This was around when Neo series dropped, I would always bug my parents to buy me as many packs as possible and I used to give out all my duplicates to make new friends more easily, we all used to play this game as well where one person would throw cards like a frisbee and wed all go mad trying to catch them, good times
Early forms of the Dark Depths Combo and the original Affinity deck were in the format, but so were decks that are ancient by today's standards
They capitulated
Instead, these answers exile, force sacrifices, reduce stats to 0, bounce, tuck into the library, phase out, or even transform a creature into something harmless
The Sword & Shield: Brilliant Stars expansion then introduced a new, alternative evolution in the form of VSTAR Pokmon cards
This is because it lets you ink previously uninkable characters