The white-blue archetype has a "Knights matter" theme, so this card was designed to play into that archetype
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Second, it had to happen somewhat frequently, as it's very easy to forget something that's seldom used
Below are the two No.1 Trainer cards side-by-side, as well as their text translations
Victory Medal and Victory Cup are other somewhat more benign examples, the former either drawing a card or searching the deck, and the latter functioning exactly as a generic Pokball
Flicker also turned out to be a mechanic that ate up a lot of space in a cards textbox, and the design team for Commander 2017 saw card space as a resource in ever-shorter supply