If you play with the same people often enough, analyzing the metagame in your play pod is also useful for determining how much card draw you need
**Mystic Forge + cost reducers** can chain multiple artifacts in one turn, sometimes playing half your deck
detach 1 material from a monster you control, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 2 monster from your Deck, also neither player can Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except Level/Rank/Link 2 monsters
Sometimes a Pokemon will have a type that they never had before, such as the Darkness Tera Charizard ex, which allows decks to have a coverage option, such as with this Charizard that hits for Darkness damage but uses Fire-type energy
Many found real success in the meta, and Raging Bolt ex is one of the biggest examples