charizard v pokemon cards - 018/159 - Crown Zenith Captured in a crystal Pokémon TCG S-Chinese Card Sword&Shield

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice

Picks like Scurry OakScurry Oak to go wide, or Wildwood ScourgeWildwood Scourge to go tall, and Rikku, Resourceful GuardianRikku, Resourceful Guardian for evasion

Herein lies what I speculate the inclusion of these references to real-world religions stories must have meant to the designers: that these sacred narratives have a place alongside other literature from the past, and not above it or below it, insofar as it remained fair game for use in a fantasy card game

If you ask an MTG player in Japan why Yu-Gi-Oh

I would concede that it stinks when you have Have HAVE to put a body on the battlefield and you end up blowing up your own artifact