yugioh albaz strike structure deck Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Deck: "Albaz Strike" [SD43] (Japanese) Old favorites from Phantom Rage and Blazing Vortex also return to enter the fray Structure Deck Review: Albaz Strike

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Cards may shift from being staples to being classified as archetype-specific support if all but one of the decks using that card fall off the Tier List

She gains a loyalty counter to create a 1/1 creature token (which automatically becomes two), she adds a +1/+1 counter on all of your creatures AND gives them flying until your next turn (all for free), or she can sacrifice three loyalty counters to destroy a target creature of mana value three or greater

No, and this is the single most important thing to understand about this piece. The 1996 copyright refers to Kazuki Takahashi's manga, which began serialization in Weekly Shnen Jump in September 1996. That founding copyright date appears on all Yu-Gi-Oh! licensed merchandise regardless of when it was produced. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game did not exist in 1996 the OCG launched in Japan in February 1999, and the North American TCG launch was March 2002. A "Trading Card Game Sold Here" retail sign in English cannot predate 2002. Authentic examples like this one belong to the early-to-mid 2000s boom era