It is much harder than you think being able to dump at least four mana into a spell that does nothing to the board without being very behind on said board
The spell that does so, Awaken the Blood Avatar, serves as an Edict for all opponents, however, and the Avatar himself can quickly burn down the whole table with its attacks, making the sacrifice worth it in a dedicated deck
Many cards in this deck are pretty weak on their own, which means the opponent can easily counter if they have more powerful Character cards, particularly in the late game
After all, due to the rarity of this cards error, little pricing precedent existed
Kaiba sacrifices himself during the Duel and makes a final plea for Yugi to call forth Atem
There are 9 total variants of this specific deck in english (2 of which have a 1999-2000 copyright version with a coin) and at least 6 different nonenglish versions (French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian)