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Many of the game's most memorable Tier 1 strategies have been released in recent years, as Konami's power creep pace has become too fast and now players have to adapt to a new meta almost every six months
In my case, I decided a Caius the Mega Monarch was warranted to help this strategy clear out boards even more
You see, fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards are often extremely poorly translated from the original OCG card, with no real checks as to whether what theyre translating actually makes any sense
While other options like Traxos, Scourge of Kroog and Karn, Silver Golem might tangentially reward artifacts in your 99 (as if you have much of a choice with a colorless deck), Liberator offers an explicit benefit in being an objectively better Shimmer Myr
Dragon typing was introduced later, making early Charizard cards a frequent point of discussion among collectors