Try granting your Gishath Double Strike with cards like Duelists Heritage and Embercleave for a particularly devastating swing in your favor
You couldn't exactly overpower people in combat, because your creatures, as mental magicians, tended to be pretty weak
Yami Yugi's appearance on the cover of this booster pack is taken from the omake on the last page of Yu-Gi-Oh
Perhaps the formalization of the Book subtype implies something to come
In this case, you can try cards like Scalding Viper or Magebane Lizard that punish them for casting cheap spells in general, like removal, counters, or cantrips
If you have another Falinks in play, this Pokmon's attacks do +20 damage to your opponent's Active Pokmon, and this Pokmon takes 20 damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokmon