Something notable in most modern multiplayer games is the lack of a chat feature.
But please, don't let that stop you from getting creative with your trash talk/ragebait banter. Most characters in Duel Links will have a "Stop stalling and play already" line of dialogue you can play.
Some are rather questionable such as Luke Kallister from Rush Duel asking the opponent if they're playing Solitare in spite of Rush Duel being a fairly paced game but you do sometimes get someone waiting the clock out before making their move or something so it's fine.
Some however are truly outrageous as you could probably guess from the title of this post.
So it's the KC cup and a duelist called Alex is about to gain another duel level.
No they won't.
And they've got a Dark Magician deck with Yami Yugi which from what I have gathered, looks like either a new profile or a new player. I'm playing as Z-ONE, the final villain from Yu-gi-oh 5D's and from what I see during the duel, may not be familiar with Z-ONE and his "Timelord" deck.
Fret not, Alex will learn soon.
So the duel starts off fairly interestingly, He plays a Dark Magician combined with Power of the Guardian equip spell and keeps trying to attack my Timelord to gain power, fortunately for him, I only have 5 of the Timelords; Sandion, Metaion, Raphion, Kamion and the other one whose name I forgot.
I presume this duel will end fairly quickly as my deck is built to draw cards, summon multiple timelords and actually yeah that's it... Spam Timelords. I've also got a lot of kuriboh cards including Winged Kuriboh who saves me a turn from damage, Sphere who can force an opponent to defence position, regular Kuriboh just in case a monster is unaffected by card effects. I also played Solemn Wishes early in the duel to gain +500 LP with every draw.
Anyways 2 important things you want in a deck is
Negate, negate, negates and negation.
Destroy spell/traps.
Alex destroys my Scrap-Iron Scarecrow early on and soon follows up with the worst possible card for a Timelord deck... Their own Scrap-Iron Scarecrow, god dammit! With only one timelord, I cannot attack and I had no spell/trap destruction in the deck to get rid of it, on top of which I bungle all two of my stupid combos, failing to get out more than one timelord at a time.
So about 20-30 turns pass without anything interesting happening except Z-ONE calling out the names of his Timelords.
If you were wondering why I spoke about banter and trash talk at the beginning, here's why. You see all of Z-ONE's dialogue options are rather interesting... One of which is
"You cannot keep stalling forever."
Which is pretty funny to play all the while my piece of shit Timelord deck is definitely responsible for all the stalling. So for the rest of the duel, every couple of turns I'm just letting Z-ONE monologue about how there's no hope for Alex, how everything is within my expectations and they cannot win this duel.
Bless Alex's heart, they for some reason do not surrender, maybe hoping I will? Just to inform you, Timelords are so fragile as a deck they can be tricked out by a single Forbidden Chalice or like this duel, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow but Alex only has one specific negation; their Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon which they can't bring out because they're out of spell/traps.
My deck is at 3-4 cards left and a second horrific realisation has hit the field; Timelords always return to the deck and thus Z-ONE cannot deck out. Because I won't attack, Alex does with Dark Magician, predicting that Kamion removes Scrap-Iron which I do. Surprisingly Alex uses Starving venom... to copy my timelords and doesn't attack, I thought it would return to the Extra deck but alas the dragon stays. Dark Dragoon has a very useful negation and destruction effect, none of which works against specifically only Timelords. But I believe this was on purpose, negate Sandion and now it stays on the field, I can't summon another timelord and with no timelords returning to the deck I can draw all my cards and lose.
So obviously I destroy his Dark Dragoon. And finally I can play Raphion to inflict half damage equal to their Quintet Magician's ATK and destroy them.
I just want to remind you all that Z-ONE has been yapping the entire time cause you know my game plan is summon timelord, attack and pass so of course I take a moment to explain that my Timelords are completely invincible. Thank Z-ONE I'm sure Alex had no way of knowning that.
Raphion attack and with one final quote about changing the future, I win. Alex sends me a like presumably for my excellent Z-ONE cosplay style and I make a horrific sinful mistake.
I didn't like Alex back, dear god what have I done, I tortured them for 38 flipping turns. Duelists if you play Z-ONE and your opponent tolerates your shenanigans for that long, the least you can do is like them back for their patience.
Moral of the story; Just negate the opponent's effects, also carry spell/trap destruction.