I only have problems with the Uxie "Multi" Donk decks because of the certainty and the lack of interaction. I have no problem with the random donk. The Aimpom donk, the Unown Q donk, Sableye donk, etc.. (or the dreaded FAN ROTOM donk).
I feel that some complaints about donks there is an underlying ARROGANCE of the player that can’t accept that a certain other player can ever beat them. I think the random donks have always been somewhat controllable by just running the standard stuff like Call, more basics, (Unown R anyone), etc. I think a random 1600 player should be able to beat a 1900 ELO player every once in a while, even if only by the donk. The top level players feel the need to put in heavy tech, which has always let them do better against top level players, but leaves them open to have a dead hand against a lower level player.
You think its fair for someone who puts a lot of work into his deck and tested a lot to loose to someone who didnt do either, just by pure chance? And how is it arrogant? I can accept if a player beats me, but if I get donked the player didnt beat me. The game beat me, my bad luck beat me, I basically got a random gameloss. How is it arrogant I dont want to be hit by a random gameloss? I got donked last weekend because I played Azelf (I guess his hp are to small, its my fault...) while playing 4 coll 4 tomb 3 call (had to cut one but the substitute card wasnt in my hand either) 3 bebe and 14 basics.
I really dont care too much about the loss itself because it was a cc and we get undaunted and I know I didnt loose the game and theres nothing I couldve done about it but what makes me angry is that I loose precious points just because I had bad luck. I loose points and there is nothing I can do about it...
I absolutly hate this "just add more consistency, its your own fault if you get donked" stuff. As if its that easy, I can stuff my deck with trainers all day, wont help me if I go first and against gengar im done for, what am I supposed to do going fist? Play 8 starters? Maybe 4 tomb 4 smeargle?!
At some point the effort just gets unreasonable, if you cant expect to play a full game unless you play 8 starts there is something horribly wrong...
And is "even a good player should loose to a bad one once in a while" anything but hate against people who put a lot of effort into this game? If someone wants to beat me he can get better, improve his game, play a deck that he espects will beat mine, copy a decklist and learn to use it, but I guess asking for some effort is really to much if we can just give him the win for free, stealing my points and giving him the illusion he has actually improved or done anything to deserve a win.
Because Ill never accept anyone who donked me as someone who beat me, I wont hold it against him because its not his fault that the game design is flawed but its not like Ill think "hes gotten better" or "wow he beat me", the game becomes non existant, nothing happened except that my chance to play a game got stolen and I lost points, those points that will decide who is worthy enough to play in a world championship. Yeah, awesome, donks ftw....