We want to stress that this is a beta test
Pokmon breeders believe that to properly raise and evolve a Pokmon, you have to treat it with love and attention
That didn't stop Cloak from being the common most likely to bring joy to little kids beating down with their enhanced creatures, but we will never know how much play this card might have had if the standard green mana curves of the time hadn't included token generators and untargetables
Lowering a creature's power Blue is the color that gets N/-0 effects, what R&D nicknames "shrinking." This can be done on an instant, often affecting more than one creature until end of turn
Yiazmat is extremely difficult to defeat in-game, so since you went through all the perils of completing this sidequest, now your opponents have to go through the perils of battling this nearly indestructible ultimate boss
Also, fun fact: on the checklist, Articunos name is spelt Articun, which leads me to my campaign to change its name to No-Oh