It's always time to change to newer things. Except this time we're going to take a better look to the old cards.
Not a long time ago, effect monsters showed their importance in the strategy of the decks, being in a larger number than Spells and Trap cards combined in decks like Junk-Doppel and Agents. Today it's the other way around: in every meta deck we're starting to have fewer monsters, with Trap Cards being sometimes the dominating kind. It seems that having more monsters to ensure the strategy have become less important than disrupt your opponent's strategy.
At an different time, Spell Cards (maybe in the time when they were called Magic Cards) could change the entire duel, even if a few were played. Back then, not every card would have a free cost in order to be played, but even if they had, it was worthy in those days. Nowadays, things are sightly different. Spells with free cost are pretty much the only option, as every card in your deck counts and you can't afford risking your strategy just to disrupt your opponent's.
So, even if the times have changed, it doesn't means that these cards have lost their meaning:
