it probably comes down to your tolerance for risk
Squads and Other Token Generators Creatures with squad have a built-in mana sink that lets you pay to create token copies of them when they enter the battlefield
Using this cards effect, when a monster (or multiple monsters) is summoned to the field with 1500 or greater attack, those monsters are all destroyed, and then banished
And most importantly, it was the hardest card to pull from Base Set packs, creating a scarcity dynamic in 1999 that embedded the idea of "Charizard = treasure" into the minds of millions of children who are now adults with disposable income and a powerful nostalgia itch to scratch
Dragonlord's Prerogative Part of making a "Dragons set" is not just having a lot of Dragons but also finding ways to make Dragons matter
You can only use 1 "Machina Overdrive" effect per turn, and only once that turn