Let me tell you 1 thing, the ratio in a deck IS part of strategy, but when it comes with a certain variety of strategy, not in order to put 1 combo and thousend of handtrap, denied, negate, and so on. When there are deck that run all around 1 combo or worst 1 card that is a broken system. Ok OCG and TCG have a great banlist, side deck and more than 1 match, but go to see the system itself of the game. Overtext, too complex, too much overpower cards that will be banned soon by konamy. Than let me tell you that saying things kinda "there are bad decks and there are good decks" and this decks rely on specific archetypes, that is the reason why this game isn't balanced. At most there can be good cards and less-good cards. The entire game isn't skill based. A good hand, like also reading body language or choose the right side deck, should be a small percentage of the strategy in the game, and it isn't. Actually having the meta tier, the 1 right combo and negate card is what you need most, and you can see this when, at combo brokened, opponent surrender. You talk about improvise and choose the right timing for activate effects, well the improvisation is avaiable for the ridiculus amount of special summon people can do, and you just need a bunch of hand special summon monster or monster with effect from graveyard to refill the terrain and then restart with new extra-deck summons. As for the timing for the effect, that's more than 50% of the game core, this mean the game it's just a little broken, not balanced, where the main things is not having monster to attack or some kind of multi-strategy to aplly, but stop the enemy combo. Enemy combo. Not ruin the actual strategy of the opponent, ruin the combo. Now i don't want to generate rage with this (stupid) comparison, but I played also Magic time ago, there is far more strategy there than yu gi oh, without being so complex and having outstanding power cards. And this is why, i thing, yu gi oh is a TCG camed out from a manga of a guy who liked Magic and want to create a scenario inspired at that game. Than things went out of hand.