History HighTierScrappy / YuGiOhDuelLinks

* Royal Rebels were already a force to be reckoned when they debuted with Roa, but with their main competition Dragons being heavily nerfed, as well as the introduction of a new powerful skill caused them to be utterly reviled. Hell-Tuning Invasion is a skill exclusive to Roa that allows him to once per turn discard a card to force all monsters on the field into attack position, with any monsters level 5 or higher getting their levels reduced by 4, with increasing your own monsters to level 5, but you can not attack with any monster that is level 6 or lower the turn you use it. The skill allows players to completely bypass any attempt at defense and inflict massive amounts of damage every turn. With monsters like [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Heavy_Metal Royal Rebel's Heavy Metal]] and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Invasion Royal Rebel's Invasion]], you can lose more than half your life points from a single attack from the former, or have all your monsters destroyed at once by the later. If that wasn't bad enough, they have a very strong reliable trap in the form of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/King%27s_Majesty King's Majesty]] that lets them block attacks by shuffling a level 1 monster from their graveyard to their deck. It get's worse as the deck has several protections against Widespread Union, the strongest trap in the game currently due to having a field spell or using [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rogue_of_Archfiend Rouge of Archfiend]] to protect their boss monsters form any form of trap destruction. Hell-Tuning Invasion later got a well-deserved nerf that only affects up to 2 monsters on each side and restricts the player to attacking with monsters with 2300-4000 ATK, making it actually possible to defend against them; most decks thus shifted to Death Doom Requiem instead, which is far more balanced since it doesn't break open the opponent's defenses and still prevents Heavy Metal from obliterating the opponent's Life Points effortlessly but still allows the deck to compete.

* Royal Rebels were already a force to be reckoned when they debuted with Roa, but with their main competition Dragons being heavily nerfed, as well as the introduction of a new powerful skill caused them to be utterly reviled. Hell Tuning Invasion is a skill exclusive to Roa that allows him to once per turn discard a card to force all monsters on the field into attack position, with any monsters level 5 or higher getting their levels reduced by 4, with increasing your own monsters to level 5, but you can not attack with any monster that is level 6 or lower the turn you use it. The skill allows players to completely bypass any attempt at defense and inflict massive amounts of damage every turn. With monsters like [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Heavy_Metal Royal Rebel's Heavy Metal]] and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Invasion Royal Rebel's Invasion]], you can lose more than half your life points from a single attack from the former, or have all your monsters destroyed at once by the later. If that wasn't bad enough, they have a very strong reliable trap in the form of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/King%27s_Majesty King's Majesty]] that lets them block attacks by shuffling a level 1 monster from their graveyard to their deck. It get's worse as the deck has several protections against Widespread Union, the strongest trap in the game currently due to having a field spell or using [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rogue_of_Archfiend Rouge of Archfiend]] to protect their boss monsters form any form of trap destruction. Hell Tuning Invasion later got a well-deserved nerf that only affects up to 2 monsters on each side and restricts the player to attacking with monsters with 2300-4000 ATK, making it actually possible to defend against them; most decks thus shifted to Death Doom Requiem instead, which is far more balanced since it doesn't break open the opponent's defenses and still prevents Heavy Metal from obliterating the opponent's Life Points effortlessly but still allows the deck to compete.

* Royal Rebels were already a force to be reckoned when they debuted with Roa, but with their main competition Dragons being heavily nerfed, as well as the introduction of a new powerful skill caused them to be utterly reviled. Hell Tuning Invasion is a skill exclusive to Roa that allows him to once per turn discard a card to force all monsters on the field into attack position, with any monsters level 5 or higher getting their levels reduced by 4, with increasing your own monsters to level 5, but you can not attack with any monster that is level 6 or lower the turn you use it. The skill allows players to completely bypass any attempt at defense and inflict massive amounts of damage every turn. With monsters like [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Heavy_Metal_(LP) Royal Rebel's Heavy Metal]] and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Rebel%27s_Invasion Royal Rebel's Invasion]], you can lose more than half your life points from a single attack from the former, or have all your monsters destroyed at once by the later. If that wasn't bad enough, they have a very strong reliable trap in the form of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/King%27s_Majesty King's Majesty]] that lets them block attacks by shuffling a level 1 monster from their graveyard to their deck. It get's worse as the deck has several protections against Widespread Union, the strongest trap in the game currently due to having a field spell or using [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rogue_of_Archfiend Rouge of Archfiend]] to protect their boss monsters form any form of trap destruction.

* Royal Rebels were already a force to be reckoned when they debuted with Roa, but with their main completion Dragons being heavily nerfed, as well as the introduction of a new powerful skill caused them to be utterly reviled. "Hell Tuning Invasion" is a skill exclusive to Roa that allows him to once per turn discard a card to force all monsters on the field into attack position, with any monsters level 5 or higher getting their levels reduced by 4, but you can not attack with any monster that is level 6 or lower the turn you use it. The skill allows players to completely bypass any attempt at defense and inflict massive amounts of damage every turn.

* Magnets have gradually achieved this status in the metagame due to their playstyle quickly allowing them to summon their boss monsters that can sweep your field and deal huge damage, as well as their Field Spell allowing them to return opposing monsters to the hand. All of this in addition to other factors have been what allowed them to stay prominent alongside decks like Harpies for a long time, which garners hate from players due to many people, especially in the higher PvP ranks, using them.

* Dark Magician decks have proven to be very annoying to go up against thanks to their stupidly powerful support cards like Dark Magical Circle, Magician's Navigation, Eternal Soul, and Apprentice Illusion Magician, all of which allow for the churning out of several copies of Dark Magician and mass-banishment of your monsters. Even worse is the releasing of their Xyz boss monsters like Ebon Illusion Magician and Ebon High Magician, both of which only serve to increase the potency of the deck's swarming and banishing capabilities, with the former almost rivalling that of Blue-Eyes decks. Unless you have ways of neutering their effects, you're pretty much screwed. They saw an increase in usage in [=PvP=] in March 2023 when they received a massive boost to their consistency and power upon the release of the ''Magician's Magic'' skill[[note]]Allows you to Normal Summon or Set Dark Magician without tributing and to exchange cards in your hand with ones from and outside of your deck, although it excludes cards like Magician Navigation and Eternal Soul by disallowing you from summoning anything from your hand or GY on the opponent's turn aside from level 6 DARK Spellcasters and thus forcing them into beatdown more than control[[/note]] and the ''Secret of Magicians'' structure deck, which includes a copy of Dark Magical Circle and the debut of Magical Dimension, Piercing the Darkness, Secrets of Dark Magic, and a new boss monster in The Dark Magicians.

** Their second coming was the release of Tachyon of Galaxy, which gave them some new toys in the form of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Shiranui_Style_Samsara Shiranui Style Samsara]] (which recycles their resources and allows them to stall like nobody's business) and their Link Monster [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Shiranui_Skillsaga_Supremacy Shiranui Skillsaga Supremacy]] (which provides great protection, recycling, and even play disruption with the right cards). Not only that, but the set came on the heels of Shiranui getting a Pick-Up Box dedicated to them and Mayakashi, allowing players to easily grab their key cards without sifting through piles of pack filler, and a brand new Skill in the form of Shiranui Style Successor, which lets them search and set up their Graveyard with its first effect while recycling their monsters and/or setting up banished Synchros for Skillsaga to summon using the second. Suddenly Shiranui was back with a vengeance boasting superb speed, consistency, and power output along with an excellent grind game, and their infamy is lessened only by the fact that they're the ''only other deck in the format'' capable of standing up to Tachyon.