I was never good at the game but I loved spamming the Mewtwo special attack (big purple ball) blasting everybody (and my friend) out of the map
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller Bats are one of the least supported among a witchs (or vampires!) familiars who can be your commander, but at least the choice is fairly obvious
A rare card thats also a playset staple in a popular format has extreme value
This means you are getting unbelievable value when you haven't even drawn it and they chose to play around it
Dredge is a modern-day monster, certainly out-gunning even most of its contemporaries and breezing through tournaments when unencumbered, but it is rarely the most likely deck to win any particular tournament, any more than Doran or Red Deck Wins, even though any of them is capable
After a moment of silent awe at the fact that, 26 years later, Pokemon remains popular with kids, I proceeded to recount how I had a couple of binders full of cards, and how they have since been lost to time