Its anime adaptation from Toei, adapting the more eclectic, horror-inspired early chapters of the story where Shadow Games and Millenium Items were an ever-present aspect of the series - but games of chance and skill, not cards, were the battlefield of choice - was coming to an end
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Number 43: Manipulator of Souls and its Number C form, High Manipulator of Chaos, both have three arms, and as their appearances in the anime demonstrate, are not to be trifled with
White aggressive strategies have been among the better Standard decks for the past few months, and Gideon is at least comparable (probably better) on raw rate than History of Benalia and/or Benalish Marshal
Item-centric cards often dont get enough love when it comes to Hyper Rares or other interesting rarities, so its nice to see such a memorable take on the Buddy-Buddy Poffin
2 Bill Bill and Professor Oak were two cards you would always run four of, no matter what deck you were building
In this nerfed state, the companion ability allows the player to pay three colorless mana to put a card from outside the game into their hand, so long as the deck met the card's 'companion requirement'