Its even better than buying Elite Trainer Boxes, as youre not at the mercy of bad pull rates
All Trap cards must be Set (placed face-down in a S/T Zone) before they can be used, and they can be activated during either player's turn
Please remember, these values are subject to change based on supply and demand
Among the few among those first thousand cards, two of them were consistently used in every format allowed: Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest
The structural parts lower Japanese MSRP, source-proximity savings, and reprint culture are features of how the Japanese market works and are unlikely to vanish
Cards like Thespians Stage and Vampire Hexmage allowed you to release the Kraken much earlier than intended, eventually leading to Dark Depths being banned in the Modern format