In Limited Edition (aka Alpha and Beta), you could get a basic land as your rare card in a booster pack
Additionally, your opponent might have something like Bottomless Trap Hole set for your boss monster, so summoning your boss monster in Main Phase 1 would lose you all the damage
As these items are usually made of a harder plastic and will be a fair bit wider than the card, its impractical for cards being used in a deck
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The basic idea here is to have good creatures with strong enter triggers, and you have a Cloudshift at the ready, be it to protect a certain target from removal or just to get more value overall
Splinter, Radical Rat Splinter, Radical Rat has great stats for an Esper commander that you want to oversee a battlefield