Since Gladiator is a singleton format that grants less oppor-tunities to use any individual card, you really want cards that are some combination of self sufficient, game winning, and flexible
If there was more than one of the same character, they were ordered by their version name After the main set, Enchanted cards were ordered in the same way Now, the cards match the same order apart from the alphabetical ordering
Thats why players scramble to remove it
It has the capacity to get expensive as well
Modern proved to be the perfect forever-home for Cryptic Command, and its only natural that the card would become the darling of blue players throughout the community
Maybe its not the best way to spend your two mana, but sometimes you dont have anything better to do anyway