While it seems like an expensive price to pay for drawing cards, black rarely gets this kind of on-damage card advantage and its also not drawing cards
"Elemental HERO Solid Soldier" and "Liquid Soldier" are good monsters to Normal Summon, as they can Special Summon needed "HERO" monsters (usually "Shadow Mist" or "Stratos" for their on-Summon Trigger Effects) and can generate more advantage if they are used as material for the Fusion Summon of a "HERO" Fusion Monster
None, my lord, but that the worlds grown honest, Then is doomsday near
Obviously, Commander, as the format was eventually called, went on to become the largest tabletop format
Trainer cards and basic Energy from the shadowless run also lack the picture-box shadow and use the thinner type, so your binder can show mixed versions if you built it from random lots