With ten two-color archetypes and Retreats being a cycle of five with two options, it allowed us to make sure each archetype had a landfall effect that would be useful to that deck
Dark Ritual became so damaging to the design process of black spells that Wizards R&D phased it out of the main set, the DCI banned it from Extended, and players all across the world rejoiced or sobbed, depending on how much of a black mage each was at heart
Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon X EARTH Level 9 [ MachineEffect ] ATK 3000 DEF 3000 If this card that was Tribute Summoned by Tributing an "Ancient Gear" monster attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage
With such a perfect curve-out, you can only reach six ink on the play before running out of cards
"Red-Eyes Toon" Dragon" can also Summon any "Toon" Monster from the Hand for no cost and ignoring their Summoning conditions
I generally build my decks with 8 "slots" of 8 cards - each devoted to some essential thing that the deck wants to do