By playing enough of both, you'll be passively gaining lore, draining your opponent, and have a board state that will be very tricky for your opponent to unpick in time
Just because Historic decks cannot cast a Brainstorm on Turn 2, fetch, then play a Thoughtseize with their second mana, does not make it weak
These cards have a direct effect over the game and if you want to get rid of them or interact with them in any way, youre going nowhere fast
Fortunately, as I got older, my appreciation for Magic: The Gathering and its slightly complex rules appealed to me more and more - thankfully, my love of Yu-Gi-Oh never waned
Would you rather have gotten the characters directly, or even unique cards ala The Walking Dead
In my experience it is often inevitable that a Heliod deck will be able to put one of their combos together, and it might be better to hold instant removal back to break up whatever version they end up finding, lest you waste it early on a redundant or superfluous creature