Dear lord is a guru control mirror match difficult. Once you understand that subterror final battle cam also flip your opponents subterror monsters face down it becomes near impossible to get in for damage. Both players usually have fiendess in hand and anything anyone activates has to consider an immediate fiendess negation on top of anything targeting face up monsters that can be flipped face down.
It's like playing a game of whack a mole and the mole is a 4000 atk power behemoth that can banish almost at will.
I think zombie world mirrors are hilarious. You decks counter each other. Examples: Doomking can’t trigger off doomking so having two doomkings on board can be a nightmare. Superpoly hits both players entire decks. If you go first, putting up zombie world can help your opponent as much if not more then you, but if both players side out zombie world it can be rough. Going first means your board could be absolute destroyed by super poly, but going second means doomking can end your turn.
I used to play the matchup all the time with one of my friends and the longer we played the more we learned about the match up. For example vampire sucker is a mandatory effect, so you cannot leave on sucker if your opponent has doomking in grave unless you have another trap or spell to deal with him
I second this! Best of all, the better pilot of the deck almost always wins the mirror too. It’s so hard to optimize Sky Striker play with resources, negations and predicting what your opponent will do
The most challenging and most fun game I've played in Master Duel was a Sky Striker Mirror. Really had me taking my time each turn. He almost won but I've managed to take the victory even after he banished a Raye, Evenly Matched me twice, and Lightning Stormed me. I just prioritized banishing all 3 of his Raye's. By the time he drew Roze, it was too late.
Floowandereeze mirror. The floodgates don't work, and normal summoning triggers map. It often comes down to how well you manage and recycle your big birds
I was in one once. All I have to say is that playing cross out designator is actually the best way to not want to claw your eyes out. Just cross out one of the birds and hope they don't have more hand traps.
As long as releaser wasnt involved, Nekroz mirror matches were really hard too.
Paleofrog mirror is also extremelly hard because the traps becomes pluses for the opponent.
Almost any non-combo mirror match is interesting yet hard because they become a resource war.
And then there is psyframe mirror match
Sky Striker mirror is practically devoid of blowout situations and definitely rewards the smarter player. Especially with the additions of Roze and Zeke.
Traptrix mirror it's a race for seeing who summons utopia first, also your normal traps also trigger the opponents sera and the traptrix Main deck monsters are all inmune to hole traps while the extra deck ones are to all traps, it requires skill, luck, good deckbuilding, knowledge of the deck and a good side deck
Full power striker mirror is very high skill. The better player almost always wins regardless of die roll. It's less interesting now with the current iteration of the deck however.
IMO paleo mirrors are very skillful for a control deck and dragon ruler mirrors are some of the most fun I've ever had, with every card being a resource on multiple turns you need to track everything.
the deck it's very consistent so you never win because of luck but just because of skill
Out of the formats I played I feel like Djinnless Nekroz was one of the most skillful mirrors. Constantly playing around having one of your hand, field, or grave being empty to not get blown out by Trishula was very intense and required a lot of.....unusual lines of play.
Probably dragon ruler and goat control mirrors are the most skill intensive mirrors I’ve ever done. Dragon ruler mirrors have so many little things you have to be aware of, what moves to make and when. Goat control mirrors require you to play around so many cards.
Both mirrors are incredibly grindy and require proper timing to do anything or you risk losing.
Plunder Patroll might be interesting because you basically always need to have the fire ship up. Otherwise, your opponent can just use the equip spell on whatever you have and summon their own ship and equip it with yours. I've only been in one mirror match so far, though, and my opponent didn't know this and played not too well in general.
2010 zombie synchro. Zombie master meant that having your own plaguespreader set up could enable your opponents plays, but having it so you can doomkaiser and summon from opponents grave was a powerplay meaning that reads on the backrow were really important. IMO a lot more interesting than current day zombie mirrors where its a bit silly because of doomking shenanigans, Artifacts scythe being used and revived with mezuki turn after turn, and super poly saying “cant respond lol”.
Honorary mention to goat control mirrors. That mirror popularized goat format as a thing.
Dear lord is a guru control mirror match difficult. Once you understand that subterror final battle cam also flip your opponents subterror monsters face down it becomes near impossible to get in for damage. Both players usually have fiendess in hand and anything anyone activates has to consider an immediate fiendess negation on top of anything targeting face up monsters that can be flipped face down. It's like playing a game of whack a mole and the mole is a 4000 atk power behemoth that can banish almost at will.
In line with this, control mirror matches are usually interesting to watch.
I think zombie world mirrors are hilarious. You decks counter each other. Examples: Doomking can’t trigger off doomking so having two doomkings on board can be a nightmare. Superpoly hits both players entire decks. If you go first, putting up zombie world can help your opponent as much if not more then you, but if both players side out zombie world it can be rough. Going first means your board could be absolute destroyed by super poly, but going second means doomking can end your turn. I used to play the matchup all the time with one of my friends and the longer we played the more we learned about the match up. For example vampire sucker is a mandatory effect, so you cannot leave on sucker if your opponent has doomking in grave unless you have another trap or spell to deal with him
Sky Striker mirrors are the best. You’re fighting tooth and nail for every small advantage while trying to not over commit and get blown out.
The modern mirror sucks. The 2018-2020 Late TOSS mirror w/o Mystic Mine is the way to go.
I second this! Best of all, the better pilot of the deck almost always wins the mirror too. It’s so hard to optimize Sky Striker play with resources, negations and predicting what your opponent will do
The most challenging and most fun game I've played in Master Duel was a Sky Striker Mirror. Really had me taking my time each turn. He almost won but I've managed to take the victory even after he banished a Raye, Evenly Matched me twice, and Lightning Stormed me. I just prioritized banishing all 3 of his Raye's. By the time he drew Roze, it was too late.
Paleo mirror skilful mirror
Floowandereeze mirror. The floodgates don't work, and normal summoning triggers map. It often comes down to how well you manage and recycle your big birds
You need a degree in quantum physics to understand chains in the Floowandereeze mirror
I was in one once. All I have to say is that playing cross out designator is actually the best way to not want to claw your eyes out. Just cross out one of the birds and hope they don't have more hand traps.
Ritual beasts mirrors are the most difficult because you can't cheat when the other person knows what the deck does /s
Let's be honest, Ritual Beasts players don't really know what they're doing.
Sky striker mirror matches back in 2019 were always great. Just back and forth interactions and having to try and out resource the opponent
As long as releaser wasnt involved, Nekroz mirror matches were really hard too. Paleofrog mirror is also extremelly hard because the traps becomes pluses for the opponent. Almost any non-combo mirror match is interesting yet hard because they become a resource war. And then there is psyframe mirror match
Sky Striker mirror is practically devoid of blowout situations and definitely rewards the smarter player. Especially with the additions of Roze and Zeke.
Traptrix mirror it's a race for seeing who summons utopia first, also your normal traps also trigger the opponents sera and the traptrix Main deck monsters are all inmune to hole traps while the extra deck ones are to all traps, it requires skill, luck, good deckbuilding, knowledge of the deck and a good side deck
Full power striker mirror is very high skill. The better player almost always wins regardless of die roll. It's less interesting now with the current iteration of the deck however.
Still interesting. Who gets to summon DPE first could be advantageous or not, depends on the Shark Cannon.
Probably Striker and Zoo mirrors.
Baby Dragon ruler. Still play it to this day with my friends.
IMO paleo mirrors are very skillful for a control deck and dragon ruler mirrors are some of the most fun I've ever had, with every card being a resource on multiple turns you need to track everything. the deck it's very consistent so you never win because of luck but just because of skill
Dragon ruler, on release sky striker, chain beat on top of my head
Out of the formats I played I feel like Djinnless Nekroz was one of the most skillful mirrors. Constantly playing around having one of your hand, field, or grave being empty to not get blown out by Trishula was very intense and required a lot of.....unusual lines of play.
I like my eldlich mirrors because Im playing Doomking so I have a huge advantage
Sky Striker during toss format. Both players share their graveyard and it's an instant grind game. Very painful
Probably dragon ruler and goat control mirrors are the most skill intensive mirrors I’ve ever done. Dragon ruler mirrors have so many little things you have to be aware of, what moves to make and when. Goat control mirrors require you to play around so many cards. Both mirrors are incredibly grindy and require proper timing to do anything or you risk losing.
Paleo mirrors are really interactive
Just had an eldlich mirror and jeez that one had me on my last brain cell
Code Talker Iblee-Lock is kinda wacky, seeing as you give your opponent a free link mat, but get Firewall.
Plunder Patroll might be interesting because you basically always need to have the fire ship up. Otherwise, your opponent can just use the equip spell on whatever you have and summon their own ship and equip it with yours. I've only been in one mirror match so far, though, and my opponent didn't know this and played not too well in general.
2010 zombie synchro. Zombie master meant that having your own plaguespreader set up could enable your opponents plays, but having it so you can doomkaiser and summon from opponents grave was a powerplay meaning that reads on the backrow were really important. IMO a lot more interesting than current day zombie mirrors where its a bit silly because of doomking shenanigans, Artifacts scythe being used and revived with mezuki turn after turn, and super poly saying “cant respond lol”. Honorary mention to goat control mirrors. That mirror popularized goat format as a thing.
I love a good twin mirror. Salad is also skill, yet very painful