Against any deck trying to be the control player throwing threats of many different forms, man lands, direct damage, planeswalkers, dorks, equipment, artifacts etc is optimal as it makes it less likely they will have the appropriate thing to deal with the threat at the time it is required
You control each of the copies
1999 1st Edition Base Set Raichu PSA Population Report 10
Shout out to the three-drop uncommon with it in landfall form too, on a 3/2 Green body
With many decks becoming quite popular, Ghost Reaper and Winter Cherries became a great hand trap to deal with mirror matches.
After some discussion, we settled on the following: There was some sequentiality What makes a story a story is that something happens, and then something else happens that's predicated on the first thing happening