Castel could detach a material to flip a monster face-down on the field, which is a good way to stop someones plays
That was until the release of Gene-Warped Warwolf ( 2000 ATK, Level 4, Normal Monster ), but during that time the only reason to use vanilla monsters competitively was in DinoRabbit Decks
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Notably, if a Siege never had defense counters on it (perhaps because a permanent became a copy of one), it can't have its last defense counter removed
Cards like Adeline and Anim Pakal churn out bodies like nobodys business, and there are card draw engines that work incredibly with tokens entering play
One in particular caused some upset, though, as players have been complaining that the Phyrexian-language art style renders cards unreadable when playing