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Cryptic Command would still be a versatile and powerful card even if you always had to chose counterspell as one of the options but if that were the case you go from a card with 6 options to one with 3

WotC did state in an April live chat that they had many collector/players complain to us that they did not want to play with their holos and ruin them but wanted to use those cards in game play, so [WotC] made both for [players]. Whatever the reason, they did eventually give us a holo version as well

Because of the way the card is worded, players can use it to get out of retreat lock, which makes it more useful than Prime Catcher for decks focused entirely on Team Rocket's Pokmon

C Common Attack and Receive X TRAP You can only activate this card when you take damage to your Life Points