On top of that, Nekroz of Trishula has a great effect while its in your hand too: You can discard it any time your Nekroz monsters would be targeted by a card effect, to then negate and destroy the activated card which provides your monsters with some amazing protection
The only other Rock-types were the fossil Pokmon Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops and Aerodactyl
Returning the Elf you control to its owner's hand is the cost to activate the ability
Without Chronicles we wouldnt have the Reserved List, and without the Reserved List cards would devalue like mad immediately after their first reprint
Instead of having one gameplan and seeing it through to the end, it has a number of different threads that can easily be shut down by your opponent
I dont remember what SM era was like, but with SWSH and SV it seems like weighing is not really a big concern with the new code cards