However, being able to essentially block damage altogether, from what tend to be the most powerful Pokmon in the game, is a very intriguing twist, and basically elevates the use of single-prize, standard Pokmon cards
the Chimera cards encourage mixing Illusion monsters with Beasts and Fiends, retrains (such as "Golgoil the Steel Seismic Smasher") will support both Illusion and their original Type, and various cards (both OCG / TCG -original and from the anime/manga) also support Spellcasters
While the most famous of these cards are Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, they weren't the only ones, and he used plenty of other magician cards to take down his opponents
Speed Dueling is a specialised version of the YuGiOh
You can also multi-class
Its like a white Pongify, albeit with a slightly worse floor, since they could end up manifesting something strong