Tribute that Normal Monster, and if you do, destroy up to 2 Spells/Traps your opponent controls
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben At just two mana for a 2/1 with first strike and the ability to slow down your opponents by making all their noncreature spells cost one more mana, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is one of the most cost-effective ways to tax your opponents in any format
He also has the effect of when destroyed you can place him in your pendulum scale where he can reduce the damage you take to 0 from a single battle as well as adding venemy counters to himself for each card send from the field to the graveyard which reduces the attack of all monsters except dark dragon monsters by 200 for each venemy counter
Artifacts and Lands Lupine Prototype Gamble The monstrous two-drop might make it in Affinity, but I've played against Affinity enough times to know its hand doesn't empty that quickly
If you're going 2nd, Requital can dig for an abundance of Side Deck cards like Lava Golem, Lightning Storm, Red Reboot, and even Dark Simorgh
Sometimes, a card is irrelevant because its use case is too specific and meta archetypes have no way of accessing it during their normal combo lines
