For smaller Basic Pokemon used in your early game set-up or waiting to evolve into a more powerful tool, it keeps them safe from getting knocked out too soon
Until the 1999 International Tropical Mega Battle Tournament where, on the first day of festivities, then Wizards of the Coast DCI Tournament Manager Andrew Finch allegedly showed off a copy of the print-error Raichu
These reflections of Disney lore, called glimmers, can take all sorts of shapes
1 Stella Lee, Wild Card 1 Eris, Roar of the Storm 1 Archmage Emeritus 1 Baral's Expertise 1 Tezzeret's Gambit 1 Midnight Clock 1 Haughty Djinn 1 Dig Through Time 1 Winged Boots 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner 1 Octavia, Living Thesis 1 Thunderclap Drake 1 Lock and Load 1 Forger's Foundry 1 Finale of Revelation 1 Curse of the Swine 1 Mizzix's Mastery 1 Chaos Warp 1 Crackling Spellslinger 1 Pyretic Charge 1 Smoldering Stagecoach 1 Elemental Eruption 1 Rousing Refrain 1 Cursed Mirror 1 Bloodthirsty Adversary 1 Finale of Promise 1 Arcane Bombardment 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 1 Kaza, Roil Chaser 1 Shark Typhoon 1 Galvanic Iteration 1 Epic Experiment 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality 1 Leyline Dowser 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Shivan Reef 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Frostboil Snarl 1 Temple of Epiphany 1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Ferrous Lake 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Preordain 1 Ponder 1 Murmuring Mystic 1 Deep Analysis 1 Radical Idea 1 Opt 1 Think Twice 1 Arcane Denial 1 Pteramander 1 Vandalblast 1 Pongify 1 Serum Visions 1 Faithless Looting 1 Big Score 1 Storm-Kiln Artist 1 Young Pyromancer 1 Electrostatic Field 1 Guttersnipe 1 Volcanic Torrent 1 Windfall 1 Goblin Electromancer 1 Third Path Iconoclast 1 Expressive Iteration 1 Arcane Signet 1 Izzet Signet 1 Sol Ring 1 Command Tower 1 Temple of the False God 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Izzet Boilerworks 1 Propaganda 14 Island 13 Mountain Quick Draw tokens 1 Bird Illusion // Elemental token 1 Ape // Shark token 1 Drake // Soldier (Urzan) token 1 Boar // Drake token 1 Elemental // Soldier (Urzan) token 1 Dragon Elemental // Bird Illusion token 1 Dragon Elemental // Treasure token 1 Bounty: Rissa "Blades" Lee // Bounty Rules token 1 Bounty: Sleepy Sovka // Bounty Rules token 1 Bounty: Miron Tillas Jr
Three more creatures bring themselves or other creatures back into play through their active abilities, the Obsessive Stitcher, Reassembling Skeleton and Eternal Dragon
