thunder deck yugioh Booster Dragon Titan - SOFU-EN036-1st Edition - Secret Rare - Card - Near Mint you can banish 1 Thunder monster from your GY instead. Why are thunder dragon decks

An effective Stax deck does one of two things to break that symmetry and lead to boards that impact them more favorably

They either cost too much mana or their abilities are not that impactful

Like just look at this Alolan Golem instead and compare the difference in quality: 4 Likes kurtosisblakeinfini October 4, 2019, 4:18pm 12 neverforget50in07: I always hated the Masaki Golem, it looks like a 6 year old drew it

It reminds me of Mightstones Animation

Foil oversized card

Discounting activated abilities of of lands you control by 1 is pretty significant and makes cards like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (currently ruining lives in Pioneer in a mono-green deck, coincidentally) and Cabal Coffers that much easier to abuse