I'm not done yet

Another week, another moment in which I sound off;

-A scrub in any card gaming community is not someone who is new to the game and therefore unfamiliar with the concepts and mentality that experienced players are well versed in.  This often comes up in the form of deckbuilding, playing and access to the card pool.  These are newbies and the thing that differentiates them from being a scrub is a willingness to learn be it rulings, why certain cards in a theme are bad compared to others (thus not played like Nekroz of Catastor) and a desire to improve as a player.  Scrubs are the people who is insists they are right and you are wrong, believe that meta decks are cancer and should die so that they can win with their pet decks rather than learn to exploit their weaknesses through siding or play badly but refuse to accept that they do and thus never grow.  Not surprisngly 70% of Pojo, 95% of Zodiac and 100% of the Reddit consist of these people.

-I'll say it again anyone who thinks people who play meta decks have no skill or use them to hide their lack of any are fucking retarded.  Yes Yu-Gi-Oh! has become stale and power crept in the sense that archetype decks can be linear to a fault (Tellars) and you can win because of how badly designed and strong they are (Qli) but you know what?  There are also decks that are not linear, have multiple branch plays and require you to not fuck up in running them or else you'll lose (Shaddolls, Nekroz), such as in a mirror match.  Here's the kicker though; to do that you have to have skill!  If you don't have it then you're going to lose every one of those mirrors.  Best example?  When I played a Fire Fist Mirror Match (during +1 Format) against Woodhouse and after a few games he flat out refused to play anymore as he couldn't beat me because he didn't have the skill needed to win it when the element of sacking is removed.
Seriously people who think meta decks take no skill and the people that run them are talentless hacks piss me the fuck off.

But then I remember that they can't do anything other than top a locals whereas these "meta scrubs" have Nats invites, YCS wins and went to Worlds.  And they did it with a "skill-less meta deck", not 60Crystalbeastsixsamuraialien.dek with Upstarts in it.