If it was going to be a card like this, it would have been better to ban it immediately without changing its effect
While similar, there are marked differences in style
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Thousand Knives X SPELL If you control "Dark Magician": Target 1 monster your opponent controls
The card designers also realized that evolution is, in fact, a disadvantage, and made evolved Pokmon stronger in every way to make up for needing more deck space and being harder to play
Burn as a strategy uses the cards that can most efficiently bring an opponent's life total from 20 to 0 in as little time as possible