Decks that Take Absolutely No Skill

There’s a common argument, usually from those who lose (and I am guilty of using this argument) that “your deck has no skill”. Now, sometimes you can put that down to people not liking to lose. I don’t mind losing, but there are decks I hate losing to, and there are some decks where the argument is actually valid.

5. Nekroz

Now, when I first saw this deck in action, my first thought was “ok, that takes some skill’. Then I played against it a few more times and started noticing a pattern and when you start noticing a pattern in a deck, that deck takes no skill. The only skill with Nekroz is reading the cards. That is it, beyond that there is no skill involved. To me, a skilled duelist leads their deck to victory, not have their deck lead them to victory which is what Nekroz does. It stops your opponent from playing.

“Aquamirror Trish. Banish, banish and banish. Right now, Aquamirror into Brionac. Now Aquamirror into…” and it just repeats. There is no skill in that. None at all and I will never be convinced otherwise. I like Rituals, but the Nekroz deck… anyone can play that and win.

4. Satellarknight

You know that feeling you get when you see someone beating up a disabled person, or a child or just anyone who can’t defend themselves in general? That’s how I feel when I lose to Satellarknights. To me, Satellarknight is a coward’s deck. Is there at least one more coward’s deck on this list? You bet there is. “I don’t like your backrow, so I’m going to Trivver, bounce it all back to your hand and then attack”. No. Suck it up and actually play the game. Backrow is part of the game. It’s why traps are a thing. Don’t be a scared little kid. Actually man up (it’s an expression, not being sexist), attack and deal with it like everyone else does. If you get Mirror Forced, then you get Mirror Forced. If you get D Prisoned, you get D Prisoned. Deal with it, get a real deck and get yourself some respect from your opponents.

3. Junk Synchron/Quasar Dragon

This deck is like Nekroz. It seems skillful the first time you play it, but after the second or third time against it, you start to notice gone through half their deck to get out Quasar. “Oh cool. You’ve got a 4000 point beater on the field on your first turn. What am I meant to do? Anything I try to use you’re just going to negate and any monster I summon, you’ll just run over”. Summoning Quasar on your first turn is like summoning Obelisk on your first turn, thing is, doing that with Obelisk actually takes some skill whereas Quasar just needs you to be able to read and summon correctly the Synchro Materials. And there’s a pattern as well.

2. Exodia

I have a question for you Exodia players? When you win, do you feel like you’ve actually accomplished something? Or do you feel like you sat at the table for 5 minutes (2 minutes if you went first and sifted through your deck until you had the 5 pieces in your hand? I have absolutely no respect for you as a duelist. Exodia, is not a real deck. It’s real in that exists, but it’s not actual deck that both players enjoy because most Exodia decks are the five pieces of Exodia and then all the draw power in the game. I played an Exodia player once and activated my Royal Decree and he immediately started saying that I had no skill (keep in mind that Decree basically rendered half his deck useless). I’m sorry, but you run Exodia and you want to lecture me about having no skill? Anyone can sit there and draw cards. Man up and play a real deck. The only thing preventing this deck from being #1 is that there are some Exodia builds that are unique and actually use some skill and I don’t mind losing to them because of that.

Honourable Mentions go to:

Qli’s, Igknight’s or any Pendulum Deck- Swarming the field turn after turn after turn? That is not skill.

Trapix’s- “I’ll add Bottomless, add Trap Hole, add any ‘hole’ trap card…” that’s not skill. That’s preventing your opponent from summoning and therefore playing the game.

Burning Abyss- Easy Xyz’s and Synchro’s and you Special Summon over and over again. That is rage-inducing, no skill used levels.

Lightsworn­- Thank God that Painful Choice is Banned otherwise this deck would take even less skill than it already does to dump four Lightsworn’s in the Grave for Judgment Dragon. And let me tell you, that’s not much skill.

And finally, we reach the least skilled deck of them all:

1. Burn

Quick survey. Put your hand up if you’ve lost to a Burn deck. My hand is up. Now, keep your hand up if you didn’t mind losing to said Burn deck. My hand is down now and I can guarantee that most of you, if not all of you, put your hands down. Burn is the ultimate coward’s deck. I have no respect for Burn players. If any players are going to be called “scum”, it is not Exodia players. Burn players are much worse than Exodia players. Their deck is almost entirely spells or traps. Occasionally they might have a Marshmallon or two. Now, I’ll throw in the occasional Burn card, which is fine. Burn cards are fine if you legitimately have no other way of reaching your opponent’s Life Points or you will lose if you don’t. That’s why they’re a thing, but a whole deck? The absolute worst card ever created is Bad Reaction to Simochi. If you play that against me online, you will cop a textful of abuse. If you play Simochi against me in real life, you will cop a mouthful of abuse. I hate that card and it just makes me have no respect for you as a duelist and almost no respect as a person. As far as I am concerned, Burn players have absolutely no skill and I think that you have more than 5 burn cards, maximum, in your deck you should not be allowed to compete. It is one of the most hated decks ever created.

So, which decks do you consider to have no skill. Leave a comment or message me on DN (Username: Big Dub)