what is a first edition yugioh card How to Tell YU-GI-OH! - Dragon Master Knight

The first paper Vintage Masters set would have likely arrived at some point in 2014, bringing down prices for dual lands, City of Traitors, Lions Eye Diamond, and others before the first round of crazy Reserved List spikes caused them to go absolutely nuts

Unlike the disappointing Rayquaza EX Promo, Zygarde EX is at least workable

The other path isn't much different aside from the background

Its incredibly easy to set up a board state full of creatures, then play a Consuming Tide to get a whole stack of Taeko triggers, before swinging in for lethal commander damage with an unblockable Turtle

And the story from the creative side was already moving in a different direction