Yeah, I am kind of sad that normal monster are all but useless in the current game, now I feel like a grognard and have the urge to say "In my day we didn't have these fancy tuner cards, we had normal monsters and we liked it!" :shakes cane in the air:
Funnily enough, during the last format there was a extremely powerful deck that used normal type monsters. XD

Anyway, in this format Xyz are the law.