You can go wild and play 2-Headed Giant matches, try to draft a Commander deck or build multiple decks from the same card pool
The downsides are that its not a plant, and that it forces you to run extra Stardust Dragons, which isnt terrible
This set introduces new types including Baby, Metal, and Darkness
see below) and adds the color black and the creature type Zombie
Once the rules of the real card game were pinned down, the Battle City arc adopted these rules under the premise of changes Kaiba made personally (most notably the need to sacrifice low level monsters in order to summon high level monsters, otherwise no reason to not stack your deck with the beefiest monsters you can get your hands on)
Tourach, Dread Cantor Tourach, Dread Cantor requires a heavy black deck to function due to the color-intensive kicker cost, but you get a powerful three-for-one if you manage it