Such cards are often better designed, have exciting art, and are highly valued among the players
Heres an example of the kind of deck that got Mind Twist banned: Creatures (2) Lands (21) Spells (37) 4 Mana Drain 2 Counterspell 4 Swords to Plowshares 1 Sol Ring 1 Regrowth 1 Mind Twist 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Braingeyser 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 2 Red Elemental Blast 1 Jayemdae Tome 2 Disrupting Scepter 4 Disenchant 1 Recall 2 Moat 1 Mirror Universe 1 Timetwister 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire Thats right, one of the most famous, most influential decks of all-time, The Deck, was a Mind Twist deck until Mind Twist was banned
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I also play a lot of decks that have never seen a game before, in no small part because I write about Commander for this fine online retailer
While proving that cards can come off of the Reserved List is a big deal in and of itself, perhaps more important is the reason: Wizards stated, in black and white, that community support for the change made it happen
But after nearly three decades, most have been revisited many times, reappearing in Standard over and over in slightly different forms