Expy: A bunch of them for characters from the original series: Jaden seems to display a blend of Joey's personality and Yugi's dueling skills
That might sound narrow until you realize how many important creatures fall into that range
This took much longer than I'd meant to
That said, the cards I loved the most from Yugioh were the big juicy 'pay life' cards, stuff like Mirror Wall could be devastating (better than Mirror Force if you have a reasonable board!), Solemn Judgement was insane, both were cards people in my meta hated because you paid life (they never noticed that Mirror Wall was a Trap card or something idk, I had played Magic before at least), these were among my favorite cards, at least I got my Judgement really easily, they thought it was a terrible card, I mean, half your life for a better Force of Will, who would play THAT poop tier card (I obviously would lol)
A year later during Urzas Saga design, we looked into our box of spare mechanics and pulled out echo (also from Tempest design) and cycling
