It all stems back from the very first set, the Base Set, originally printed in English in 1999 - the big red lizard had the most hit points (HP) at 120, making it the toughest Pocket Monster to take down, the highest damaging attack (Fire Spin for a whopping 100 damage) making it the hardest hitting Pokmon without a drawback (were looking at you Chansey with your Double-Edge attack) and had the best resistance, it resisted fighting types by 30 damage, it also has an alluring and unique Pokmon Power which essentially meant any deck could run a Charizard, if you had one
Sabrina will allow you to pull your opponents Pokmon out if it poses too much of a threat, while X Speed allows you to do the same with yours
It helps that one of the EDH precons cares about power 7 or greater, or that the different Cloud designs synergize with equipment
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But there are many variations
This first pass isn't meant to be an exhaustive catalogue of every problematic card in Magics history, and we will continue to take actions on similar cards in the future, it said