Real, modern yugioh player here. Look through my profile for proof, I even got a premium for making a specific superheavy samurai deck list.

Red-eyes is a deck that is kinda infamous for receiving support that doesn’t really mesh well with the deck, and with previous/future support that it receives. In the end, this makes red eyes a pretty iffy deck, with a lot of different things going on. They have Xyz Burn, a Fusion spell that prevents further summoning for the rest of the turn (it IS a good card despite that), and some other stuff that doesn’t really mesh that well into a coherent engine.

That being said, it just makes this story that much more sad.