Most TCGs suffer from some power creep, where each new set is a little more powerful than the previous one
With both commanders out you can turn your sacrifices into resources, helping to accelerate you in mana and putting you several turns ahead of your opponents
They tend to have more moving pieces than most other decks, and because of the cookie-cutter nature of control decklists, most tend to punish misplays much more strongly
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By 1999, the manga was starting its second main arc focused on the Duel Monster card game, featuring Battle City, and Kazuki Takahashi was working hard to improve the already established rules, introducing systems that would remain a mainstay of Yu-Gi-Oh
His Minotaur typing is also a fan-favorite and allows for a unique tribal deck.