Aragorn, Hornburg Hero Not only does Aragorn, Hornburg Hero gives you the opportunity to repeatedly double the counters on your creatures assuming you can get them renowned, but it also helps your creatures win in combat
(Marco Cifuentes, another player who had some fantastic results in the covid era, consistently makes top 8 at major events in his home country of Chile, but hasnt travelled much outside of it, although hes played in Brazil in recent years, and I have to wonder if he would be hailed as one of the top players in the world if he was able to attend as many Regionals as players from other regions)
none of those 11 have ever been re-released in the Japanese OCG after Series 1
Yet as far as we know, they haven't even been mentioned during any of the endless arguments about the reclassification of loot boxes
A lot of these early duels are just me running over the enemy with my stronger monsters - not a lot of need for Spells and Traps quite yet
They were described as being made purely from evil magic and not metal