The artwork has a warmth and grandeur that makes it one of the most popular non-headliner holos across both sets, and 1st Edition copies in particular have performed well in the vintage market
Timing your removal spells properly can be a real challenge
For each of those Pokmon, search your deck for a Basic [D] Energy card and attach it to that Pokmon
others favour particular game mechanics - pulling cards out of your graveyard, for instance, or stealing your opponents' best tools
Three generic, tap Sarevoks tome: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card
While theyre fairly powerful, its their effect on perceived barrier-to-entry that really posed a problem because casual players watching Commander games in passing could reasonably assume that they needed hundreds (now thousands) of dollars in Power-9 mana as table stakes, just to join the format