creator Kazuki Takahashi, who had acknowledged drawing inspiration from American comic book superheroes when designing the "Elemental Hero" cards, including "Neos", and that had Takahashi and/or other Konami staff had been at most of said events
Emry (Extended Art) Emry, Lurker of the Loch, while not a card that really saw a lot of Standard play, is a card that gets better the further back in Magic you go
Yami handed Kaiba a chip, he received from Raphael, which Kaiba inserted into a device and found it contained a map to Dartz's lair
Its abilities favor Witherbloom within the context of Secrets of Strixhaven if you're playing Limited formats, but for Standard, the card slots nicely into a variety of decks, including Mono-Black
The trick is that Ken's ability doesn't actually need to deal combat damage to an opponent to work