In the games earliest years especially, rarity often had little to do with power level
Red has plenty of cards like Jaxis, the Troublemaker that can make copies of your creatures, but nearly all of them require you to sacrifice or exile the creature at your end step
Tidal BarracudaTidal Barracuda (13,634 Inclusions, 1% of 1,122,871 Decks) Sadly, you cannot play Tidal BarracudaTidal Barracuda in the command zone
In any case, the fact that it specifically hits battles means that its user is encouraged to do so whenever strategically appropriate
Can tap and cast an artifact from your graveyard
For starters, its mana reducing ability can be a bit hard to hit at first, considering most spellslinger decks focus on spells with mana values of 1 or 2