It just does the best job of scaling into the late game while still being cheap enough to use sensibly in the midgame
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Of course the computer won't let us get away with it too quickly, he's got Special Digivolve and is going to use it to try and fight back
And because of that, you should know exactly which cards are and are not on it
As someone who watched the original (English-dubbed) Anime while it was airing, it was basically understood that the end of the original Kanto series ended with episode 83 (when Brock left) and the beginning of the Orange Island series was episode 84 (when Tracey replaced Brock)
There is no common card that needed to be "played around" more than Ray of Command in Magic limited history, and the stories of getting 3-for-ones, 4-for-ones, or even 5- or 6-for-ones with Ray of Command were not unheard of