That was where Thomas started as he developed this Deck: I started off with 40 cards, but with Pot of Avarice and TGX3 sending so many monsters back to my Deck, I found that as Duels wore on, Id draw fewer and fewer Spell and Trap cards. Faced with the decision of either running fewer monsters, or adding more Spells and Traps, Thomas made the unconventional choice to simply play more of the latter
Baleful Strix It's a creature
So yeah, addressing the point of you thinking about making them hard OPT
Thousand-Year Storm rewards you for casting a bunch of spells in one turn by copying them several times for extra value
I really like the utility of the activated ability to remove -1/-1 counters as well as other negative counters like stun counters
I didn't get a Game Boy until the Game Boy Color, which was my first Nintendo-anything along with Pokemon Gold