·Toot Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/devineavenger66/media/SKILLDRAIN.jpg.html][/URL] Some guy I played thought Skill Drain would help Geminis gain their effects. Lol. CnC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Tigerwolf Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Malefic beat is so bad...Making them 4000 Cyber-Beaters like nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildflame Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 The main decks this format don't even care about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zazubat Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I hear it's good in Archfiends. I still hate this though. Also, there's a Blue-Eyes build which uses this, as it only cares about the field, you can abuse cards that resolve in the Graveyard with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonk Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I. HATE. SKILL. DRAIN. It is my antithesis card, and I hope it dies in a burning pit of fire of redundancy, so that it can experience its own death over and over AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!!!! ahem, sorry for that outburst. I just HATE having my monster effs negated while my opponent dodges Drain. What a bunch of wontons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zazubat Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I. HATE. SKILL. DRAIN. It is my antithesis card, and I hope it dies in a burning pit of fire of redundancy, so that it can experience its own death over and over AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!!!! ahem, sorry for that outburst. I just HATE having my monster effs negated while my opponent dodges Drain. What a bunch of wontons.I see you share my hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerion Brightflame Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 It's annoying but I don't hate it. If I'm honest, I actually like this being in the game because of the challange it gives when you encounter it. It's interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteller Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Love this card i also love beating peoples face in with chainsaw insect and this card XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aix Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Love this card i also love beating peoples face in with chainsaw insect and this card XD Why would you use Chainsaw Insect and not Barbaros or a Malefic Monster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miror B Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Why would you use Chainsaw Insect and not Barbaros or a Malefic Monster? Because then it would be mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sage Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Poor Ha Des, not being allowed to negate stuff himself. It's fine in every sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteller Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Why would you use Chainsaw Insect and not Barbaros or a Malefic Monster? i still use barbaros but i have never ran malefic beatdown myself why choose when you can play both :0 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aix Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 i still use barbaros but i have never ran malefic beatdown myself why choose when you can play both :0 ? Cuz there's other stuff to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteller Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Cuz there's other stuff to run. fair enough i honestly just like the card no one ever expects it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brinolovania Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 fair enough i honestly just like the card no one ever expects it There's a good reason for that. Anyway, Skill Drain...it's a good card. It isn't fantastic against the meta this format, but it shuts down a lot of decks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Depending on what decks I use, Skill Drain might or might not be that relevant, but I still don't like how it is one of those "shut down mechanic" cards in the game. I generally hate those. It is usually about luck more than skill when I've faced it in the past. If I have deck that needs to have cards on the field to operate, it pretty much auto-loses to Skill Drain, carrying around Dark Bribes and the such to protect it, from my MSTs. If I had a heavy Graveyard-centric deck that always moved with cards like Stardust and Sangan, and/or made quick Synchro giants, I wouldn't care all that much, but it wouldn't really be that I "played around it". Then again, sometimes Skill Drain + Necro Valley + 4k beatsticks will be a thing. It's so annoying. Most importantly, you know that when you lost like that to that sort of deck, it's not all that fun, because something happened to not let you play and you had no outs. Though, I can see why top tier decks wouldn't care. Those usually have a lot of speed, destruction effects, and swarm potential of big enough monsters, while Skill Drain isn't that searchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhat Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 The main Decks right now activate just enough effects on the field that this isn't viable in them, but will not hinder them as much as the minus the opponent takes by running them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zazubat Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 The main Decks right now activate just enough effects on the field that this isn't viable in them, but will not hinder them as much as the minus the opponent takes by running them. Almost every single Xyz Monster activates and resolves on the field, so playing this will just stop them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miror B Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Almost every single Xyz Monster activates and resolves on the field, so playing this will just stop them. Well resolving on the field doesn't matter since only the physical location matters. Just pointing it out. Oh and Dracossack can tribute itself to avoid it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cute Rotten Yoshika Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 i like the fact that this works differently than the other drains. its less useful as a result but its more "fun" i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zazubat Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 Well resolving on the field doesn't matter since only the physical location matters. Just pointing it out. Oh and Dracossack can tribute itself to avoid it. In some cases it does. Some say "This card must be face-up on the field to activate and to resolve this effect" or something like that. But yes, I do know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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