Retreat!: Yuma often used his regular Utopia's attack negation powers on himself to prevent him from being destroyed by Trap Cards he blundered into
Meandering Towershell I dunno, theres just something funny about the idea of commanding Meandering Towershell to attack, just to have the giant turtle amble away and show back up a whole turn later, maybe even after the fights already done
They specifically reference Aitsu, a playable character that rides a paper airplane
Based on the Chinese Zodiac, Konamis Zoodiac archetype are a group of Earth Beast-Warriors that have a strange style of play that obviously leaned toward being in the meta from day one
8 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury Planeswalker Power There are few planeswalkers who can be your commander, and with Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, you can have an Elf engine right in the Command Zone
You do need to proactively close the game once you have stabilized, as the Red deck has an uncanny way of finding ways to steal games if you give them time