The core idea is the same: you want something to represent an official card without paying the official cards price
I must have opened a booster pack of Return to Ravnica somewhere
D-Tier: Enormously, Incredibly, Boringly Unfun and 95% Never Unbanned Erayo, Soratami Ascendant ($6) Gifts Ungiven (50) Griselbrand ($3) Leovold, Emissary of Trest ($2) Limited Resources ($3) Lutri, the Spellchaser (bulk) Nadu, Winged Wisdom (50) Panoptic Mirror ($8) Paradox Engine ($7) Primeval Titan ($8) Prophet of Kruphix ($1) Sundering Titan (bulk) Sway of the Stars ($3) Tinker ($1) Tolarian Academy ($200) Upheaval (bulk) A lot of these cards are just repetitive play patterns, over and over again
But then, this is a set that sports the three cards below, which are equally, if not more, stunning
The year was 1968
RR / RRR : Double/Triple Rare (usually V and VMAX equivalent)