Primal Command brings a lot of control and utility but it is rather unwieldy as a five mana sorcery that has relatively minimal impact on the board
Its a full-blown finisher when you can use it right, but that all depends on the cards that you end up drawing
Even funnier: Unlimited got released 9 days before the CE, on December 1st, 1994
(I think its reasonable to make an exception for top 8, though: at this point, theres a risk that some players have been on stream and others havent, and since players know who theyre going to play against, they could know who to watch or have their friends watch, and there could be an imbalance of information
Suddenly you have two different cards and effects on a single piece of cardboard, and although the new aesthetic of the split cards received mixed reactions, the gameplay more than made up for it