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Doe posted...

Pretty sure the first legal printing of a god was Obelisk the Tormentor and while he has decent anti-targetting and anti-Solemn protection, he still needs 3 tributes for a normal summon, dies if special summoned, can't attack and use his destruction effect at the same time, and is easily outed by non-targeting removal. I'm pretty sure he never saw meta play.

Obelisk was played in some Frog decks and I'd be surprised if a Formula Monarch top never had one tech Obelisk in it. But Frogs were really the only deck able to supply the summons needed to make it reasonable

This was also at a time when non-targeting removal had to be pretty creative/niche so he definitely had a sharper edge then, but I can't say he was anymore threatening than something like LaDD.