But right now, the biggest difference is that placing damage counters is an effect, not damage
So long as you control no face-up cards, it can be activated to destroy either all backrow, or all Attack position Monsters the opponent controls
That record was broken in November 2020 after a copy of the Shadowless Charizard sold at auction for $350,100, before reportedly being broken once only a month later with the sale of a copy for $369,000 - auction house Goldin Auctions claimed the figure to be the highest amount of money paid for any Pokmon card at the time
I'm guessing this card is meant to be an answer to someone putting a zillion annihilator triggers on the stack, but it's not a great card to run with Maze's End also in your 99
While the rules may say any non-land card is a spell, decks that rely on lots of instants and sorceries just feel more wizardly as opposed to summoning a bunch of creatures to fight for you