-J #49 For the record, Elemental Augury wasn't always a bad card -- in the Elder Days, it was used by Type 1 control players in a deck called Keeper, an evolution of The Deck, in precisely the same way: by making sure the opponent was drawing dead every turn while it slowly ground out a kill
The first Mushu card of this deck is Mushu, Fast Talking Dragon, a 3 cost inkable Ruby card with a Strength of 2 and a Willpower of 3 that can quest for one lore
That potency only increases if you have ways to loop it, essentially doubling the number of turns you take while rendering a different player obsolete
Aristocrats Aristocrats decks sacrifice their own Creatures for value, drain opponents, draw cards, make tokens, and generally turn death into value
It adds up
During the original Pokmon TCG era, WHF Pikachu also found a place in competitive play