Homage: There are a plethora of references to Castlevania , a vampire-focused franchise also owned by Konami: One card features what's very clearly Castlevania, Dracula's castle, which got a dedicated card in the anime named "Infernalvania"
As we know, things die and its best to get your value upfront and not bank on being able to cast the huge creature that you fetch up for a discount
While Nine-Tailed Fox is on the field, you can Special Summon Goka, the Pyre of Malice with its first effect, and then destroy Nine-Tailed Fox with its second effect
No "noncreature spells only" clause
Thirty players are featured in the set, including all five 2005 Hall of Fame inductees, 2005 Player of the Year Kenji Tsumura, 2005 World Champion Katsuhiro Mori, and many others
The deck then adds a number of anthem effects (including Anowon, Obelisk of Urd, Icon of ancestry, etc) to pump up your army and make these evasive creatures into truly powerful threats