Prioritize speed over perfect bench setup
9 Moltres Often overshadowed by its sibling, Ex Moltres, the base version actually hits nearly twice as hard as the Ex version
Most boss monsters that see competitive play at least have immunity to destruction effects or immunity to targeting, which makes them much harder to get rid of once they hit the field compared to other monsters
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Theres little that can be done to prevent this from happening outside of increasing the overall density of support cards or removing cards from the cube that need specific support pieces to be open
The Mana production was from Burnt Offering, by sacrificing a creature, and Song of the Damned, by adding Black Mana based on the number of creatures in your graveyard, both cost one Black Mana and could be used efficiently to get more Mana from one spell than a Dark Ritual, which was also reprinted in Ice Age