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When games reliably end after a half dozen turns or less, there just isn't room for slower, less powerful or less optimized decks to get the time to do their thing or even build much of a board presence

With all of that explained, it actually makes sense that Pikachu would be the most valuable of the Gold Star Pokemon outside of the incredibly rare Umbreon

If you have a bunch of mana rocks plus Paradox Engine, or Jeskai Ascendancy and some mana dorks, you could easily cast a truckload of spells off Izzet Chemister in a single turn and probably win the game off a Storm card like Ignite Memories

Two life for a card isn't the best deal, but for otherwise bad ones it's wonderful and back then it was even better