The Smith can even work as an alternate win-con in a pinch, incidentally getting quite large as you play out the rest of your game plan
And for collectors, that emotional pull is half the battle
While Rai-Oh is really powerful, meta decks tend to play with the assumption that the opponent has Ash Blossom, which means they typically have means of drawing or special summoning enough to make some plays work
BT17-018 SR Digimon Lv.7 Gallantmon: Crimson Mode ACE Color Red Cost 8 DP 15000 Digivolve Cost 1 Red 5 from Lv.6 Form Mega Attribute Virus Type Holy Warrior Card Text 1 [Special Digivolution Condition] [Digivolve] Lv.6 w/[Gallantmon] in name: Cost 4 [Effect] [Hand] [Counter] Blast Digivolve (One of your Digimon may digivolve into this card without paying the cost.) [On Play] [When Digivolving] Delete up to 15000 DP total worth of your opponent's Digimon
The set includes some older cards with new illustrations , such as Rapidmon (X Antibody BT16-101), Terriermon (ST17-02), Beelzemon: Blast Mode ACE (BT19-074), and Ukkomon (BT16-082)
It happens now and again and is a big perk but you don't need it for the card to be good