Unusually, some of them are older cards stretching back to the Sword & Shield era when cards had yellow borders: France historically runs their promotion a month or two after the United States, but there is still no word when the promotion will come here
For example, a creature with lifelink that deals damage to you will still cause its controller to gain life, even if that damage would reduce your life total to less than 1
Most Normal Spells give you some kind of immediate advantage but can only be played during your Main Phases
Part of that issue is to do with the rarity of the cards, with a vast majority of the cards that you need for the deck being a Super Rare or an Ultra Rare, and all of the necessary cards being dotted around various different packs
Impeccable stuff Wizard, no notes
At a time without explosive monster effects, overcoming Jinzo meant surviving long enough to bring out a monster with a high enough attack, since more common methods of overcoming high-attack monsters such as counter traps like Mirror Force were simply not an option