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Spectacular ShowdownSpectacular Showdown is very similar in that you need your opponents to have a board when you play it, it's expensive and if it doesn't win you the game it leaves one of your opponents with a board full of double strikers

So the main format wizards is pushing is called standard

Its hard to say exactly why this card is performing so well, but the most likely answer is how rare it is to see a Shiny Pikachu

They do nothing against mono color decks unless Richard is building the manabase, but against multicolor decks they can often be free wins and are definitely the highest win % cards for their mana values

A big beater for control strategies that also nips cards from graveyards that it turns into food, it has all the elements you want as a one-of in a deck that plays these colors