The one drawback of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon strategy is its reliance on a normal monster that is difficult to summon, but the strategy has other tools to work around this
[6] After the King of the Netherworld was finally revived and headed toward New Domino City, where the Condor Geoglypgh was, the Dragon God appeared in the sky, and took the Signers, along with their companions, to where the ultimate fight would be held
In commander, you have a lot of life to work with, allowing you to take that ping damage pretty safely while generating the mana you need early, then switch to colorless later once your mana base is more robust
JPN cards typically carry a 20-40% price premium over their English counterparts
Challenger: The card gets the printed strength bonus when you challenge another card