Strategic gameplay: Allows scrying, bringing hero cards onto the battlefield, or boosting creatures with +1/+1 counters
Any deck that alters the basic parameters of any given game fits into this category, like my good friend Jamies Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor deck
Interestingly, I wasn't even playing a video game when it happened
You could do it on turn 2 and sacrifice a mana land for a key card you discarded with your two cost like a sorcery that discards and then draws, such as Cathartic Reunion
Tributing Dark Strike Fighter itself would directly cause 1400 points of damage to the opponent -- not much in itself, but when paired with a tribute of other Monsters of the same level, this quickly becomes a whopping 7000 Life Points in one turn -- and that was in the days before the Extra Monster Zone
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