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In a format where you can play mana accelerators like Lotus Petal, Jeweled Lotus, Dark Ritual, Blood Pet, a host of tutors, and cards to load up your graveyard like Entomb, it can become laughably easy to overcome that barrier throughout the course of normal gameplay or while youre comboing off
Looking at the rest of the Legacy metagame, we're happy to see the format diversifying
It gave them a good opportunity not just to show Dragonite, but to have it fly around, knock things over, make cute sounds -- the writers must have known everyone would be excited to see Dragonite flapping its way across the big screen, and they needed some Pokmon to deliver this letter, so, hey, why not
During your opponent's next turn, this Pokmon takes -30 damage from attacks
For that reason (and for the fact that its also easier to grade), it will never have the appeal of Base/Jungle/Fossil (or the Neo sets), but it certainly has its place in Pokemon history, if not for its uniqueness, then based on its incredible artwork alone