1st Edition came first and the shadow had not been invented yet, so those cards are shadowless by definition
Card advantage is super important, but this is possibly the most self-destructive way to gain more draw power imaginable (see also: Cards For Black Feathers)
NDO has three benefits: Standardized ordering simplifies quality control Perception of untouched freshness and newness: Consumers, gamblers and collectors expect and appreciate a neutral, unshuffled starting point (Incidentally, casino decks are pre-shuffled, and finally punched or stamped to prevent re-use) This order is useful for many card tricks and effects, by ensuring memorability, facilitating sleight-of-hand and false shuffles, and the ascending-then-descending order allows for tricks that depend on palindromic or cyclic structures
But growing powerful enough to head off the colonists is slow going
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When combined with cards such as level 3 cards that support digivolution, it was possible to keep [BT16-102 Magnamon (X Antibody)] on the board early on and move toward attacking