using the "card" command in FF8 made deck building tedious.
I had a complete deck and I never used the card command a single time. Pretty much just played against others who had the cards I wanted.
Some of the rules were made to screw you in the bum last minute.
There is the mechanic where you pay someone to extend a regional rule to the entire world. When you are in
space, you can extend the regional rule of "no rule" to everything. If you do that, the games are completely fair everywhere.