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And you also have the standard Galaxy-Eyes XYZ cards: Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon, and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, all cards that are great on their own but work really well as a strategy in this structure deck, especially with three separate versions of the deck pooled together

And in formats where exiling multiple copies to get a free 9/9 is possible, I would definitely trade that for the instant speed on Grapple with the Past

3 Vampire Domination Vampire Domination is an in-Archetype Counter Trap card that can be activated so long as you control a Vampire Monster

Book of Life was also somewhat notable at the time for having two different distinctly powerful effects, something that was relatively rare for cards in the early game

Whereas playing a meta deck inevitably means needing to replace it when a ban list removes it from its perch, anti-meta and non-meta decks like this stick around and can merely evolve with the times