After sending out cheap cards to get you onto the board (like Sergeant Tibbs, Courageous Cat or Aladdin, Prince Ali), try to buff them whenever possible with items and characters such as Megara, Pulling the Strings
How to Perform the Test: Take a known genuine card from the same era and shine your flashlight directly through the back of it
In 1994, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VI (III at the time outside of Japan)
It's another non-in-universe take on an in-universe mechanic, considering its similarity to spree, the mechanic on cards like Three Steps AheadThree Steps Ahead from Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Ive run Commander decks built around Maelstrom Wanderer and Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder before now, and Abaddon the Despoiler would fit right in there too