first pokemon cards released 1st Edition - Old - 100% Vintage Pack - ONLY WOTC The ENTIRE History of Pokémon

In practice, its looking like the opposite is true

Non-foil legendary rares and mythic rares are about 15% less rare than their nonlegendary counterparts

As a competitive player with a large Arena collection, Ill admit that theres some appeal to thatif theres a paper Standard tournament I can test for it on Arena, but its almost impossible for a format to be supported entirely through tournament support

That said, you dont have to choose one or the other

It has the advantage of being able to deal with everything, and pretty much has 4 free counterspells as well as 2 1-mana spot removal and 2-3 good 1-mana counterspells, on top of 3+ solid 2 mana counterspells