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Before we had such reasonable access to card quality in colours outside blue, and before tempo got nutty and thus before the cost of EtB tapped lands was onerous, this cycle was a great way to refine mana bases
and just in case anybody still doubted him, episode 132 saw Jakob building upon Lester and Primo's strategies to quickly defeat and absorb Jack's Scar-Red Nova Dragon, one of the most powerful Synchro Monsters around, and take out Crow without too much trouble either
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Couple this with Earthbender Ascension, and you can easily swing for lethal trampling damage with just six lands in play
As for the other reasons, there are plenty of decks in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel that are incapable of playing through the number of negates and interruptions a Dragon Link deck can put out on turn one