You should try the Monster Rancher card game on PS1 if you haven't yet. Super fun even though I kinda solved the AI when I replay it few years ago. But if you don't go cut-throat min-max like I did, or even if you do in the end, it's still a super fun game with some interesting mechanism.

I still haven't figure out how to use Phoenix well in that game though, maybe I should try it out again in future. Would be interesting to have a Let's Play on HIVE if people are interested in it, take audience input on what to build and etc.