In practice, Land Tax and Sylvan Library were a pretty big part of this decks success, particularly since most people at the time didnt realize that the best way to play against Land Tax was to determine immediately if you could possibly win waiting it out (which was plan A)
This allowed each guild to get its take on the cycle
The parentheses here specify what part is not shown on the cards' Type/Ability line.
The potential to regain access to your instants and sorceries is really cool, and a very good modal spell in the cycle on Wills
We don't hear from him again until Battle City, when he is Joey's second opponent, using bugs (specifically, Insect Queen and At this point I ran around trying to remember what the fuck I was supposed to do, so I dueled Tristan and the guy standing in front of KaibaCorp
[1] [2] [3] The player can then cut their own Deck, but if they do they must then present their Deck to their opponent who can cut their Deck again