Forum:Is The Millennium Eye Obsolete?

A friend of mine asked if the Millennium Eye would really be that much of an advantage in the current state of the Yugioh metagame. And as he began explaining it to me, he made a fair bit of sense. The Eye lets you read your opponent's mind to know what cards are in their hand, see their entire deck, and know their strategies.

But really break down those three powers. At any given turn except the first you probably know a few cards in your opponent's hand anyway, because they were retrieved from the graveyard or tutored from the deck. You know what's in your opponent's deck but netdecking is so prominent that the second you see your opponent play a couple cards you can presume to know many other cards in their deck, unless they're running some out-of-the-ordinary tech cards. And you can know their strategies, but with netdecking being everywhere you can probably infer that by yourself. You don't need to read my mind - I just have to tell you what archetype I'm using, and you can write up a deck list of cards I'm probably using and how I'll use them, presume what cards I'll tutor out with what, and so forth. And of course, even if you do know my strategies, that doesn't mean you'll be able to stop them.

So, like the topic says - is the Millennium Eye obsolete? Has the metagame gotten so predictable and fast-paced that being able to read your opponent's mind doesn't offer you that significant an advantage? DrakeyC (talk • contribs) 17:05, October 11, 2017 (UTC)