It was released in Japan in December 1998 with a promotional Dragonite card, while foreign regions had to wait a couple of years for their translated versions and a promotional Meowth card
It also contains the useful classic Spell card, Mystical Space Typhoon that's not as good as it has been in the past, but still has its uses in the beginning
This ensures that the Phyrexian player can resume the offensive as soon as the dust settles
Truth be told, Ive always been a sucker of these kind of static designs with rotating colors, kinda like the old Shasta Cola cans from the 1980s
Nowadays Equipment decks have been eating really good lately, with several mechanics introduced which help mitigate the creature/Equipment balance, reduce the mana awkwardness of both paying for the Equipment and equip cost, and making Equipment more efficient overall by just using colored pips
In Pioneer, Copy Cat represents a turn-four combo kill, and if you can make the mana work, a turn one Gilded Goose will potentially get you there a turn sooner