Its a hugely flexible card and one youll see in a lot of Commander decks for that reason
TAHK0 speculated on why the error may have happened, writing, Poke Balls went through a lot of early variations, with everything from the button placement changing, to how it opens differing, to even being depicted with the white on top. It could be that an early Pok Ball design actually did open like it does on the card back, but when the design was eventually changed to the opposite way, they forgot to update it on the card back before going to print, and it remains that way to this day
Hourglasses Can Be Just As Useful As Pok Gold A Handy Way To Progress Instead of focusing on Pok Gold though, I'd recommend turning your attention to Pack and Wonder Hourglasses
It's the Pokemon that stopped Groudon and Kyogre from destroying the world
Without it, the card is mostly unplayable
Creature - Cleric Orc Zurgo Stormrender Mobilize 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, create a tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature token