Raging Bolt ex was not a phenomenal card upon its release
Collecting, growing, and diversifying your Pokemon card collection is a wise way to maintain its long-term value
After rotation it's continued to be a big threat in formats like Pioneer and Commander.
I love the lore and the design of this game, even if its terribly messy at times, and I dont want to sacrifice them just to have a few non-players buy cards to make a big company money
Then there's the 20, mana ability on this card that allows you to cast all Eldrazi cards you own outside the game without paying their mana costs
Eventually, as the years went by, the overcompensation away from printing powerful and potentially broken cards diminished, and by 2004, Wizards slipped back into its old habits, and at the worst possible timeduring a block focused on artifacts