In a nice flavorful touch, these also grant a class to the equipped creature, mimicking the Final Fantasy job system
Plus, Im also not a big fan of playing cards from exile cards that Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has been pushing lately, at least not in Commander
Importantly, this ability makes it around those pesky token decks as it forces opponents to sacrifice non-token creatures
But nostalgia has a strange way of making boring stuff become cool and mysterious, even moreso for something that was extremely unpopular at the time
Trade, marked Sounds absurd, I know Pokemon is part of the Trading Card Game genre but it's surprisingly rare for video games, with tons of titles that attempt to recreate the feel of card battlers, but completely omit this key part of the experience