actually pretty lame. It's the same braindead "trick" all over and over again. Circle out, Navi out and quick into the grave, DM out, that's all there is to it. Sometimes you get to see a Dark Cavalry, but even that is pretty rare. The deck doesn't even have any fancy Combos. Yet still it's pretty strong and yes, the consistency is pretty good. That's what makes it so popular and that's why every second or third player uses it - at least it feels like half of all the people use it. And that's exactly what makes it so damn annoying.

Shiranui work pretty good against it, so do Traps that prevent the opponent from bringing his DM on the field. Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

While I agree with most of what you're saying, Dark Magician is nowhere near as toxic as Six Samurai were at the peak of their power... you must be a mad man to think that xD that's almost like saying it's as annoying as Koa'ki was ^^

[C.C. 折オリ枝 の 夫]

Originally posted by Aries:

Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

And this is why they should bring demotions back in ranked.

If you refuse to play, you shouldn't get higher ranked.

As for DM, techs that you can use are Artifact Lancea and Chaos Hunter, both prevent your opponent from banishing, thus removing all the power from Circle.

But even if you use them, you still need a deck that can put enough bodies on the board to get over the DM.

[Supernova]

DM isnt as near op as six scams were, they were almost unbeatable whichever deck you use against them, that cant be said about DM

[Zane]

New deck: enters the meta
Casuals: "Discussion boards getting a bit too peaceful."

[Prokaizer]

Most DM decks are based on Circle and Navigation.
A single berry magician girl can counter Circle just saying.

[Kero Kero]

Originally posted by Xehmnus Rayne:

About as consistent as these posts made about it, apparently...

Cause people are getting sick of it yeah. 2nd KC cup barely weeks after the last one, this deck still has yet to get hit. what a Joke

[Kero Kero]

Originally posted by I:P マスカレーナ:

Originally posted by Aries:

Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

And this is why they should bring demotions back in ranked.

If you refuse to play, you shouldn't get higher ranked.

As for DM, techs that you can use are Artifact Lancea and Chaos Hunter, both prevent your opponent from banishing, thus removing all the power from Circle.

But even if you use them, you still need a deck that can put enough bodies on the board to get over the DM.

Not every deck is gonna function right splashing in those cards just to deal with one deck you'll see every so often. This is what I mean when I say this game is so laughably unbalanced.
I fail to see why people defend it as strongly as they do like literally anyone who critiques it is making some unholy personal attack against their god lol

[Zane]

Originally posted by Keero Kamiya:

I fail to see why people defend it as strongly as they do like literally anyone who critiques it is making some unholy personal attack against their god lol

Literally no one is defending this game. We're just making it clear that acting like a ♥♥♥♥♥ about it won't solve anything. You either adapt to it or get left in the dust.

But please keep on doing and telling us the same crap we've been hearing from you since 2019. It's very clear you have nothing better to do with your time.

[C.C. 折オリ枝 の 夫]

Originally posted by Keero Kamiya:

Originally posted by I:P マスカレーナ:

And this is why they should bring demotions back in ranked.

If you refuse to play, you shouldn't get higher ranked.

As for DM, techs that you can use are Artifact Lancea and Chaos Hunter, both prevent your opponent from banishing, thus removing all the power from Circle.

But even if you use them, you still need a deck that can put enough bodies on the board to get over the DM.

Not every deck is gonna function right splashing in those cards just to deal with one deck you'll see every so often. This is what I mean when I say this game is so laughably unbalanced.
I fail to see why people defend it as strongly as they do like literally anyone who critiques it is making some unholy personal attack against their god lol

They are good against: DM, CyDra, Shiranui, Lightsworn, every Invoked variant, and a bunch of other rogue decks.

If you can't find space for them, not my fault you don't know how to build a deck.

[Aries]

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Originally posted by Aries:

DM is just annoying af. It's as annoying as Six Sams were back in the days. Only difference is: Six Sams got hit twice, both times pretty hard, which made them way less popular in no time. DM instead doesn't get hit at all, therefor this abomination of a deck keeps frustrating players all over the world for months now...

The deck itself is actually pretty lame. It's the same braindead "trick" all over and over again. Circle out, Navi out and quick into the grave, DM out, that's all there is to it. Sometimes you get to see a Dark Cavalry, but even that is pretty rare. The deck doesn't even have any fancy Combos. Yet still it's pretty strong and yes, the consistency is pretty good. That's what makes it so popular and that's why every second or third player uses it - at least it feels like half of all the people use it. And that's exactly what makes it so damn annoying.

Shiranui work pretty good against it, so do Traps that prevent the opponent from bringing his DM on the field. Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

While I agree with most of what you're saying, Dark Magician is nowhere near as toxic as Six Samurai were at the peak of their power... you must be a mad man to think that xD that's almost like saying it's as annoying as Koa'ki was ^^

Am I a madman ? Well, I won't deny that ^^

Koa'ki was before my time. I didn't play DL from the very beginning, I just started last year - at the time I started Six Sam was at the start of its rise and I can remember how everybody - including myself - was cursing that darn deck. ^^ Of course, the meta is constantly changing and so are the deck(s) that are hated the most. But DM is at the top of the most hated decks for quite some time now. And the only other deck I could think of, that was hated as much as DM was Six Sam.

[Aries]

Originally posted by I:P マスカレーナ:

Originally posted by Aries:

Anyway, I just do the same thing I did back then agains Six Sams: as soon as I see my opponent is playing a DM deck, I immediately rage quit the game. Not because it's useless or because the deck is unbeatable - both are wrong. But after seeing the same braindead and headless Combo like 1000 times I just don't feel like wasting a single second by looking at that crap another 1000 times. Just rage quit until you find an opponent using some other deck. Works pretty fine for me.

And this is why they should bring demotions back in ranked.

If you refuse to play, you shouldn't get higher ranked.

As for DM, techs that you can use are Artifact Lancea and Chaos Hunter, both prevent your opponent from banishing, thus removing all the power from Circle.

But even if you use them, you still need a deck that can put enough bodies on the board to get over the DM.

While I agree on the demotion point in general - I don't care about rank and stuff anyway, I play just for the rewards - rage quitting is the only way of protest you can state as a player, for Konami never gives a damn about how annoying or op or whatever a deck might be.

[Charles M.]

Bamboo deck was the worst cancer deck ever. The player used to be able to win in the first round, no even allowing his opponent make his move.

But what piss me off, is the way how the cards are shuffled. I often get 3 of the same cards on first hand, this is really annoying. Konami must fix this algorithm, but they dont care after all