Consider this: I placed well at a tournament with a Metal type Pokmon hell-bent on discarding cards, and it just seemed odd to me
The set drew from across the entire Sword and Shield timeline, pulling artwork and card designs from sets like Astral Radiance, Brilliant Stars, Lost Origin, Silver Tempest, and more, creating a greatest-hits collection that gave collectors one last chance to chase the cards that defined the generation
If nothing else, its controversial as well as powerful and has only gotten more popular since it was first printed
A lot of big creatures now though have caveats like cast triggers or if you cast it triggers, to make cheating them out less good, but even so huge creatures just getting dumped out is fairly scary
When youre trying to flip Kuja, playing Wizards like Harmonic Prodigy and Mysidian Elder will get you there much faster