: If you control no monsters, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributing
The gimmick was a popular one, but it took over 20 years to make a full return in the game
I've definitely run into people in Standard or Modern tournaments who obviously built a deck from the new player cards, found the play rooms, and jumped into a two-player event (spending two of their five tickets) only to get crushed by a real deck playing real cards
During our search for a font similar to that in the Yu-Gi-Oh
In extreme cases where life isn't an issue, you can even cycle through the entire deck to know your choices and then play knowing what is coming, while in situations where life is precious you can usually get by with minimal loss
Books could interact with learn itself as another thing that learn can bring from outside the game, or you could give it its own word like research or hit the books or something