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None of them are boring if you're playing them right!

... and by right, of course, I mean as the game was intended to be played! For fun! There are certain priorities I use while deck building...

1. Entertainment Value! The deck needs to be fun for me AND my opponent! A lot of people tend to get butthurt because they lose to something weird or janky I built (OMG! I shouldn't be losing to this!), but I like showing people something crazy or something they've never seen before. I love weird combos and budget beatdowns. >:3

2. Feasibility! Can the deck consistently do what you want it to do, or be fixed in a way which makes it more consistent without sacrificing the deck's overall performance? If I can't get it to do what I want consistently without making a plain bad deck then it's just a dead end. I love a bizarre deck, especially if it has a uniquely approached win condition, but I'm not going to invest the money or extra time trying to beat a dead horse; not worth investing the money- which brings us to...

3. Budget! How pricey is the deck compared to how fun it is to play? A lot of my most entertaining decks I like to own completely, which means building them physically outside of DN. I also have a problem with not getting much monetary value back out of my decks because, again, they're built for entertainment value, and I get so darn attached to them that I just can't bring myself to dismantle any! Eventually I'll get bored and maybe sell 'em off, but is it gonna hurt my wallet to build this...?***

4. Competitive Value! Would I face-plant taking the deck to a Regional event, YCS, or basically anywhere outside of my locals? This usually isn't an issue because I really don't care how I place so much as I enjoy showing off the fact that even off-beat custom decks can do respectably well against the meta- especially today's meta. While entertainment value is my first priority, I do deckbuild with a realistic, competitive mindset, because no matter how original or bizarre the deck is, if it can't win more often than it loses, well... You're gonna have a bad time, and I'm a sore loser.

As for the poll, I technically can't pick one here because I have not played with all of these decks, nor have I played them all with a competitive mindset at the forefront beyond fun. HOWEVER, I can voice my opinions based on what I have played!

-Agents I'm playing with Lightrays right now- literally just built and started playing the deck today. It's okay so far, pretty entertaining. I like Lightrays because they're so easy to summon, though Lightray Sorcerer is pretty different from, say, Diabolos or Gearfried, but it's still pretty easy to drop, has a nifty effect (shuffle a banished Shine Ball back into the deck, banish a monster, Venus out two Shine Ball for a Gachi nyuk nyuk nyuk!) and works well with Hyperion's effect. So that's nifty.

-Six Samurai are kinda nifty, and I think I actually have a pretty standard build. If anything, the only weird tech I've got is Birdman to try and abuse Bushido counters. From what I've been hearing, the Xyz monster hasn't made that big of a splash, but personally, I'm really loving it. It's a good beater, makes Kageki huge and gets you those extra Bushido counters, because exploding with Gateway is fun. Six Sams is just one of those decks you play when you feel like being kinda mean, but in a fun way! Not a spiteful one- don't play yugioh out of spite or anger.

-I guess if I HAD to pick SOMETHING based on my experience, it'd be Chaos Dragons as the most boring deck- I'll elaborate on that in a bit.

-I've never played Wind-Ups, Inzektors or Dino Rabbits, but I'd like to give it a shot later. Honestly, I'm not that interested in Dino Rabbit cause I really prefer Jurracs. >:3

-Lightsworn are kinda fun, but I tend to have bad luck with mills. I like to play techy Lightsworns with, like... Fabled Soulkius, Gellenduo, Lightrays, Skill Successors, ONE copy of each Lightsworn (except Lumina) to ensure each milled Lightsworn is of a different name, etc, etc... I've also played Lightsworn with Vayu Turbo which actually worked out pretty well most of the time.

-Hieratics... This is one of my favorite archetypes to date- not so much because they're overpowered (which they aren't) but because they're so flexible. Nebthet provides Rank 5 Xyz access and pops monsters. Su provides Rank 6 Xyz access and pops backrow. Both can be tributed to SS a vanilla Dragon from the hand, deck or graveyard. Eset can even standardize all your current Hieratics' levels with a vanilla to spam Xyz of that vanilla's level. I've played Hieratics with Monarchs, Quickdraw, Quickdraw AND Monarchs, Chaos stuff, Gishki, pure Hieratics, etc, etc and I just... They do so much... Oh, speaking of Chaos, this is why I'm not a big fan of Chaos Dragons... As far as I'm concerned, normal Chaos Dragons just aren't as good at Chaos as Hieratics. Hieratics can make more flexible plays more consistently and are more STYLISH. Yes, I like Hieratic Chaos to normal Chaos Dragons because they're more flashy. Sue me.

Overall, I guess I'd have to say I find Chaos Dragons the least entertaining to play. That or Dino Rabbit, because I just... Don't like the idea of it... I'd rather just be playing some kind of Jurrac deck.

For lists of all the decks I've noted, refer to my Deck Archive. If there's a deck I've mentioned here which you do not find in my archive, and you would like to see it, feel free to PM me, reply here, or catch me on DN.

***: The answer is no. I have plenty of staples I can swap between decks or just have sitting in a binder, so I just have to get the stuff specific to the deck. Short of a few Extra Deck cards, the stuff I need typically ends up running me twenty dollars or less. My most expensive deck so far is probably Teleratic Chaos just because of the triple Atum (two of which I pulled), double Bounzer (both of which I pulled), double Gaia Dragon (one traded, one purchased) and the one Exa-Beetle (two purchased- one chilling in the sidelines). Everything else is pretty budget.