Vaylantz Deploy your units from the Pendulum Zones and push the enemy forces back
This took much longer than I'd meant to
That might sound narrow until you realize how many important creatures fall into that range
A year later during Urzas Saga design, we looked into our box of spare mechanics and pulled out echo (also from Tempest design) and cycling
That said, the cards I loved the most from Yugioh were the big juicy 'pay life' cards, stuff like Mirror Wall could be devastating (better than Mirror Force if you have a reasonable board!), Solemn Judgement was insane, both were cards people in my meta hated because you paid life (they never noticed that Mirror Wall was a Trap card or something idk, I had played Magic before at least), these were among my favorite cards, at least I got my Judgement really easily, they thought it was a terrible card, I mean, half your life for a better Force of Will, who would play THAT poop tier card (I obviously would lol)
But the list could pretty much go on forever