Nonetheless, with as many options to use monsters or other tools from the grave as Joey had, this was often more an advantage than anything else
While perhaps different now thanks to the London mulligan rule, in the past, people have calculated that your odds of winning when you mulligan to six (so starting with one less card than your opponent) is 40%, which might not sound like a lot, but considering that the odds are 50/50 with each player starting with an equal number of cards in hand, it's actually a 20% shift in your chances of winning the game
It will be tough to block this, but the threat of activation will sometimes force people to do it
Extra Deck The Extra Deck is a Deck where Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, and Link Monsters (as well as Pendulum Monsters that would otherwise have been sent from the field to the Graveyard) are stored during a Duel